r THE YMIR MIRROR n I^ESS Tli^jyr OIST-E yOTJ^TH TTSTT-AL SIZE. Published in the Boycotting camp of British Columbia. Vol., Ill No. SO. YMIR, B. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 2«, 1904. Price Five Obst* ' VMIR ELECTORAL DISTRICT. ■fv/()''l''E is hereby given that I shall, -^ ' on Monday, tiie 2nd day nl May. A D., 1904. at. the hour of eleven o'clock in the forenoon, al Foresters' Hall, ymir, B 0., hold a Court of He vision for the purpise of hearing and determining any or all objection» ii'iniusi the retention of any name or nrmes on the Realster of Voter» of the libeivo named district. Dated nt Ymir, K. C. the 7th day of March. 11HI4. T. H. ATKINSON. Registrar of Votes. HARSHAW & WILSON Draymen & Teamsters YMIR, B. C. Hnndling heavy freight a Specialty. Correspondence promptly attended to NOTICE. TO DEL.INQUEN f CO OWNEU9. rpo G. Ed. C. Maktim. H. W. F. Pot> * I.OK or any other persin to whom ihey may have transferred their interests iu the (îooileneiugh Fraction mineral Claim, s'tuaiert on Wild Horse Creek about finir miles from the town of Ymir, and adjoining the Mugwump. Rockland nn« Lexington mineral claims in the Nelson Mining Division of West Kno- lenay District, and recorded to the Re. corder'» ollice for the Nelson Mining Division. Yon anil each of yein »re hereby nnti. licet that I have expended thirty .fuir dollars and twenty-five cents («Sl.V,')) in labor and improvements upon the n hove minerai claim in order to heild same under the provisions of the Mineral Aid. nnd if within ninety days from the elate of this notioe yon fail or refus« to contribute your portion of expenditure, together wilh all costs of advertising. J'ollf Interests in said claims will become the property of the subae'riher, under section 4 ot nn net entitled "An Act 10 Amend the Mineral Aot, 11100." O. A. I.OVEI.L. Dated at Ymir, B tt, this 17th day of Kehriinri-, 1!W4. THE YMIR MIRROR. i'iiiiiiisiii.ri »trarr Bsiartav»nil latllsd many » Irtntss, or li-llvnr,'d liy uarrlsr In town. bcK'% snirsnrit'tliin*0900f.esr »ntiiun, ptyshja In'»d« laliai-. V'lr,-ril«lmr fains, fi.ni> p,.r iimh u»r month N>> pullllll Siit'Tialnilti'iil l" wliluli an admis- .inn In,- Is i:harj,..l, will Is- niiUpii I In Tim Ml»,' ami iinipss ailvi'ril»i*il in Itsaoluilti)», (lull ariluli's ul ncrlt «III tin mlvi-rilsi.il m (Hasp i,i,linnii.. ami lie ln','ri'sis -if r,-a,|,-rs will l,.' uar-'liili) uiisr,l,"l aualnst lrr"»i*in.|lili- |»r- sun«. las Miiimm nan <s* lui Inen alt li'mltn« Nswsllstlnrs III llin illslrttl,iir nan n» riiiia'iisil ' lllmil rr-'in tire oillij*. t'liiniii'miil iirliiinii e' SV«T? di'surlplln* Seas mi III* ufSinlsSS al si'iii,|sr,l nrlnss. (/'. HtiTii, l'uni.tsiian. S.M'b'llD.VY. APKIf.'W. the first place, applieel to deiwn Thk Mirror, in which psople saw themselves as others see them. But the reflection wn> repugnant, and hence the means aelnpted to destroy it. In this particularly sinful community the ways of the transgressor are made easy—as easy as fellow transgressors can make them. In the Sodom and Gomorrah of old there were not found seven righteous, 'and the city, we are told, was destroyed by fire and brimstone. We do not doubt that a vigorous canvas of the modern city of Ymir would reveal a somewhat larger percentage of good, but it would show little diminution of evil. It is not recorded in the Good Rook that Boycotting was one of the besetting sins of the denizens of that far eastern metropolis over whose town site now repose the stagnant waters of the Dear) Sea ; but they deserved all they got, even if they did nothing worse. The preachers of eld Seldom and the other place do not appear to have wielded a very powerful influence over tlieir congregations, at results go to prove. Thej were evidently handicapped, as some of tlieir brethren are to-day, by being obliged to apply tlieir energies to tiie*col lection plate rather than to the good work of the Master ; or possibly they had some primitive scheme of boycotting one another which took up all their time- Had they been men ei enterprise and ability, endowed wtjA teal for their work, • different fat* woold have awaked their unfortunate people. They evidently had the wrong class of men in the pulpit at the elate eif the horrible conflagration here alluded to. Is -there much of'an Improvement in this particular in our own time 1 The rulers of the modern church send able and excellent men to the foreign missions to civilize the Japs and teach the Chinese that Joss should have no terror for them, hut anything is good enough for a small British Columbia community. T'.e men they send out here cannot afford to speak with vigor »r independence—even if they could. With the treich«roil» boyoitt now epielemic in Ymir neither of the local parsons havo attempted to dual from their pulpits : were they to do so they weiuld have to pray more fervently than over, "Give us this day our daily grapenut." It ia not fail to place even amateurs in -his awkward position and have them despised of men, anil with congregations composed almost e.vc'usively of pinafores, petticoats and animated fashion plates. THE COMET. /jyiOQRlMSO tpthe Ymir «irres- Ha, pondent of the Nelson Daily News ( «ho is loe-al'.y accepted as an authority mi church matters) " The boycott has »prend to the churches—Metheslintanel Presbyterian, The parsons aro accusing evil other of different things. It is certainly uufortunste that even the churches'cannot dwell in harmony tos gethur." This is but it natural sequence We predicted it a couple of month» ago, when the Miners' Union hisses licensed a Itnyctitt against the editor of Util paper for having elareel to exp s« I heir crooked way». The cowardly, tlUlioneatf treacherou» weapon was, in J WoNiiKiiKut, are the ways and means adopted to " raiso the wind," for the church. It was thought that every device, excepting the kissing content, hail been exhausted in Ymir, Not so. The nickel-in-the-slnt machine has Isien operated for the church fund, but the good brother who undertook to manipulate tho wheel so as to increase its cheating capacity did not accomplish all that was exported of him. A lot of other "games" wore worked with a like commendable object, but the latest one is termed an "Experience .Social " The plan is for every body to make a» much money as possible for the church and thon give their experience in making it, confining them selves a» far as practicable to the truth. One of the Indies at least will have a painful experience to recount : she uneJertiKik the simple tank of eeliting a newspaper. This she appropriately named The Comet, and that any little fragment of a good reputation which Ymir still clings to may he préservée!, it is necessary that the phenomenon lippnar not again. Mrs. Newton Knee- land is the nominal editor, hut it would lie cruel, unjust, to hold that lady re- sponsible for the rubbish with which the little sheet is filled. The fulsome, fawning flattery, the terrible todyism, the spiteful spirit, and the evident aim to cater for personal traele are dis. gustir.gly glaring. Limitless exaggeration is indulged in, white the show made of knowing something reveals a contrary mental condition. Ymir is depicted ns a health resort, although the snow, which began to fly early in November huit year, is still on the ground. "Our mountain streams (in eluding Wild Horse Creek) afford ab undance of the purtst water in the world." It is not only pure, but it is swket I and the waterworks system is as flue as Canada can produce 1 A» for sport, any man who .can tako a holiday from May 1st to November 1st oan "catch trout or hunt for bear and deer as fancy dictates." Of couree * he could also hunt for elephant and giraffe and other big game. The visitor can also listen to the dropping of 80 stamps at the Ymir min« and tee the yellow metal abstracted from the ores 1 He can also see one of •' the finest tramways in the world " at the Hunter V. The Comet in ikes the wonderful discovery that •' there are nine hotels and ten- business houses in Ymir. For obvious reasons, there is no attempt made to enumerate the ten business house», bnt, as in all other cases cited, the goods carrier] " would do credit to any ciry in the world." Eight of the nine saloons in town ad rertise their wines, liquors and cigars in this special church publication. Why not t Is not saloon money better than any other money for church purposes in Ymir t Then Tlio Comet busmears ils tail by dragging it over the union bosses. Shop I shop I shop I Burgess, the union president, is advertised as the proprietor of the organisation, while in ordur to get another »lap at the religious opposition shop, the locai apprentice to the Methodist ministry is ironically named " W. A. Coddles," The young «nan's name is H. E. Collie. Then there is an awkward- elnfence put up by Tho Comet on behalf of one of tho few male members of the Ymir Presbyterian Church awaiting trial oo a charge of murder committed here a month ago. Finally camies the choicest specimen of rot and hypocrncy that The Comet reveals. It is well known that the Presbyterian patrons of the eastern departmental stores are a very numerous bexly in Ymir. The general rule here is to »end away for everything when you have the cash, and when you have not ' the cash, then '• run your face" in the ^looal store. It appears thoy managed to raise the rash for the printing of The Cimet, ami consequently the printing was dime abroad. Yet The Comet has a fearfully original article headoel, •' Trade ut Home." The writer, or artist, paint» a pen picture of a one.bunded sweat shop He, or she, brings one, in imagination, up many flight» of stairs to a dog kennel, where sealed by a Dielest stove resurrected from senne scrap heap— alluding presumably to the stove—sit» a girl of ten years of age, her cheeks hollow and emaciated, her large blue eyes staring in undisguised astonishment, nnd a few rags illy concealing her nitckedursa. What is she doing I Why, sewing on waist buttons nt one cent por dosen by the feeble rays of a twitted rug in a saucer of grease I Her father is in the mansion in tho skies and her mother is cxpeoving soon tu join him. Take a long breath here, gentle minier, but don't cry Uesorve your tears until you hear tho oxper-i ience of others at Tii"sd ay night's church social, There will lie a silver collection, ul theelisir. ******+**********>»**. 11***41* { LOCAL ITEMS »•#/#♦•( (J, #i»:t»(|it|(*(f *r^r^1»sH|n»^*sWr»i*j' Work on the bridge »t Ymir con tinues to progress but so far no new stringers have been laid. A "Comet" struck Ymir on Thursday —an ill-omen of an "experience social" one of the latest church fails. The waters of the Salmon River are rapidly rising and serious flood» are looked for. It is to be hof eel the bridge will be open to traffic before they come. J. A. Macdonnld, who has r-een in hospital for the past couple of weeks with a bud attack of la grippe,was Suf fici»ntly recovered to be discharged on Thursday. Duncan McFarland, who for sever»' months has beer, storekeeper at the:' Ymir Mill, has resigned the position and on Wednesday left for Nelson. The railway service was somewhat improved this week, but trains do not yet run on scheduled time, owing to numerous wash-outs, snow slides and floods between Nelson and Northport Frank Sleeman, who for a number of years was employee) as a miner in the mines around Nelson and Ymir, dieel at I.iskeard, Cornwall England, on March 10th, of consumption. It is periodically announced that the Pilot (Ymir) Gold Mining Co. have made arrangement* to install a sUmg. mill, bot up til the present there is nothing in it but the usual bluff apparently. The frogs were heard in croaking chorus for the first time this season on Thurseluy evening This is a sure sign that spring is with us. No attempt has been made so far to Boycott the weather. Both Ymir anel Salmo have organ-' iced baseball teams for the season On Sunday the first match of the year was played at Salmo with tho result thief Ymir won by a scire of 22 t > 21, the last half of the ninth innings not bo« ing played. ■ 'M Frank E. Collins, nn employe of the Kisitenny Shingle Co. at Salmo, wn» brought to Ymir on Mon lay for hospital treatment The fore part at' the right fiait gut caught in a revolving saw, and was almost cunplutely cut off. Tho Hunter V Mine was clewed down last week owing to transporta« tion t"ouble», The ore bins were lllleel anel the available curs, but the rail; way company could not handle th* freight. The rood (s again clear, ami operation» will be resumed at the mine. E. W, Widdowson, essayer, on .Wednesday received a cablegram from Leicester, England, announcing the death erf Ili» mother, The deceased litely wns eiver soveitty year* of age, and had been iiilitn/ fen' a long time. There are five in the family to mourn loss her '.i,i i The Oak llnnley residence ha» been moved from First Alloy to Second Avenue/ A couple of disappointed 'eiitnnier« cial men visitée! Ymireluriiig the week. They found they eoiihl pla.ie no orders nor collect no «Mb, and declare tliat they never saw n camp so sick with the Hoycott fever. They assert the epidemic is bound to prove fatal In several cases, t Win. Waldie, lessee of the Queen Mine, at Halmo( was in town on Wed nesday with sum*, bullion, the first clean-up of the season. The result of a seven days run gave 24 our.oes, which was run into brick form by E. W. Widdowson, the local assayer. Mr. Waldie is using the Yellowstone mill and looks foreward to a profitable season's operations A drunken man narrowly escaped i fatal accident as the train was steams ing out of the station for Nelson on Wednesday evening. Ho attempted to board the cars While the train was in motion and, missing his footing, was dragged for several yards between the wheels The train was stopped in time to avert a fatal accident. The old log building at the water tank has been razed. It was one of the first buildings in Ymir, wlien this thriving and law-abiding metropolis was known by the more euphonious name, Quartz Creak, and it did service as an hotel, hog-psn, church, school-house, stable, hobos' rendezvous etc. The removal of a few more land mark» might improve the sanitation of the dirty town. Mrs. (Dr.) Duncnn and family bid adiou yesterday to Ymir. They will make their home in Victoria. Much regret js felt at the departure of Mrs, Duncan, who ha» been a resident of the Camp for the past three yeais. There are several other families pri« par'ng to leave town, the ntmosflirre of a boycotting camp not proving conducive to health or happiness. Chris Willis,' teamster of Saline, while conveying a slei *li loid of supplies to the Queen mine I ist Saturday lost hi* sleigh and the contents through a large mud slid« coming down the mountain side. It wa» with difficulty that he managed to cut the liar« nous off hi» team and gel them to a place of safety. The scene of the accident is covered with mud to a depth of 10 feet. The cayuses of Ymir continue to roam around devouring any thing and everything to appease their hunger] They are taking tira place of the heard of swine who uweel to feed on the pub« lie, their owners claiming that the hogs were benefactors acting as town vcav - cngers, Policeman Forrester wns hit > the hog enterprise »nd conveniently accepted the sanitation theory, acting accord ingly. People are now asking if be is alto in che cayuse scavenger enterprise, or how much he i» making out of it. At the mining recorder'» office during the week, Duugald Cameron recorded tho Lionel uiiucrVil claim on the divide between the main nnd south forks of Porcupine creek about five and a half miles from the town uf Ymir. G, II, Uarnhart recorded the Easter mineral claim on the divide between the main ami aeiuth forks of Porcupine creek about five and a half miles from Ymir, J. H McDonald recorded the Falmouth mittel »I claim, situate .'I miles ninth of Ymir, and about one mile from the line of thee Nelson and Kurt Hhoppard railway. A certificate eif work was given John W, Harknes». on the Morning Glory claim fur work done »ince the 2 J ml of May, 11)0,1, Certificates of work were granted Thomas Peacock fen' two years on the Aetna mineral claim for work,dome since May (Uli, IDOi'l) to M. lvgan on the Noonday mineral claim, for work lime since 2,'lril April, lut):!. A etc tilicnte of improvements was graille I rlsnies P. Hunnex of Erie on t ie I, t lie J is) ne lierai claim, Spring weather hasset in at Inst. ■"*•■" -J
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