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 v.--.,, ;��;���  ";ri  ***r??s~ss��f  '/.-���;-.',:j;-:'-^/^: ,  Satwrday Afternoon, April 11, 1903  THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS PROVE  That Certain  Officials Keep  High   ProvlnclaJ  on tbe Move.  The public accounts of the provinc.  for tlie year ending June 30th, J902,  show that officials who are generally  supposed to be too lazy and indifferent  to perform their duties have been most  zealous. Tlie provincial mineralogist  draws a salary of $4,000 a-year and  traveling expenses.  He is charged with  ri"K 5? ^ t,,at jt is with ^e greatest  dirncul.y hecan he got to go beyond  the limits .of the City of Victoria,  fcmch a charge must be wholly untrue,  for his traveling expenses'for "the vear  e,Ki?g�����"ne30th' 1902- are P��t down  at $1,002.8a. This indicates that the  provincial mineralogist spent more  than half the year awav from Victoria,  and if he was not in Victoria^h'e surely  could not have been putting-in time  elsewhere than   in* examining the for-  - mations of out-of-the-way mineral dis-  * tncts.  , .T.he Public works engineer is another  high official who is credited with- a  hankering after the ease and comforts  of official life within the limits of the  city in which he has luxurious offices  and many clerks to do his bidding.  Yet lie must have traveled during the  year covered by the public accounts referred to above, for he is credited with  having spent $1,542.75 for traveling expenses, to say nothing of the disbursements made for/buggy hire when on  trips through the'country."  .The inspector of all public offices in  the province is an official whose duties  keep him continually on the move. He  is compelled to use all  kidds of rrans-  ��0���V, 0ne day he may be ��di"g i" a  C.P.R. Pullman, the next on the back  ot a cayuse or in a mud wagon on the  Cariboo road. lie spent $1,183.21' during the year for'tiaveling, or less by  nearly, a thousand dollars than the  provincial mineralogist and "the public  works engineer.  So with the lesser  ������������������*  HIIIIIIIIHH'1'I"!'' ��<������ ion i  {  BLACKSTOCK VS. BRITISH COLUMBIA.  ��""*�� I1H��H��II�� IMMIH  imiiiiiniiinnannMiniiiemimKumiiiiiMniiii  >������>������� '���>�� ���  THE PEOPLE ARE THE RULERS  Ihat very eminent person, vice-presi-1 Btanding and unspotted reputation, the ; remind Mr. Blackstock that the incident Blackstock, of the War Eagle mine,  above questions must 'savor of imper- dent we have qoted .took  place in  the ^  took occasion at the annual meeting of  tinence.   But, really; Mr. Blackstock,   United States, which is so large a coun-^ij^T"^!^'" " VJ"f"  the shareholders of that singular cor-. our remarks are moderation itself com-1 try that poor blind  Justice sometimes  gU8inc8s in Nelson     It i  pared with what people in British Co-i-loses her way in it.    Inlands governed  r.hw,ttt umo m��init.'fm.v  lumbia are saying about you since, you ! by English law, any enterprising party  unwisely uttered, and still more un- j of gentlemen who might attempt to ad-  . wisely allowed  to get into print, that .opt similar methods of acquiring world  extremely mendacious wail oi the 25th  ultimo.    We wonder if your ears burn?  j They ought to.  I    Joking apart, while such,remarks as  poration, held at Toronto on the 25th  ultimo, to deliver himself of the following pessimistic wail:  \'I desire to say for myself, and I  think 1 voice the sentiments of the  president and the whole board that  unless we can get, if not the cordial  support, at least a cessation of the op  position which we , Lave encountered I Mr. Blackstock's wil_.be readily appre-  frooi those whose interests are as much [ ciated at their full value���and object���  at stake in the solution of this milling'on the London stock ^exchange- or in  problem as our own, we shall allow | "Wall street, and even* may be greeted  someone else to furnish money both ��� with a smile of derision.for the -inar-  for fighting the people in litigation an I j tistic clumsiness of such I a baie-faced  for operating the mines. AVe have met-attempt to gull the'nnvesting pubic,  with opposition from the government j yet the effect upon theworld at large  of the province, the labor unions, the is detrimental to "Britisli Columbia's  municipalities and smelters, in our ef-, interests, and therefore, unless Mr.  forts to reduce the cost and secure the Blackstock���and others-fwant to be  water necessary to mill our low-grade j made extremely   uncomfortable, they  officials.    The government agent at Fort Steele, in Southeast Kootenay, spent over $600 in traveling over his district; yet the metalliferous mines inspector for the" whole of  * Kootenay   ��jnd ..southern   Yale - spent'  _only $506.05 for-traveling during the  'same time. ��� *���    . ��� >   ��� ���  The traveling expen&es.of the agent-  igeneral between  Victoria 'and' London  was $762.-arid the hack-hire <of-mini8-*  ters in Victoria was $319.20.-... t-\  The Tribune" believes a saving could  be made in transport charges bv cut-  ^ting off the official'heads of the provincial mineralogist and the "public  works engineer, and restricting ministers to the hack rides in Victoria, that  they pay for themselves.  NELSON SUCCESS CLUB.  Preparations for the "at home" to be  held in Fraternity hall next Thursday  evening have been completed. Cards  of admission may be obtained from anv  member of the committee. The leader  of the orchestra has promised a specially good program. The K. of P. hall  will be arranged for cards, and everybody is assured of a srood time.  The chess tournament was concluded  on Monday last. Messrs. Jowett and  Harbour tied for first place, with eleven  games won and two lost. In deciding  the tie, Mr. Jowett won from Mr. Harbour in eighteen moves.  A quoit tourney has been in progress  during the past week. Over thirty  entries were received and some of the  matches 'have been keenly con tested ._  George Nunn has kindly offered a prize  for the winner.   Tlie final games will be  ores, without which���speuking for myself only���1 believe every mine in Rossland will be closed up and abandoned  within comparatively few months.    '  "This is plain talk, but it is intended  for those who apparently think we' are  afraid to abandon .the mines and will  therefore yield something to their factious opposition.  "The financial statement shows that'  during 1902, $238,598 was spent on "the  mines, and that the net receipt' sales  totalled only $203,249. The min&.is now  in debt to the extent of $683^101, as  against $641,518 at the end of 1901.'-;  Now, in the first -place, we should  like,to ask Mr. Blackstock why that  annual meeting was not held, at what  we are informed was its proper date,  that is, a fortnight earlier, on the 10th  or llth .ultimo? Why was it postponed  to coincide with the opening of the convention of the British Colunibia Mining  Association? Was it-in order thatjthe  wailings of a disappointed Toronto land-  shark might have'some "influence on  certain matters'discussed'at1 that ,con-,  vention?' 'Or was it��� come, now,','Mr.  Blackstock; be frank���part-of a gigantic scheme -to."bean-War-'Eagle '"stock  with an only too��� evident-ulterior 'pur-  Dose-?-/ Mc."r_irby,' mari8k��er;thVBriti8h.  Columbia, of. the "sMd-^ed-s'md-^t'eaTrldr  War Eagle,,was in'Toronto.inn thei.iSth,'  po we a>e informed," the proper date for cnVrences we have-referred-to  the annual-meeting:; Again; then-,' whv rmade stir-ennii-yKi. in thni-f. H��v.  was tlie meeting postponed? . And whv  did Mr. Blackstock disgrace' biff-manhood and discredit his "superfine Ontario  intellect by such  a torrent of unwarrantably lachrymose oratory over the  sad fate of a,niine which '.his own 'published  reports.*show   to ' be * doing Tremarkably well, and in a fair way to do  better?  To a man of Mr. - Blackstock's high  must in future refrain from these funereal flights of oratory.*-' I  Moreover, childishly'amateur though  the worthy Blackstock?s procedure was,  it arouses evil memories. There was a  certain mine in the United States twenty-five or thirty years'ago, whose owners used to have periodical fits of de-  J pression^like Mr. Blackstock's. Then,  in their grief,; they would" shut up..'the  mine and buy'in the shares at* the price  of waste paper. Then a j"new vein of  fabulous richness" would-be discovered  in Hie mine,-an'd the shares would go  away up to. fancy figures. Then the  accommodating vein would "pinch out"  or -'fault,',',and the shares would again  be bought in,like waste paper, till the  vein chose "to" be "rediscovered," when  prices again went(_ky-hkh. *It was a  funny liLLlegame of financial.ping pong,  and several eminejnt 'persons concerned  in it, among them" Messrs}-Flood, Mackay, Fair���wilPMr.jBlackstdek please  correct us if we are,wranjr?���and other  well-known men became millionaires to  anj-exaggerated degree. 'jOn' the other  hand, many' thousands of people' lost  their little all and")were reduced to  beggary.;and .starvation \ through < the  name of the mine^and theVpecuIiar oc:  cnVrences we, have-referred- to. They  made stir enough.in "thei. day  Now,rwe*would nofr'feir worldst'sug-  c-ct that there'-*is anything 'analogous  between the despicable-inethods of the  deplorable-gang of "pirajfes whose machinations we ,have described, and Mr.  Blackstock's**;unlucky -ijorpnto speech:'  Notat all; *\ve merely mention this  ancient crime.as a curn-usand unsavory  example of one way <if handling the  mineral industry.   We will,  however,  ly weath would, in a very short time,  be treated to an excessively embarras-*  sing interview with the crown prosecutor.  Finally, let us> look at one or two of  the weeping Blackstock's remarks, ** because it is always sad to see a good  man so choked with grief that he can  not tell the truth. Mr. Blackstock said  he had met with -opposition from the  government. Unless he refers to the  trifling matter of the^two per cent tax  ���which is about to''be removed���it is  difficult to understand what he is talking about.  Then he says he has had opposition  from the1 municipalities. We have  looked into that matter. We have  not apace to go into details, nor do we  think Mr. Blackstock will ever supply  them to the public, but we may say  that it is rather hard to blame "the  municipalities for their entirely natural  reluctance to be forced into giving  something for nothing.  Then he says he has had ��� opposition  from the smelters. How? When the'  War Eagle was bought by Mr. Black-  stock and"-his apsocuates, the smelter  charges weie between' $8 and $11 (we  forget the exact figure.) Now they are  only $47 Jf that is what the cultured  and" truthful Blackstock calls "opposition," we know quite a lot of people  who would like some more of it.  Then he says be has met, with opposition in getting water-to mill, his ..low-  grade ores. Well, we .have studied^ the  public utterances of Mr. Blackstock and  his lieutenant, Mr.,Kirby, and we have'  come to the conclusion-that, they don't  need any water. They themselves can  supply it. -- By weeping. We never before met two business men who could  turn on tlie waterworks -.so' effectually..  'A, good tearful speecli.J;once a'month'  from'..either ,Mr.'Kirby ,vor Mr. Black-  'Stock^.ouglifeto^ee]^  'thoT'orighry^dreiicliett^'and le\vea*han"d-,  some   bal-t.nde   over -for* watering "the  StOfik. /   <* ���      '   : - ,  . . ,  Thus we see that, thongh Mr. Blackstock's Toronto ��� speech was soaked in  tears,* yet the] statements made in it  will not hold water. * Thip is very unfortunate, as it leaves Mr. Blackstock  completely ..undefended against the  grave "suspicion* of .his-.mqtiyes .which  his wild and unsupported "remarks" on  the 25th ultimo have excited throughout British Columbia.���British Columbia Mining Lxchange.  In All Lands Where the Law Is Printed In the  English Language.  After the recent aldermanic by-election in the East ward, assertions were  made by the friends of the defeated  candidate that all those who voted for  driven out of  seems that the  threat was metmt, for brick layers and  stone masons, who belong to the local  union, no longer   need expect ��� to get  work from the defeated candidate, who  is a   local   contractor.     With   "Jim"  Dunsmuir closing down his coal mines  because his miners   insist on   having  freedom of conscience; with the C.P.R.  threatening to remove its repair shops  from Revelstoke because its workmen  there exercise the privileges of freemen ; -  and with a building contractor and his  friends at Nelson threatening to force  men out of business because of exercising their   rights   of   citizenship,/ the  province is indeed in a bad way: .But,  somehow, the people have   a way of  settling with pig-headed men, whether  they be mine, owners, railway mariagT  ers,     contractors,     or      workingmen.  "Jim"    Hill   and   Pierpont   Morgan  thought  they   were   bigger   than  the  United States, but the-courts quietly  game them a tip the other day that the  people were still the rulers.     "Jim"  Dunsmuir  and   the   C.P.R.   magnates  will get a similar tip one of these fine  days, and they will crawl down and be  good.    Of course, Hill and Morgan and*  Dunsmuir and the C.P.R. magnates are  small fry as compared with tbe'mighty *  men   who   backed   "Billy" ��� Gillett   n  Nelson for alderman, and it is just possible that the world will come to a  standstill if the people do not meekly  do   their bidding.    The Tribune, predicts,  however, that   the people-will  continue to rule in- Nelson  and  every-    '  where else in the,world where the laws  are printed in the English language.  t  ,-.1  ) ^  I     I  DOHINION DAY CELEBRATION.  played off early next week,  The gymnasium is now in working  order. The neceaBary improvements in  the hall have been completed, and on  Tuesday night next the first class of  instruction will be held.  Fifteen applications for membership  have been received since the first of the  month/ :  The mock parliament held its regular  meeting last Monday night. William  Brown's bill for a government railroad  from Burrard inlet to Quesnelle, and  thence to a point on the Skeena river,  passed its first and second readings.  Next Monday evening the debate will  be continued, and Fred Starkey, minister of finance, will present a bill  authorizing the proposed loan which lie  recently negotiated in the European  markets.  The cricket club will hold a meeting  this evening to organize for the season!  and all interested in the game are invited to attend.  E.  C.  Fresno,  Cal  several weeks,  NELSON NEWS NOTES.  Traves  returns   tonight from,  where he'has  been for  Oone to the Coast.  Kootenay loses two of its bright newspapermen in the removal from Sandon  and New Denver of William MacAdams  and R. T.. Lowery. They go to Vancouver to establish a weekly newspaper. They may not be appreciated at  the Coast at their worth, because the  Coast, in some respects, is as narrow as  Ontario, and its newspapers when not  stilted and dry are decidedly amateurish and notoriously untruthful. Lowery and MacAdams have a style that is  original. , It is not the style of the canting hypocrite, although it is at times  seemingly barbarous.  R. Thompson leaves early next week  for Nakusp, where he will be employed  in his business as painter.  W. F. Teetzel' leaves for the Coast  tonight, and expects to remain in  Victoria for a week or ten davs.  Henry Bruce, whojias long long been  a resident of Nelson,-leaves next week  to locate at Midway,  in  the Boundary  ilistrict.  "Silver King Mike" was treating his  friends today to Passover delicacies,  and some of those-who partook passed  over���to bed.  John Sniallwood; merchant- tailor, is  ready for business with a, fine stock of  spring and summer suitings. His place  of business is on Ward street, near the  new postoffice building.  , R. W. Day has been appointed inspector of agencies for the Imperial Life  Insurance.'Company, with headquarters  at Edmonton, Alberta. He will leave  Nelson for Edmonton on Thursday.  John J. Malone and Alexander McDonald, and other Kootenay and Yale  speculators, expect to make a cleanup  from lands they have acquired at Tete  Juene Cache on the Fraser river, in  Cariboo district.  For the first time in the historv of  Nelson the work of the countv court is  up to date. At the sitting of" the court  on Wednesday jud��e Forin cleared up  every case on the docket, and was,  figuratively speaking, presented by  registrar Simpkins ��with the usual  white gloves.  Coal and coke is beginning to arrive  from the Crow's Nest Pass coal mines,  and within~thirty davs the smelters at  Nelson, Trail, Grand Forks, Greenwood, and Boundary Falls will be running lead stacks and copper furnaces  having a daily capacity of 4,000 tons of  ore*  A number of the aldermen, accompanied by the mayor and the city engineer, took a trip down to the "powerhouse site on Kootenay river yesterday.  On their return they said work would  be commenced as scion as ^possible.  Consulting engineer Riblet has approved of the plans as]far as tliey are  completed.  " /  Neil Gething and George Henderson  have rented the Arjington hotel at  Slocan Cityto Knowles & Patrequin of  Silverton, and will gd to the Stewart  Lake country, Cariboj. district, where  they have acquire-} hydraulic and  placer around. Meskrs. "Gething and  Henderson are old-tiii^ers in the^locanL  being aniona- those who went in during  the first rush via Slocan river in the  fall of 1891.    -:        .  President Estes of jthe Brotherhood  of Railway Employees will address a  public meeting in Nelson on Monday  night. He is a good speaker, and will,  no doubt, present the Aide fjf the fight  his organization is having with the  ��!.P.R. in the most (favorable light.  The members of the Nelson branch of  of the organisation hav<i conducted the  fight with the, company, in the fairest  possible way, and byidoing so have  won the good opinion; of the people  generally, even those who are not favorable to labor organizations. Mayor  Rose will preside at the (Monday night  meeting. ',  The People of Creston Indignant.  Some ten years ago the Davis-Say-  ward outfit secured leases on thousands  of acres of timber land throughout  West Kootenay, and among other tracts  one covering the land around the town  of Creston, although thetown was not  then in existence. It seems that some  of the land in the. limit at Creston has  been crown granted to settlers, and tbe  settlers have been selling the timber to  a local sawmill. The Sayward outfit  have taken steps to prevent this and  have secured an injunction against  the settlers and the owners of the sawmill. This action has caused considerable feeling at Creston, and an indignation meeting was held on Thursday, at  which strong resolutions were adopted,  and the resolutions hav�� been forwarded to the provincial government.  The sawmill was the only operating industry at Creston, and its closing down  is felt by the people of the town.  Back from England.  L. Ernst, president, and J. L. Stamford, director, of the Northwest Coal  and Coke Company, Limited, returned  to Nelson this week from England,  where they have been on business of  the company. In London they succeeded in financing the company with  the assistance of captain Goodwin, who  had been in England sometime paving  the way for them. Arrangements have  been made for English engineers to  come out, and by the first of May they  will be on-the ground���to-lay-out-the  necessary work for tbe proper opening  up of the' coal niines, and also make the  final survey for the Northwestern railway which is to be built to connect the  mines with the C.P.R. They have also  arranged for sufficient capital to dp all  the work outlined, and have made all  the payments to the government required up to date. They had a pleasant  time with captain Goodwin, who spent  six or eight months in Nelson last year.  He is expected back again this year,  and it is reported be will not return  alone. The trip, although very successful, was a very short one, Mr.  Ernst only spending eleven days in  London. The weather was very fine,  and-he greatly enjoyed the short visit.  Mr. Ernst said that in order to let their  friends in Nelson participate in their  good fortune, the company intend to  offer a small block of treasury stock  here shortly.  Turned Down.  The provincial executive of the Lib-  ertyj party have turned down the Senk-  lejprTempleman-Sniith crowd by refusing to to call a convention of the party.  The Liberals of the province may not  all be favorable to the leadership of  Joseph Martin, but 90 per cent of the  party are in favor of treating Mr.  Martin fairly, which the Senkler-Tem-  pleman-Sniith crowd are unwilling to  do.   Has Sold Out.  H. T. Irvine has disposed of the  American Shoe. Store and will devote  his time to the Alberta Coal & Coke  Company. The store he occupied, is  now occupied by Mrs. Enfield, whose  stock of millinery is second to none on  Baker street.  , The general executive eommittee met  last night at the city hall. "Mayor Rose  was chairman and."Fred'Starkey'was  appointed permanent secretary for the  celebration.* The minutes-.of the,'last  meeting were read and-approved.   "���      /  ' Mayor Rosej-made aX short * speech,  asking, for .-suggestions and promising  i^fdo"alljinkhte.poweT"to'.M8i^^  _n|h;tii8f���-tjr^Wcelebra��ion!Peiver-''hvelU^  in Nelson. * " *    ,,.,   ,  --V,     ,'-     -.*  J. E. Annable repdited^regarding the  ,race, track.''He was not yet able to eay  that it would be ready by July 1st, but"  negotiations were, proceeding favorably, s-  O. H. Becker, secretary of the lacrosse  club, stated he' was trying to arrange  matches with the. New - Westmister  clubj. D. McNichol suggested that  matches be got up between Nelson and  Rossland intermediates.  The following names were added to  the executive committee: Dr. Hall,  W. J. AVilson, J. Dover, T. Lillie,  W. R. McLean, H. Houston, F. Phillips, Bruce W.hite, R. H. Williams, and  Bruce Heathcote.  The following list of events was  drawn up: Rock drilling, baseball,  lacrosse, firemen's races, rifle and gun  shooting, military drill and sham fight,  Caledonian sports and children's races,  etc. H. Houston was asked to correspond regarding baseball matches with  the secretaries of clubs in neighboring  towns, and chief Lillie was asked to do  the same for the firemen's races.  ���Considerable- discussion���then���took-  place regai ding the giving of a grand  military display, and it was suggested  that there should be a sham fight and  shooting /matches, that teams from  RbsBland, Trail, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Kaslo, Slocan, and New Denver  should be asked to compete, and that  captain Macdonell be asked to try and  get the outside companies of the Rocky  Mountain Rangers to help in the sham  fight, etc.  There will be no water sports, and all  sports which in former experience have  proved unattractive will be left out1 of  the program.  Alderman Irving suggested that a  large number of celebration envelopes  should be printed, and distributed by  the merchants, and it was resolved that  this'should be done at once.  A committee to take charge of the  Caledonian games will be appointed  later. Tlie children's sports will be left  to C. A. Waterman.  The mpeting adjourned to meet at  the call of the chairman.  ���y1, * *-r*5f     t �����-  ^1  W. P. JH. Convention.  The fifth annual convention of District No. 6 of the. Western Federation  of Miners closed at Nelson yesterday,  Action was taken on questions of importance to the members of the organization, but as all questions are decided by the referendum, it will be  some time before the public will know  what the decisions will be. The officers  elected for the year are: P. W. McDonald of Rossland, president; H.  Thompson of Sandon, vice-president;  George F. Dougherty of Greenwood,  secretary-treasurer. The next convention will be held in Nelson.  .-*$������ ^"*^r-��~r'>^'*s:��i-l  vv- ��.--:���>-. ,  ���  , ,.��� LU-..x- ���\-?T''"'7'i^';-if^'^^^&.r-'';"';'.  r-\'������ ������". ;���  ���TA;(>-1-^"-it'f��*'^^^--^r*wJ-��....r-w��^-tr_  THe   Nelson   Tribtine.  ii  If  wfM  *v*e  ii  i $  I i  i a  il  : H  i I  BANK OF MONTREAL  vi'- 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 ^^i^.  A. H. Buchanan, Manager.  IMPERIAL BAM OF CANADA  CAPITAL (Authorized) - $4,000,000  CAPITAL (Paid Up)-- 2,964,794  REST -' - 2,520,076  HEAD OFFICE:  Toronto, Ontario.  Branches in the Northwest Territories, Provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.  T. R. MERRITT, President. D. R. WILKIE, Vice-Pres. and Gen. Man.  E. HAY, Assistant Gen. Manager. W. MOFFAT, Chief Inspector.  Nelson Branch���A General Banking Business Transacted.  Savings Department���Deposits received and interest allowed.  Drafts sold, available in all parts of Canada,  United States and Europe.  Special attention given to collections.  J.   M.   LAY.  '     MANAGER.  The Canadian Bank of Commerce.  WITH WHIOH IS AMALGAMATED  THE BANK  OF   BRITISH COLUMBIA.  Llt^Ftl^::::::::::::::::' !;XS     .   Head Office: TORONTO  Aggregate Resources over -72,000,000 / <|\   *  HON. GEO. A. COX, President. B/E. WALKER, General Manager.  SAVINGS  BANK  DEPARTMENT.  Deposits received and interest allowed.  NELSON   BRANCH. BRUCE  HEATHCOTE, manager.  The Nelson Tribune  Founded in 1892.  The Tribune Company,. Limited, Proprietor-.  Office: flcDonald Block, Baker Street.  The Nelson Tribune is served, by carrier to  subscribers in Netaon or sent'-by-mail to any  address in Canada or the United States for $1.00  a. vear; price to Great Britain, postage paid,  #1.50.- No subscription taken for less than a  year.  JOHN HOUSTON, Editor.  SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1903  The Liberals of the eleven electoral  districts in East and West Kootenay  and the Boundary section of Yale are  talking of forming a combination so as  to better-combat Coast political. influences. The Coast is divided into two  more or less hostile camps. One camp  is made up of men from the Island.  The other is made ilp of the Lower  Mainland politicians. Neither side will  recognize the' ''upper country" politicians, and the Liberal politicians of  the "upper country" are talking combine to force recognition. They are  right; the people of the Kootenay and  Boundary^an_only__secure_fair_treat-  ment politically by  supporting   men  who stand for the "upper country."  The assessment act will not pass the  house as introduced. It proposes to  raise the tax on mineral claims from  twenty-five cents to fifty cents an acre,  and that there shall be no time for redeeming claims once they are advertised and sold for taxes. Tlie member  for Nelson riding has given notice of an  amendment, which in effect is that the  rate shall be twenty-five cents an acre,  as at present, and that nine months  shall he given in which to redeem after  , a sale is made for taxes. The member  for Nelson will insist that crown-granted mineral claims shall be treated as  real estate. ���  *' -Word conies from Vancouver that,  notwithstanding the boasting of the  C.P.R. officials, they are not making  much headway. These officials are employing broken-down old countrymen  and worthless sons of fathers who made  names for themselves in Canada .as  clerks, arid are boarding them and the  freight handlers in two-old river steamers tied up at the wharf. None of the  C.P.R* local boats have regular crews.  The statements made in the local and  also in the Vancouver press as to the  presence of the member for Nelson at a  conference of Conservatives held in  Vancouver last week, in which, he was  said to have expressed his views regarding his running at the next election, were altogether false. No such  conference was held, and no such statements were.made.  There is an element at the Coast who  want the question of redistribution of  members in the legislative assembly  reopened. * They openly assert that  Kootenay is not entitled to nine men-  bers. This element is made up of the  ^-'01d-Turner-Gang"-an"d~tlie_ Temples  man Liberals.  The member for Nelson is asking  for an appropriation of .*|!40,000 for  the new court house. The plans are  ready and if carried out in full the  building will be a credit to the government who. furnished the money and to  the City of Nelson. The government  should have no hesitation in granting  the money. Nelson has waited long  and patiently," and is entitled to a  building which will have proper accommodation for the work to be done  in it. Every grand jury and every presiding judge for years past have condemned the present building in no  feeble terms.  A complete outfit of new type, has  been purchased for The Tribune and ia  expected to arrive in Nelson on Monday next. The finest press in ihe  Kootenay district has been erected, and  the paper will appear in its new dress  and its accustomed size next Saturday.  The Nelson Economist, merely to  show gratitude for the financial assistance rendered it during a late municipal contest, is booming an innocent  young lawyer for the nomination of the  Beer and Mugwump party for Nelson  riding at the next provincial election.  Joseph Martin, the leader of the Liberal party in British Columbia, seems  to he able to control Liberal associations everywhere except at Vancouver.  In that town the Liberal association is  controlled at Kelly, Douglas & Co.,  wholesale grocers.  Several of the most prominent mine  owners of the province have asked that  the present system of mine taxation be  left as it is. This seems strange, after  so, much has been said as to the unfairness of the tax.  A mining commission will not be appointed to revise the mining laws of the  province.  �� BY THE ROADSIDE;  ��  So we are to have a celebration on  Dominion Day. How delightful? The  very thought that I shall probably be  permitted to gaze once more on that  up-to-date artistic creation���a business  float���is already filling me with joyful  anticipation. Something akin to that  experienced in my boyhood days when  sizing up the situation of a pastrycook's  window on the one hand and ray slender financial resources on the other. I  don't think the shows of 1809 and 1900  have been surpassed in snap and vim ;  possibly better times account for that.  Any way,* fjhis year if good music cannot  be obtained better have a couple of  piano organs, and as for fireworks, so  called, a good bonfire on Granite mountain would be far more exciting than  the fire squibbing we have been treated  to at the last two celebrations.  The spectacle chronicled in the papers  of some 1,500 known men retiring from  the world on Palm Sunday for a week's  pennance at one of the R. C. churches  in New York is certainly, to say the  least, extraordinary. It is looked upon  as a revival of Lent and held up as evidence against the oft repeated statement as to the decadence of the church.  On the other hand, quite a number of  society people will sympathize with the  old monk in the golden legend musing  on Lent in the cellar surrounded by  hogsheads of wine:  ~ "lam glad we are through with this tedious  Lent;      ,  Fasting is all very well for those  Who have to deal with invisible foes,  But I am sure it does not agree  With a quiet peaceful man like me,"  But, then, (if we had no Le,nt we  would have.no Easter contrast, and to  many the penance (mild as it is) is  worth all the joy that the Easter Sunday gowning brings!  Tlie "impossible man" is with us.  This time it's about wood and the best  ways and means of heading off ( the  rapacity of those awful wood dealers in  the city. Someone has suggested that  wood be sold 6n weight. The idea is  too funny and! enough to bring a grin  on an Egyptian mummy. I see in  imagination, jif such a course were  adopted, firewood pickling tanks^down  on the flats, and the air full of hostile  mutterings from those who do not indulge in a Chinaman or a gas stove.  ��./__��. - -i.     ,  ��� -When I was in San Francisco eight  years ago the. Market Street Railway  Company held �� tramway - charter on  Mission street1. In order to hold this  charter the law required, that-.'a daily  service in each',direction once a! day be  maintained, so it came to pass that a  one-horse v "owl", car holding*; about  eight people was sent perambulating  up and down<once a day, religiously--  Tlie- local transportation company  might take tlie tip���saw the: present,  car in two and hire one of Steeper's  twenty-five dollar pack shaganappis  and maintain la service free from the  dictates of tlie Bonnington octopus.  It might run to suit the early morn,  mid-day, and supper requirements of  business toilers', and incidentally await  the retiring of ihe nightly bridge party  at the Club.      j  In a moment of simple child-like  trust, common j to my nature, I was  induced ^by a reverend gentleman to  sign a p-ftition ia favor of government  regulation of Sunday observance. Since  doing so I have Lad a kind of uneasy  feeling that my petition is hardly in  line-with hiy vievs of the liberty pf the  subject. Quite a number of us-think  that because a nian does' not care for  church is no reason why he should disturb those whojdo, and possibly the  yellsJncidental-to-and���apparently_in^  separable from i baseball game'mity  become a disturbing factor to .the peace  of the- immediate neighborhood. On  the other hand,; there is a suspicion,  not without soine reason, that, this  attempted legislation may result in an  effort to restrict our individual liberties. Over-zealous ministers should  realize the fact that they will never  make people church-goers by force of  law,' and always bear in mind, as is  well illustrated" in ministers' families,  that where religion is forced on children with whom it does not find ready  acceptance, they invariably at maturity drift into muddy indifference and  too often rank materialism.-�����  A subscriber writes: "I wish to send  my boy to school at Nelson. In addition to the ordinary tuition, can you  inform me if pupils are drilled and  otherwise taught general discipline."  I am afraid that I shall have to admit  that neither of these^essentials form an  addition to the curriculum of the  schools here. Yet, from enquiries  made among parents, they are all apparently a unit on the desirability of  these essentials. Very possibly if a  system of discipline-vwere adopted our  city fathers would he,Vspafed the. trouble of manoeuverihgya jgurfew by-law  and the parents bemoaning the waywardness of precocious childhood in this  communitv. :  Wanderer.  ������ * ������'���'���  FOR SALE.  A'  T a genuine bargain, a 27-ft. gasoline launch,  with simplest and most reliable engine on  the market, excellent speed ;.also a number of  row boats and canoes. For particulars write  or come and see boats at  H. L. LINDSAY'S BOAT LIVERY,  Kaslo, B.C.  NELSON CITY COUNCIL.  At the council meeting held on Monday last there were present the mayor,  and aldermen Irving, Bird, Selous and  Gilker.  Mayor Rose reported that the public  works committee had decided to put in  the lower of the two bridges suggested  by the city engineer,at the last council  meeting. On motion it was decided to  call for tenders for tho opening up of  the lane between Ward and Josephine  streets and building the necessary  bridge.  W. W. West wrote asking if he might  lease 150 feet of water-front between  Cedar and Park streets for a wood yard  and building. It wns decided to lease  100 feet to Mr. West.  An amusing discussion arose on the  appointment of poundkeeper, alderman  Selous objecting to the dogs running at  large which have special dislikes to  school teacher8 and aldermen, and suggesting that an active boy would make  a small fortune catching stray chickens,  the owners of which would, under the  act, have to pay 26 cents each for their  return. Applications for the position  of poundkeeper must be Bent it at once,  and it was left to the mayor to appoint.  T. M. Ward wrote stating that owing  to his business affairs' he would not  have sufficient time to devote to the  assistant assessorship, and therefore he  declined the position. After some discussion it was moved by alderman  Selous", seconded by alderman Irving,  that W. A. Jowett be appointed assistant assessor.   Carried unanimously.  C.P.R. super in ten dene Downie wrote  that the $50 voted at the last council  meeting towards completing the crib-  work for protecting Cottonwood creek  bank was much too small. It would  take $150 even if the railway company  supplied the timber free, which they  were willing to do. On .motion it was  decided that the city engineer should  expend $100 independently of , the  C. P. R. in strengthening " the bank  above the Sherbrooke hotel, and that  Mr. Downie be notified to that effect.  The city solicitor wrote, in reply to an  enquiry, that the council had not"power  to pass a by-law enforcing wood measurement unless a regular market was  established. The council decided, on  motion of alderman Selous, seconded by  alderman Irving, "that the city weigh-  master.and some person employed in  the neighborhood of the city wharf be  appointed as official measurers, to  measure all wood when requested and  issue tickets certifying that such had  been done." This will only apply to  four-foot wood.  ' At the request of the city engineer,  the council agreed to expend a further  sym of $150 in repairing the upper portion of Cottonwood creek.  CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.  MACHINE SHOP, NELSON.  ���pENDEKS are invited for the erection of a  J building for a Machine Shop at Nelson,  B.C. , Plans and specifications can be seen and  all information obtained at the office of the  Resident Engineer, Nelson. Scaled tenders to  be sent to my office not later than noon on the  loth instant. The lowest or any tender not  necessarily accepted.  W. JJOWNIE,  Superintendent.  Nelson, B.C., April 2nd, 1903.  TIMBER NOTICE.  NOTICE is hereby given that 30 days after  date I intend to apply to the Honorable  thc Chief Commissioner, of Lands and Works  for a special license to cut and carry away timber from the following described lands, situate  in Wes,t Kootenay District, British Columbia:  commencing at a post planted on south bink  of Six-Mile Creel*, about 6 miles northwest of  Kootenay Lake, and about 12 miles from Nelson, thence east SO chains, thence south 80  chains, thence west 80 chains, theuce north 80  chains to the place of beginning, and containing 610 acres.  ROSS THOMPSON, Locator.  J. FRED RITCHIE, Agent.  25th March, 1903. J_   TIMBER NOTICE.  NOTICE is hereby given that 30 days after  date I intend to apply to, the Honorable  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works  for a special license to cut and carry away timber from the following described lands, situate  in West Kootenay District, British Columbia:  commencing at a post planted on the south  bank of Six-Mile Creek, about 6 miles northwest of Kootenay Lake, and 12 miles from Nelson, thence north 80 chains, theuce west 80  chains, thence south 80 chains, thence east 80  chains to the place of beginning, and containing 640 acres.    >  GEO. C. TUNSTALL, JR., Locator.  ,T. KRED RITCHIE, Agent.  25th March, 1903.  TIMBER NOTICE.  NOTICE is hereby given that, S'i days after  date I intend to apply to the Honorable  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works  for a special license to cut and carry away timber from the following described lands, situate  in West Kootenay District, British Columbia:  commencing at a post planted on east bank of  Six-Mile Creek,, about 6 miles northwest of  Kootenay Lako, and about 12 miles from Nelson, thence east 80 ehains, theuce south 90  chains, thence west 80 chains, thence north 80  chains to the place of beginning, and containing G40 acres.  , WILLIAM ASTLEY, Locator.  J. FRED RITCHIE, Agent.  25th March, 1903. r  Kootenay Wirf Works Co.  Manufacturers of Mattresses, Springs,  Pillows, .Bed Lounges, Couches, Upholstering, Turning,, Bandsawing, Grill  Work and other novelties. Our No. 4  Spring is the best on the market. Ask  for it and take no other.  FRONT STREET  NELSON, B.C.  SEWING MACHINES and PIANOS  FOR RENT AND FOR SALE.  old coRiosur shop, Josepmoew, Nelson  Jmjm<m\ A A A A A A <__ A>  BIG HORN  BRAND  iBtode  ��veralte.  WE   MANUFACTURE  Shirts,  Overalls,  Denim Pants,  Tweed Pants,  Cottonade Pants,  Jumpers,  Blouses,  Engineers' Jackets,  Walters' Jackets,  Barbers' Jackets,  Qingham Jackets,  Mission Flannel  Underwear,  Cooks' Aprons and  Caps,  Carpenters'Aprons,  Walters' Aprons,  Painters' and Plasterers' Overalls,  Mackinaw Coats,  Mackinaw Pants,  Tarpaulins,  Dunnage Bags,  Horse Blankets,  Tents,  Etc.. Etc., Etc.  TURNER, BEETON & CO,  LIMITED,  WHOLESALE MERCHANTS  Warehouses, Wharf Street  Factory, 1 Bastion Street  .VICTORIA,  B.C.  OUEEN'S....  HOTEL  ^^-   Baker Street,  '    NELSON.  Lighted by Electricity and  . Heated with Hot Air. . . .  Large and comfortable Bedrooms and ���  first-class Dining Room. Sample Rooms y  for Commercial Men.  RATES. $2 PER DAY.  Mrs. E. C, Clarke   -  -,   Proprietress.  TREMONT  ...HOUSE.  European and American Plan.  Mcals'25 cts!   Rooms from 25 cts. to ?l.  Only White Help Employed:  MALONE & TREGILLUS,  Baker St., Nelson. Proprietors.  Madden House  Baker and Ward Streets  NELSON, XC.  Centrally Located       Electric Lighted.  HEADQUARTERS   FOR   TOURISTS  AND OLD TIMERS.  TflOMAS MADDEN,     -    Proprietor.  Silver King Hotel  BAKER STREET, NELSON  Under Old Management.  RATES $1.00 PER DAY.  The Dining Room is unsurpassed and  the Bedrooms are the best in Nelson.  The Bar is stocked with good Wines  and Liquors'and Cigars.  BARTLETT  == HOUSE  Josephine St.  NELSON  The best $1 per day house in Nelson.  None but white help employed.  ���The Bar the best.  G. W. BARTLETT  PROPRIETOR  IVTELSON MINERS' UNION, No. 96, W. F. IT.���  x' Meets eveiy Saturday evening at 7:30  o'clock, in Miners' Union Hall, northwest  corner Baker and Stanley streets. Wage scale  for Nelson district: Machine miners, $3.50;  hammersmen, $3.25; mine laborers, ?3. J. W.  Sinclair, president; Frank Phillips, secretary.  Visiting brethern cordially invited. THe   Nelson   TrJfowwe.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, G. Dangerfield,  intend within the time prescribed bv law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Worksof the Province of British Columbia fora  license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon  the lands hereinafter described and commencing atapost at the northeast corner inarked -G.  Dangerneld's n. e. coiner post," thence eighty  chains south, thence eightychains west, thence  eighty chains north, thence eightv chains east  to the post of commencement, s hese lands are  situated about 25 miles in asouiheasterlv direction from Ellco, B.C., on or near the Flathead  River.  Dated ISth Feb., 1903.  G. DANGERFIELD.  NOTICE is hereby giveii that I, W. Gosnell,  intend within tlie time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British .Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon thc lands hereinafter described aud commencing at a post at the southeast corner  inarked "W. Gosnell's s. e. comer post," theuce  eigh ty chains north, thence eigh ty chains west,  thence eighty chains south, thence eighty  chains east to the -tost of commencement.  Ihese lands are situated ou the north side of  and adjoining G. Dangerneld's claim, about 25  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flathead Kiver.  Dated 13th February, 1903.  W. GOSNELL.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, S. Crandon,  Intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petrole'im  upon the lands hereinafter described snd commencing at a post at the northwest corner  marked "8. Crandou's n.w. corner post," thence  -eighty chains south, thence eightv chains east,  thenceeighty chains north, tlience eighty  chains west to the post of commencement.  These lands are situated on the east sideof and  adjoining G. Dangerfield's claim, about 25  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 13th Feb., 1903.  .- '��� ���   S. CRANDON.  NOTICEishereby given that I, N. Taylor,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Worksof the Province of British Columbia for  a license to ^prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the land*, hereinafter described and commencing at ��� post at the northeast corner  marked "N. Taylor's n. e. corner post," thence  eighty chains south, thence eightv chains west,  thence eighty chains north, theuce eighty  chains east to the post of commencement.  These lands are situated on the east side of and  adjoining S. Crandou's claim, about 21 miles in  a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C. on  or near the Flathead River.  Dated 13th February, 1903.  N. TAYLOR.  NOTICE Is hereby given that I, F. B. Gibbs,  intend within the time prescribed, by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner ��f Lands and  Worksof the Province of British Columbia for  a license to rospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the southwest corner  marked "F. B. Gibbs' s.w. corner post," thence  eighty chains north, theuce eighty chains east,  thence eighty chains south, thence eighty  chains west to the post of commencement.  These lands are situated on the east side of and  adjoining G. Motion's claim, about 29 miles in  a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on  or near thc Flathead River.  Dated 15th February, 1903.  F. B. dBBS.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, A. A. Perrier,  intend within the time prescribed bytlaw to  apply lo the Chief Commissioner of Laudsand  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northwest corner  marked "A. A. Perrier's n.w. corner post,"  thence eighty chains south, thence eighty  chains east, thence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains west to the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the east  side of and adjoining H Parkin's claim, about  29 miles In a southeasterly direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 15th February, 1903. ��� "  ���������.������������    A. A. PERRIER.  NOTICE is hereby giveii that I, C. Westfall,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of Britisli Columbia for  alicense to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the southeast corner  marked "C. Wesifull's s.e. corner post," thence  eiglity chains" north, thence eighty chains  west, thence eighty chains south, thenceeighty  chains east to the post of commencement.  These lands are hi mated on the east side of and  adjoining J. C. Murray's claim, about 27 miles  in a southeaster.}* direclion from ElkorB.C, on  or near the Flathead River.  Dated 13th Feb., 1903.  C. WESTFALL.  NOIICE is hereby giveii that I, J. C. ilurray,'  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner ot Lands arid  Works of the Pio\inee of British Columbia for  alicense to-prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing ata postal thefeouthwestcornermarked "S. C Murray's.s \y. corner po*t," theuce.  eighty chains north, thence eighty chains  east, thence eighty chuins south, them-e eighty  _ chains west to the post of commencement,  i hose lands are situated on the east side of and  adjoining W. Gosnell's claim, about 25 miles in  a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., ou  or near the Flathead River. * ���  Dated 13th Feb., 1903. ���  J. C. MURRAY.  NOTICE is hereby giveii that I, V. it. Schmitt,  intend within the time presciibed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal .and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the north westcorner marked "V. M. Schmitt's n w. corner post," thence  eighty chains south, thence eighty chains east,  thence eighty chains north, theuce eighty  chains west to the post of commencement,  lliese lands are situated on the east side of and  adjoining N. Taylor's claim, about 27 miles in  a southeasterly direction from Elko, 11. C, on  or near the Flathead kiver.  Dated 13th Feb., 1903.  V. M. SCHMITT.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, H. Brown,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works,of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the southwest corner  marked "H. Brown's s. w. corner post," thence  eighty chains north, thence eightv chains  east, thence eiglity chains south, thence eiglity  chains west to the post of commencement.  These landsare situated on the_eastside_of and  -adjoining-Cf^Westfrill's-claimT^aboUTSlTTniles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on  or near the'Flathead River.  Dated 13th Feb., 1903.  : H. BROWN.  NOTICE is hereby giveii -.hat I, P E. Wilson,  intend within the time prescribed bv law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia -for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described at'd commend g at a post at the southwest corner  marked "P. E. Wilson's s. w. corner post,"  thence eighty chains ^orth, thence' eighty  chains east, thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains west to' the: post of commence  ment. - These lands are situated on the north  sideof and adjoining J. L. Meighan's* claim;  about 27 miles in asoutheasterlvdirectio'n from  Elko, B.C., on or near the Flathead.River. ..;-  Dated 14th February, 1903.   -'..'- ���'-'  ���:W- P. E. WILSON.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, W.Walmsley,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Prov'nce of British Columbia for  " lisense to prospect for coal and petroleum  upen the Iands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northwest corner  marked "W. "A almsley's n.w. corner post,"  thence .eighty chains south,o thence eighty  chains east, inence eighty chains north, theuce  eighty chains west to tlie post of commencement. These lands are situated on the south  sideof and adjoining G. B. Matthews' claim,'  about 33 miles in a southeasterly direction fr�� in  Elko, B.C., on or near the Flathead Kiver.  Dated I9lh February, 1903.  W. WA LMS--LEY  NOTICE Is herebv given that I, K. Krtist,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to thc Chief Commissioner of Lauds aud  Worksof the Province of Br tl.sh Columbia for  alicense to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lauds hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the southeast corner  markc* "K. Ernst's s e. corner post,"  thence eighty chains north, thence eighty  ciixins west, thence clphty chains south,  thence eighty chains eiM. to the post of commencement. These lair's are situated on the  south side of and adjoining N. McColeman's  claim, about 31 miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B C , on or near the Flathead  River.  Dated 21th February, 1903.  K. ERNST.  NOTICE is hereby given that I; J. L. Meighan,  intend within the time prescribed bv law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northwest corner  marked "J. L. Meighan's n.w. corner post,"  thence eighty chains south, thence eighty  chains east, thenceeighty chains north, thence  eighty chains west to the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the north  side of and adjoining H. Brown's claim, about  27 miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 14th February, 1903.  J  L. MEIGHAN.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, VV.R.Thomson  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Worksof the Province of British Columbia for  a license .to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at -the southeast corner  marked "W. R. Thomson's s.e. corner post,"  thence eighty chain* north, thence eightv  chains west, thence eightv chains south, thence  eighty chains east to the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the north  sideof and adjoining D: Blackwood's claim,  about 27 miles in a southeasterlv direction  from Elko, B.C., on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 14th February, 1903.  W. R. THOMSON.  ' NOTICE is hereby given that I, D. Blackwood,  intend within tho time prescribed "by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner, of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  alicense to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at-a post at. the northeast* corner  Tnarfced ��T). Blackwood's "n~. e."corner"post;"  thence eighty chains south, thence eightv  chains west,, thence ..eighty., chains .north,  thence eighty chains east to the post- of commencement." These lands are situated on the  north side of and adjoining C. Westfall's claim,  about 27 miles in a southeasterly direction from  Elko B C, on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 14th Feb., 1903.  D. BLACKWOOD.  NOTICE Is hereby given that I, Chs. Elliott,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner iOf Lands and'  works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to - prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the southwest corner  marked "Chs. Elliott's s. w. corner post,"  thence eighty chains north, thence eighty  chains east, thence eightv chains south,  thenceeighty chains west to the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the  east side of and adjoining W.W. Phelan's claim,  Jbput 25 miles in a southeasterly direction from  .Llko, u;. -., on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 14th Feb., 1903.  CHS. ELLIOTT.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, F. McKay,  intend within the. time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northeast corner  marked "F. McKay's n. e. corner post," thence  eighty chains south, thence eightv chains west,  tlience eighty chains north, thence 'eighty  chains east to the post of commencement.  These Iands arc situated on t he north side of aud  adjoining W. Goencll's claim, about 25 miles iu  a southeasterly direction fiom Elko, B.C., on  or. near the Flathead Kiver.  Dated 14th Feb., 1903.  F. McKAY.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, E.G. Smythe,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license.-' to prospect for coal and petroleum  upoii the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northwest corner  marked "E. G. Smythe's n. w. corner; post,"  thence eighty .chains south,, thence eighty  chains east, tnence eighty chains north, thence  eightjMJhainsywest Jo_the' post jnf^commences  mentr-These~Tands~are situated on the east  side of and adjoining F. McKay's claim, about  25 miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flathead Rfver.  Dated 14th Feb., 1903.  E. G. SMYTHE.  if  NOTICE Is hereby given thatl, W.W.Phelan,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chiel Commissioner of Lands and  Worksof the Province of British Columbia for  a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lauds hereinafter described and commencing at a postat the southeast corn*, r marked "W. \V. Phelan's s. e corner post,"-thence  eiglity chains nOrth, thence . eighty chains  west^thence eighty chajussouth, thenceeighty  chains east to the post of commencement.  These lands are situated on the north side of  and adjoining F. McKay's claim, about25miles  iu a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on  or near the Flathead Kiver. '  Dated 14th Feb., 1903.  W. W.- PHELAN.  NOTICE is hereby giveii that I, A. R.Sherwood  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Provinceof British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon ihe lands hereinafter described and commencing at" a post at the northeast corner  marked "A. R. Sherwood's n. e. corner post,"  thence eighty chains south, thence eighty  chains west, thence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains east to the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the north  side of and adjoining G. Motion's claim, about  29 miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 26th February, 1903.  A. R. SHERWOOD.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, Ths. Lillie,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  applv to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  worksof the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect- for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the southeast corner  marked "Ths. Lillie's s. e. corner post," thence  eighty chains north, thence .eighty chains  west, thenceeighty chains south, thenceeighty  chaius east to the post of commencement.  These lands are situated on the north sideof  and adjoining A. R. Sherwood's claim, nbout20  miles iu a southeasterly direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 2-jth February, 1903.  THS. LILLIE.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, M. Lillie,  intend within the time, prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Worksof the-Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the land* hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northwest corner  marked "M. Lillie's n.w. corner post," thence  eighty chains south, thence eighty chains east,  thence eighty chains north, thence eiglity  chains west to the post of commencement.  These lands are siMiated on the east side of and  adjoining A. R. Sherwood's claim, about 29  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flathead River.-  Dated 26th February, 1903.  .      *': M. LILLIE.  NOTICE is hereby given thatl, G.B.Matthews  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Worksof the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the southwest corner  marked "G. B. Matthews' s.w. corner post,"  thence eighty chains north, thence eighty-  chains east, thence eighty chains sOuth, thence  eighty chain�� west to the post of commencement. These Iands are situated on the south  side of and adjoining B. Chambers' claim, about  33 miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 19th February, 1903. *  G. B. MATTHEWS.  NO I ICE is hereby* given, that I, G. Motion,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the chief Commissioner of Laudsand  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospec for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described,and commencing at apost at the southeast corner  marked "G. Motion's s.e. corner post," thence  eighty chains north, thence eighty chains west,  thence: eighty rchaiiis south, thence eighty  chains east to the post of commencement.  These lands are-situated on the north side of  and adjoining H. Parkin's claim, about29 miles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on  or near the"Flathead Kiver.  Dated 15th February, 1903.  ���;���:���>:. AA " .-���-��������� ��� ������ G. MOTION.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, II. Parkin,  intend within the time prescribed by taw to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  \\ orks of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northeast corner  marked "H. Parkin's n.e corner post,'.'thence  eighty chains south, thence eighty chains west,  thence eighty chains, north, thence eighty  chains east to the post of commencement.  These lands are situated on the east side'of and  adjoining V. M. Schmitt's claim, about29 miles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C.,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated loth Februarv, 1803.  .      H. PARKIN.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, J.J. Chamber!-,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia  for a license to prospect forcoal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing nt a post at the northeast corner  marked *'J. J. Chambers* n. e. corner post,"  thence eighty chuins south, thence eighty  chains west, thence eighty chains north,  tlience eighty chains east, to the post of commencement. These landsare situated on the  south side of and adjoining K. Ernst's claim,  about 31 miles in a southeasterly direction  from Elko, B. C, on or near the Flathead  Kiver.  Dated 20th February, 1903.  J. J. CHAMBERS.  NOTICE is hereby iven that I.Frank Seaman,  intend within the time pre*cnbcd by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a licence to1 prospect for-coal and petroleum  upon the lauds hereinafter described and  ^ommcifcin'i'at-a pOBt'at me Souxiuvestrconrer-  marked "Frank Seaman's s.,w. corner post,"  thence eiglity chains north, theuce eighty  chains -east, thence eighty chains south,  thence eighty chains west, to the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the  cast side of and adjoining K. Ernst's claim,  about 31 miles in a southeasterly direction  from Elko, B. C, on or near the Flathead  River.  Dated 20th February, 1903.  FRANK SEAMAN.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, J .0. Patenaude  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal a. d petroleum  upon the lands herein after described and  commencing at a postat the northwest corner  marked "J. O. Paienaude's n. w. corner post,"  tlience eighty chains south, thence eighty  chains east, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains west, to the post of commencement. These lauds are situated on the  east side of and adjoining J. J. Chambers'  claim, about31 miles in asoutheasterly direction from Elko, B. C, on or near the Flathead  River.  Dated 20th February, 1903.  J. O. PATENAUDE.  NOTICEishereby given that I, I. A. Skene,  inteiidrwithin the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Worksof the Provinceof British Columbia for  a license to prospect for roal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and  commencing at a post at the southeast corner  "marked "J. A, Skene's s. e corner post," thence  eighty=_chains^_north,_theiice_eight.v_chttiiis  west, thence eighty chainssouth, thence eighty  chains east, to the post of commencement.  Tnese lands are situated ou the east sideof  and adjoining Frank Seaman's claim, about 33  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko,  Is. C, on or near the Flathead Kiver.  Dated 20th February, 1903.  J. A  SKENE.  NOTICE is herebv given that I, A. R. Poole,  intend'within' the' time prescribed by law to  ai,ply to the Chief Commissioner of Laudsand  Worksof the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the hinds hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northeast corner  marked " . R. Poole's n. e corner post,"  thence eighty chains south, thence eighty  chains west, thence eighty chain.s north,  tlience eighty chains east, to the post of commencement. These lands are situated ou the  east side of aud adjoining J. O. Pateiiaude's  ciaim, about 83 miles in asoutheasterly direction from Elko, B. C, on or lie >r the Fluthead  Dated 20th February, 1903.  A. R. POOLE.  NOTICE is hereby given that I. Ida Lawr,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands aud Works of the  Province of British Columbia lor a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upoo the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  southwest corner marked "Ida i-awr's s.w. corner  post.'* thence eighty chains north, thence eighty  chains east, thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains west to the post of commencement.  1 hese lands are situated ^ on the east side of and  adjoining Anthony Turner's claim, about 31 miles in  a southeasterly direction : from Elko, B. C, 011 or  near the Flathead River.  Dated 18th February, 1903.   - IDA LAWR.  "NOTICE is hereby given that I, W. K. Seatle,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and VVorks of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing ata post_ at the  northwest corner marked "W.K. Seatle's n.w.  corner post," thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains north,  tlience eighty chains west to the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the east sideof  and adjoining M. Fullerton's claim, about 31 miles  in asoutheasterly directionfrom Elko, B.C., on or  near the Flathead River.  Dated 18th February, 1903.  W. R. SEATLE.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, H. Byers.  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a |>ost at the  southeast corner marked "H. Byers' s. e. corner  post," thence eighty chains north, thence eighty  chains west, thence eighty' chains south, tlience  eighty chains east to the post of commencement.  These lands are situated on the south side of and  adjoining M. La Bau's claim, about ,53 miles in  a. southeasterly direction from Elko. H. C, on or  near the Flathead River." ".   . ���  Dat -d i>'th February;* 1903.  H. BYERS.  NOTICE is hereby given that I. Alary Allan,  intend ��ithin the tune proscribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lauds and VVorks of the  Pro\ ince of British Columbia fora license to pros-  pect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at thc  northeast corner marked ' Mary Allan's n.e. corner  post." thence eighty chains south, thence eighty  chains west, thence eight} chains north, thence  eighty chains cast to the post of commeni-ement.  These land-* are situated on the south side of and  adjoining II. Byers' claim about 33 miles in a  .southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on ornear  the Flathead River.  Dated 18th February, 1903.  MARY ALLAN.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, Jas. McDonald,  intend within the time prescribed b) law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works oi the  Province of British Columbia for .1 license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  southwest corner marked "Jas. .McDonald's s. w.  corner post," thence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains south,  thence eighty chains west to the post of commencement. 'I hese lands are situated on the cast side of  and adjoining H. Byers' claim, about -3 miles in  a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on or  near the Flathead River.  Dated 18th February, 1903.  jas. Mcdonald.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, B. Chamber*,  intend within the time prescribed b\ law to applv to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of* the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commcnci.ig at a postat thc  northwest corner marked "B. Chambers' n. w.  corner post," thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains west to thc post of commencement. 1 hese lands arc situated on the cast side of  and adjoining Mar} Allan's claim, about 33 miles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on or  near the Flathead River.  Dated 18th February, 1903.  B. CHAMBERS.  NOTICE is hereby given that I. H. Al. Fullerton,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works ot the  Province of British Columbia for a. license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands herein,  after described and commencing at a post at the  southwest corner marked "H. M. Fullerton's R. w.  corner-post." thence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains south,  thence eighty chains west, to the post of commencement. 'I hese lands are situated on the east  side of and adjoining 'I hit. Lillie's claim, about 39  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C.,  on or near tlie Flathead River.  Dated, 26th February, 1903. ,  B(. M. FULLERTON.'  NOTICE is hereby giveii that I. Chs. V. Dake,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northeast corner marked' "Chs. V. Dake's .11. e.  corner post," thence eighty' chain- south, thence  eighty chains west, thence eiglitj chains noith,  thence eight}' chains east, to the post of commencement.. These lands are situated on the east,  side of and adjoining A. A. Perrier's claim, about 31  .mil'un.a.wiithcai.terly direction_from_��lko.JLLC���  on or near thc Flathead Kiver.-  Dated 16th February, 1903.  CHS. V. DAKE.  NOIICE is hereby given that I, E. Stanley,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Piovince ot Blilish Colnmbiaforalicen.se to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  southeast, corner marked "E. Stanlcj's ��. e.  corner post," thence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains west, thence eighty chains south,  thence r eighty chains east, to thc post of. commencement. These lands are situated on the east  sideofand adjoining F..B. Gibb's claim, about31  miles in si southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C.,  on or near tlie Flathead River.  Dated 16th February, 1903.  E. STANLEY.  NOTICE is hereby given that I. G. Stanley,  intend within the time" prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and_ Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northwest corner marked "G. Stanley's n: w.  corner post," thence eiglity chains south, thence  eighty chains east, tlience eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains west,* to_ the post- of commencement. These lands are situated on the east  side of and adjoining Chs. V. Dake's claim, about 31  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C,  on or near the Flathead Rivet.  Dated 16th Februarv, 1903.  G.STANLEY.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, Ths. C. Collins,  intend w.thin the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands herein,  after described, and commencing at a post at the  southwest corner marked "Ths. C. Collin's s. w.  corner post.'*, thence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains south,  thence eighty chains west, to the post of commencement. These lands are situated on thc east  sideofand adjoining J. A. Gilker's claim. ahouMi  miles in a southeasterlv direction from Elko. B. C.  on or near thc Flatliead Kiver.  Dated 17th Febrimrv. 1903.  THS. r. CCU l.ivs*  NOriCE is hereby giveii that 1. ,u. -.a U.ui'  intend within the time prescribed i>y law to applv to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  1 ro*. ince of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northeast corner marked "AL La Bau's 11. c.  corner post.' them-e eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains west, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains east, to the post of commencement. _ These lands are situated on the cast  side nnd adjoining G. Stanley's claim, about 33  miles in a��*>utheaster!y direction from Elko, B. C,  on or near the Flatliead River.  Dated 17th Februarv, 1903.   "         M. LA BAU. '  NOTICE   is hereby gi\e that I,  E.  E. Phair,  NOTICE is hereby given that I, Chs. H. Ink,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Conimissioneruf Lands~and Works of thc  Provinceof British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  southwest corner marked "Chs: H. Ink's a. w.  corner post," thence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains south,  thence eighty chains west, to post of commencement. These lands arc situated on the north  side of and adjoining G. Stanley's claim, about 31  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C���  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated .6th February. ,903. CMS, ���. ,NK<  NOTICE is hereby giveii that I, J. A. Griffith,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon thc lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post, at the  northeast corner marked "J. A. Griffith's 11. e.  corner post." thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains west, thence eighty chains north,  thence eiglity' chains east, to the *>ost of commencement. These lands are situated on the north  side of and adjoining E. Stanley's claim, about ji  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 17th February, 1903..  J.A.GRIFFITH.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, J. A. Gilker,  intend within the time prescribed bylaw to applv to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Provinceof British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a_ post at the  southeast corner marked "J. A. Gilker's s. e.  corner post," thence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains west, thence eighty chains south,  thence eighty chains east, to the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the north  side of and adjoining J. A. Griffith's claim, about 31  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 17th February, 1903.  J. A. GILKER.  NOTICE is hereby given that 60 days after date  I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of  Lands and Works for permission to purchase the  following Iands in South East Kootena}-, described  as follows: Commencing at a post marked "F. C.  Elliottt's southeast corner," planted on the north  bank of the Flathead River, about 30 miles from the  International boundary line, thence north 80 chains,  thence west 80 chains, thence south 80 chains, thence  east 80 chains to the place of beginning, containing  640 acres more or less.  Dated the 7U1 day of March, 1003.  F. C. ELLIOTT.  ., .    ----���  ��� ^..o^ to pros  pect Mr coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  southeast corner marked "E. E. Phair's s. e.  corner post," thence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains west, thence eightv chains south,  thence eight.*, chains east to th'e post of commencement. These lands aie situated on thc east  side of and adjoining Chs. H. Ink's claim, about 13  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C.,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 17th l;ehruarj, 1903.  .  E. E. PHAIR.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, W. Clark,  intend within the time prescribed by law to applv to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a licence to prospect forcoal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter aescribed and commencing at a post at the  northwest ' corner marked "W. Clark's n. w.  corner post," thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains west, to. the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the ea>.t  side of and adjoining M. La Bau's claim, about 33  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. CV,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 17th Febrdarv, 1903.          ��� ' W. CLARK.   -  NOTICE is hereby given that I. G. A. Mitchell.    .  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of ."the  Province of British Columbia fora license to pros-  -  pect for coal and petroleum upon  the lands hereinafter described and   commencing at a post at the  southwest corner marked "G. A. Mitchells s.  w.  corner post."  thence   eighty chains north,  thence  eighty chains   east,   thence   eighty chains south,    -  thence   eighty   chains   west   to the post of commencement.   These lands are situated on the east  side of and adjoining E. E. Phair's claim, about 33  miles in a southeasterly direction from  Elko,-B. C\,  on or .near the Flathead River.  Dated 17th Februarv, 1903.    *  G. A. AHTCHELL.'     ���'  NOTICE i.s hereby^iven that I. Anthony Turner,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to ���- '  the Chief.Commissioner of Lands and Works of the ,  Province of British Columbia for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon thc lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  southeast corner marked   "'Anthony Turner's,*, e.  corner post." thence eighty" chains north,  thence    '.,,  eighty chains west,  thence eighty   chains   south,  thence   eighty chains   east,' to the post of commencement.   These lands are situated on thc south  side ofvand .adjoining C. \^Dakc!s._i*Jlaim.-j'about 31     j -  m'lei. ���!��-�� sKttitneasterly direction from Elko,-*Brc.T"*~-^���  on or near the Flathead River. ���  Dated 18th February 1903.  ANTHONY TURNER.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, AL Fullerton,  intend within tne time* prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Worksof the  Province of British Columbia for a license to pros- "  pect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northeast corner marked "M. Fullerton's n.e. corner  post," thence eighty chains south, thence eighty  chains west, thence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains' east to the -post of commencement.  These lands are situated on the south side of and  adjoining Anthony Turner's claim, about 31 miles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., 'on or  near thc Flathead River,  Dated 18th February, 1903.  M. FULLERTON.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, R. H. Williams,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon thc lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northwest corner marked "R. TH. William's n. w.  corner post," thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains west, to thc post of commencement.. These Iands arc situated on the east  side of and adjoining J. A. Griffith's claim, about 31  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C.,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 17th February, 1903.  R.H.WILLIAMS.  NOTICE is hereby giten that I. F. C. "Elliott-  intend withmjhcjim^prescritedjjyjaw to_apply_tp_  the Chief Commissioner of T.ands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a_ post at the  southeast corner marked "F. C. Elliott's s.e. corner  post," thence eighty chains north, thence eighty  ehains west, thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains cast to thc post of commencement.  These lands arc situated on the south side of and  adjoining A. A. Perrier's claim, about 30 miles in a  southeasterlv direction from Elko, B.C.; on.or near  the Flathead River.  Dated 18th I-ebruary, 1903. _   ���        F. C. ELLIOTT.  NOTICK is hereby given that I, Maria L. Rattray  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at .1 post at the  southeast corner marked "Maria L. Rattray's s.e,  corner post," ihence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains west, thence eighty chains south,  thenceeighty chains cast_ to thc post of commencement. These lands are situated on thc south side of  and adjoining M. Fullerton's claim, about 31 miles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on or  near the Flathead River.  Dated igth February, 1903.  9 MARIA L. RATTRAY.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, N. McColeman,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands nnd Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the Iands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northeast corner marked "N. McColeman's n.'e.  corner post," thence eighty chains south, thence"  eighty chains west, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty cast, to post of commencement.  These lands are situated on thc south side of and  adjoining Maria L; Rattray's claim, nbout 51 miles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C, on or  near the Flathead River.  Dated 19th February, 1903.  N. AfcCOLEMAN.  * NOTICE is hereby given that 60 days after date  1 intend to apply to the-Chief Commissioner of  Lands and Works for permission to purchase the  following described lands in South East Kootenay:  Commencing at a post marked "H. Sturgeon's  northwest corner." planted on the east bank of the  Flathead River, almost 21 miles from the international boundary line, thence south 80 chains, thence  east 80 chains, thence north 80 chains, thence west  80 chains to the place of beginning, containing 640  acres more or less.  , [Dated the 7th day of Afarch. 'g3*STURGEON  ���**"���&-. U\_/_5^^aiaij��i-ja_aie_*^ig- _��. ? >S;>  w 7-W.--.-3P^ir_-V;?( _ _*4'_!_f* _  THe   Nelson   Tritmne.  NOTICE is hereby giveii that 1, A. Thomas,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lauds hereinafter described and commencing atapost at the southwest corner marked "A Thomas' .s. w. corner post," thence  eighty chains north, thence eighty chains  cast, thence eiglity chains south, thence eighty  chains west to ihe post of commencement.  These lands are situated on the enst side of and i  adjoining .Mnria L. Rattray's claim, about 31  miles in asoutheasterly direction from Elko, I  B.C., on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 19th February, 1903.  A. THOMAS.  . NOTICE is herebv given that I, J. C. Thelin  intend within the "time prescribed bv law to  hvTJ.L'PA'J0LChief Commissioner of Lands  NOTICE is hereby giveii that I, .1. .'loo'tray,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lauds and  \\ orks of the Province of Britisli Columbia for  a license to prospiet for coal and petroleim  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northwest corner  marked "J. Goostray's n.w. corner post," thence  NOTICE is hereby given that I, M.F.Elliott,  ���*V6rks of Yhe Pfovince^^K &H_t_X i jffivfr ^Co^nEJe^ SnSM  a license to project for coal andI SSvnn��,(m �� v" ��f l.1,c * "��?-"<* of British Columbia tor  upon the landsherein iiter describe.? ��r_?S f llcei.,,se ,t0 I?r��sPect for coal and petroleum  mencing at a posu the northwli Irn^' "l>on the lands hereinafter described and coin-  marked "J. c? Thel hi*.n T coraw ^st �� I S1?f'5g AV VS?,1-.11* ,he northeast corner  thence eight*.* cha ns son , ,h?.l ��8S?.f\.' n,lrktd ' s,r* *��� Elliott's n.e. comer post,"  chains ea J, the,fceeiirh,v^Hh,.'no"th  ffi�� i ���!!_n._? .e&h-J\ <_������>��  south,   thence   eighty  - chains north,  the post of coin-  situated on the  ���i   . . n.     ,-.----. ��- o ������ .Graham'sclaim,  about 31 miles ina southeasterly direction from  JiiKo B c, on or near the Flathead Kiver.  Dated 22nd Februarv, 1903.   ' M- F. ELLIOTT.  wu-n "i��V,"  ��....niv.ti.i^rly direction from  "X !   ,.:��� ��l* or "��-"������ "10 '"latliead River.  Dated 2lst Februarv, liK)3.  .  ' J. C. THELIN  F.  NOriCh Is hereby giveii that I, r. cm  Intend within the time prescribed by law  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands a  Smith,  to  ���av...��"... ���*vl~ ",:-���-,"v.���i,n.���,utivi  v, i.miiis and  \\ orks of the Province of British Columbia for  nnnnVi^l?   'i1*0,-*''*-'0,1   ti,r   C0��1   ��Ild   petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and com  ini'iicing  at  a post at the  southeust  corner  ., on or near the Fla'thead River,  "Dated 19th February, 1903.  J. GOOSTRAY.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, C. Norris,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  applv to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon thc lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the southeast corner  marked "C. Norris' s. e. corner post," thence  eighty chains .north, thence eighty chuins west,  thence eighty chains south,, tb.enee eighty  chains east to the post- of commencement.  These lands are situated on thc south side of  and adjoining Mary Allan's claini, about 33  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flathead River.,  Dated 19th February, 1903.  C. NORRIS.  fmm viV^'u"VV ���"   " southeasterly direction  i-^.orf o?,.HiCl* on or "ear th�� Flathead River,  Dated 21st February, 1903.    F. SMITH.  NOTICE is hereby given-that 1, J. Malone,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  NOTICE is hereby giveii that I, J. J. Bates,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Worksof the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northeast corner  marked "J. J. Bates' n. e. corner.post," thence  eighty chains south, thenceeighty chains west,  thence eighty chains north, ��� tnence eighty  chains east to the post of commencenient.  These lands are situated on the east sideofand  adjoining J.C. Thelin's claim, about S3 miles in  asoutheasterly direction'from Elko, B.C., on  or near the Flathead Kiver.  Dated 21st February, 1903. ���  J. J. BATES.   .���. ���w..���. .uou cwiJ commencing at a post at the northeast corner marked "J.  Malone's ��� n. e. coiner post." thence eighty  chains south, thence eighty cnains west, thence  eighty chains north, thence eighty chains east  to the post of commencement. 'Ihese lands are  situated on the east side of and adjoining J.  Goostray's claim, about 33 miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on or near  tbe Flathead River.  Dated 19th February, 1903.  .'..' ,;'.-'��� ������'' J- MALONE.  NOTICE is hereby given thatl, R. Henderson,  Intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing ata post at the north west corner marked "R. Henderson's n. w. corner post," thence  eighty chains south, thence eighty chains east,  thence   eighty  chains -north,  theuce  eighty  chains  west to the post  of commencement.  These lands are situated on tbe east-side of and'  adjoining Ai R. Poole's claim, about 33 miles in  a southeasterly directionrfrom -Eiko, B.G.; oil  or near the Flathead River.   . ,, ;���;;,  Dated 20th February, 1903.  '   .~:A:.-':'::.-A-A    y-v.'������;;'.���-�����..'.:HENDERSON-.  NOTICE is hereby giveii .hat 1,E. Masterson,  intend within the time-prescribed bv law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of .Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the southwest corner  marked "E.Mastereon's s. w. corner post,"  thence eighty chains north, thence eighty  chains east, thence eighty chainssouth, thence  eighty chains ..west to the post, of .commencement. These lands are situated on the east  side of and adjoining ��� F. Smith's claim,  about 33 miles in a southeasterly direction from  Elko, B.C., on ornear the Flatliead River. .''���*.  Dated 21st February, 1903.  E. MASTERSON.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, C. Walmsley,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  V orks of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing nt a post at the southwest cori.er  marked "C. Walinsley's s. w. corner post,"  thence eighty chains north, thence eighty  chains cast, thence eightv chains south, theuce  eiglity chains west to the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the east  sideofand adjoining B. F. Clark's claim, about  83 miles in a southeasterlv direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flatliead River.  Dated 22nd February, iy03.       ���      ;..     -  C. WALMSLEY.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, L. K. Larson,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  - license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upen the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northwest corner  marked "L..K. Larson's n. w. corner post,"  thence eiglity chains south,'thence eighty  chains cast,- thence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains west to the post of commencement. These lands are situated onthe east-  side of and adjoining-Robert Weir's claim,  about 33 miles in a southeasterly direction frt m  Elko, B.C., on.or near the Flathead River.  Dated 22ud February, 1903.  .'���- L. K. LARSON.  ���3 7,JCL is hereby g,ven that I, E. K. McLatchie,  !Pte"d.w'-*��n '"'V ���"."><- prescribed by law to apply to  tlie Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works Sf the  Province of British Columbia for a license to nros-  P?!* ��or cos-land petroleum upon the lands herein-  atter described and commencing at a post at the  southwest corner marked "E. K. McLatchie's s. w.  corner post, thence eighty chain.s north, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains south,  thence eighty chains west, to the post of commencement. I hese lands are situated on the east  side of and adjoining Geo. Ritchie's claim, about 33  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C.".  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated, 34th Feb., 1903.  E. K. McLATCHIE.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, Mary C.Matthews  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works ol the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  southwest corner marked "Mary C. Matthews' s.w.  corner post," thence eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains south,  thence eighty chains west to the post of commencement. These lands are situated 011 the east side of  and'adjoining- J. A. Skene's claini, about 33 miles in  a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on or  near the Flathead River.  Dated aoth February. 1903.  MARY. C. MATTHEWS.  . NOTICE is hereby given that I, J. H. Nickerson,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of tin-  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  southwest corner marked "J. H. Nickerson's s. w.  corner post," thence eighty chains north, themv  eighty chains cast, thence eighty chains south.  thence eighty chains west, to the post of commencement. These lands arc situated on the east  side of and adjoining H. Sturgeon's claim, about 31  miles in a southeasterlv direction from Elko, B. C,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 33rd Feb., 1903.  . J. H. NICKERSON.  ^^SI*^^^y^nth^3tNellieGc.rma  intendwithin the time prescribed by; law.to  apply to the.Chief Commissioner^ of Lauds and  Works of the Province of British ^Columbia-for  a license to prospect for' coal; and petroleum'  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a postat the southeast corner marked "Nellie-Gorman's.s.e. .corner post." thenr.f  ��iSl,ty;-3hai^-^rthf*^IScn&;'c^}_!  NOTICE is Hereby given that I, C. Crandon,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  .Works of the Province of Britisli Columbia for  alicense to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing ! at' a post at the southeast corner  marked "0. Crandou's s.e. corner post,',' thence  eiglity chains north, thence eigh ty chains  west, tlience eigh ty chains south, tnence eighty  chains; east; to -the. post of commencement.  These laiidsr are->-ituuted on the, east side of  and: adjoining E.: Masterson's claini, about 35  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko;  B.'C.,'on or near the Flathead: River. .."'���  Dated 21st February, 1903; ;-  yyy;v.;.;.y';;-yy-.y,,-'.->-. ;L:.j:'yc;,eRANDON.  NOTICE is hereby given that 1, I.G.Nelson,  intend within the.time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British: Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at aopost at the northeast corner  marked "I. G. Nelson's n.e corner post," thence  eighty chains south, thence eighty chains west,  thence eighty chains, north, thence eighty  chains east to the post of commencement.  Theselands are situated on the east side of and  adjoining L. K. Larsoii's claim, about 35 miles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C.,  on or near the Flathead River.:  Dated 22nd Februarv, 1903.  -���   ..'��� -������������  -  y   ������������ ���- ,-----.   .-������        I. G. NELSON.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, O. B. N. Wilkie,  intend within the time prescribed bylaw to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northwest corner marked "O. B. N. Wilkie's n. w.  corner post," thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains west to the post of commencenient. These lands are situated on the cast sitfc of  and adjoining J. J; Bates' claim, about 33 miles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on or  near the Flathead River.  Dated 21st February, 1003. .  O. B. N. WILKIE.  /NOTICE is hereby given that I, W. McLeod,  ���nteml within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works ol tin-  Province of British Columbia for a licence to pros-  pect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northwest corner marked "W. Mcl.eod's n. w.  corner post," thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains cast, tlience eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains west, to the post of rem.  niencement. These landsare situated on the east  side of and_ adjoining Maurice Mawdsley's claim,  about _�� miles in a southeasterlv direction from  Elko, B. C, on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 24th Feb., 1903.  _   W. McLEOD.  . NOTICE is hereby given ihat I, D. Darough,  intend within the time prescribed by law- to apply t��>  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia lor a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  southwest corner marked "D. Darough's s. w.  corner post." thence- eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains south,  thence eighty chains -west to the post of commencement. Theselands arc situated on the east  side' of and adjoining S. Boyd's claim, about 35  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C.,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 24th February, 1903.  ���-  .       ���  ���-  D. DAROUGH.  NOTICE is hereby iven that I, A. Hillaud,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a licence to prospect for coal, and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and  commencing at a post at the southwest' cornet  marked "A. Hilland's s.w. corner post,"  thence eighty chains north, thence eighty  chains ; east, thence eighty chains souih,  thence eighty chains west, to the post of commencement. These lands are "situated on the  east side of and adjoining; G. Tackabury's  claim, about 35 miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on or near the Flathead  River  Dated 22nd February, 1903.  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northeastcorner marked "Emma Ferguson's n. e. corner post," thence eighty chains south, thence eighty  chains west, thence eighty chains ; north, thence  eighty, chains east to the' post of commencement.  These lands are situated on the east side of and  adjoining R. Henderson's claim, about 35 miles in  a' southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C, on or  near the Flathead River. ���"*'".'��� '.  Dated 20th February; 1903.  ��� '    .;'-���   -- . .'������ ";-.-:���  ��� -'A., EMMA FERGUSON.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, Geo. N.Taylor,  intend-.within;the time prescribed by law to  apply to the ChlefCommissioner of Lands and  . . .        v,,.>���,��]iuiicj ui.-ijiiuus ann  \\"'orks of the Province ofBritish Columbia for  a license to; prospect for coal and petroleum  .upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at -. the northeast/corner;  marked "Geo. N;-Taylor's: 11.:e.' corner post.'!;  ���   ..    ���.-. ...   wienie  eiBiiiy   enainB   tnence  eiglity-cnains south,   thence   eighty  west, thence eighty chains south, thenceeighty,( chains west,th**"-*-* ��,'-���, *--''��� ''  chains  east to  the  post of; commencement. I eitrhtyv-huinu  These lands are situated.on the east side of and  AdiO'n'na  Mar...   f     ���**..*-��, --��� -���    *  ��$_in!ng Mar^C. Matthews' claim, about 35  R p S�� w�� southeaster!y direction from Elk��  n ' 05��r ��lear the Flathead River. -    9'  Dated 20lh February, 1903.       ���'/ *  - '- ���-:'   ; :-.:'"-' NELLIE GORMAN;  NOTICE is hereby given that I, M. McGregor,  intend within the time-prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the south west corner marked "M. McGregor's s. iv. corner post," thence  eighty chains north, thence eighty chains  east, thence eighty chainssouth, tlience eighty  chains west to the post of commencement.  These landsare situated on the east side of and  adjoining Nellie Gorman's claim, about 35 miles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on  or near the Flathead River.  Dated 20th .February, 1903.  M. MCGREGOR..  cnains west, thence eightychains north', thence  eighty chains east ,to the* post-of comineiice-  ���"���*������  These lands are situated lou the east  HILLANI).  . NOTICE ishercby given that I. MauriceMawdsley,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for'a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post *at the  northeastcorner marked 'Maurice Mawdsley's n.e.  corner post." thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains west, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains east to the post of commencement. These lands are situated onthe east side of  and adjoining John McLatchie's claim, about 35  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C.,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 24th Feb., 1903.   ��� -'     MAURICE MAWDSLEY.  NOTICE is hereby give that I. S. Boyd,  intend within the time prescribed by law to applv to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Provinceof British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  southeast corner marked "S. Boyd's s. ��.  corner post," thence eighty chains north; thence  eighty .chains .west, thence; feighty chains south,  thence' eighty chains east to the post of commencement. These lands arc situated on the east  side of and adjoining J. McLatchie's claim, about 35 '  miles in a'southeasterly direction.from Elko. B. C���  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 24th February, 1903.  ;..���:������ S. BOYD.  sideofand adjoining O.B.N. Wilkie's claim, I east^  side   of  and   adj.  about 35 miles in a southeasterly direction from   c.lft'n_i about 3o miles in  Elko, B.C., on or near the Flathead River. '"   Dated 21st February, 1903:, -  GEO. N. TAYLOR,  NOTICE is hereby given that I. F. Irvine,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  "Works of the Province of Britisli Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal arid petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at thc northwest corner  marked "F. Irvine's n. w. corner post,"  thence eighty chains south, thenec eighty  chains east, thence eighty clmii__"orth,_tlience,  - eigh ty-chainsTvest^to-the "post of coniTnonce-  ment. These lands are situated on-the east  side of and adjoining Emma Ferguson's claim,  about 35 miles in a southeasterly direction  from Elko, B.C.. on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 20th February, 1903.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, J. Schmitt,  intend within the time -prescribed by law to  api-ly to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal-and petroleum  uponthe lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the southwest corner  marked "J.f 8chmitt's s. west corner post,"  theuce "eighty'ychains north, thence " eighty  chains -east, thence eighty chains south,  thenceeighty chains west to the post of commencement. These lands'are situated on the  east side of and adjoining C. Crandou's claim,  about 35 miles in asoutheasterly direction from  Elko, B.1.-., on or near the Flathead River.   ���  Dated 21st February, 1903.  J. SCHMITT.  a license to prospect: for coal a, d petroleum  upon.the lands herein after described and  commencing at a post at the northwest corner  marked "D. La Bau's n. w. corner post,"  thence'eighty chains' south, thence eighty  chains cast, thence eiglity chains north,  thence eighty chains west, to the post ��)i"'com-  meiicement. Theselands are situated oii the  oining I. G. Nelson's  .  .. a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C, on or near the. Flathead  River.  Dated 22nd Feb., 1903.  V. LABAU.  F. IRVINE  NOTICE is hereby given thatl. T.S.McPherson  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  alicense to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at 11 postat the southeastconur mark  ed "T. S. McPhersou's s. e. corner post," thnnm  NOTICE is hereby giveii that I, Fred Walter,  intend'within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Laudsand  Works of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northwest corner  marked- "Fred Walter's n. w. corner post,"  thence eighty chains south, theuce eighty  xhaiuiieast^tnenue.eighty-chainsnorthftbeiiee1  eighty chains west to the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the east  side of and adjoining Geo. N. Taylor's claim,  about 35 miles in asoutheasterly direction from  Elko, B.C., on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 21st February, 1903.  -      ���  ���  FRED WALTER.   ..... e. corner post," thence  eighty chains  north,   thence   eighty  chains  west, thenec eighty chains south,theuce eiglity  thc south  east to  the post of commenccniciif.  Thcsejands are situated on -'--  chains _      ,.��������� ���,  ..unum-m  ���*���"* *"'  side of   .,.....,.,��� a. a. \,iiiunui-rtr emnn, about 31  miles ina .southeasterly direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 21st February, 1903.  T. S. MCPHERSON.  NOTICE Ir hereby glvon that I, A.M.Tumblyn  Intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lauds and  Worksof the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at-- postat the northeastcorner marked "A. AI. Tamblyn's 11. e. corner post," thence  eighty chains south, thence eightychains west,  thence  eighty  chains  north,   thence   eightv  NOTICE is hereby given that I, W. E. Ellis,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  \\ orks of theProvince of British Columbia for  . ..-. ... ..,1 ....ai, v,v,iuiiioia for  it license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described arid com-  the  northwest corner  n.w. corner post," thence  post at  , Ellis1  nicncing at a  marked "W. E.   ..��...����� iiwm,   uieuci  eighty chains south, thence eighty chains cast,  thence eighty chains north, thence eighty  chains west to the post of commencement.  These lands are si'iiated on the east side of and  adjoining M F. Elliott's claim, auout 31  miles In a southeasterly direction from Elko,  B.C., on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 22nd February, 1903.   XV. E. ELLIS.  NOTICE is hereby giveii thatl, Jl. Sturgeon,  intend within the time prescribed by luw to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province, of British;Columbia lor  a license to prospect for roal. and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and  commencing at a post at the southeast corner  marked "H. Sturgeon's s.e. corner post," thence  eighty chains ' north, thence eighty chains  west, thence eighty chainssoutb, thence eighty  chains east, to the post of commencement.  These lands are situated on the south side of  and adjoining M. F. Elliott's cLiim, about 31  miles in a southeasterly direction from- Elko,  B. C, on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 23rd Feb., 1903.  - H. STURGEON  NOTICE is herebv given that I, E. Sharp,  intendwithin the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia  for a license to prospect forcoal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northeast corner  marked "E. Sharp's^, n^ ej:==cqrne��y=ppst,V=|  ;thence=eighty_chafns south, tlience eighty  chains west, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains east, to th'e post of commencement. These lands, are situated on the  south side of and adjoining H. Sturgeon's  claim, about 31 miles in a southeasterlv direction from Elko, B.C., on or near the Flathead  Kiver.  Dated 23rd Feb., 1903.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, lolm McLatchie,  intend within the time prescribed by Jaw to apply to  tlie ChlefCommissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of Britisli Columbia for a licence to prospect For coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northwest corner marked "John McLatchie's n. w.  corner post," thence eiglity chains south,. thence  eiglity chains east, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains west, to the post of commencenient. These landsare situated on' the cast  sideoiandadjoiningF.G. Nickcrson'sclaiin, about 33  miles in a .southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 24th Feb., 1903.  I '   ' JOHN McLATCHIE.  ���..-. NOTICE is hereby given that I, Geo. Ritchie,  intend within the time, prescribed by law to apph' to  thc'Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of theProvince of British Columbia for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  .southeast corner marked "Geo. Ritchie's s.e.  corner post," thence.eighty chains north, thence  eighty' chains west, thence eighty ��� chains south,  thence eighty chains east, to the post of-com-  mencement. These lands are situated on the east  side of and adjoining C. Clark's claini, about 33  miles.in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C,  oti or near the Flathead River.  Dated 24th Feb., 1903. ���   r.  . GEO. RITCHIE.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, F.'G. Nickerson,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands aiid Works of the  [-Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northeast corner marked "F. G. Nickerson's 11. e.  corner post," thence eighty chain.s south, thence  eighty chains west, thence eighty chains north,  thence'eighty chains cast,-to the post of commencement." These land* are situated on the east,  side of and adjoining J. McPhee's claim, about 33  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, _t. C.,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 24th February, 190-*.   F. G. NICKERSON.  NOTICE is hereby given that I. J. McPhee.  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon tho lands hereinafter described and .commencing.at a post at the  northwest corner marked "J. McPhee's 11. w.  corner post," thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains east,, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains ".west, 'to the post of commencement. Theselands arc situated on the easl  side of and adjoining T. Kinahan's claini, about 31  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C,  on or-near the Flathead Kiver.  Dated 24th Feb., 1903.  ���  '      .  J. McPHEE.  NOTICE is hereby given that*I, T. Kinahan,  intend within the time prescribed by law to appK to.  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works ot the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter' described and commencing at a post at the  northeast corner marked "T. Kinahan's n. c.  corner post," thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains west, tnence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains east, to the post of commencement. _ These lands arc situated on the south  side and adjoining J. H. Kilby's claim, about 31  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C.,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 24th Feb., 1903:  T. KINAHAN.  ' NOTICE is hereby given ..that I, Jas. Lawrence,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of'the  Province of British Columbia for a license to- prospect forcoal and petroleum unon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a past at the  southwest corner marked "Jas. Lawrence's s. w.  corner post," thence eighty chains north, tlience  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains south,  thence eighty chains , west,- to post of commencement. These lands are situated on the east  side of and adjoining J. L.McLatchie'sclaim,aboutj3  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C,,  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 23rd Feb., 1903.  ^1���^sS=^   ���-JAS-IAW-^KNCB^  E. SHAKP.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, B. F. Clark,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and  Works of the Province of Britisli Columbia for  u license to prospect for coal and petroleum  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the southeast corner  marked "B. F. Clark's s. e. corner post,"  thence eighty chains north, (hence eighty  chains west, thence eighty chains south,  uicuec eiBiiiy cnains north, thence eighty j thence eighty chains east, to the post of com-  chains east to the post of commencement, niencement. These lands are situated on the  These lands are situated on the south side of'00'"' "''''* "f "--*1 -���*'������-���-���-- ***  and adjoining T. S. McPhersou's claim, about  31 miles in asoutheasterly direction from Elko,  B.C. on or near the Flatliead River.  Dated 21st February, 1903.  A. M. TAMBLYN.  NOTICE is hereby given that I, .1. Allan,  intend within the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lauds and  \\ orks of the Province of British Columbia for  a license to prospect for coal and petrolenin  upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the northeast corner  marked "J. Allan's' 11. e. corner post,"  thence eighty chains south, thence'eighty  chains west, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains east, to the post of commencement. Theselands are situated onthe  east side of and adjoining W. F. Teetzel's  claim, about 33 miles in asoutheasterly direclion from Elko, B. C, ou or near the Flathead  River.  Dated 23rd Feb  NOTICE is hereby given that I, J. L. .McLatchie,  intend within the time prescribed by law to applv to  the' Chief Commissioner of.Lands and Works of'the ,  Province ot British . Columbia for a license to pros--|  , pect for coal and petroleum  upon the Iands  herein-  I after described and commencing ata. post at the  southeast, corner marked  "J. L. McLatchie's s. e,  corner post,"   "'  eighty  chains  thence  NOTICE'is hereby given that I. J. H. Kilby.  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply tithe Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described ahd commencing at a post at the  southeast corner marked "J. H. Kilby's s.e. corner  post," tlience eighty chains 0north, thence eighty  chains west, thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains east to the post 0/commencement.  These lands are situated on the south side of and  adjoining \V." F. Teetzel's claini, about 31 miles in a  southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on or near  the Flathead River.  Dated 24th Feb., 1903. r  ���__i^^^-^^^==_=CTm^= ^J^JHUKJLBY.^^  NOTICE is hereby given that I, C. Erickson,  intend within the time prescribed by law to applv to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of'the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northeast corner marked "C. Enckson's n.e. corner  thence eighty" chains"n^VtfTtlience I PJ��S?'"  thcnfe $shly  ^w"* lm'th' ^1�� ttt**  west,  thence eighty   clmins  south?   c!"iT  ".f*1,   the1&V aZhty cI,a'"8   n0^th���   tlu:0CC  eighty _ chains east, to the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the east  side of and adjoining-J. IL Nickerson'.s'claim, aboutM  miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, U. C.',  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 23rd Feb., 1903.  ���   ���    '   J. L. McLATCHIE.  eighty chains cast to the 'post of commencement.  Theselands are situated on the east side of and  adjoining L. B. Hodge's claim, about 35 miles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on or  near the Flathead River,  Dated 23rd February. 1903.    C. ERICKSON.  , 191)3.  NOTICE is hereby given  that I, G. Tackab  NOTICF U l���.rnl,v o-*....., ������ , t r> . ,;, ." I . NOTICE is hereby given that I, B. E. "Sharp,  intend tvhhl���th..SS^-ihj I X,i Robert Wcir. "-tend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  theXhief feministA^FST*���} by '? V�� ?���1?- ,to   ,he Ch!cf Commissioner of Lands and Works' ofthe  NOTICE Is hereby given that I, I. C. Coolev  intend within the Ume prescribed by law  Galliher,  east  side of and   adjoining   W. A.  umiiuer,  clBim, about 33 miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B C , on or near the Flathead  River.  Dated 22nd February, 1903.    ,   ��,,v>. ...^ f.iuun Hereinafter described nnd commencing at a post at the  northeast corner inarked "Robert Weir's n. c.  corner post," thence eighty chains south, thence  eighty chains west, thence eighty chains north,  thence eighty chains east, to the post of com-  J. ALLAN. I mencement. These lands are situated on the east  side of and adjoining W. E. Ellis' claim, about.33   ��� ���   ...���-., ���. . ..���~��utiry, I miles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C.,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to | on or near the Flathetd River.  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the 1     Dated 22nd February, 1903,  Provinceof British Columbia'for a license to pros-    '   ROBERT WEIR.  pect for coal and petroleum upon  the lands herein- '  after described and commencing at a  post at the  southeast  corner   marked "G. Tackabury's  s,  corner post," thence eighty chains   north  intend within the time prescribed by law to appk to  ,i.��� nu:.ci' nissionerof Lands and Works of the  d      ��� r li'-'-'i. "o"; ��� "������"���"����� ������ ��"k�� or tne I I'rovmce ot Uritish Columbia for a license to  pros-  Province ot British  Columbia for a license to pros-   pect for coal and petroleum upon the Iands herciii-  pect for coal and petroleum upon the lands herein-j after described and commencing at a post at the  "'"     ''���"" "* '        "      southeast  corner   inarked   "IL.  E.   Sharp's   s.e.  thence  south.  e.  thence  NOTICE is hereby given that I, W. A. Galliher,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply .to  the Chief Commissioner of Landr  T��_. * r.    ...    ���     *~    -  corner post,"  thence eighty chains   north,  eighty chains west,  thence  eighty  chains      tlience eighty chains east to the post of commencement. These lauds are situated on thc east side of  and adjoining Jas. Lawrence's claim, about 35 miles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C., on or  near the Flathead River.  1 Dated aird Feb., 1003.  B. E. SHARP.  to  apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands nnd  VVorks of the Province of British Columbia for  alicense to irospeot for coal and petroleum , �� ,,������BB ,  =.����f J^STX^tfe-lS-l 2SS5 L^ ^iii^deseribe^d'^om  B. F. CLARK.  I    NOTICE is hereby given that I, W. Graham  intend wi.hiiv the time prescribed by law to  apply to the Chief Commissioner nf Lands and  Works of the Province of British Columbia fo  alicense to prospec; for coal and petroleum  on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 22nd Februarv, 1903..  G. TACKABURY.  marked "I. C. Cooley's s.w. corner post," tlience  mencing at  a  post  at the  southeast  corner  _ , -    -^���   uw*i.n;*.ai,  corner  .. -  -��� ,���..,   uiciiee I marked "W. Graham's s.e. corner post," thence  eiglity chains north, tlience eighty chains east,   eighty chains north, tlience eighty chains west,  thence   eighty  chains   south,   thence eighty I thence  eiehtv   ehiiins  snnti,     ���-".    ..���_,..  chains west to the post of commencement  These lands are situated on the cast side of and  adjoining T. S. MePherson's claim, about 8'  miles in asoutheasterly direction from Elko  B. C, on or near the Flathead River.  Dated 21st February, 1903.  I. C. COOLEY.  thence  chains  eighty   chains  south,   thence   eighty  east  to   the, post of commencement.  or near the Flathead River.  Dated 22nd February, 1903.  W. GRAHAM.  .  NOTICE is hereby given that I, W. F. Teetzel,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the (..hief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  Province of British Columbia for a license to  prospect for coal and petroleum upon  the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post at the  northwest   corner marked   "XV. F.  Teetzel's  n. w.  corner post,'  thence eighty chains   south,   thence  eighty chains cast,   thence   eighty   chains    north,  thence eighty chains west to the post of commencement.    "I hese lands are situated on the east side of  and   adjoining   E.   Sharp's  claim,  about 31   miles  in a southeasterly direction from Elko, B.C.',  on  or  near the Flathead River.  Dated 23rd Feb., 1903.  W. F. TEETZEL.    j  NOTICE is hereby given that I,   L.  B.  Hodge,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  ...        , the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the  s and Works of the j Province of British Columbia for a license to pros-  nse to pros- ' pect for coal and petroleum upon the lands herein-  Innrlc l"Tein- I after described and commencing at a postat  the  the ' northwest   corner marked "L.  B.  Hodge's n.  w.  cor-   corner post,"  thence eighty chains   south,   thence  ..    .. ...    -ghty I eighty   chains east,   thence   eighty   chains north,  -;������������ east, thence eighty chains south, thence I thence eighty west, to post of commencement,  eighty chains west to the post of commencement.! Theselands are situated on the east side of and  These lands are si��hi>f��M ;��.   i-i.-' ��-.=������ ~:j~ ~r ���j ��� adjoining J.   Allan's   claim,   about 33  miles in   a  tfc^Z fe   T*   "t'h"c"��B eighty chAin's sou'thT i Pr��v��K*e ofBritish 'ColumbTa��foTa'Uce"n.se  ��, pros- ��� pect ror coal and pel  n^^^^'^r^^..^J,��*��<���:^fZ^^ij?t'^��r��� �����* lands .Jrein-iV described a��d commencing at a postat  adjoining  \\.  Grahams   claim,  about 31   miles in  a southeasterly direction from Elko, B. C. on or  near the Flathead River.  Dated 22nd February, 1903.  -  W. A. GALLIHER.  NOTICE is hereby given that 60 days_ after date  I intend to apply fo the Chief Commissioner of  Lands and Works for permission to purchase the  following described lands in South EasL Kootenay:  Commencing at a post marked "J. O. Patenaude's  southwest corner," planted at F. C. Elliott's south-  J east corner post, tlience north 80 chains, thence  east 80 chains, thence south 80 chains, thence west  80 chains to the place of beginning, containing 640  acres more or less.  Dated the 7th day of March, 1905.  J. O. PATENAUDE.  southeasterly direction   from  near the Fla'thead River.  Dated 23rd Feb., 1903.  Elko,  \'  C���   on   or  L. B. HODGE.  NOTICE is hereby given that 60 days after date  I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of  Lands and Works for permission to purchase thc  following described lands in South East Kootenay:  Commencing at a post marked "P. La Bau's  northeast corner," planted on the east bank of  Flathead River, almost 12 miles north of the  International boundary line, thence south 80 chains,  thence east 80 chains, thence north 80 chains, thence  west 80 chains to the place of beginning, containing  640 acres more or less.  Dated the 7th day of March, 1903.  D. LaBAU. >:r^:\'V"/--  M&?,.  The   Nelsott  TriTbwne.  ___ _     ��   .   f        .   ______    __  THOUGHTS ON EASTERTIDE  _ The great -church festival of Easter is  with us once again, and with" the rising  sun tomorrow .'countless, thousands of  worshippers will celebrate' the great  consummation of the Christian religion. Materialism may in some lands  have undermined the faith ; the world  lient oir financial and social expansion  may at times forget the higher duties;  iudifference may blind the mind to the  loftier problems of life; but humanity  ever cry lor the, ideal at whose shrine it  can worship, and so long,as that cry  ,goes up will that ideal be presented in  the form'best suited to the particular  people's understanding.  -"The fact that Easter is a shifting festival, in addition to other evidence,  points-to an astronomical "origin., This  is the season of the passing of the sun  through the vernal equinox,' of the  :a  or   in  picture  causes   that  of others for his own selfish pleasure"on  the rest day does not deserve to have its  privilege's.1 This proposed law gives to  every man the right to.use the day as  he shall, see fit,  provided  that in so  doing he. does not interfere 'with  the  rights and privileges of others, just as I  have a perfect right to keep chickens, J  but none to pnrmit my chickens to rout  up my neighbor's garden.   Let me give  itemised reason's, for sighing this petition : (1) The Lord's Bay rest is a British and Canadian institution; (2) It is  a physical necessity, proven   by exact  scientific experiments; races that keep  the day are the superior races; those  who donot, inferior���Chinese, Hindus,  etc.; (3) from a family and social standpoint the day is one  of  tlie  greatest  boons of life;-(4) He who works seven  days a weeks robs his fellowman of one  day's work a week���i.e., where GO men  work seven days a week, 70 would-be  employed ;   Is"(this jusl ?   (5) Whereas  this law would not compel any- man  to  be religious or moral, yet it gives him a  chance of being so; (6) Quite- a large  illers in  this province believe   that  back  of all: these  utilitarian argument is a  Divine command, '-.Remember the Sabbath day  to  to keep" it holy" f that it is,part of that  decalogue which lies at the basis of our  civilized   life   and -as   imperative,   for  �����***��**:  ing of the sap and general*' perceptible | P.���^ .of th,c t!w?,U',rsin.  activity in the field of verdant' Nature.  Whatmore fitting than this to draw  the mind of man to the contrast of the  rising of the life principle in the resting plant, tree and seed, and the rising  of'the latent higher aspirations in the  human heart.  An old axiom of Hermetic philosophy  was "As above,'so. below," meaning  that   the" material   world, was but  CQlirse- replica   of  the  beyond,  si mider   illustration    is   the  thrown on-the canvas  by  are unseen from the-auditorium.'. What  we see.around  is the effect of,   to us,  an unseen cause.   Therefore, is the rising of the sap and the glorious outburst  ���" ' ' ie  of Nature at this season typical  of ' tl  ���rising of the better man, and was beautifully caught by Tennyson in the lines:  "O, for a man to rise in ine,  0 That the man I am may cease to be."  Ancient   Egyptian    records    throw  some light on the rites and ceremonies  that were carried out in the  pyramids.  One of which has considerable** bearing  oh the Kaster festival and will -be'more  fully recognized by those who look beneath and seek to study more closely  that temple not made,with hands.  The  neophyte or candidate, three davs prior  to the exact, date of the vernal equinox,  was thrown into a trance and remained  in that state for three days.   The body  was then stretched on   the ground  in  the form of a cross and in such, a,  position that tbe  first  rays  of  the  Easter  morning sun fell on him, and when the  glorious, orb   of   day   had   completely  arisen tbe neophyte was  raised  from a  * figurative death to the fulness of lifts���  from tbe death in the  bondage of the  de*'!) into tbe life of emancipation   from  its* thraldom.     ��� ---���-.   -���  festivals have ever befen associated  with great religions. They serve to  keep green the deeper objects of life  and stimulate the emotional nature in  man. The remains and historical  records of all past civilizations give  abundant, testimony to the fact that far  back in the night of time commemorative days were set apart aa days of religious exercises followed by geneial  ���recreation.  The churches that devote large attention to these annual festivals seem  to show more vitality than those who  have chosen to ignore them. The  abandonment by any nation of the old  landmarks, as in. the case of. France  today, is a sad spectacle. Whatever  faults the'-Roman Catholic church may  have committed in,that land, the present policy of suppression carried on by  a materialistic government, is sounding  tbe death knell of that greaV country.  Its decadence has already been sounded  in its utimistakeable depopulation, and  these mad causes will bring the inevitable effect in the shape of obliteration, y .  -    *:  The falling a.way of a people from.the  J^tjy.,.u]e^j_jjand.e^-Idb.wii"J_^way^bL  sacred books is to lose touch with that  power which is the inspirational pivot  of those minds who have in the past  directed the destinies 'of..nations. A  recognition of this will go far to fan  into a flame, in many, the dying embers  of the simple childhood faith too often  forgotten in .this mad age of financial  and social aggrandizement, anil- help to  longevity and happiness, as "Thou  shalt not steal," or 'Thou shalt not  commit adultery," or "Thou shalt do  no murder"; (7)'Should any man wish  to keep any othe-.'day for religious observances, this law would not interfere  with his liberty to,do so; all it determines is, that'as tbe majority prefer  the first day for their rest day, it would  be impossible from a commercial standpoint to legislate for small minorities,  as banks,, etc.,'would lie placed in a  .peculiar pbsitipn. Therefore, for all o,f  these reasons,-" taken individually, oi; as  a whole, we'plead for those who value  their privileges, to support this petition. ' ."'. . , ,j John Reid'..,.,.-  Nelson, April 7th, 1903. , ,'   .  ,.,  Iqalt coalI  ���  *TR  �����  ��-?  ���X  ���X  ��?  �����?  .�����?  ���?  �����?  �����?'  ��������?  �����  �����?  :��?  49  4?  4?  4-?  4$  4?  49  49  49  49  49  49  49  49  49  49  49  49  49  49  49  ^*^**^^*_S��ift^**i^jl^j|^^^*^5*-^^:  Di J. ROBERTSON &' GO  ��  SSS9S9  69S9S9S9S96-SSM  ���sssseses  FURNITURE  DEALERS  and ..  FUNERAL  DIRECTORS.  WE HAVE A NICE LINE OF  Linoleums...  ...-".���' * : ���  All Carpet Patterns imported direct from England.  Prices 60c, 70c. and 75c. per yd.  [S9S9-i��S9S9SSS9S9S9S9S9SS|  Our Undertaking Department is under the direo  tion of Mr. Clark.  Day 'Phone No. 292  Night 'Phone No. 142.  D. J. ROBERTSON & CO.  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  ��'i  to  ��  to'  to  to  to  to  to  ���to-  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to^  to ���  BAKER STREET.  ��$$$$ ��*�������* ������ 999 ����9�� ���� O4v^**^^999999^^^9^9fc4rf^999:m0  REISTERER & CO..  p.  OF,  and WOOD OF. ALL KINDS������-  **>  -Terms Spot Cash,  W. P. TIERNEY,  J   Tele-phone 263i  ��� Bilker Street  ���w-r v ��� ��� w w  LAQERBEERand PORTER  1  Prosser's Second-Hand Store  And Chin-Hall, Combined -  ���l_,tlie_place to ���.'rubber" before-sending _  back Hnst for anything.  We^iuy, sell or rent or store iiuvthiiig  from a safety pin'to a beef trust".  Put up in Packages to Suit the Trade.  A Few Tip oii Tea.  -T WENTY-FJVE * CENTS will" bu'v .'ONE' POUND, of  pine, clean, fine flavored .'CEYLON-INDIAN TEA. ,   t  TWENTY CENTS will buv ONE POUND Standard   --  BREAKEAST BLACK TEA..,* Purchasers .of ten pounds  or more will receive one pound extra for each\ ten pounds  purchased.        . . ���      '  - Brewery and Q/fice:  LATIMER ST., NELSON, JB. C-  -Western  Canadian  ency in.connection..  Employment Ag-  P.O. Box 588       .Baker Street,, W., next door  Phone 361A   ,    -  to C.P.R. Ticket Office.  Brydges, Blakemore & Cameron, Ld.  REAL   ESTATE, and  GENERAL   AGENTS  JOSEPHINE ST.  NELSON,  B. C.  make our Easter pregnant with thoughts  of loftier and more lasting themes.  ,:       'A-y-- W. Pkttit.  Lord's- Doy Legislation.  Editor of. The Nelson Tribune: Referring to your remarks in last issue re  petition desiring our provincial legislature to enact a wise and just law, did  you lose your spectacles, or your thinking cap, or was it simply  the  rush  for  "copy" that made you write that bit so  inconsistent with fact?    VVe trust  the  -latter.    Were not the dykes of Holland  conserved at great cost and   by eternal.  vigilance, it would lie inundated by thel  sea.    History proves that  where  there  are none to conserve the Lord's Day to  those who possess its blessed privileges,  it is gradually and surely swept away  by the inundations of greed of wealth  aiid greed of pleasure.   The Lord's Day  is   one of the  heritages ' of Christian  civilization.     It   is   not so   in   India,  China, Africa, etc.   The proposed legislation in no way interferes  with  individual liberty, but conserves it.    All  it  lays down is that every man shall have  the legal right to a day of rest, with the  usual "exceptions that prove the rule,"  and for which ample provision is made  in   "works of necessity  and  charity.''  As to 4the recreation clause, to  which  some take exception,  suffice it to say  that the man who would make slaves  NOTICE is hereby given that I, C. - \Y. Miscncr,  intend within the time prescribed by law to applv to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands ancl.-Works of'the  Prownee of Uiitish Columbia foraIiccn.se to prospect for i*o:il ami petroleum upon the lands herein-  after, described and commencing at a post .-it the  southwest corner marked���" "C! \V. tVlisemir's s.-\v.  corner post," thence eighty chains north," thence  eighty chains' east, thence "eighty chainssouth,  thence eighty chains ��est, 16 , the post ol'tcom-  I'lioiicement. -These lands are situated on the east  side of and adjoining I". E. Sharp's claim, about "3,-  iniles in a southeasterly direction from Elko, 13. C.,  on or near the Flathead Kiver.  '-Dated.'23rd Feb., 1903.  ;������"������.' ���    >" C XV. MISENER.  ARTHURQEE  MERCHANT TAILOR  Equal to   an/allowance   of  TEN   PER CENT.  COUNT on these extremely low prices.     " '"  Prices on our  regular lines of CHOICE TEA,  35c, 40c.  Blended.  our  50c. and 60c'  DIS-  30c  per pound for Black, 'Greenland  Telephone 177  -PvO.''B6x'i8a'  - >���     - . - '  Kootenay Coffee Co.  Tremont Block  : Baker* Street  m  CHOICE  SPRING and  SUMMER; GOODS. . .  Latest Cut.  Latest Styles.  EVERY DAY SALE  DAY.  1  OUR SPECIAL BARQAirj' COUNTER  i  SMOKE.  Tuckett Cigar Co.'s  Union Label Cigars  MONOGRAM  MARGUERITE  Geo. E. Tuckett's Cigarettes { KARNACK  Only hUnlon-JVIade. Cigarette "in .Canada . (    li. Ol D.  /.-  =TNOT IC B=i8= hereby'  . "given, that V, C Clark,  intend within the time prescribed by law to apply to  the Chief Commissioner 61" Lands and Worksof the  Provinceof British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum upon the lands hereinafter described and commencing at a post al the  southwest ��� corner marked "C. Clark's s. w.  corner post,!' tlience eighty chains north, thence  eighty chains east, thence eighty chains south,  thence eighty chains west to the pijst of commencement. These lands are situated on the east side of  and adjoining J. IT. Kilby's claim, about 31 miles in  a -southeasterly" direction from Elko, B.C., on or  near the Flathead Kiver.  Dated 34th Feb.  1 lb. Tea   3 lbs. Butter   2 cans Corn, Peas or Beans  5 cans Assorted Fruit 2's   1 sack Potatoes I  1 sack Flour   .......J-... L  14 lb. box Butter...: J.  i lb. Coffee .-J.  3 cans Milk -.-'.'. J... V  3 cans Halibut  ...  -L. (_  -3=bottles-Ketchup^^-1ii--.iW..^=(^  for $2.50  for $6.50  f__r$___6I  3 bottles Pickles .  MORRISON & CALDWELL  Tremont Blk., Baker St.  w. j. McMillan & co.  WHOLESALE GROCERS  VANCOUVER, B.C.  AGENTS FOR B. C.  St&rkey & Go.  Wholesale Provisions  Produce and Fruits::  ( R. A. Rogers & Co., Ltd., Winnipeg  Representing < N. K. Fairbank Co.,    -    Montreal  (jMmcoe Canning Co.:-    -*    Simcoe  Phone 134  FOR   SAlwE.  1903.  C. CLARK.  NO I'iCK is hereby given that r, W. L. Smith,  intend within the time prescribed by law to applv to  the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of'the  Province of British Columbia for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum jjiipon the lands hereinafter described anel comnienei.ig at a postat the  northwest corner marked "XV. L. Smith's n.w.  corner post," tlience eighty chains south, thence  eightychains east, thenceeighty chains north,  tlience eighty chains west 10 the post of commencement. These lands are situated on the east side of  and adjoining C. Erickson's claim, about 35 miles  in a southeasterly direction Irom Elko, 13.C, on or  near the Flathead Kiver. j  Dated 23rd Feb... 1963,  W. L. SSFfTM.  4,000 acres of the choicest lands  in the Ok-inagun, the garden of  Britisli Columbia. Suitable for  fruit, Kniiu or stock raising, in  lots to suit purchaser'-, by public auction on or -tliout May 1st,  1903. Full particulars on application to  CHRIS.   B.    L*.    LEFROY  Real   Estate   Agent,  VERNON, -      -       - B. C  Office and Warehouse,  Josephine Street.  NELSON, B.C.  P. BURNS & CO.  MEAT MERCHANTS  Wholesale and Retail  HEAD OFFICE and COLD STORAGE PLANT AT NELSON.  Branch Markets at Kaslo, Ymir, Sandon, Silverton, Revelstoke, New Denver,  Cascade, Trail,*Grand Forks, Greenwood, Midway, Phoenix, Rossland,  Slocan City  Moyie, Cranbrook, Fernie and Macleod.  after date  missioncr of  to purchase .the  NOTICE 'is hereby given that 60 davs  I intend to apply, to the Chief Com  Lands and Works for permission to p_  following described lands iii South East Kooteiviv*  Commencing at a'post marked "W. ,I��\ Teetzel's  southeast corner," planted at D. LnBau's northwest  corner post, thence north 80 chains, thence east 80  chains, thence south 80 chains, thence west 80 chains  to the place of beginning, containing 640 acres more  or less.  Dated the 7th day of March, iqo-5.  .*���'������' W.*F. TEETZEL.  NOTICE is hereby given that 60 clays after date  Land  iitend to apply  to  the  Chief Commissioner of  and,Works lor permission to purchase the  following described lands in South East Kootenay:  Commencing at a post marked "J; A. Skene's northeast corner, planted on theeast bank of the Flathead River, about twenty miles north of the International Boundary line, thence south 80 chain.s,  thence west 80 chains, thence iiorth 80 chains, thence  east 80 chains to the place of beginning, containing  640_acres more or less,  GEO. M. GUNN  Maker of First-Class Hand-flade Boots  and Shoes. . . . Repairing Neatly and  Promptly Done. . . . Satisfaction guaranteed in all work.  Ward St., next new Post Office Bldg*., Nelson.  Dated the 7th day of March; 1903.  J. A. SKENE.  FRANK    FLETCHER  Provincial Land Surveyor  Lands and flineral Claims Surveyed  and Crown Granted.  P.O. Box 563      Office: Kootenay St., NELSON.  NELSON BRANCH MARKET, BURNS BLOCK, BAKER ST.  jUKT'Orders hy mail to tiny Branch will receive prompt and careful, attention.  West Kootenay  Butcher Co.  Fresh and Salted Meats.  Fish and Poultry in Season.  Orders by Mail Receive Careful  and Prompt Attention.  E. C. TRAVES, Mgr., K.W.C. Blk., Nelson.  GELIGNITE . .     The Strongest and Best Explosive in the Market  I!..!.*.**��hs HAMILTON POWDER COMPANY  1 1 1  Manufacturers of  GEO. C.  TUNSTALL, JR.  District Mgr., Nelson, B.C.  A  High Grade Explosives, Sporting, Mining & Blasting Powder ..'��ia^^!>w,*nL*-��t0U,:r '  -J. $SI^i!K��iV&aiSM0y;jzt?0  ���irwwsMO*,^.-* ��� .ij.^----^t*^^*s��,~*irr��C3vs4?,.'��J��^*-  i��a^ti_intftg,tf��tg��aB4w^^  THe   Nelson   Tritmtte.  ( I  .r  , i  The J. H. Ashdown Hardware Co. _��  IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN  SHELF AND HEAVY  Tinware and  Graniteware.  Stoves and  Ranges.  BAKER ST.  Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Portland Cement,  T-Rails, Ore Cars, Sheet Steel, Crescent,  Canton and Jessop's Drill Steel.  NELSON, B.C.  ASK FOB:  UKVAKO^Ak  OLDSETTLE R'S PURE  MAPLE SYRUP  Put up in Quarts, Half Gallon and One Gallon Cans.  J. A. IRVING & CO  Houston Block, Nelson.  Groceries and Provisions  Carpets,  We carry a very large  stock of the latest  patterns.  Come and make your ��     ���,     t       -g  H-^SSsu Linoleums . . ���  SEE   OUR   GO   CARTS;  All prices.        - �� - We can t*t*it you.  D.   McARTHUR  3* CO.  Fwr-tilt-m-e Dealers and Undertakers  CASH ADVANCED ON CONSlQNnENTS.  JacobOreen& Go.  AUCTIONEERS,   APPRAISERS,  VALUATORS and  GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS.  Next Door to Vanstone's Drug- Store  Corner of Baker and Josephine Streets.  NELSON, B.C.  ���EXAMINATION FOR ASSAYERS FOR  LICENSE TO   PRACTISE   IN  BRITISH COLUMBIA.  TN accordance with section 12 of the "Bureau of  ���*-, .MinesAct," examinations for efficiency in the  practice ot assayings will be held at Nelson, B.C., on  37th April, 1903, and on such following- days as may  be found necessary.  Entrance for any examination must be made in  writing- to the Secretary of the Board of Examiners,  At least seven days before the date set for beginning  of examination, and must be accompanied by the  prescribed fee (Sis-)  Thc examination will consist chiefly of the practical assaying of samples, and while the Department  of Mines will provide all the apparatus and chemicals usually necessary, it will not undertake to provide any special or unusual appliances or chemicals  which might be called for, and if a candidate should  require such he will have to provide them at hi^own  =^expense,-,-���������--���~~--- ' '" y      ' ~~"* ���'-    ���      "*  Candidates must provide themselves with such  platinum ware and sets of weights as they may require.  ,;The Department of Mines will make no charge for  the use of chemicals or apparatus, but a candidate  will be charged for all breakages or unnecessary  loss caused by him.^ '"  Any additional information desired may be obtained from H. Carmichacl, Secretary, Board of  Examiners, Victoria.  E. G. PRIOR.  Minister of Mines.  Department of Mines,  Victoria, B.C., 17th March, 1903.  DRINK  Thorpe's  Lithia  Water  SHERIFF'S SALE.  Province of British Columbia,)  Nelson, West Kootenay.     >  To wit: >  BV virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias issued out  of the Supreme Court of British Columbia,  at the suit of  LEKOY A. THURSTON, Plaintiff,  against  GABRIEL LOCIEN ROBERT VVEYL,  Defendant,  and to me directed against the goods and chattels of Leroy A. Thurston, the above named  plaintiff, I have seized and taken into execution all the right, title and interest of the said  Plaintiff, Leroy A. Thurston, in eleven hundred  acd twenty-five (1125i shares, more or less, of  the capital stock of the RosBland Proprietory  and Mining Company, Limited, of the par  value of one pound sterling per share; to  recover the sum of $793.20 and also interest on  $789.00 at 5 per centum per annum from the 16th  day of February, 1903, until payment, besides  sheriff's poundage, oflicer's fees, and all other'  legal incidental expenses; all of which I shall  expose for sale, or sufficient" thereof to satisfy  said judgment debt and costs, at my office, next  to the Court House, in the City of Nelson, B.C.,  on Saturday, the 25th day of April, A.D. 1903, at  the hour of eleven o'clock in the forenoon.  NOTE. ���Intending purchasers will satisfy  themselvesas to interest and title of the said  plaintiff, Leroy A. Thurston.  Dated at Nelson, B.C., 8th April, 1903.  S. P. TUCK,  Sheriff of South Kootenay.  Every small bottle contains five  grains of lithia carbonate.  NOTICE.  Tenders for Timber Limits.  GEALED TENDERS will be-received by the  ^ undersigned up to noon of Wednesday, _and  April, from any person who ma>- desire lo obtain a  lease, under the provisions of section 42 of thc  "Land Act." for tbe purpose of cutting timber  cherefrom. of a timber limit situated on the South  Fork of Evans C^ek, and south of Evans Lake,  known as Lots ^.159 and 4,160, Group One. West  Kootenay District, containing in the aggregate  i.sox acres.  The competitor offering the highest cash bonus  will be entitled to a lease of thc limits for a term of  ii years.  . bach tender must be accompanied by a certified  cheque, made payable to the undersigned, to cover  the amount of the first year's rental ($230.50), and  the amount of bonus tendered. The cheques will be  at once returned to unsuccessful competitors.  W. S. GORE  Deputy Commissioner of Lands and Works.  Lands and Works Department,  Victoria, B.C., 18th March, 1903.  WANTED.  A LIFE INSURANCE CANVASSER FOB THE  A Nelson District. Good inducements. Apply GEO. D. SCOTT', Vancouver, B.C.  NOTICE.  Respecting Timber Licences.       >  .'M'OTICE is hereby given, pursuant to the provi-  ���*���' sion of Section 50 of the' 'Land Act," that in  future'no special licences to cut timber on Crown  lands will be granted or renewed until after the  applicants have had the limits surveyed by a duly  qualified Provincial Land Surveyor to the satisfac-  tiSii'of the Lands and Works Department.  W. C. WELLS.  Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works.  Lands and Works Department,  Victoria, B.C., 26th March, 1903.  MORLEY & CO.  Wholesale and Retail  Booksellers and  Stationers.^  Artists' Materials,  Engineering and Mining  Books,  Typewriters,  Mimeographs,  Photographic Supplies,  Musical Instruments.  Morley & Coi - Nelson, B.C.  TOWN ANDi DISTRICT NEWS  The Week's Happenings at the  Hub of the  Kootenays Briefly Told.  1  E. E. Phair is; talking about opening  a hotel at Morrissey.  Nelson is the only city in, the province that furnishes ,_water for use in  provincial buildings and offices free, of  charge.  Dr. Forin, who ha�� had charge of the  Miners' "Union hospital at Slocan City  for two years, has decided to remove to  Edmonton, Alberta.  Harry McLeod left on Wednesday for  Port Huron, Windsor, Toronto, etc.,  on business connected with the Alberta  Coal & Coke Company.  The macadamized streets of Nelson  could be improved through the employment ot a half dozen men who know  bow to use hoes and shovels.  1  The road between Trout Lake and  Ferguson and Thompson's Landing is  almost impassable.   An .effort is being  made to get it in shape for traffic.  It is to be honed the Dominion Day  celebration committee will not waste  any of the funds collected in such  amusements as shooting on rifle ranges.  J. W. Richards leaves. Nelson next  week to take charge of one of*- Slater's  shoe stores in .Montreal. He has resigned his position at the Royal shoe  store.  E. E.. Smitheringale, of the Slocan  Drill, is acting'ua editor of .The Daily  News, in the absence of .editor Deane,  who is at Kamloops erecting political  fences. . ,  W., A. Jowse,tt, .has^ been - appoin ted  assistant assessor, and will begin 'making the assessment of Nelson for 1903 as  soon as the necessary rolls can be procured. /  ' P. Burns & Co. have decided to" put-  in cold storage plants,at Fernie and  Revelstoke. The firm have cold storage plants at Nelson "and Vancouver,  and one at Calgary.  The Women's Guildof St." Saviour's  church are having a sale of work and  afternoon tea on Thursday next, April  16th, in the afternoon, from 3 to 6  o'clock.   All are invited. 1  Mayor Archer of Kaslo had to resign  his office because the firm of which he  is a member sold the city supplies. A  new election has been ordered, and  Archer says he will be a candidate for  re-election.  The finance committee, of the city  council met on1 Thursday and considered how a ha*nk_:wgjdrjftypO32,0Q(^  "could'bewipedydut without collecting  back taxes and rates. They adjourned-  without adopting any of the schemes  suggested.       / ,   .  Locally, politics are quiet, so quiet  that a syndicate of Conservative and  Mugwump lawyers has been formed to  put life into tlie business. The members of the syndicate expect to get all  the plums once their machine gets in  working order.  T. G. Roy returned to Nelson from  the Silver Hill Mining Company's property on Crawford creek, about 12 miles  from Crawford bay. He.found about  16 feet of solid snow on the cabins, and  says there is more snow on the high  mountains than he ever saw before at,  this time of the year.  Police commissioner Marks has returned from a trip to Spokane. While  there he made a close study of the  methods of the Spokane police department, and claims that Nelson's department, in several respects, is better  managed than that, of the metropolis of  Eastern Washington..  W. F. Teetzel & Co. have sold their  retail drug store to the Canada Drug &  Book'Company, arid as, soon as the  stocK has been invoiced the * purchasers  will reopenthe store., Mr. Teetzel will  continue iri..|.he assay.ers' supply business, he haying the largest stock of such  goods in the province..   ' "*'  Without irifpairing the efficiency of  the service, in the'slightest degree, the  city council.of Nelson have' lopped off  $2,400 in salaries! The provincial government could lop off $100,000 in salaries without in the slightest degree impairing the efficiency of the service in  any of the public offices and departments.  Alderman McCallum of Slocan City  has resigned for business reasons, and  an election to fill the' vacancy has been  ordered. If he will accept, "John Bull  will probable be McCallum's successor.  The people of Revelstoke have been  warned by the C.P.R. magnates that  the repair shops at that place may be  moved to some other place because the  company has so much trouble there  with their men. The men of the mountains, for some reason, will not be  driven like sheep, all of which is distasteful to the magnates.  The local C.P.R. strike situation remains unchanged, as far as the men  who quit work are concerned. None of  the men who quit at Nelson have returned to work, and.none of them will  until the strike is settled. Some of  their places have been filled by importations from Seattle and other points  in the United States, and these importations are being housed and fed in  cars in the yards. Yardmaster Hamilton was discharged this week for calling one of the officials a "scab."  EASTER IN THE CHURCHES.  Services    at    the  Roman   Catholic  church tomorrow are: Mass at 8 a.m.  high mass at*10:30 a.m.; and benediction at 7:30 p.m.  The services a�� St. Saviour's church  for tomorrow, Easter Day, are as follows : Holy communion, 6 a.m., 7 a.m.,  8 a.m.; morning prayer and holy communion, 10 :30 a.m.; children's service,  2:30 p.m.; and evonsong at 7:30 p.m.  The 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. services  are fully choral, with anthems. The  rector preaches at both services.  Emmanuel, Congregational church,  Stanley street. Rev. John-Reid minister. There will be appropriate Easter  services. Morning subject; "The liord  is risen indeed and hath appeared unto  Peter;" anthem": "In the Cross of  Christ I Glory," and "The Lord Is  Risen." Evening topic: "The certainty of the Resurrection of Jesus and our  assurance of Immortality;'' anthem:  "Lift Up Your Heads, O* Ye Gates;"  solo, "Eastertide;" anthem: "The  Risen Lord;" duet, "Thou" Lamb of  Calvarv;" anthem: "Ring Easter  Bells!"'  SHERIFF'S SALE.  Province of British Columbia,  Kelson, Went Kootenay.  To Wit:  BY virtue of a Writ of Fieri Facias issued out  of the Supreme Court of British Columbia  at the suit of  ELMEK .1. FELT, Plaintiff,  and  PERCY DICKINSON, WARNER MILLER, W.  E.  SPIER.  THE  SLOCAN-KILO   MINING  COMPANY,  LIMITED,   and  R.   WILSON  SMITH, in his own right and as trustee for  F.'L. BIRQUE,-ANDREW G. BLAIR,   and  WILLIAM STRACHAN,: Defendants,  And to me directed against the goods and chattels of, the said defendant, Percy Dickinson, I  have seized' and ; taken: in- execution > all the  right, title and interes of the. said- defendant,  Percy Dickinson, in the mineral-claims known  as and.called "Skylark" and "Ranger," situate  on the first North Fork'of Lemon Creek, located on the 29th day of July, 1895, and the 26th  day of July, 1895,.respectively, and recorded in  ihe office'of the Mining Recbrderfor the Slocan  City : Mining-Division of the-West Kootenay  District; to recover the sum of $628.30, and also  Interest on |624.80 at 5 per centum per. annum  from the 17th day of May, 1902, until payment,  besides sheriff's poundage - officer's fees, and  all other "legal  incidental expenses:   all - of  which I shall expose for -sale, or- sufficient  thereof to satisfy said judgment debt and costs,  at my office;next to the Court House, in the  City of Nelson, B.C., on Saturday, the 28th day  of Kebruaryi'1903, at th'e hour of eleven o'clock  in the forenoon.'->.;  NOTE. ��� Intending purchasers will satisfy  themselves as to interest and title of the said  defendant, Percy Dickinson.  Dated at Nelson, B.C., 19th February, 1903.  S. P. TUCK,  V, Sheriff of South Kootenay.  The-above sahvta��poBtponed until Saturday,  21st day of Marcff, 1903, at the same place and  hour.'      ���-������-.'���'.. \   ! >���-     '-."  S. P. TUCK,    Sheriff of.South.Kootenay.  Stylish Spring  Overcoats  The  Finest  Ever  Brought to Nelson.  Prices to Suit the Buyer.  At J. A.  filLKER'S  NELSON  i1-  MILLINERY  FOR  EASTER.  MRS:, ENFIELD has now on  display in her new premises,  late the American Shoe Store,  the latest.productions in  PARIS AND NEW YORK  MILLINERY.  *  Ladies are specially invited" to ^    '>  call and see our display.- :  :  :  The above sale is further postponed until  Saturday, the llth day of April, 1903, at the  same place and hour.  S. P. TUCK,  Sheriff of South Kootenay.  The above sale is still further postponed until  Saturday, the 25th day of April, 1903, at the  same place and hour.  S. P. TUCK,  Sheriff of South Kootenay.  Harry H. Ward  FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT  Insurance  MRS.  ENFIELD  BAKER  STREET  Next Door to the Hudson's Bay Co.'s Store.  MINES   AND  REAL ESTATE  ?  Baker Street  Nelson, B.C.  UNDER NEW  MANAGEMENT.  Hotel Rhair  B. TOMKINS, Manager  NELSON,   -   ���   B.C.  &  The Leading Hotel of the Kootfvay*.  Qood Sample Room*.  Special Rate* to Cofpffcrclal Men.  New������^1 akrive��  Spring Goods  OF THE LATEST FASHIONS  Scotch Tweed*, Landslide,  Strath-  x    cona and Belwarp Series.     A fine  line of Pantings of the latest styles.  Prices to suit the times.-  Call and see them.  John Smallwood  Ward Street MERCHANT TAILOR  Corporation of the City of Nelson.  NOTICE.  ���vrOTlCE is hereby given that under the pro-  ^ visions of By-law No. 80, "Pound and Doe  Tax By-law," it is unlawful for any person to  suffer any horse, mule, bull or cow, shee '  goat, pig or other cattle, or poultry to run at  large within flie limits of the City of Nelson.  Every owner of a dog in the City of Nelson is  required to pay annually a tax of two dollars  for each dog owned by him.  No person shall suffer or permit his doe to  run at large in the City ofNelson for-wliich  such person lias not paid the tax required of  him and unless such dog shall have around  his neck a collHr or strap to whicn shall be attached a metallic plate to be supplied bv tho  city on payment of the said tax.  Warning is hereby given that any person  guilty of an infraction or violation of anv of  the provisions of the' above named bv-law r  in addition to the fees and charges set forth  therein, liable upon summary conviction to a  penalty of One Hundred Dollars and the costs  of prosecution, and in default of payment to  imprisonment for a term not exceeding two  months.   By order; B    -  -D. C. McAXORRJS,  Nelson, B.C., April Sth, 1903. CHy ��let*-