-I HAVEN'T 8EEN~THE- WATCH yet I couldn't ropair properly. OSTBATHEAllvt �� .JKWELER Op. P.O.ll >> |"5*9w�� VOL. IV. KASLO, B. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER & L80& NO. ft COMMUNICATIONS. J 0% $**$*$*$ -$-*4h&*$ *Mt$& Sunday in Canada. To the Editor of the B. C. News. Sir���If you look in the Kootenaian of last week you will see two well writ- ton, well punctuated aud well quoted articles that emanated trom the sanctum of that journal. The articles referred to are headed "Sunday in Canada" and "Cosmopolitan Canada/' A stranger would think thesi articles were written by two persons, one an American, who has a great antipathy to anything Hritish, aud the other a liberal minded Canadian; but they were not, tbey were both written by an American. In one article he strikes out from the shoulder to vilify, sneer at and belittle one of Canada's greatest Institutions, namely, her observance of the Sabbath Day. He pleads tho American capitalists' and engineers' cause very well in "Cosmopolitan Canada" when he says they aro very welcome so as to exploit tho resources of the Province, and he also says we should welcome the "American editors who come to LEND their talents" etc. Do wc as Canadians want the loan of his, or any other man's, brains to call our ministers and priests "shrine- hunters" and "gospel acrobats?" It is a certainty he is not lending the use of his brains, there are dollars coming to him at the end of every month, and what for? lie says "to the up-building of Canada." We all know that if his San Francisco Ideas of Sunday observance were carried out, Canada would not enjoy the quietness and rest that is so much appreciated by all Canadians and also by foreigners who spend tho Sabbath with the "Lady of tho Snows Canadian. MINEsS AND MINING. ���progress on Various Properties n the Kootenavs. The following is the output of the Hall mines, at Nelson, for the past eight months: Smelted Copper Silver Tons Os 146 92,171 157 109,070 125 77,020 156 111,420 92 71,460 47 38,780 71 50.160 79 71,466 Ore .elte ^^^^^^^^^ Tons December, 1897... .*i,7i*6 January, 1898 5,��7!i Februarv 5,436 March 7,437 April 4,734 May 2,902 June 3,450 July -4,403 Total 30,833 873 621,547 Tho Kuth mine shipped 333 tons of ore during the month of July, and the estimated profit on the same is $13,000, Whit��w��star Deep. ln conversation with Mr. Brown a few dafs ago he said: "Wo have commenced our new low level tunnel and are installing the new machinery at tho property. With power at hand we shall carry on operations as rapidly as possible. The tunnel when driven 1,700 feet will crosscut the lead at a depth of 2,000 feet from the apex. Stopeing upwards we shall have between 700 ahd 800 foet of backs before the ledge passes from our ground Into tht^t owned by the Whitewater people. We shall be able to stope longitudinally along the vein for about 2,000. Trout Lake District. , A comparatively new distrlot, em- bracing the Flsh river and its branches, has come into prominence through the completion of the trail to Trout lake abd active development is being pushed on most of the claims. The rook formation is chiefly lime, slate, granite and schist and the ores are silver-lead with gold avid oopper. Nearly all the leads opened so far have contained gold and oopper In considerable quan tities. The gold runs as high as 825 per ton and copper from 10 to 16 per cent. The galena carries from 30 to 300 ounces silver and an average of 60 per cent. load. The main feature of the district is the size and strength of the leads, nearly all of which can be traced for miles. Fish creek is tributary to thc Lardo and consequently any developments there are interesting to Kaslo. ��� Down tho Lardo Iilvcr. M> J. Barach, a mining engineer and expert In the employ of tho owners of the Silver Cup mine, left Trout Lake City recently with a party of men to ascertain the feasibility o' navigating the lower Lardo river with a view of taking their ore out to Kootenay lake. A tramway will be built from the Silver Cup mino to Trout lake about ten miles below Trout Lako City, whore the ore will be transferred to a barge and towed to the foot of the lake and down the Lardo rivor���35 miles��� to Kootenay lake and towed from there to Kaslo or somo other shipping point on the lako. Several large log jams obstruct the river now but the greatest difficulty will probably be encountered at the head where the channel will havo to be dredged several feet. The Old Comstock Lode. "The Comstock's sun has nearly set," says the Reno, Nevada, Gazette, "and when it is entirely hidden by the old Mount Davidson one of the most wonderful towns and mining camps this world has ever seen will go down with it. ."Virginia City was a place of 20,000 Inhabitants a few years ago, and no city ln -the land, big or little, enjoyed more of the luxuries of life than did Virginia. Twenty-dollar pieces were more plentiful than nickels are today. People gambled in stock with the same freedom that thoy now play with the babies. Only four whistles are now left to sound the departing glory of a once prosperous place. Con. Victoria sold for over $900 In 1875 and now it is selling for only 86 cents, aud is not worth thai. Everything about the place is taut going to decay, and the Comstock Lode and Virginia will soon only be remembered iu history.'' The Kokanee Mining Co.,on Moadow creek, has 100 tons of ore on the dump and will ship soon. Thero is a stampede from Nelson to Rover creek, near Slocan Crossing where good place'- diggings have beon found, Thrown Out by the Emperor of Russia to al! THE GREAT NATIONS The Czar Considers the Present Time favorable for a Peaee Conference. A ton of Slocan oro sample* was recently shipped by tbo C. P. K. to Paris to foitn part of an exhibit which the railroad is Maintaining In that city. J. 17 Hlgham returned from Toby creek rucently whore he wont to io- sped a line copper proposition in which ho Ih interested. A deal ls expected to go through any day in connection with his property. Chas. S. Allmen, assayer, of Tacoma, camo in Monday after an extended trip through tho Cascades, Okanagan and Boundary countries. Mr. Allmen says that all tho mining districts are fairly lively, but he prefers this and to prove his assertions he has invested largely In the Slooan. Hlg Strike ou Cooper Creek. A remarkable strike has been made by R. Stenson, J.C. Hanson, J. Latham and H. W. Richardson at the head waters of Cooper creek. The ledge is 6 ft. wide and a picked sample assayed over $8,000 ln free milling gold. The average assay tor over 2,000 feet is $26, The owners Intend to develop the property at once. St. Petersburg, August 2!i. By order of Emperor Nicholas, Count Maravief, the foreign minister, on tbe -ith inst., handed the foreign diplomat at St. Petersburg, a note declaring that the maintenance of peace and the reduction of tlie excessive armaments now crushing all nations, is the ideal for whicli all governments ought to strive. The Czar considers the present moment favorable for the inauguration of a movement looking to this end and has Invited the powers to take part in an international conference as a means of thus assuring a real and lasting peace and terminating the progressive increase of armaments. Text of the Note. The text of the note Is as follows: "The maintenance of general peace and the possible reduction of the excessive armaments which weigh upon all nations, present themselves in oxisting conditions to the whole world towards which the endeavors of all governments should be dirocted.*' "International discussion is the most effectual means of ensuring all peoples benefit, a real durable peace, above all, putting an end to the progressive development of the present armaments." "Next, for the better guarantee of peace that they have devoloped iu proportions hitherto unprecedented thoir military forces, and still continue to increase them, without shrinking from afty sacrifice." "Nevertheless, all tho efforts have not'yet been able to bring about the beuoiicient result desired���pacification. "The financial charges following the upward march strike at tho very root of public prosperity. The Intellectual and physical strength of the nation's labor and capital are mostly diverted from their natural application and are unproductive!)* consumed. Hundreds of millions of dollars are diverted to acquiring terrible engines of 'destruction, which, though today regarded as the last work of science, are destinod tomorrow to lose all thoir value in consequence of some fresh discovery in the same field. National culture, economic principles and the production of wealth arc olthcr paralyzed or checkod in development. Moreover in proportion as the armnments of each power Increases, they less und less fulfill the object tho government has set before themselves." "Tho economic crisis, due. in great part to the system of armamonts, aud the continued danger which lies In this massing of war material, are transforming tho armed peace of our days Into a crushing bindery which tho people have more and moro difficulty In bearing.,' Filled with this idea, his majesty has been pleased to command- me to propose to all governments whose representatives are accredited to the imperial court, the assembling of a conference which shall occupy itself with this grave problem." of the country, and as it was the aim of! his party always to sink party advantages where the interests of the country were at stake, he would postpone the arrangements made. He referred to the recent Spanish- American war; the resultant friendly relations between the United States and Great Britain aud her colonies and the consequent favorable opportunity for settling important questions between Canada and tbe country to the south. He urged attention to the electoral lists, owing to the changed election law, and urged every individual to take a deep iuterest in the revision, seeing that his name was not left of!', and thus secure the Liberal Conservative party a triumph when tho election day arrives. He said: "I am unable to put my finger on one single act of the present government that has benefitted the country, except where they followed the steps and policy of tbe Liberal Conservative party." BY THE ROADSIDE. tee*e*e*e*eeee44e*04<**<>4^-(>+<&<><>e% LOST FOR A CENTURY. Masonic Documents of Value to Canada Pound in the Archives. J. Ross Robertson, of Toronto, while in F.ngland, examined some old Masonic documents concerning the early history of the'craft in Canada. These documents are in the archives of the Grand Lodge of England, and its offices in Great Queen street, London, and were discovered st.me weeks ago by Henry Saddler, the sub-librarian of the Excursion to Sandon Labor Uny. There wlll be a special train to Sandon Monday next, Labor Day. It will leave here at 6:30 a. in., returning at 1:00 a. m., Tuesday. Single fare for the round trip. A fine chicken dinner at the Queen Restaurtpt every Sunday at ip. m. * '���- Grahd Lodge. Mr. Robertson, who ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ , ,. ,, ..��������� /,,,������ tic. There*!*, business in it but has gone carefully over all these docu-1 SIR CHARLES HAS HOPE. Believes the Conservatives Are Goinfl Hack to Power. Sir Charles Tupper recently addressed a mooting %f Liberal Conservative erectors at.Cape Breton. Speaking of the Quebec conference, he said that although he had arranged for an active ��' s, ' ��� - campaigning programme for this session, he had considered the interests ments, states that they relate to the ! first Provincial Grand Lodge oi Upper Canada in 1792, and the first and most important is the draft copy of the war- runt of R. W. Bro. Jarvis, the first provincial grand master, a document tbat has led to a great deal of controversy from the fact that the original has never been found, although written on vellum and in existence at about 1820. The package containing this document was tied up with the orthodox red tape in April ,of 1792, and was untiod for the first time in July, 1898. The second paper of importance is a return of the lodges from 1795-tj. This return shows that Barton Lodge of Hamilton was warranted as "No. 10, held in the Township of Ancaster, Home District," and that "No. 11," the lodge at tho Mohawk village, was "held at the Mowhawk castle." Another paper is a letter written in 1804 by Jermyn Patrick, of Lodge "No. ti, Kingston." reciting the state of Masonry in Upper Canada, and a statement concerning friction that existed between the Grand Lodge at York (Toronto) ana the schismatic Grand Lodge at Niagara. There aro other papers of interest, and documonts which till gaps that occur In the early history of Masonry in Upper Canada.���-Telegram, Toronto PERSONALS. ; V.. ^~^^-.,^~-.--s.-S^^>s>^.^-^s/v^s^ i) C.P. Hill, of Port Hill, is in the city. J. C. Ryan, manager of the Antolne, is at the Kaslo. VV. R. Stephenson, C. 17, came down from Lardo Tuesday, .1. sM. and Allan Anderson, of Jubilee Point are In the city. Alder Bishop, C. P. R. local agent, spent Sunday in Sandon. C. A. Stoess and survey party returned to Kaslo Saturday. Whealler �� Martin, barristers, are installed in the Archer-Harttn black. Mrs. Keen, Miss Nelson and Miss Twiss are camping at Kemp Springs. J. c.Blandy, of the Outlet hotel, Balfour, came up on the Albbrta Tuesdays W.'D. Maokay, C. K., came home from Sandon Tuesday and returned Friday morning. All this talk about plebiscite recalls the early days of the Northwest where white and red men were under a pro hibitive law. Those were the days ��� when a five gallon keg called forth festivities which are better imagined than described, but the boys were young i then and had to gain certain experiences along those lines. When there was no keg on festive occasions the toasts were drunk with tea. painkiller, essence of ginger or other essences and even red ink was drunk; the great song then was "Tlie Riders of the Plains'' ���a name given to the North West Mounted Police. It had this chorus and from many a shack has the refrain gone up like the smoke on the still, crisp, stariit night of winter: "Then pass the tea and let us drink To the guardians of our land, It's not our fault, you bet your life, , That whisky's contraband ! " * # # In these days of straight lines it is positively refreshing to be in a street that is not straight. Wheu in Sandon the other day it reminded me of an old country vallage and I lingered awhile amid the delusion. There is something horribly painful about the block surveyor the cities on this side of the Allan no picturesqueness, no color, no art: all i*. dead money suggesting. I have seen mo"o true grace in a collection of adobe huts flanked by a company of picturesquely attired Zimi Indians do.vn in New Mexico, than on many of the interminably long aristocratic avenues of tho largo cities of the land. It is this want of color that deadens the otherwise beautiful scenery and that unutterable solitude so characteristic of Northern scenery, mars the effect it might have if it could be seen and folt that amid its primeval grandeur many live and move and have their being. i At last wireless telegraphy has been put to a practical test. At the Royal Yacht* club regatta Signor Marion! personally conducted tho experiments at Irom Ave to ten miles from slimv No hitch occurred and no message bad to be repeated. It will now be safe tu miske tho statement that thoughts are things living entities wliich people tin- space atound us -without being considered an escaped lunatic. As we breath into our lungs foul air when we go iuto tinveiitUuted places, so do we breathe into our mental and mui oj tin ture tho thoughts or others so thu, some people are as much a poison ta the moral atmosphere as a lopoi would be to the physical. Travel on the K. & S. would bo increased materially on Sundays if the company would be more liberal id their fares. At seven cents a mile A mau can make money by walking. About 75 per cent, of the single fare for tho round trip would fill those two cars every Sunday. Tho rate war botween the transcontinental lines, now going on, affords a good illustration ol tho enormous impetus given to travel when low rates prevail, and gives unmistakable evidence of the profitable nature of the business of hauling humanity. In the old countries,, notably in Hungary, rates aro as low as a quarter com per milo and yet the railroads under government control give flrst class returns. Wandeukr. _ -.s-.s^s-,s-_-.-��-..��.^^����.S--.s-.��.����^^J--fc-k----. ��� �� ^WHTWWItfWmmmmmig �� Timely Topics. -3 SiUiUiUiUiUiUmU.U.IUtUsl If there are nny blowholes ln American armor plate Spain can't prove lt. A dude fights nearly us well ns n cowboy, and n cowboy lights better than anything else on earth. A new trolley line across the Niagara bridge, from Canada to the United States, will have to be reckoned among the ties that bind. Chicago's tallest nnd thinnest citizen died the other day. He was 7 feet 8 Inches tail and weighed ouly 12.*i pounds. He was a Pole. The mnn behind the guu is the one who wins naval victories, nud no one appreciates this more keenly thun the uiuu iu front of the same gun. The manner In Which tlie bull fighters lu Spain have lieen crowded out of popnlnr Interest should be a warning to this country's prize fighters. It Is safe to conclude that there will lie a great deal of powder burnt In the next few years. European nations huve learned the value of shooting straignt. Say what you will, the commander of the Cristobal Colon understands punctuation; just ns soou us the ("oiou wus cut lu two she made a full stop. Has it ever struck you that thc fellow* who invent bullet-proof cloths have a wonderful faculty of turning lip absent nlxiut as soon as a real war test offers Itself? A Chicngo business house displays below the inline of the linn a line reading "Established Before the War." That, sign doesn't mean so much uow as it did a year ago. A Madrid correspondent suys that "the best people of Spain are the least demonstrative In their hostility against Americn.*' Certainly; the best people of Spnlu are underground. "When Mrs. Lowe wits declared elected," remarks a Denver paper in discussing ihe national convention of women's club, "the bustle In tbe hnil was simply Indescribnble." Whose? The York (Pu.) Dispatch editorially says: "Postmaster (Jcorge Young, of Gettysburg; was ln this city to-day between trains." Did he get out of his unpleasant nnd dangerous predicament sll right? The several Vanderbllt families are gradually taking op their homes in Fra'ice. bnt it Is understood that they are sufficiently friendly to the l'nit"il Staves to enable them to accept dividends declared by their railroads. A leading New York attorney writes to a Gotham Journal to say: "I am engaged by the year to look after the matrimonial and other legal matters of Miss Lillian Russell." The airy, fairy Lillian evidently saves money by making wholesale contracts of this sort. The negro seems to luck fl pride of race to correspond to the pride of nationality. Instead of following the best snd brainiest of Ills own race he ls liet- ter content to follow the dictates of the white politician, and the vicious while politician makes the negro vote a danger nnd a niennce by using it for his vicious ends. Remember that only letters wlll hereafter he returned by the postofflce to the sender, until full return postage Is psld. No second, third or fourth class matter Is to be returned or forwarded to a new address without additional postage. The new law covers nt-wspu. pers, hooks and packnges of merchandise. Thc question, asked these many years and In tones more ur less musical. "What are the wild waves saying'*" may he near a satisfactory reply. The manufacture of paper from seaweed ls said fo be a growing industry In Prance. The seaweed wlll doubtless reveul the whl-qieiings nud thundering* of the ocean It hns heard to writers ���who use the paper. Tbe nd vantage a millionaire has over a worklngman Is thnt he may assume the other's part. The worklngman cannot play the millionaire. Some amusing Incidents are told In Harper's Weekly of patriotic youths who have given up lives of ease and pleasure to work and live like any common sailor In the navnl reserves. One of them wns lately swabbing down the deck under the supervision of an old tar, who exclaimed, "By George! there's a fine yacht. Do you know who she belongs to, young feller?" "Rather," drawled the militiaman; "she belongs to me!" At a recent convention of accident Insurance companies some Interesting ���tatistlcs were presented ln regard to tbe liability of men In different occupations to meet with accidents. One would naturollv expect tbat commer cial travelers, being on the road most oj the tiim>, would be very linble to Injury, or nt lenst more so thnn farmers. But the exiicrlet.ee of the lnsunince companies has been Just (he opposite*! The commercial travelers show h percentage of claims for Injuries received of only 8.6 per cent of tlie number insured. Farmers' claims represented '24.H per-cent of the Dumber Insured, ol about seven times as many as the commercial travelers. Prom wlilch It seem; thut traveling is uot very dangerous, nnd that lt ls a much safer occupation than farming. Just now the country Is watching the second generation of some of Its greal names to discover whether the streugtli of the fathers will show In the sous. While there is nothing more certain than that blood will tell���and by blood is not meant, necessarily, descent from those who mnde the highways uusHfl when lt was the polite and gentlemanly thing to be a robber baron--tlie too nd rnntageous conditions under whirl many of these young men have started out has made Impossible any real (level npnient of the powers which may b�� latent in them. Por Nature develop? nothing good without a struggle; de generacy Is the product of her idleness I Progress toward a higher type Is solely | by constant effort and unceasing strife. Jinn Is no exception to this law. Oui great soldiers fought up lo rank ugfllusl a thousand bluer opponents; our great merchants gained wealth over u swarm of pushing competitors; nud so or i tlirougli the list of those who have j achieved success In any calling. It ll | the constant conflict thnt strengthens tlie sinews of character. But In the second generation of success we loo often find the sou, lu defiance of Nature's finni law of development, spending without earning, and receiving tin earned, nnd consequently rldlculoui honors. Those who hnve done nothing but stagger under a father's historic name along the path of easy advance ment are not likely to uinke history. II is the nameless ones who hnve been tolling up step by step whose unmet will menu something nt the end of thi present strife; for It Is only with work thnt blood will tell. >n******-%*9*ii***********9 sieef-tt*et*eette*****eef.f*��** J - SAVED AND LOST. - jL I I There is it. the country n grent re newnl of interest In the Nicaragua canal, a bill for assisting In the construction of which is now before Congress with the expectation that lt will be the most important subject to be discussed by that body nt lis next session. There are some questions thnt will add to the public Interest upon the subject, like the retention of the Phil- j ipplt.e islands, but the annexation of I la wall is enough to make the project nn Important nnd necessary one. it is nearly half B century ngo that ths Idea of constructing an Interoceanic canal across Nicaragua was first publicly discussed, and since then four or live surveys have been made to aseer tain the best, route and an approximate Idea as to the cost of the work. The line that lias been most popular extend!' from (Jreytowu, or some point near it, through Nicaragua Lake to Brlto, on the Pacific const. Finally a company wns chartered by the I'nlted States to construct the canal, nml necessary concession! were obtained from the Xlcnr- uguun Government. The route adopted wns to stnrl from Brlto. following the Ulo (Jrnnde nnd the I.njns River to the lake, a distance of seventeen and a hnlf miles. In Ibis section tlie cannl was to have n depth of thirty feet nnd a width. at the bottom, of 128 feet. Through the lake n Channel would hnve to be dredged, the distance from the mouth of the Lnjas to Fort Ban Carlos on the eastern shore being fifty-six nnd one-half miles. Prom tlint point the Itlver Snn .luni) would be followed for sixty-nine miles. Two Important tributaries enter the San .Imin, the San Carlos and the San FranclSCO, nt a point called Ochnn. nnd from that place n regular canal would be commoted to Greytown. Tliere hnve been Heverul estimates made as to the cost of the work, varying from $64000.000 to JU8.000.000, but It if probable thnt .**l Iii.immi.ihki would Ih* ample to complete It. The savings In the dlsini.ee to our ocean commerce would, by the use of this canal, be enormous. Ships bound from Snt. Fran- elsco to New York would save about s.iKKi miles In inking the cunnl distend of going round Cnpe Horn. From England and European ports the saving of distance would iw* l.mio or 2,000 miles less. While ihe cost of ocean transportation Is not grent. the risks of navigation nre to be considered, while ths time. Involving Interest charges or shipments nud Insurance nre of grent moment. .Judging from the most carefully compiled estimates, the revenuei of the canal could not lie much If nny less thnn $8,000,000 annually, which would pay operating expenses and a remunerative dividend upon the money Invested. The present bill authorizes the Government to guarantee bonds of the company to the anwnnt of $100,- (MM), being amply secured ngninst any loss by reason of such Indorsement. Tbe war has lieen an object lesson to the people of tbe country, and has removed nearly all the opposition tbat once existed against the Government lending Its aid ln the building of tbis great waterway. GRIMED with dust and sweat of his work at the foundry, Peter Gurney wearily plodded his way home. A great longlug for the rest and ;omfort of his lodgings came over him, snd braced his tired muscles Into activity agnln, as he turned down the dingy street In wlilch he lived. There wns ouly one redeeming fentnre ln Worship lnne, and thnt wns No. 27, snd before its gate Gurney stood with admiring eyes. Blight green paint shone on door nnd railing���a row of sickly flowers sl niggled to show their bloom ln n box on the front window, and ueat window curtains hid the room within. "It do look wonderful smart, but not half smart enough for her," he muttered as he pushed open the gate and opened the door. Carefully Wiping his boots on the tiny mat, he went straight to the kitchen. "Where's Dick?' said a voice from the scullery beyond. "He's got some errands���he'll be bark In a hit," he answered, as he sat In an arm chair before Hie fire and gazed approvingly around. Bright oleographs were neatly fastened to the paper; the wooden chairs nnd table were spotlessly dean and the grate wns as bright as labor could make It. "Well, Peter, how do you like my pictures?" snid a iileasnnt voice; nnd Mrs. Part, drying tier hands, mine Into the kitchen. Her trim, neat figure, her refined accent and her sweet, pale face, all proclaimed her foreign descent, and, together with her tidy house and smart dress, brought down upon her the scorn and hatred of her neighbors. The big mnn looked at her with a wistful look, which she seemed to find embarrassing, for she began getting ready the supper. "Lass," he snid, turning his back to her nnd leaning over the fire, "I'll uot lie saying as how I haven't been well cared for here, or that my lodge nln't comfortable, but���I'm going to find another, lass. If I can." The girl's face grew pnler yet, and her eyes contracted nnd dilated ln her agitation' "Going to leave an, Peter? When we've been such good friends. Why, what hnve Dick or I done thnt you should go away?" A little catch In her voice and the tremble of her chin warned blm thut tears were near at hand, aud he sprang up and turned toward her. "Ah, Inss. yon don't understand. Can't you see I m.isu't stop here uo longer?" "I've offended you. Peter.*' she said, wilfully, not seeing his meaiifhg. "No. lass, you nln't offended me. nor couldn't If you tried; but It's���well���I must tell It. The flrst dny I come here I loved you. Inss. and as it wns. so It is, and I can't stay here; don't you see I can't?" His voice rose and trembled with passion. "Ah. lass, you can't tell how I've longed for you, how I've hungered for you, night aud day. Your ��� brainless man Is about aa aa a tralalees railroad. "OOIMO TO I.KAVR US, PKTKn?" face comes in front of my work���your face Is with me always--for I love you." Maddened by his grief, he threw his scruples to the winds, and strained her to his breast with a force that frightened her; she tore herself away and stood panting in front of him. A heavy footstep sounded on the flagstones outside, and a loud, cheery voice called out, "Is Peter In, Missis?" The pair stood looking at each other, and, with a heartbroken sigh, Gurney turned away and went .silently to his room. At half-past 8 the two men left tbe house for their day's work ln gloomy alienee. A fierce hatred for bis chum, nursed by the evil thought of a sleepless night, filled Peter's mind, leaving no time for Idle talk. Come what might he bad resolved In some way to thrust hia chum out of tbe way. "Sup pose he tripped when parrying a bucket of molten Iron?" whispered the tempter; "it wouldn't be your fault. Supposing you pushed him into the pit of molten steel, who would suspect you, his chum?" With these thoughts rnclng through his mind, Peter begun the afternoon's work of shell casting. Groups of men, each carrying a long Iron pole shenthed at the end with wood, approached a large furnace; a hole was knocked In the end, nnd a small stream of molten hissing steel flowed out, sending showers of sparks in the air. With a long hook the foreman pushed Irou buckets under the flowing rivulet of metnl; ench one, when filled, wns slung by Its cnrrlers on the pole, and was borne shoulder-high to the shell molds and there emptied. Peter and Dick started at length with their load, with the latter tn front, and once more murderous thoughts filled the former's mind. A trip on his pnrt would send the molten metal streaming over his chum's back. and another accident would be added GALLANTRY WON HIM A WIFE. ISTO THE YAWING DEATH BELOW HIM. to the long list, and���the girl he worshiped would be free. Little did Dick Dart suspect how many times Hint afternoon Azrael wltb his flaming sword stood over against him, or how many times the wretched man behind hlm drew back from his ghastly task. At length the Rhells were all cast, and Peter, with what strength of mind he had, thanked God tlint his trial was over, but as the men were leaving the foreman said to the two friends: "I wish you two would stop for a bit l)e- slde the casting pit In the other shop. We were late running the metal in, and It must be rnked for at least an hour before It settles." "All right, sir," Bald Dick, cheerily. "Peter nnd I will stay, never fenr." The workmen streamed out, leaving the two men nnd the watchman the only living beings In tl.e vast works. Peter shivered as he followed his mate to the great pit which radiated a burning heat on nil sides. With long Iron rnkes they cleared the molten sea of scum thnt dimmed Its glowing surfnee, and watched the blue flames Hint flickered from time to time cu It. Although the swent wns running down hlm, Peter felt nu Icy coldness creep over hlm ss he drew nearer to Dart, who stood looking keenly at tl.e liquid mass before him. He raised his rake to thrust hlm headlong to an awful death, but he was unable to move, for there stood plainly, between hlm and his victim, the shadowy form of Dick's wife, with hands uplifted. He flung down his rake with n curse nnd came and stood close to his friend, who wns stretched out over the [ill gathering the fresh rising kciiiii. Whetlur tl.e fumes overcame him, Dick Dnrt wlll never know, for l.e felt himself falling forward nnd uttered a sharp cry. Instantly Peter flung out his left arm aud with a mighty effort hurled thc falling man buck, but lost his own balance as he did so and fell with nn awful cry Into the yawning death below hlm. His scream of mortal agony rang through the building ns he lay for an Instant on the liquid fire. Then the flames burst out around him and in a few seconds not a trace of Peter Gurney remained. Gone to an awful death, it Is true, but with the fresh glory of a haro'a crown upon blm���and who shall judge him? Cowboy Ride* Twenty Mllea to Get a Drtss for a Oirl from the Ku��t. "And now he's one of them there millionaires," mused the grizzly frontiersman whose relatives had induced him to come back for a brief visit ln a center of civilization. "I see lt right, here ln the paper. He owns railroad stock, mining stock and lots of other stock. I knowed that there same Henry M. Golden when he done not.hln' but punch stock for other people out on the- plains. He was a genuine cowboy, and as fast a feller lu a round-up as I ever see." "You must be mistaken, uncle." "Nothln' of the kind. When I talk about people you klu bet I'm alius dead certain of my fac's. We called hlnv Hank them days, and he was jlst as- handsome a youngster as ever throwed his leg over a saddle, .list by puttln' things together us they klm out I Teamed as how he was a college gnad- yate nnd was golu' so fa.it a clip and scattcrin' the old man's money so rapid that they sent hlm out there fur to git a schoolln' ln economy and build ur* agin. He wus soon the fav'rlte on all the ranches 'bout there, fur he was- squaras a die aud not afeard of nothln'. "Well, this here girl what he married kirn out fur to stay fur a while ou her dad's cattle range, that Jlned ours. Some of the swell people up to Lead- town, twenty miles away, what knowed her people, gave a ball fur her. Her and her dad went over In the cool of the- forenoon, and after dinner wns In a lawyer's office telkln". It seems Hank, got some money friim that same lawyer once a month and wus there too. He heerd the ole man laughlu' and tell- In' how they had klm away frum the range with the wrong valise, leavliT her ball dress ahlnd. and her a'most crazy about lt. Hank never says a word, but Jumps on his horse, goes that twenty miles ns though lajlus was after him, gits the dresa, changes critters, makes the run back and throws the girl Into a fit of happiness when he delivers. the goods on time. A year's courttn" wouldn't have made him so solid. The very next winter they was married. Hank was ns steady ns a deacon, both, ole men boosted him. aud uow you see where he is."���Detroit Free Press. TELEGRAPH WITHOUT WIRE. Time Ia Coining When Meeeagea WIIL I,rap Through Space. Thin Is the way the telegraph pole of the future wlll look. Moreover* there will not be lines of telegraph, wires stretching across country and maktng the dlstnnt sky look like a music chart. Wireless telegraphy is- coming iu. Already on the Isle of Wight they have a wireless telegraphy plant. Messages lenp from a |iole likc- thls one at Alum bay, fourteen miles- through space, to Bournemouth. A mnn named Marconi Is responsible for the wireless system of telegraphy. Papa's Estimate or Willie. Marie���I told papa, Willie, dear, that I thought you were Just too lovely for any use. Willfe-And what did he say, darling? Marie���He said be feared as much. Now what could he have meant by that, Willie, dearf-Detrolt Free Press. Enslish-Riieaklng People. One-fourth ef tbe land surface of ths globe Is occupied by English speaking peopta. German Army's Color (I Bandmaster Siiliiu- el titer Is tl.e ouly colored bnndmiister lu the Geru.nn army. Hols nt the head of Ihe music corps of the Koyiil Prussian regiment of grenadiers. King Frederick III. (No. 1 Knst Prussian), which garrisons Koetilgsberg, Prussia.' Sabae el (.'her Is said to be remarkably handsome. His father was born In lower Hgypt. Prince Albrecbt of Prussia found hlm nt the court of the Khedive and brought hlm to Berlin. He married a German woman. Sabae ei Cher played the violin when he waa 8 years old and received an excellent musical education. The band is lu great deiunud. Plea for Beer on Mondays. An extraordinary argument for Run- day opening was quoted by one of the speakers recently at a temperance convention. He related tbat at a public meeting once held In Coventry, England, an orator urged that public houses should be opened at noon od Bunday, In order tbat worklngmen should bave an opportunity of discussing together tbe sermons they had heard In tbe morning. Pretty Oawtom In Japan. The Japanese have a custom of celebrating tbe blossoming of tbe fruit tree* by a general holiday. ��� good figure In youth by flat In middle age. *��(*mtt flstb- Eat in Haste Anil sull'erat leisure. When your abused stomach can no longer cheerfully and properly perform its duties, a few doses of Hood's Sarsaparilla are like fresh water io a withered plant. This medicine tunes tbe stomach, restores digestive strength, creates an appetite and with a little care in ���diet, tlie patient is soon again in perfect health. Try it and you'll believe it. Sarsaparilla Is America's Greatest Medicine. Hod's PIMs eure constipation. 25 cents Hood's Business Is Ilrissk nt Manila. Manila, Aug. 29.���Steamers are entering the river as usual. The Americans are temporarily maintaining the former Spanish tariff. Business is brisk. The United States warships Raleigh and Olympia have gone to Hong Kong to go into dock. Admiral Dewey has transferred his flag to tlie Baltimore. General Merritt will sail on the steamship China Tuesday on his way to Paris to attend the session of the peace conference. Xo agreement yet has been reached with Aguinaldo on any of the dominant questions, although circumstantial rumors are current that everything is settled to the satisfaction of rSfc-e con* ���ccrned. Cavalry of Old Times. The most famoos cavalry poMlers of antiquity were the I'arthlatis. Tlielr Invaaion uf Judea 40 B. C., resulted ln such terrible devastation of the country that a ttundred yeara later the terrors of the Parthian invasion Save the Apostle John the Idea for jne of his most vivid picture,-;. DEAFNESS CAN NOT BE CURED By local applications, as they can not reach th* -diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that ls by constitutional remedies. Deafness ls caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When thla tube ia Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when It la entirely closed, Deafness Is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out. and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which Is nothing but an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We wlll give One Hundred Dollars for any ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars; free. P. J. CHENEY A CO.. Toledo. O. Sold by Druggists, T5o. Hall's Family Pills are the best The cabbage still grows wild in Greece, where it originated. Radishes are native to China, but have been grown in Europe for centuries. ST. MAjRY'B HAL,Lr-A BOARDING- AND day school for girls. Primary, preparatory and academic course. Music, German, French, drawing, painting and elocution taught by specialists. For Information addres* 120* Pa- s'liic Ave.. Bpokane. Wash. It is said that a striking outline of the features of George Washington has appeared in a knotty protuberance of a tree in Portland, Me. It is not a cherry tree. CITS !'��t iniiii'Mi ily 1'uresi. Ko flu or nervousnes rllo after llrst day's use or Dr. Kline's Ureal -Nervr .tcatorer. Send fer Kith. K Bs.00 trial UU tie and treatise. DR. R. IL K-'JLNK, Ltd., WO Arch street, Philadelphia, Ph. In stipends, salaries and wages tn their numerous ollicers, clerks and stall' the Corporation of London spends yearly upwards of $500,000. Plso's Cure for Consumption la the only cough medicine used in my house.���D. C. Albrlg-ht, Mlfllnbunr, Pa., Dec. 11. '95. Oalcutta jute goods are prohibited in Bulgaria owing to tlie plague. Try Schilling's Best tea and baking powder. It is reported that an apparently inexhaustible deposit of Fuller's earth has been discovered in San Bernardino, Cal. N TO MRS. PINKHAM Trom Mrs. Waltor B. Budd, of Pat- choguo, Now York. Mrs. Bcnn, In the following letter, tells a familiar story of weakness and suffering, and thanks Mrs. Pinkham for complete relief: " Dkaji Mrs. Pinkham:���I think it is my duty to write to you uml tell you what Lydia | E. Pinklnun's Vegetable Compound has done for me. I feel liko another woman. I had such dreadful headaches through my lj�� temples and \4f/ on top of my lKi head, that I nearly went crazy; was also troubled with chills,was very weak; my left I side from my I shoulders to my waist pained me terribly. I could not sleep for the pain. Plasters would help for a while, but aa soon as taken off, the pain would be just as bad as ever. Doctors prescribed medicine, but it gave me no relief. " Now I feel so well and strong, have no more headaches, and no pain in side, and it is all owing to your Compound. I cannot praise it ���enough, it is a wonderful medicine. I recommend it, to every woman I know." Stop drinking colored tea. Try Schilling's Best. Chronic Rheumatism. From the Indiutrial Sim, Jaekton, Mich. The subject of this sketch is 66 years of age, and actively engaged in farming. When 17 years old he hurt his shoulder and a few years after commenced to have rheumatic pains in it. On taking a slight cold or the the least strain, sometimes without any apparent cause whatever, tl.e trouble would start and he would suffer ths most excruciating pains. He suffered foi over 30 years, and the last deoads has suffered so much that ha was unable to do any work. To this the frequent ooc.irreuc.es of dizzy spells were added, making him almost a helpless invalid. In all Sortt af Wtather. He tried the best physicians, but without being benefited and has used severs! specific rheumatic cures, but was not helped. About one year and six months ago l.e read in this paper of a cast, somewhat similar to his wliioh was cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and concluded to try this remedy, i After taking the first box l.e felt somewhat better, and after using three boxes, the pains entirely disappeared, the dizziness left him, and be has now for over a year been entirely free from al> his former tumble and enioys better health than he bus had since his boyhood. He is loud in his piaises of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and will gladly corroborate the above statements. His post office address is Lorenzo Noeley, Horton, Jackson County, Michigan. All the elements neoesesry to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves are contained, in a condensed form, in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. All druggists sell them CAMP THOMAS EVACUATED. Tills Week. 'Will See the Departure of Every Kcgliuent, Chlekamaugn, Ga., Aug.29.���The last of this week wlll see almost every regiment of volunteers s;one from Camp Thomas. This morning;, when the First Pennsylvania left for Lexlnnton, completed thft removal of the First army corps. By Monday, at the latest, the Third army Corps wlll begin to move to Annlslon, Ala. If the railroads can handle the troops by 8aturdny noon not a single regiment will bo left tn the purk with the exception of the United States volunteers, which wlll be kept here to guard hospitals and government property. As fust an the trnins can be gotten tho convalescents nre being sent to their homos. Already over 4000 sick leaves havo been granted, and there are yet In the hospital over 1500 sick soldiers. These will be sent home as fast as they are convalescent. There were today reported ln all 520 cases of typhoid fever to all hospituls and six deaths. , A Poor Jadsre. "I won't say any more against that politician." remarked the mild eyed man, "than that he's a very poor judge ot human nature." "What makes you think so?" "Knowing hiB own record aa well aa he does he couldn't have such a high opinion of himself it he wasn't."���Washington Star. A Permanent Engagement. Clara���Are you engaged to Dougltin for good? Gertrude���It looks so. 1 don't think he'll ever be able to marry mc���Life. *i Theatrical companies that do not present the attraction they have billed are subject to fine in Mexico. A fine is ulso placed on bullfighters who give a poor performance, or who do not begin on time. Tho report of the New York Aqueduct Commission shows Hit the cost of the new aqueduct up to date is $37,108,122. E. TENDERS OLIVE BRANCHES TO THE WORLD. The Emperor of RumjiIr Invites the Wiii-IiI to Join in ii 1',-iis-e Conference���Advocates I'niversftl Harmony���Says War ls ..xpenslve. St. Petersburg, Aug. 29.-By order of Emperor Nicholas, Count Muravicff on the 22nd handed to the foreign diplomats at St. Petersburg a note declaring that the maintenance of peace and the reduction of the excessive armiiments now crushing all nations is the ideal for which all governments ought to strive. The csar considers the present moment favorable for the Inauguration of a movement looking to this end and invites the powers to take part tn nn international conference as a means of thu.-, insuring real and lasting peace and terminating the progressive Increase of armament. Puerto Rico Commission. Washington, Aug. 29.���The Puerto Rlcan military commission, of which Admiral Schley is a member, wlll sail next Wednesday on the transport Seneca. On arrival at Puerto Rico Admiral Schley will transfer bis flag to the New Orleans, which will remain In port during the progress of the work of the. commission. (nptiidi Clark in Mlslilmi". Benton Harbor, Mich., Aug. 29.���Captain Clark of the battleship Oregon has arrived here, having left the United States hospital to Join his wife and daughter, who have been spending the summer here anxiously awaiting his arrival. Indiana's cement belt covers about twenty square miles. Seventeen miles are in operation. Urn un|�� -Piatt, bit ���!Ro#ri.4Ken", In fold)* jfrtiff riiijufiitiim, in btitcit ti bid ber nod) nidi! ntiiiignib befanut mar, fenben rolr rs son jefct un bill vim 1. 3_nuar 18US frei an alir birfrnigtn, raddjt fur bal nadijlt \aljt uniert 311 ointnitni loerben unb btit Cetraq bafiir, t2. FISO'S CURE FOR ��.w������S*, Sold bi druKiileta. t Cough Syrup, ln timo. " �� CON SUMPTION A Cuban's Tribute. Fremont, O., Aug. 20.���.lohn Meek, the father of George ll. Meek, who was killed on the torpedo bout Winslow at Cardenas May 11, has received a letter and a check for $100. The letter goes to show that young Meek was the tirst American born sailor killed in the Cuban wur. The letter follows: "Washington, Aug. 24.���Dear Sin Some months ago a Cuban gentleman who signs himself Cambrisis, from thc city of Mexico, sent Ueneral Tonius Ks- truila l'alma of New York an order for $100 to be given to the wife, children or parents of the tirst American born sailor who should die in tiie war to free Cuba. I have just been informed thut your son, George lt. Meek, fireman on the torpedo boat Winslow, was the flrst hero to shed his blood for the independence of our unfortunate and down-trodden people. I beg to enclose to you the check entrusted to my care, being proof of tlie gratitude of Cubans to their friends aud allies, the Americans. "GONZALO DE QUESADA, "Charge d'Atfaires, Republic of Cuba." Famine- In Russia. St. Petersburg, Aug. 29.���Owing to the failure of harvests in seven districts of the government of Kazan and in the provinces of Samaria, Saratoll', Sibirk, VI* atke und Perinii, where the crops are almost worthless, great distress prevails. Live stoek in greut numbers are dying. Unless the promised government supplies are speedily sent the suffering will be terri|jlc. Ernest Mnrjut Is Dead. San Francisco, Aug. 26.���Ernst Marjot, the oldest artist in California, is dead, aged 71 years. He was born in France and came to this state 45 years ago. His paintings adorn ninny public and private houses here and in Mexico. Boston still leads the league. THE EXCRLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the California Fio Svbup Co. only, and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the California Fio Sirup Co. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other parties. The high standing of the California Via Sykui* Co. with the medical profession, and the satisfaction. which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy. It is far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acts on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weakening them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of tbe Company ��� CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FKAN0IS0O. Out. LOUISVILLE. K-. NEW VOKK, N. T. A Beautiful Present j In order te farther introduce ELASTIC STARCH (Flat Iron Brand), the manufacturers, I. C. Hubinger Bros. Co., of Keokuk, Iowa, have decided lo O.IVB AWAY a beautiful present with sack package ef starch sold. These present* an in Ihe form oi Beautiful Pastel Pictures Thejr are ���)��� ie Inches Id site, and are entitled at feUowtt Lilacs and Panslea. Panties ���and Marguerites. These rare pictures, Wild American Popple* Lilacs and Irla. renowned Mitel artist, number, by tbe LeRoy, of Hew York, have been chosen from the very chofceM eubjeota In his studio and are now offered for tbe first time to tbe public The pictures are accurately reproduced in all the colors ased Is the origin.Is, and are pronounced by competent critics, works of art. Pastel pictures are the correct thing for the home, nothing them in beauty, richness of color and artistic merit One of these pictures will be given away with each package of __ _ _ Eurchased of your grocer. It is the best laundry starch em the market, sad i sold for io cents a package, beautiful picture. ���UHOcmsKrEuinotntcs. ncctmiomnmm Elastic Starch s the best laundry starch em the market, sad Ask yoar grocer for this Marc* and get ��� �����������<�����������! MSMMSMM LIME, BRICK, AND POTTERY. Send us your order for Pressed Brick, Common Brick, Lime, Pottery, Plaster, Hair, Cement, or anything in the building line, and it will be attended to promptly. Washington Brick, Lime and Mfg Co., SPOKANE, WASH. I "bushed Every Saturday at Kaslo. B. C. By The News Pub. Co. Subscription. $2 por year.���Advertising rates made known on application. 1S<>8. jk U 12 13 14 15 F|S k 2 3f 1 1W ^10 f 1027Jt T-l-i SEPTEMBER, $ S 1M|T|W|T| 7 f & 18 19 2021 22\ ���..*, ; SABHAT1S.M. The Kootenaian oi last week ban an in tide on the subject "Sunday in Canada." It derides therein in a very llippant manner the old fashioned Sabbath that obtains on this side of the line. It states in a very siipertieial manner what Science has to say in tho matter and closes with a list of triumphal events that took place on Sun- il.iy during tbe late war, after a well directed sneer at religion and evory- : liiiij; connected with it. While we may not agree with the extreme views held by the Lord's Day Alliance, us between these extreme nl,'lis, pf how tho Sabbath should be kept, and those entertained by our contemporary���whtoh, no doubt, hml a lit ti itn illustration in a Sunday in San Ki'aneisco~-we prefer the former. We have no desire to emerge on to that plane where the devotees of Science Spend their lime levelling' to the ground the traditions handed down through ages and faiths that have beautified anil ennobled myriads of human souls: ami while at all times ready to chop away the mouldering branch of dogma and ritual, we spare ihe axe at the tree of faith,for its roots have struck deep into the hearts of men uml will endure so long as thc human heart 1ms sorrows and woes. Ve therefore suy that we do not H 71i to sec the importation into Cun- ada of any of the an ti-Sabbath ideas that W'e rampant in tlie .Stales. No nne who has witnessed am! compared the happy-go-lucky and ami-spiritual methods of passing the Lord's Day in Franco and in the United States (mure "particularly in the west), with the holy calm uf a Sunday in Canada in- England can b;|t admit, that whether Suuday be the sovoiUh day; whoi.her it was ever dedicated as a day for spiritual meditation; or whether it has even a i-liion d'etre, a nation that trains its ���liilili'eti Ui devote evil so small it part id llfo to the higher planes of thought li travelling along that narrow path to which tl>p teachers of old huve never failed tO direct. History from tho dawn of historic man records the rise and full of grand civilisations that having attained the apex of their material grandeur have waned and finally died, and it will be found that their ^downfall was the result of thc abandonment of those landmarks of spiritual guidance that havo and ever will be as boacon lights to man timid the material qulchsaudl of 'this terrestrial life. Therefore we say, that wilh a rampant materialism on all sides, let us hold fust to tbat which te our forefathers seemed good, and which many an indifferent one recalls as a memory of early childhood; namely, the traditional day of rest and contemplation, not of necessity within the sanctuary, but yvherever it may seem meet, and that the rising generation may be trained along those lines of thought best calculated to preserve that aspiration after guidance from the Light that never fails, "Lord of Hosts be with us yet, Lest we forget! Lest we forget!'' THB KAILWAY SITUATION. Indications point to an early realization of tho Mieawber-likc attitude of expectancy which has prevailed among tho people of Kaslo for some time past in this direction. The news we published in our last issue about thc Kootenay Railway and Navigation Co. seems to be confirmed, The share list for tho ��480,000 preference stock was to have closed August 12th, so we may expect to hear at a very early date thai, the company financially is well under way. With this commencement, will doubtless come that of letting tho contract for the Nelson & Bedlington branch aud such further developments in connection with the proposed Kaslo-Spokaue route. Thore being the usual halo of mystery surrounding the whole business at headquarters, wo shall doubtless not hoar of what is actually contemplated until it is well In hand. Regarding the Kaslo & Slocan, the rumor that it will be extended to New Denver has been revived. The idea is feasible and businesslike, and the fact of having access to Slocan lake wlll give the local company a largo territory to draw on for freight and a good share of it,will, of necessity, come this way. A spur up the South Fork will, no doubt, be built noxt year. Coming to the old giant, tho C.P.R., wo have of course the early completion of tiie Crow's Nest Pass Uy. to tlie foot of the lake in October and the subsequent building to Nolson, when we may expect a better passenger service to the east and coast than now obtains. The extension of the Nakusp and Sandon branch to Whitewater is still openly spoken of, and quite within the early possibilities. In fact it is hardly possible that tlie company will stop there but come right into Kaslo, in Whloh case direct travel over the Crow's Nest for the main line would pass through Kaslo, and place the city in a more prominent position. Matters in tho Lardo-Duncan district are still in an embryonic state. It is said that tho K. R. i N.C'o. are seeking to get Into thu Trout laku and Lardeau district!. The output of these coupled with tho Lardo and Duncan would seem to justify oarly construction. The (.'. P, 11. plan in this direction calls for a line from Ai't'owheod to Trout lako and down the Lardo to Kootenay lako, thus completing the Kootonay railway routes us ut present mapped out. There are other possibilities, such as a line from Pilot Bay to Fort Steele, and another from the main Hue to tap the White Grouse district, but these are contingent, it wlll seem therefore that with theso above lines becoming factors in the transportation problem of West Kootenay, ICui-lo wiil bo immensely benefitted anil everything possible should bo done by the Board of Trade to seo that the city obtains proper recognition as a prom- Ineut point in the West Kootenay district. '���'��� '���"""- .EDITORIAL COMMENT, f !_���*$ $-$��� $$_-$ $%tfy $ # $4 Tho Kaslo News has changed hands and ls now published by the News Publishing Company, of that city. In connection with the general announcements made, it states that do far aa matters politically arc concerned, it will give Its support to the "great Liberal Conservative party." '"Possibly our contemporary will enlighten us as to what constitutes thc Liberal Conservative party."-���World, Vancouver. We were under the impression that the present Opposition constituted the Liberal Conservative party and inasmuch as we referred to the policy bequeathed bv the late Sir John A. Macdonald, we to ink we made ourselves quite cleat' in the matter. We notice that a grand convention of tho"Liberal Conservative party "Is to be hold in Vancouver Sept. 1st and l!nd and that Mr. Foster, in his spooeh at Calgary said "all this country knew just where the 'Liberal Conservative party1 stood, they knew that the 'Liberal Conservative party' were for the National Policy." We fear that thc late election and tho advent of The Province has been too much strain on our contemporary. Wo advise a rost. It Is a pity that no effort was mado by the Liberal Conservatives in the city to Induce tho Hon. G. K. Foster to pay us a visit when he was in Nelson a short time ago. A similar mistake was made when the Governor- General and Lady Aberdeen were in tho district, although an invitation was tardily sent to them at Vornon. Kaslo would havo been benefitted if thoy had come here. An apathetic indifference to these civilities seems to have settled on the people and thore is danger of dry rot setting In when this happens. "The tondoncy of civilization is away from tho geological blunders of the ancient Hebrews."���-Kootenaian. The blunders are not with the people of the past, they knew far more than thoy have been credited with. They are with the present age, whieh has not yet learned that all sacred writings wero written esotericully, the literal in many cases boing mere nonsense. The Czar's recent appeal for an international conference of the powers on the question of disarmament, practically moans that tliere will bo no war between Kngland and Russia���at least for the present. There can bono question but that Queen Victoria is opposed to vvar and more particularly with Russia, the Czarina being, it is stated, her favorite grand daughter, and whatever may be said to the contrary thesS personal Influences carry enormous weight in diplomatic circles. Tho Turner-Molndm affair has been good material for tne coast papers. Ordinary mortals will be thankful that it is all ovor. The whole business does not add lustre to Mr. Turner's name and it is a pity that bis desire to retain office helped him to make such an exposure of his methods o( "fixing things generally.'* We want no more of this one man having control of public funds voted for public works. In many cases tho man in questios, not even boing a gov- ernment official, as Instanced in the Crawford Crock .appropriation, which the gi.ntleman from'Dulfour saw lit to spend on Hokor Creek whore lie has Interests. General Kechner's forces consisting of 10,000 British troops and 15,000 Egyptian blacks, all perfectly equipped now, 23 miles* from Khartoum, on Ihe Upper Nile, expect to moot the Khalifa with 100,000 well equipped warriors, and a bottle is imminent. Engineer Gray, of the K. & S. Ry., returned from tho Duncan on the Alexander launch Monday night. R. T. Lowery, the genialedltor of the New Denver Ledge, passed through town Monday on his way to Nelson. Mrs. Atkins, of Revelstoke, spent several days in Kaslo during this and last week, the guest of Mrs. John Keen. Gen. J. M. Ashton and W. H. .Hay- don of Tacoma were In the city Tuesday and went to Ainsworth to look after some mining properties there, J. D. Sword, of Rossland, representing tho Jas.Cooper Manufacturing Co., of Montreal, makers of tbe Ingersoll, Sergeant Drill, came down from Sun- don Sunday. Ice cream served free with all orders from 5 to 8 p m. daily at the Queen. * Sam Schwander will give a gold ring, worth $-0 to any one who can product, a watch that he cannot put in perfect order. He can be found at the Ksislo Drug store. Call and see him. _- * CHANGES IN MINIMI LAWS. The following changes in the British Columbia mining laws should be carefully studied by those interested in mining In this Province: / First of these refers to the location of fractions. In all fractions surveyed from now on, Whether staked correctly or not, the surveyor may adopt the boundary lines of the surrounding claims, provided no side exceeds l"i00 feet in length. In other words, the locator is entitled to tho vacant ground that ho claims, even If he does not stake it it, such a manner as to include it all, whit li ho seldom does. By a recent decision of the courts a prospector loot a claim because of inability to secure tho post necessary to murk* the location. Thc amendment provides that in cases where claims are slaked above the timber line, or thc prospector can not secure tho noces- sary posts, he may erect monuments of earth or stone. In staking an extension the posts arc often planted so as to form a wodge- shapo fraction between two ends of the two claims, 'these fractions have often incurred great expense, not only in recording and surveying, but in cases where they carry the load, and thus be- oome of such value as to promote litigation. Tho amended act authorizes tlie surveyor to include.sueh fraction, provided It does not cover more than ol.(ii) acres, the area of a full claim, and provided further that two location posts are together. By falluro to record assessment work within thu required period of one year, either thrnugh'oversight or the nii��- underBtandlng of partnership interests, valuable claims have been lost. Now, if a prospector fails to record the work within a year, he has BO days' additional time in wliich to make the record by payment of an extra $10, provided that tho work.is done within the year. Another change regarding tho assessment work is in that particular whloh called for work to tho amount of 1100 each years Now, a miner can do and record as many assessments as he pleases in a year by paying the recording fee lor each assessment dono to the extent, of $100. ln ease anybody should adverse an application for a certificate of improvement and crown grant, the contestant must have his claim surveyed immediately and file a plan made and signed by an authorized provincial lund surveyor with tho writ. To obtain a crown grant in lSllii it was uecessary to do assessment work to the amount of 1500 and to havo the i lim surveyed. Which meant another! 18100. In 1WI7 the act was amended so as to provide Hint upjo May 1, !8D8,the cost of such survey should count, as work done on tbe claim, not to exceed $100. In plain English, it counted as an assessment and as work toward the crown grant. A survey generally costs $100. The last legislature extends tbo lime to .May 1, 1890. Hereafter, in advorse proceedings in j connection with the title to mineral \ lalms, before any court, each party to the proceedings shall give affirmative videuce of title. Heretofore the burd- j en of proof was on the contestant. Tho feo for recording assessment work has been reduced from $2.75 to ; $2.50. Heretofore tho feo for recording assessments has been 25 cents higher than other fees. Anybody who pulls down a legal post | oi-cctcd to mark a boundary or location of a mineral claim, or any writing by law requirod to bo thereon, is liable to imprisonment for six months or a lino of $250, or both. This is supposed to be directed particularly townrd pre-! venting the use of old posts by people who restako a claim and sometimes destroy evidences of a prior location. HOTELS AND UBSTAl'RARTS. Milwaukee Beer Hall Keeps a largo stock of fine Cigars and Liquors, Lager Beer Always Cold and sold by the Schooner or Quart. Good rooms by tlie Day or woek. i)|i|iiissiii. tho Steamboat I.:iiiilln_ Central Hotel, FRONT ST., KASLO, B.C. Now Building. -Newly Furnished Tliro.ifil.ni. Best Rooms in the Citv. A FIRST CLASS I1AR IN CONNECTION. m RKl'TKR A CO, ' Nelson House, KASLO, B.C. NELSON it BOSTRUM. PROPRIETORS. Nicely furnished ronniK. llnr well stocked. Spn- kancKcer nn Draught by Schooner or quart Beid free lunch In the citv. SILLER KING HOTEL, OTTO .U'tirsTlNE, PROPRIETOR. Bar and Billiard Room IN CONNECTION. Roomstteux flyerweekup, Newlv furnished throughout. Electric Lights. Front St., next dnor lo Pott Oftlee, Knslo, II. ('. Kalama Hotel, Kl'SKONOOK. BRITISH COLUMBIA. Otherwise Armstrong's Landing and lioat River Landing. Mrs. Wm. Middleton, Propr. We cater especially to the traveling public. Atlantic Steamship Tickets. To and from European points via Canadian and American lines. Apply for sailin": dates, rates, tickets and all information to any C. P. H. Ky. agent, or ALDER Biship, C.P.U. Agt.,Kaslo. WsM. ST1TT, Gen. S.S. Agt., Winnipeg. IN A' ��� 1 WORLD TRIP .1 THIS.... !Vi Advices from Victoria Kept. 1st state that tbo writs for tho bytfcoleotions of the members composing the cabinet have boen issuod, returnable Oct. loth. Thc ministers are Messrs. Cotton, ,!os. Martin, Hume and Semlin. Dr. McKechnie does not need re-election on account oi his position >'eing nominal. Notice of institution Co-I'inrtiiemlilp. Nelson, B. C, July 1, 1893. The undersigned partnership heretofore existing between J, A, Turner of Nelson, B. C, merchant, and W. J. Macdonald of Whitewater, B. C, merchant, doing business ns general merchants at Whitewater, B.C., under tho firm name of W. J. Macdouald & Co., bus this day beon dissolved by mutual consent. All liabilities against the :iaid lirm of W.J.Macdonald & Co., will be .paid by W. J. Macdonald, and all debts owing to the said lirm arc to be paid to him. (signod) Jno. A. Turner. (Signed) W. J. Macdonald. Witness: W. A. Jowett. Beta ten Duluth and Buffalo via the magnificent passenger steamships "North West'W "North Land," Touching on route: "THE SOO,'' Mackinac Islands, Detroit and Cleveland. COnecting at Buffalo for New York and Boston. Also at lake point* for all Points East and Soutli. To dailv Great Northern trains (Eastern Hallway of Minnesota), from St. Paul and Minneapolis connect with steamers at Duluth. Before deciding on your route to tho East call on agents Great Northern Hallway, or write F.LWB1M.G.P.IT.A, St. Paul. (Handsomely illustrated descriptive matter sent on requoBt.) The City of Kaslo. Is1 ' 1 The City of Kaslo is situatod nt the mouth of Kaslo creek on Kootenay lake, 42 miles from Nelson and 140 miles due north from Bonner's Ferry. Population, 2,000. The Knslo & Slocan Hallway runs from bore to Sandcn (30 miles); O. P. K. steamers run to Nelson, Pilot Bay, Ainsworth and Kuskonook, also Argenta and Lardo; International Navigation & Trading Co.'s steamers to Nelson and Bonner** Ferry. The city is picturesquely situated on a u bay of tho lake; has churches of nil denominations and a large public sehoool; well graded streets; tirst elass hotels: saw mill: ore sampler; electric light and a good supply of water. The climate will compare favorably with any pan of the Pacific coast. Can be reached by C. P. It., via Revelstoko; ihe Spokane Falls & Northern, via Spokane or the Grent Northern, via Bonner's Ferry. With the completion of the Crow's Nest Pass Hy. to Kootonay lake it will give the district an outlet via Macleod and Le7_j>ridge in the Northwest Territories. Kaslo is the commercial centre of the Whitewater, South Fork, Woodbury creek, Ainsworth, Campbell creek, Lardo and Duncan miniug camps. Information regarding the district will he cheerfully supplied on application to the Kaslo Board of Trade. DOMINION DIRECTORY. (lovernor-tieneral . . Earl of Aberdeen Premier .... Sir Wilfrid Laurier Member House of Commons, Dominion Parliament, for West Kootenay . Hewitt Bostoek PROVINCIAL DIRECTORY. J.le.it.-Governor . Hon. '1*. R, Mclnnes Premier .... Hon..I. II. Turner Attorney-General . Hon. I). M. Kberts Com. ol Lands anil Works . Hon. G. B.Martin Minister Mines nml Education . llon.Jas.Huker President Executive Council . llun.C.E.Pooley Provincial Mineralogist Members Legislative Assembly for West Kootenay���North Riding .... J. M. Kellie South Riding J. E. Hume KASLO OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Mayor Chas.W. U.Ann Aldermen���A.W. Goodenough, F.E. Areher.J. D. Moore, G. Hartin, D. W. Moore, Geo. Whileslde. City Clerk .... E. B. Chipman Police Magistrate . . . Alex Lucas City Marshal M. V. Adams Assistant W. A. Mllnc Auditor CD. McKenzie Treasurer 8. H. Green Assessor 8. P. Tuck Water Commissioner : . . R. A. Cockle Health Officer ... Dr. J. F. B. Rogers City council meets every Wednesday 4 p. in.at hall, 4tl*. st., between Front st. and A ave. VOLUNTEER F1RF DEPARTMENT. Hugh P. Fletcher Geo. Held . John Gillis Geo. Whiteside Archie Morris Gus Adams '.Mitcf .... First Deputy Chief Second Deputy Chief. Third Deputy Chief Secretary Treasurer DLSTKH IT DIRECTORY. Mining Recorder-Assessor-Tax Ool. ��� Jno.Keen Collector ot Customs . J. F Mcintosh School Trustees -August Carney, .1. D. Moore, 0,0. Buchanan. Principal-Prof. Jas. Hislop. KASl.O l'OSTOFFICE. General delivery open daily (Sundays excepted) Irom 8 a. m. until 7 p. m. Lobby open Irom 7 a. in. loll.SO p. m. Malls for despatch close every evening exeepl Siiturduv and Sunday, nt 9 p, m. Mails arrive trom i'nlted States and lake points dally exoept Sunday, atV.S0p.in. From c. p. H. anil Slocan points, arrive dally, exeept Sunday, at i p. ra. Registration office open,8.50 a. in., Ci.HO p. in. Money order office and Post- oflice Savings Bank open Ha. m. to 5 p. ni. S. II. GREEN, Postmaster. FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS. MASONS Kaslo Lodge No. 'li\ A. V. A A. M��� meets llrst Monday lu every month at Masonic hall over Green Bros', store. Visiting brothers Invited to attend. 11. Byers, W. M. !���:. F. Chipman, Secretary. MABON1C CHAPTER -Kootenay Chapter. K.A. M holds regular convocations on the second Tuesday ol ciicli month In Masonic hull,Kaslo Visiting companions are cordially Invited. rims. Truiiihull.SerilK! E. E. E. Chlpnian. /.. AICABEES -Slocan 'lent No. li, Knights ol the Maccabees, meets second and lourlti Mondays of each month at Livingston's hall,Knslo Visiting Knights cordially Invited. \V. A. Davies, Commander, ilolph Johnson, Keeper ol Records. FORESTERS- Court Kaslo No. N87. ludepciid- eni tinier of Foresters. Meets llh Friday ol each month tn Victoria house. Visiting brethren aro cordially Invited. W. B. Strathern, Chlel Ranger. \V. I. Hall, Rocordlng Secretary, CHURCH DIRECTORY. METHODIST CHURCH-Cor. C andfith si. Divine services every Sunday 11 a. in. ami 7.80 p. in. Sunday school2.no. Strangers welcome. Rev. J. A. Wood, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH���Cor. 4th st. and 11 ave. Services every Sunday 11 a. m. and 7.S0 p. in. sundav school and Blbla class,2.H0 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings o'clock. l-'n-i*' seats. Strangers heartily welcome. Rev. A.H. Menzies, Minister CHURCH OF ENGLAND���Southweit cor. of C ave and r>th st. Services every Sunday nt 11 a. in. and 7.30 p. m. All aro cotdlally invited. Rev, David Richards, Mlsslotier ln Charge CATHOLIC CHURCH���Corner C avenue and (Ith st. No regular pastor at present. Occasional services by special announcement. I) PROFESSIONAL CARDS. R.J. f. B. ROGERS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate Trinity 1'nlverslly, Toronto, Ont Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons. Licentiate of the B. C. Council. Late of New York Hospitals and Polyclinic. Office on A av. Hospital cor. 5th st. and B ave, Kaslo,B.C. RAILROADS AND STEAMBOATS. ^)R. A. S. MARSHALL, DENTIST. Graduate of American College.Chicago KASLO, B. c MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. fT-OOTENAY STEAM LAUNDRY White Labor. Improved Machinery. ��� The Best Work at Reasonable Prices. Kaslo, B. C. W. J. Twiss, INSURANCE "Ire, Life, Accident and Guarantee. Front St. K*8U>. B. C. / Shortest and quickest route to the | Coeur d'Alene mines, Palouse, Lewis- ' ton, Walla Walla, Baker City mines, Portland, San Francisco, CrippluCreek gold mines and all points east and south. Only line east via Salt Lake and Denver. Steamer tickets to Europe and other foreign countries. Sailing datos of steamers from Portland to San Francisco for September will be: Sept. 1, 6, 11, JO, 21, 28. Alaska steamer--Sept. 17. Snake river���Leave Ripariadaily exeept Saturday. Leave Lewiston daily except Friday. Leave | Spokane Time Schedule ! Arrive "5Sb"~TFisf'HXit-'v'>l>aWalla, Port- p.m. land, San Francisco, Baker City daily. I and the East. 8.00* | LOCAL MAIL incur d'Alenes, a.m. Farmington, Garfield, Colfax, dally. I Pullman and Moscow. For through tickets nnd further Information, apply to JAMES WAUGH, Agt I. N. & T. Co., Kaslo, B. C. Or at O. R. & N. Co.'s olliee, 430 Riverside ave., pokane, Wash. H. M. ADAMS, General Agt. Or Vi. H. HULBUKT, G. P. A., Piirtliiud.Ore. dally. p. in. dniiy EAST- GIIF.AT HOBT II B II N KAIL WAY -WEST I J. Turner & Co.,| Postofflce Box 29. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN \\ HAY, I OATS, _ BRAN, CHOP, AND FRUITS. Agents for MARSHALL'S TEAS. Importers of CIGARS and TOBACCOS. Mail orders promptly filled. The surveyor's chain made it thc Short ret Transcontinental Route. It is the most modern in equipment. His the heaviest called line. I has a rock-hallust roadbed. It crosses no sand deserts. It was built Without lund grant or govt. aid. It is noted for the courtesy ol Its employes. It is only line serving meals on la carte plan. Kootenay connection at llonner's Ferry .Tuesday, Wednesday .Thursday, Saturday andSnndiiy Front St., - near News Office, Kaslo, B.C TBAVKLER'S GUIDE. Summary of Hallway anil Steamer Time Curd* From Kaslo. For Whitewater, Sandon, Cody, etc., K. A. S, Railway trains leave Kaslo daily at 8 a. m.-, returning, arrive at Kaslo at It.50 p. m. For Three Forks, New Denver, Rosebery and Nnkusp, take K. A S. Ry. from Kaslo to Sandon, and thence Nakusp A Slocan Railway, leaving Sainton dally at 7.15 a. in.; returning, arrive dally at Sandon at 4.55 p. m. For Revelstoke, Vancouver, Victoria and other main line points on C. P. R., boat from Nakusp to Arrowhead, cars to Revelstoke, thence connect with east and west bound trains. For Silverton, Slocan City, take str. Sloean on slocan lake.eonneetiiig with N.s& 8.at Rosebery. For Northport, Spokane, Rossland and Grand Forks, take the Str. International from Kaslo dailv at 8.80 ii. in., except Sundav, making connections at Five Mile Point with the N.&. F.S. Ry.. tlience to Northport. From Northport to Spokane continue the railway, known south ol Northport as the Spokane Falls A Northern, arriving at Spokane, Wash., at 3.10 p. m. Or for Spokane, take 1. N. A T. Co.'s Str. Alberta Irom Kaslo to Bonner's Ferry, Tuesdays and Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Thursdays at 6 a. in. j and connect at Bonner's Ferry with Greal Northern trains to Spokane, arriving at 3.10 the following day. For Rossland ohange at Northport lo the Red Mountain Ry., ariiviugal Rossland at 11.20a.m. Or, Rossland may lie reached from Nelson via C. A K. Rv. to Robson. thenee by river steamer to Trail, thence by C. A Vi. Ry. to Rossland. Or, Rossland may be reached via Nakusp nml Trail by strms.down Arrow lakes and Columbia river. For Grand Forks and Boundary Creek points, take S. F. A N. Hy. Irom Norlliport to Bossburg or Marcus, thenee by stage across reservation. For Alnswortli, Pilot Buy, Nelson, ele., I. N.si T.Co.'s Str, International leaves Kaslo dally,except Sunday, at 11.20 u.in., reluming,leaves Nelson at 5 p. in., arriving at Kuslo about S.30 p. m, C. P. H. Co.'s Str. Kokanee leaves Kaslo dally, except Sunday, at 7.TU1 a. in., arriving at Nelson at 11 a. in.-, returning, leaves Nelson at I p. in., arriving at Kaslo at 7.mi p. m. For Argenta and Lardo, str. Kokunee makes round trips every Tuesday and Friday, leaving Kaslo at S. 16 p.m. For Kuskonook, Ft. Steele etc., take Sir. Kokanee Monday,Wednesday and Friday al 7.30 a. in., or I. N. A T. Co.'s Sir. Alberta Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5 p. m.j thence by stage lo Fort Steele Wednesday and Saturday. TRAINS LEAVE SPOKANE. j Eastward .... 8.50 a. m | Westward 3.3.5 p.m. [ For maps, tickets ami complete Information, call on or address I.N.& T. Co.'s agts, K. A S. Ry. agts, or C. G. DIXON, Hen. Agt., Spokane,Wn. F. I.WHITNEY. G.P.ikT. A., St. Paul, Minn THE ��� aclftc Rv. -AND��� Soo Pacific Line. The cheapest, most comfortable and direct route from Kaslo To all Eastern And, Kuropean points. To Pacific Coast and Trans-Pacitic points. To Klondike and Yukon Goldlields. Tourist Cars Pass Revelstoke; Daily to St. Paul; Daily (except, Wednesday) to Eastern points. Magnificent sleepers and dining oars on all train*;. Travel by this line and have baggage checked to destination. Daily connection from Kaslo (excepting Sunday) at 7.30 a. m. KOOTKNAY KLVEH ROUTE. STR. NELSON. Lv. (Mondays and Fridays) Ar. 7:00 u. in Nelson 8:00 p.m. Lv. (Tups., Wed., Tlmi'.. Sat.) Ar. 7:00 a.tn Nelson 10.80 p.m. Outward connection Pilot Bay with Sir. Kokanee, but inward such connection made Mondays and Fridays only. Steamer calls at Way Porta in both directions when signalled. For Argenta and Lardo, Tuesday and Friday at 8.15 p. ni. Ascertain present ^educed rates snd full Information by addressing nearest local agent otv Al.ll'.ls BISHOP, Agent, Kaslo, 11,1 . Vi. F ANDERSON, Traveling Paw. Age. Nelson, ll. 0, g J COYLE, District Passenger .\geiil. Vancouver. The following is a tabic of distances from luii-lo to surrounding business points West or North. Miles Whitewater 17 Bear Lake 20 McGulgan 28 Sandon, 8 hours��� 29 Cody 81 Three Forks 83 NewDenver 88 Hosebery 41 Sllverlm. 48 Slocancity 66 Nakusp 70 Burton City 05 Lardo 18 Argenta 20 Duncan City 84 HalcyonHotSprlngs 85 Airowhead 106 Laurie 109 Thompson's Land'g.US Trout Lake City...126 Ferguson 130 Revelstoke, 31 hrs.. 188 Vernon...., 228 Penticton 298 Kamloops 2S1 Asheroft 808 Lytton 866 Yale 409 New Westminster. .503 Vancouver, 51 hrs. .612 Victoria, 59 houas. .596 Seattle, 28 hours .. .580 Tacoma, ao hours. .620 Portland, 48 hours. .6*2 East or South. Miles. Ainsworth 12 Pilot Bay 20 Balfour 2S Sanca 88 Nelson, 1 hours 42 Ymir 60 Robson 70 Trail 90 Northport, 7 hours.103 Rossland '.0 hours. .107 Bossburg 122 Marcus 130 Grand Forks 180 Greenwood 192 Aniiciui in 196 Boundary 200 Midway 204 Spokane, 13 hours . .282 Kuskonook 46 Goat River 65 Bec.lington(Rykerts)77 Port Hill 78 ' Lucas 108 Bonner's Ferry. 18 hl40 Moyle City 128 Swansea 185 Wardner. B.C 140 Cranbrook 150 Fort Steele 100 Canal Flats 190 Windermere 210 Donald 212 Golden 280 Banff 814 Northern Pacific Hy. The Fast Line, Superior Service. Through tickets to all points in Unitod Statos and Canada. Direct Connection svlth thc Spokano Falls & Northern Ry. TRAINS DEPART FROM SPOKANE: No. 1 West 3:85 p.m. I No.2F.ast 7:00 a.m. Tickets to apan and China via Tacoma and Northe. 'Pacific Steamship Com-, pany. For i-.formation, time cards, maps and tickets, apply to agts. of the Spokane Falls Northern and its connections, or to F. D. GIBBS, Oanor 1 Agent, Spokane Wash, D. A. CHARLTON, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., No. 255 Morrison st.. Portlands Ore. Write for Map of Kootenay Country. Ho, Fisherm en, Will supply you with Everthing Needful at Low prices, Steel rods, Jointed or Telescoped; Hooks, t /M Baits and Flics; Silk lines, enamelled and waterproof- Landing Nets, Reels and ah Kinds of Repairs, dl full line of Hammocks and all-kinds of Sporting Goods. In the Grocery Department, a tine line of Fancy Groceries will soon arrive. Try our Klondike Deviled Crabs, now here. In the Clothing Department, try our celebrated lighter weights of Health Underwear for warmer weather. H. GIBGBRICH, Kaslo, Sandon, Aina worth E. Mallette & Co., Wholesale Dealers in Presh Fruits and Vegetables, -ALSO- Hay, Feed and Produce. We ship direct from California and arc prepared to quote the lowest market prices on all kinds of fruits in season. Baker Street Nelson, 15, C, For the Jobbiii��>: Trade! Just tjeceived, a Large Invoice ol Cigars, Including KEY e**\ ^W WEST, SYLVIA. OLYMPIA, CORONA, DEL KEY, ESs "- ���"'' ' St PANOLA, TRIUMPO, MONOPOLE AND SWELL I This is in addition to my already well established GROCERY TRADE. JL A. HICKKltS. THE KASLO GROCERY, *^"���u**���T^^r\^Am& ���Stocks and Dies Screw Plates General Hardware ! Paints, Oils, Garden Tools. H. BYBRS,���*00' Kasl0' Sandon. R. BURNS & CO., KASLO MARKET.. All Kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats.. FISH m POULTRY IN SEASON I UNITED MEETING IN SPOKANE. make a gay and patriotic scene. The couver; DeWitt ('. Brltt, The Leader, Che- merchant will send in his bill for that. Ian; J. L. Holland, Olympia; T. G. Nick- The cariM*nter-i must be paid for putting ilin, Seattle; F. '/.. Alexander, Free Press, I II iiiisIi-s-iIn of EilitorM From Wiisli- Intfton and o,-,-��i,ii AssssiMiilils- for tt Profitable uml Hlljo) ulils- llut- lun ���1-; liter lis Itims-iitss, IteeeptloikM, 1'vs-iirsioiiM, ii.-s \\ ell un SeriouN up the platform, and the teamster for hauling water to the grounds. "Now," will say the committee with an air of satisfaction with its labors, "it*-* all arranged but the crowd. The local paper must boom our glorious celebration, and that will bring the crowd." Cheney; F. F. Hopkins, Tacoma; George 1'. Jacobs, News, Tacoma j B. M. Price,Cap- ital, Olympia; James E. Risedorph, White Kiver Journal, Kent; J. M. Taylor, Pacific Mason, Seattle: T.J. Bel), News-Herald, Tacoma; A. II. Stulfauth, Capital, Kllensburg; C. If. Goddard and George Then this enterprising committee,which IB. Baker, Courier-Press, Dayton; J. Han is usually made up of business men who' nitin Jones, Reporter, Nooksaek; Mrs. Disi-imiiiii. ni inirrrm in ilu- I'm- "'" profit from the crowd gathered to jKlla Higginson, Reveille, New Whatcom; fess,I,ni���Election <>' otllcern. share in the celebration, calls on the C. 0. Void, American Forester, Seattle; I struggling editor and publisher to use his George Primer, Journal, Blaine; W. L. types and presses, his paper and ink, and Wheeler, Port Orchard; D. K.. Proud, pay his printer and pressman to boom .Olympia; C. L. Marsh, Times, Arlington; the celebration for the good of the town. | Al. Ricardo, Statesman, Walla Walla; K. lt seems not to occur to it that he is L. Wheeler, Times, Waitsburg; R. N. subject to all the multifarious items of Kernigham, Banner, Buckley; S. L. Alex- expense whieh enter into other lines of ander, Free Press, Cheney; A. J. Morrow, business; that helms his capital invested, -fail, La Conner: James Vernon, Times, The Washington and Oregon State Press Associations united in holding their un- nual conventions in Spokune last week. There were iu the city more than 200 visiting editors and publishers, and as many of them were accompanied by member- uf their families, the total attendance was nearly 400. in the absence of President Sooiiey of the Washington Association, First Vice President Brant of Vancouver presided. President George B. Small of linker City presided at the meeting of the Oregon Association. The Ore- resources to booming the town and "dium is giving his labor to his chosen calling, and therefore ought to be puid for every service performed for others and the town. He is expected to provide his income in some mysterious way, put in a large part Everett; A. E. Partridge, Seattle: Edgar B. Piper and Will A. Steele, Post-Intelligencer, Seattle; 0. B. Fuller, Advance, Wenatchee; A. T. Ambrose, Argus, Seattle; E. II. Thomas, Republican, Blaine; gun association selected Astoria as the next place of meeting, and the Washington association will meet at Seattle next year. The associations were entertained by a musieale for the ladies, trolley ride and reception for all. At the reception in the Auditorium Thursday evening, Mayor Olmsted of Spokane welcomed the visitors, which was responded to by J. A. C. Brant of Vancouver, Wash., and D. M. C. Gault of llillsboro, Or. A. P. Tugwell of Tacoma delivered the oration aud a poem, written for tlie occasion by Mrs. Ella Higginson, was read. Historian Charles Prosch reported that in Washington nine new newspapers had been started during the year, and four had died. There are about '250 papers now published in Washington. Tlie i:\i-umliin, , Friday was occupied by an excursion on Coeur d'Alene lake and a sumptuous luncheon in a grove on Coeur d'Alene river. During the trip N. W. Durham, editor of the Spokesman-Review, made a telling address on "Popular Misconceptions About the Press," pointedly treating of questions whicli confronted every owner and publisher of a newspaper. He sa id: The public has a notion that the editor should know everything, but does not know anything. Every newspaper man knows much he is never given credit for knowing. Of chief importance in his art is tlie knack of knowing what not to print. If the newspapers of Spokane should publish some summer morning all the shocking facts and secrets they had gathered in a single day, there would be trouble the next morning on tlie raging Spokane. There would be heard what Bret Hart has styled the "petulant pop of the pistol." Another mistaken notion is tlint Horace Greeley was the only great American journalist; that since his forceful hand and great brain ceased to direct the New York Tribune, the newspaper Held has suffered irreparable loss. If you will take the pains tn lind nnd examine a copy of the New York Tribune of 30 years ago, you will be impressed with tlie vast advance made In the American daily newspaper since Greeley died. The New York Tribune of .'ill years ago would not stand up with daily papers printed now in cities of 50,000 population or less. The Tribune was loosely edited, poky in its news service, annoyingly opinionated, and lacked snap and enterprise. Horace was an able mail, and he was smart. lie knew when to die. Another popular delusion is that the newspaper worker has an easy and pleasing task: that, like the gilded youth of Athens, his only concern is to learn and tell the truth. 'This popular conception is a long cry from the truth. The work of writing for and editing the modern daily paper has ining" up business for tlie other business houses in the place. And if lie is not cheerful about it, tliere arc hints of a boycott, and a murmur for au opposition paper, and unless he yields to this pressure, perhaps some inexperienced person will be. tempted to come in and start a second paper iu a town which could not give decent support to one. For these unsatisfactory conditions the fraternity lias itself to blame. Vou can not change human nature. It is pretty much the same in every town. Free service from newspapers the public lias had so long that it has come to a belief that the town or the county has a proprietary interest in them. lt plays one paper against another, and too often rival editors or publishers lend themselves with eager spirit to the game, giving away much of their valuable space, cutting their subscription rates to a price whicli hardly meets the bare cost of white paper, and bidding down the public printing to rates whicli are preposterously low and ruinous. It is a part of our system of government that the people shall be udvised of the acts of their oiiieials. To that end the various states have made wise provision for the publication of certain matters of public interest. The compensation of his time, and devote a great deal of his G. E. Hartson, News-Herald, Mt. Vernon: A. W. Bower, Journal, Sultan; E. M. Day and E. S. Day. News, New Whatcom; A. B. Ernst and A. T. Winsor, Review, Seuttle; A. S. Van Olinda, Press, Stan- wood; Frank C. Teck, Blade, New Whatcom; E. G. Earle, Times. Coupeville; ,f. E. Whinncry. Chronicle, Centralia; Lloyd Du Bois, Independent, Vancouver; J. B. Leeds, Palladium, Olympia; A. P. Tug- well and Frank liaker, Sun, Tacoma; J. Hopp, Standard, Bridgeport; P. W. Ton- neson, Tueoma; A. Jl. Nicholson, Eagle, Eatonville; G. K. Coryell, Workman, Seattle; G. W. Blaiikenship, Olympia; W. E. Dickenson, Ranch and Range,; O. M. Moore, Times, Seatile; Mrs. L. C. P. Has- kins, Kettle Falls; Rufus R. Wood, Ledger, Medical Lake; 0. H. Loe, Standard, Fairfield; P. Mct'liing, Pomeroy; J. H. Ginder, Pioneer, Stevenson; S. D. Irish, New Whatcom; M. M. Bannister, News, Centralia; C. VV. Graham, Tribune, Snohomish; Charles 1*". Hailey, Herald, North Yakima; M. Freeman, Seattle; C. W. Herman, Uniontowii; Minnie Sargent and Hazel Sargent, Tribune, Pullman; A. II. Harris and J. S. Harris, Republic, Palouse; W. H. H. Kean, Tacoma; L. M. Wood, Seattle; James Odgers, News, Coulee City; C. M. Holton. North Yakima. Those 1-"rum Oregon, Tlie Oregon visitors who registered in- reasonable, and when the newspaper per forms the service contemplated by law, it ought to receive the compensation named by law; and would receive it'if editors and publishers would drop their rivalries and regard each other as brothers in a noble guild rather than as unyielding foes. If these gatherings of newspaper men of the northwest shall serve no other purpose than the ultimate abolishment of the ruinous practice of doing county and city printing for a tithe of thc just rates fixed by law, they wili be worth many times over all they have cost in time and effort. If the various papers represented here today could have, during the coining years, thai whicli the law allows them for honest service, the financial condition of those here today would be tremendously improved, und their noble calling take on new dignity and power. Frank Carleton Teck read pleasing verses of his own composition; Lovett M. Wood spoke in a humorous vein; C. W. (ioihiTlii recited a dialect selection and T. (!. Nicklin kept his hearers wideawake, discussing the Philippine question; the liberality of the Spokane Fruit Fair people under the direction of Manager Bolster, who enlivened the excursionists by his presence, was appreciated by tlie visitors, and the Washington Slate Band of Spokane added much to the enjoyment of the trip. I'.lcs-liuii of Otllrera. The Washington Association elected N. W. Durham of the Spokesman-Review, become a task of enormous" detail. Tho' president; 0. M. Moore, Seuttle Times, daily paper is put out under whip and first vice-president; J. Hannuin Jones, spur, and from one year's end to another Nooksuck Reporter, seeond vice-president: the whip is ever singing through the air: F. K. Baker, Tacomu Sun, third vice- and the spur is always in motion, In peace I president; Will A. Steele, Postlntelli- and in war, in summer and winter, ou genccr, secretary treasurer; Charles Sundays nnd holidays, the ilaily paper! Prosch, Seattle, historian; T. Q, Nicklin, must and does make ils appearance with ��� Whatcom, orator; Frank 0. Teck, What- nll but unflagging regularity of the sun. com llliulc, pud, ami the following ex- Train*, may run slow nnd jump their , eculivo committee; I.. M.Wood, chairman, Schedule entirely, the pastor may elOH Seattle Trade Register; Mrs. .Minnie Sarins Church, the lawyer leek his oflice and gent, Pullman Tribune; C. M. Slinltz, Tu- tj*0 Ashing, tin- judges lake their long sum- '���"ilia Ledger; T. J. Hell, Tacouia Herald; mer vacations, and the merchant may ���'������ Bt Day, People's Parly News, New close his store on Sundays and holiday*, j ^ hatcom. but the vast machine which prints our! Delegates and allernates to the national daily papers hulf of blood and half of | convention were also elected. is fixed by law. Usually it is fair and !elu*h* ������'? following: E.N. Blytlie, Glacier, Hood River; A, Noltner, Portland; Miss Nellie Toiler, Portland; A. N. Fisher, Advocate, Portland; A. E. Kern and Bert Bigelow, Nachrichten, Portland; Miss lt. Mieliell and Geo. C. Blakelcy, Chronicle, Tho Dalles; Laura Jones, Watchman, Drain; J. S. Stewart, Journal, Fossil; G. Sanford, News, St. Helens; D. M. Gault, Independent, Hillsboro; E. liofer, Capital Journal, Salem; J. B. Filhian, The Spigot, Portland; H. S. Turner, Dispatch, Dufur; 1). M. C. Gault, Independent, Hillsboro; Isaac Stern, American Hebrew News, Portland; William Davis, Commercial Review, Portland; P. J. Smiley, Democrat, Albany; Curl Roe, Wallowa Chieftain, Enterprise; G. B. Small, Democrat, Baker City; L. Veiliang, Baker City; Max M. Shi'llock, Portland; Dr. R. Chipman, Chronicle, La Grande; J. F. Stewart, Lender, Toledo; J. S. Dcllinger, News, Astoria; Miss 0. Mason, Tribune, Warren- ton; P. Pferdner, Stnatszeitung, Portland; S. C. Beach. Rural Spirit, Portland; George L. Peaslee, Pacific Drug Review, Portland: Arthur Conklin, Oregon Mining Journal, Grant's Pass; Fred C. Baker, Champion, Troutdala; J. <���'��� Oliver, The Bustler, Lebanon; J. A. Douthit, Times- Mountalneer, The Dalles. 'Those registered from British Columbia include W. ll. Fraser of Moyie City and 0. O'Brien Reddin of Rossland. There were a large number of visitors who did not register. The above list shows that of the 75 Washington editors present 26 brought their wives. Thirty-five Oregon editors registered and 15 of them brought their wives. Ti SI COMING HI.. SIXTY START FROM SANTIAGO. WASHINGTON AT OMAHA. Views of the Scenery of (he State Wanted for Exhibition. I The Transport It nu mini inn lurries. Sixty Men In un Extremely Serious, Condition���The Spanish Of- Jlcerx Looted Holiness After III Caney, Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 28.���The transport Roumanian wlll leave for Montauk Point tomorrow with 60 sick men of the Seventy-first New York, Second and Ninth Massachusetts, Second regulars and Sixteenth and Twenty-first regulars. The condition of the men ls extremely bad. Ambulances were found to be necessary to convey most of them to the steamer. Three transports will leave tomorrow for Guantanamo, Baraeoa and Sagua for the Spanish prisoners there. The condition of the men Is distressing.- The transport Knickerbocker arrived this morning with the Second battalion of the Fifth Infantry. The Second and Third battalions of Ray's Second regiment will leave tomorrow for Buracoa and Sagua, for garrison duty at those places. Geiuiml Toral and staff and a -cw other officers will leave next week on the Leon -till. Over 200 Santiago refugees arrived from Jamaica today and others are coming soon, now that peace Is restored. The Spanish hospital will be renovated and put Into shape for un American hospital. Its location Is excellent and lt has a capacity for 1000. 1'pon the arrival of a Spanish major recently lt was discovered by accident that he hail several trunks rilled with sll- \er Jewelry, valuable articles and money, evidently the result of looting the houses of residents during the confusion attending upon the Caney exodus. Large amounts of money were carried awny by Spanish officers. AGUINALDO WANTS REPUBLIC. \\ h��,!le> Hope* to Stay. Sun Francisco, Aug. 25.���According lo a report from Washington among the troops soon to be mustered out aro tho California battalion of artillery and the lirst Washington volunteers, now stationed here, and tho extra battalion of this regiment now in the state of Washington. Colonel Wholley, commanding this regiment., however, doubts the report. in the event that the Washingtonians are mustered out the New Yorkers now at the Presidio epect to do garrison duty at that [wst if they fail in their eHorts to join the balance of the regiment at Unlisted, and all of driving impulse--must | The following are tbe ollicers elected" oMu. ��� neve, .se ils grinding .notion. When the by the Oregon Association: President. D. Ueneral Merriam is exited back from morning paper is brought in before break- U <*ault of the Hillsboro Independent; Honolulu by September '25, and, accord- fast on these cool and fragrant auiniwr! "rut vice president, il. F. Stewart of the >ng to the prevailing opinion at thc army mornings, small heed the-reader takes of'Possil Journal; second vice-president, A. the little army that toiled through the j & Fisher of the Pacific Christian Advo nighttime, working in close rooms and.cate of Portland; secretary, A. N. Tozier straining nerve and eyesight beneath the of the Pacific Farmer, Portland; treasurer, electric light that the'world's news might I Fred T. Baker, Troutdale Champion; his- be gathered and weighed and sifted, writ- torian, A. Noltner, Weekly Dispatch, ten out in correct form for the printer | Portland; sergeant-at-arms, G. B. SniaP, and condensed so closely in clear-cut head- i Maker City Democrat. The following ex- lines that the hurried 'business man may jecutive committee was elected: J. S. Del- even read as be runs to catch his car. 'linger, Astoria News; Isaac Stern, lie- But the chief of all delusions is the brew News, Portland; J. H. Douthit, Thc almost settled conviction that the news- Dalles Mountaineer, paper owes something to the town whicli is not owed by other business enterprises. You nre struggling, all, against the crying injustice of that belief. A Fourth of July celebration, let us say. has been settled upon by the enterprising business men of the town. A band will be wanted to- provide the music. Its members will expect to be paid. Lumber will be needed for the platform and the seats. The committee will figure on that expense. Bunting will be required to Both press associations were more than pleased with the hospitality of Spokane, and the courtesies extended by the railroads, especially those of the Northern Pacific in giving the use of a special train to Coeur d'Alene and the steamer ride on the lake. Below is a complete list of the visitors from this state, as shown by the register at press headquarters: W tiKhliiKton Men. headquarters, the Philippine troops hero will be then mustered out and Ueneral Shatter return to take his former place at the head of the department of California, General Merriam returning to the department of the Columbia. Sn n Hiiro lliroi'H. New London, Conn., Aug. 29���The sound steamer Block Ialand arrived at her Blip In this city at about 9:30 o'clock Saturday morning from Montauk, bearing 350 members of the Second Massachusetts regiment from Camp Wlkoff. The men as a rule presented a sorry spectacle. Some Idea of their condition may bo had from the statement of one of them that In one company alone���Company B���but 13 men were able to walk from their tents to the boat. Accompanying the troops were 13 line officers out of 360 who left Massachusetts when the regiment started for tho front. J. A. C. Brant, The Columbian, Van women exclusively. The t'ity of Mexico has a prison for 'Will Shortly Aimenible a ('miiii of Lending Filipinos nt Manoloa. London, Aug. 29.���The Manila correspondent of the Times says: The situation, although undoubtedly unsatisfactory, remains unchanged nendlng B final settlement. Agulnuldo proposes to remove his headquarters Immediately to the town of Mnnolos, province of Bal- ncan, 20 miles north of Manila. There he will shortly assemble a congress chosen from the leading Filipinos who favor the Insurgent cause. He further Intends to send a representative to Paris to argue his claims for the establishment of nn Insurgent republic. Manolos Is au excellent strategic point, covering a rice and tobacco district, beside thc route to Blacna- bato, where the Spaniards were formerly obliged to make a treaty by which they purchased a suspension of hostilities. The movement was probably necessary, partly because Agulnaldo wus fast losing his influence in the province of Cavite, where the Insurgents evidently expected lo be permitted to occupy Manila conjointly wilh the Americans. Considerable dissatisfaction ls upparent among the Insurgent troops and a frank expression of opinion Is frequently heard that Agulnaldo ls again selling the cause. Hlota In Hainan Inland. New York, Aug. 2(i.���A special dispatch from Hong Kong says: A serious insurrection has broken out at Xiul.iu in tlie interior of Hainan island. The American missionaries and native converts have sought refuge in safe I territory. Ou August 14 the rebels fought the soldiers, who used the American Presbyterian property as defenses aud repelled the attack. Nadao is 00 miles from Hoisow, one of the richest valleys in thc island. Unless the revolt is speedily suppressed the insurgents will be probably reinforced by refugees from Kwang Si, where the. officials are coping with the recent rebellion. Should it not be suppressed there is an opportunity for French interference. The French are using vigorous measures to protect tho native Christians near Kwang Chow.Wan, nnd arc extending their influence in southern China, which at present is very disturbed. Seattle, Aug. 21).���Has anybody a few fine viewi of Washington that would look well in the background of this state's exhibit at Omnha? If so, either L. K. Armstrong or.N. Rudebcek would be glad to receive them. Mr. Rudebeck writes from Omaha to Secretary L. M. Wood of Seattle thus: "Now, as I have secured space for our Washington exhibit please make it your eirongoit effort to secure nie a large exhibit through our commissioners in the different counties over the state. Ask them to aid in making a grand display of Washington's resources. 1 feel good over my success in securing that elegant space for our exhibit. I am now looking up eases to put our samples in. "Thc space I have Becured is 10x32 feet, with wall space, wliich we can use as a background for the diiferent views I am now trying to secure from all parts of the state. I would request you to make a call, as secretary of the Washington state commission, to urge people to forward me these views of the different plants and scenery from all parts of the state, for background for the different views 1 am speaking of, and when you arrive I think you will say that Washington is as well represented as she should be." The space secured for Washington is highly desired by other exhibitors, but Commissioner Rudebeck has paid for it in scrip and holds it against all comers. According to his letter this state has one of the best representations on the ground. ANARCHY IN PUERTO RICO. The Irrnculnm Are Sacking ���turning Property. and Promotion af HohKon. Washington, Aug. 29.���Assistant Naval Constructor Hobson was to have ' been examined for promotion lust week, but i-wlng to his duties ho could not go be- fcre the board. It wns ordered that hlB record be examined to see If that would entitle him to tho higher rank. The bourd says: "The board Joins with all the world In admiring the skill, courage and gallant conduct of Assistant Naval Constructor Richmond P, Hobson In connection with thc Merrimac, as set forth ln the letter of the commanding officer of the North Atlantic station." The report then refers to the various papers submitted In connection with Hobson's record and closes with a recommendation that he be promoted to be a naval constructor. Trial Trip af the Davis. Portland, Or., Aug. 29.���The torpedo boat Davis, which In being constructed at the Wolff & Zwlcker Iron Works, wns given a preliminary trial on the Willamette river Saturday. No effort was made to force the craft up to the required speed, S!2J knots, but lt Is announced that the trial was satisfactory In every respect. Porta Open to the World. Washington, Aug*. 29,-Unlted States consular ollicers ln every part of thc world have been Informed by thc state department that they may Issue bills of health and certificates of Invoice for Santiago, Ponce, Manila or other ports In the actual possession of the United Slates. New York, Aug. 27.���A dispatch from Ponce to the Herald says: (Ieneral Stone, who has just returned from the viciuity of Arecibo, reports that a state of anarchy exists in the country districts. The withdrawal of the Spanish troops gives tlie guerrillas free play. A force of irregulars sacked and Iturned a plantation near Adjuntas. General Stone says that the pcaplc are terrorized and arc praying for American protection. The Spanish formerly covered the country witli mounted police. Our police have not yet been put in charge. The natives and Spaniards are busy cutting each other's throats, (ieneral Stone made a full report to General Miles last night. Captain Waters and Lieutenant Fulmer of Battery C. of Phoenixville, Pa., have resigned from the United States service. Lieutenant Fulnler nnd Lieutenant Bean, who is in the same battery, were tried liefore an efficiency board whose verdict lias not yet been made known. An incendiary lire occurred a few nights ago at Kl Coto del Laurel, a hamlet near Ponce. The people, most of whom arc Spanish, objected to the attempts of the men of the Nineteenth infantry to extinguish it and in a fight Lieutenant Colonel Law- son, who was in command, stunned one of the attacking party wilh a blow of his revolver. Order was restored only when 20 prisoners had been taken. miuIiik Brief*. Vi. A. Stuart has been appointed superintendent of the mining exhibit at the Bpokane fruit fair. The Faster Sunday mine on Sulphide Mountain near liossliuig lias been bonded to Messrs. Moffat, Stripe and Put re, representing Chicago capital. Work has commenced. It was learned at the olfice of the Liberty Mining Company that it lias been decided lo let a contract to sink a shatt on that property in Republic camp. A open* cut encountered a ledge a few darya since. Oliver Durant of the Centre Star mine passed through S|Kikuiie on his way from llutte to Rossland with the deeds to the property which were executed in Butte. Tlie final payment on thc mine will be made forthwith. Surveying is in progress for an electric railway from the Silver Cup mine to the landing. A corps of engineers is surveying the line for the Canadian Pacific railway from Arrowhead lo the head ol Kootenav lake. Considerable freight is going out of Kendrick for the Pierce district, iu Idaho, and the indications are that work will he conlinued on some pVopertlei all winter. found I.unit l.o��i Girl, Hot Springs, Ark., Aug. 29.���Mr. A. Hughes, a wealthy retired broker of New York, while passing through the Arlington hotel dining hall discovered his own daughter, who had been lost to hlm for 20 years. Hughes' wife deBerted hlm years ugo, taking with her their only child, a little girl. The wife deserted the baby In Chicago and It was reared by strung- ers. She was employed as a waitress In the Arlington when accidentally discovered by her wealthy father. Case Sot Yellow Fever. Galveston, Tex., Aug. 29.���The soldier at Fort Point, originally reported as a yellow fever suspect, Is convalescent. State Health Officer Blunt and Dr. Gill of New Orleans, who Inspected the cane, say It ls a suspicious case although they do not pronounce it yellow fever, In Now York the best btflter can be bought for 23 cents a pound, cooking butter at 18 cents and sweet butter at 50 cents a pound. Peaches are fed to hogs in Georgia . the Silver Key on Granite creek, near l.ililiy. Mont. The loeatiolf uf the Silver Key conflicted will, -the Silver 11 Orown milling claim, uml the owners Lt THE EXCITEMENT IN IDAHO Ji? %!** ��"*** ? ta%&"J?Z I the silver Key people winch resulted iu 'the action t&keu. This leave* the title Illinois, Ilitnii* the Latest Attraction |of the Silver Clown perfect mid avoids ��� iliuiTB lluisliliiu Tliere��� Klon dike Output In Sinn II���>l to $1.70. Montnnn ranks sixth of the slates in thc I'nion in production hy machine, as 47 per cent, of her product was so secured. During IHII7, '2X1" men were employed, on Ihc average, iu Montana's coal mines, ns against 2335 in ISOfl and 2148 in 1805. The Klondike Onlpnt. K 17 Leech, superintendent of the tT. S. mint at San Francisco, estimates that the gold output of the Klondike this year has been only about $5,- 000,000. The receipts at the mint have amounted to $l,7.*>0.000 since the tirst arrivnl of Yukon gold n few weeks ago, The receipts of the Seattle assay oflice have been about the same. The largest single deposit at the mint was $120,- , 000. Air. Isoeeh estimates that about $250,000 in dust and nuggets has gone ' east and that there is nbout $ I.(Km 1,1100 more of this season's output yet to reach this country. It is stated that the dust brought -out by the North American Trading and Transportation ' Company was sent cast und not included in Mr. Leech's figures. This amount might possibly reach $500,000. Silver Key G|ve�� Out, The Silver Key Mining Company, a Washington concern, met at Spokane ,this week and decided to disincorporate. 'This is the company organized to work litigation. The Silver Key people received $1000 on the compromise. K.ltclit*. Mile* of ItnllroiKl. A. W. McCtine, the Salt Hake mining man, lias just entered into 11 deal with W. L. Hoge, the Anaconda banker, to build 80 miles of railroad from Milford, Utah, to the state line mining districts. The road will cost $000,000 and it is said that it will be of vast benefit to an important mining region, particularly the famous camps of De La Mar and Pioche, which will be put in closer touch with smelters and trade centers. The road goes io the. dividing line between Nevada and Utah and Salt Lake City people regard it as a Connecting link in the railroad of the future which will connect Los Angeles and Salt Like by the .shortest line possible. The Oregon Short Line is backing the new enterprise. 1'ri-piirliiK for 11 Full lion. J. M. Porter of Wallace and II. T. Madgwick of Lewiston, officers of the American Placer Mining Company, op- 10' HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS. luriouH nntl I'ecnltnr IlnnpenlnKa��� IIIni'os'I'rli'n In .Vnture nml Science ���The HiiNlneMM Prosrre��m of the World���.\e*svn of Crime uml Accident. Hail has ruined tlie tobacco crop in the vicinity of Lancaster, Ha. The city council lias dispensed with thc police force at YVaxahachie, Tex., owing to the decision of thc state court of criminal appeals thut municipalities have no jurisdiction. Tlie China (Cal.) sugar factory has begun operations with a force of 200 men. Thc beet supply available will keep thc factory in operation three months. The crop is estimated at 57,000 tons. Windholm Slehold, the last of the group of men who founded Gunterville, Ala., died in that city Friday. He was 75 years old and a native of Germany. This yeur is the centenary of the battle of the Nile and of Napoleon's landing iu Kgypt. ^^^^^^ Hay is so plentiful this vear in some erating on Oro Fino creek, iu the Pierce pnrls of Connecticut that it is offered district, Idaho, were in Kendrick arrang- for ai([p n^ o;j ��� jon ing to commence work on their placer | Tw0 thousand makers of children's property for a fall run. J. M. Porter clothing Won their strike and returned to left for the mine for the purpose of mak- |WOrk in Xew York. ing some new surveys for a pipe line that they will put in at once, the pipe The longest canal in the world is in Russia. It extends from St. Petersburg The company has spent approximately $30,000 developing its property. Pllleer IMacoverle*. ��� F'all creek, which empties into the Salmon river near tlie state bridge, on the road to Warrens, Idaho, has had its share of excitement in the last two weeks. Mich plitcer has been reported discovered there and the creek and its tributaries have been staked out the entire length. One party returning from there for supplies claims that he got as much as .'15 cents to the pan. He says it is "shot gold" and very pure, being -worth considerably more than the gold in the Basin. Tho Fall creek placer ground is situated at au altitude of from 4000 to 0000 feet, and tl.e claims can lie worked very late, owing to the light fail of snow in the early part of the winter. It is best reached by wagon in three-quarters of 11 day's drive from Florence. Another liirilmn Dividend. Ihe Cariboo .Mining Company, operating the Cariboo mine in Camp McKinney declared its twentieth dividend last week. The payment is the usual one of two per cent., aggregating $10.11110. This is probably the lust regular dividend that will lie paid by the old company, the mine having passed' into the hands of a British Columbia company as stated 11 few days since. This brings the total of dividends puid by tlie Cariboo company up to $2.")li,!)04.7l*. being here ready for freighting out now-, j to the frontier of China, und measures neur 4500 miles. Many deaths from heat have occurred in Germany, and a number of destructive forest (ires have broken out on account of drduth. The lust battle of Manila was fought during a fierce thunder storm, the rain at times obscuring the view of the ships from tlie shore. The president,!! is believed,will recom- | mend 11 revival of the grade of vice admiral, which will be conferred upon Admiral Dewey. .Millions of men in India live, marry and rear apparently healthy children upon 2s Od a week, and sometimes it falls below that. If a pair of herrings could lie left 10 breed und multiply unuistiulied for a period of twenty years, they would yield an minium oi tisli equal in bulk to the globe on which we live. Spanish commercial classes and property owners of Havana favor the annexation of Cuba to the United States rather than the setting up of an independent government under ihe Cubans. As this country consumes practically half tl.e worlds production of coffee, the annexation of Hawaii and Borto Vi.ee, and control of the 1'hilippincs will be of great benefit to the public. The Commercial CabliJ Company, at Xew York, 11111.01.nces that censorship has been raised on alLcomincrcial code and cipher messages to and from Cuba, Puerto i Lien and all the West Indian islands. Henry S. I reiidwell,po.si muster of South Boston and supreme lieutenant governor of the Pilgrim Fathers, claims lhat for six months during 1803, Weyler, then a young man, winked for him at $3 a week. At White Lake, X. V., Fred Recknall mistook his son Philip for a deer while hunting and shot him, death ensuing soon after. A few years ago another son, George, was shot and killed iu mistake for a bear. Tlie barn of Peter Foy, ten miles north of Independence, Iowa, was struck by lightning last Wednesday night und five sons of .Mr. Foy, Ihe oldest being 10, who were sleeping iu thc hay mow, were burned to death which recently found their way to the British museum. A pension lias been granted to n Turkish soldier, who. after three years' service in the army, became ill. and coming under medical treatment, was discovered to be a woman. The public funeral of Mr. Gladstone was not expensive. Some of the newspapers gave the cost at $86,000, but iv competent authority says that the actual cost was about $10,1100. In France the oxen that work ill the fields are regularly sung to as an encouragement to exertion, and no peasant has t'he slightest doubt that the animals listen to him with pleasure, The police commissioners of Atlanta announced that they will award a gold medal to the man on the force giving the best answers, in 50 words, to the query: "What constitutes a good policeman?" Fifteen years ago William Glenn, of PowhnUan county, Va., was a dark mulatto. His color has been gradually Changing ever since, and now he is white with the exception of a few spots 011 his face and neck. He says he lias never been sick. In the Island of Minora, one of the Philippines, the humming birds arc pugnacious little creatures. Thousands of them frequently attack huntsmen without the slightest provocation, inflicting sometimes serious wounds on the face and neck. For participating in thc riots last May Sig. Feschetti, member of the chamber of deputies at Florence, Italy, has been sentenced by military tribunal to ten years' solitary confinement, and lias been excluded from holding office for the remainder of his life. California crops have been greatly reduced by drouth during the spring and early summer. The yield of wheat is very small, but there will be enough barley for home consumption, nnd prunes Will he far below the average in quality and quantity. However, the raisin crop will he unusually large. A statistician has estimated that an average man of 50 years has worked 0600 days, has slept 0000, has amused himself 4000, and walked 12.000 miles, has been 5IKI days, has partaken of 36,000 meals, IS TO STAET BEFORE YEAR ENDS. 1 The GlUoi'aa Minister to St. Peters- Iiui-n Hells \i-ss MumhIii mui .'.11- Iflund Will Flight This Vear��� Kiitfllind Auk**. Ton Much. London, Aug. 20.���A special dispatch from Shanghai says: It is stated that the Chinese minister at St. Petersburg has reported to his government that in his opinion the Chinese question will precipitate a contiict between Great Britain and Russia, This state of affairs, he says, is brought about by the British ambassador presenting a note to St. Hetersburg of such a peremptory nature, demanding free access of enterprise in regions where Russian influence is supposed to predominate, that Count Muraviell' can not accept it. The Chinese minister expects that u conflict will certainly break out before the end of the year. HiinhIiiii Note iJlfsciiNMed. Washington, Aug. 29,��� The circular note directed by the Russian foreign minister to members of the diplomatic body at St. Petersburg lias attracted thc earnest attention of officials here. It is supposed from tl.e terms of the note published that a copy was directed to Air. Hitchcock, tlie United States ambassador at the Russian capital, but so far nothing lias been heard by cable from liim to that effect. It is believed the victory achieved by the United States in tlie late war was 11 contributing factor in tlie preparation of the note. It is surmised the victory Made it clear to tlie European statesmen that to maintain the balance of power they would be obliged to redouble expenditures on account of the army and navy, else they might be outstripped by the United States. The ollicial mind here looks upon thc Russian project for general disarmament as Utopian at this time. And while any statement ns to thc attitude of the Unit- eaten 15,000 pounds of meat nnd 40001 ���, stateg towar(1 SU(.h ��� (.(mtolT11,.>* pounds of fish, eggs and vegetables, and drunk 7000 gallons of fluid. Eight people were probably fatally injured in a fire at Cartersville, ill. They were standing on a roof of a building, when an explosion took place, lifting tire entire roof with its occupants into the air, but dropping back on the joists intact. All of the people were frightfully injured. , W proposed is purely conjectural in advance of reception of the invitation, the impression prevails that our government would not cure to take any active part in its deliberations. DAY. DAVIS AND FRYE CHOSEN .AIL AROUND MARKET REPORT Three uf the Klve Mi'inhera of the Pence I nlsslon. Wheat Quotations, Wool Fl*nre��, and the Price, of Produce. Following are the Spokane quotations. Washington, Aug. 25.���Senators Davis and Five spent two and a half hours in conference with thc president this morning. Tlie two senators then called on Secretary Dny, who is to be chairman of tho peace commission. Reticence is observed respecting the ALL QUIET IN PUERTO RICO. Volunteer* anil ��'ii\iilr> Preparing to Return Home n�� Ordered. Wholesale prices are given unless other-1 conference, wliich went fully into the de- wise quoted: tails of the American position at the coin- Wheat at the warehouse���Country : ing meeting in Paris. Thc senators re- points 1 Club, bulk 45c, sacked 40c; blue- j mained closeted with Day for an hour and tern, bulk 47c, sacked 48c. At Spokane: I a quarter. Club, bulk 50c, sacked 52c; bluestem, bulk 51c, sacked 53c. As a result of the meeting, it can he stated With positivencss thai Day, Davis l'oncc, Aug. 20.���The coasting schooner Dolores, Hying the Spanish Hag, entered ! the harbor yesterday morning. Her cap- i tain was uncertain whether a state of 1 peace or war existed, but decided to taku 1 his chances. The Dolores waa not 1110- i lested. j The Alamo, with supplies and clothing I for t leucral Henry's men, sailed for Are- cibo, ou the north coast, this morning. General Brooke is still awaiting his credentials. On their armui he will immediately leave for San Juan, a troop of the Sixth regular cavalry acting as escort. Preparations are being made for the embarkation of the volunteers and cavalry ordered home. The cavalry includes *i roups A and C uf New STork and the following Pennsylvania I roups: Philadelphia City troop, Sheridan troop ami thc governors troop. These are concentrated hero a. 1 at Ouaniea and will probably sail on the transport Mississippi in the j i��,Vert�����** 11it-��>, tlie Philippines and Hawaii,' and 110-lb tubs, iti&o per lb. 5, 10. and 20 Oats���At Spokane, f. o. h., 90@i)5c pev [ "nd Five are members of the peace coni- (.wt. I mission. It is understood the remaining Barley--Country points, f. 0. b., 70@ | two members Will be announced by Bat* 75c per cwt. I U1(hiy. At tlie meeting the general plans live-Countrv points, f. 0. b., 70c per, "f Ul* eommission as to proceeding *.o cwt_ i Paris were talked over and an uuder- i'i.iur, per barrel-Gold Drop. $4; Big : standing reached that the .start will be Loaf, ��4.40j Banner, $3.75: Plaiisifter,! ��"***�� hetween September 15 and 20. The $4.25; Superb, $4: Spokane, $3.75; Swan Patent, $4.40; Snowlluke, $4; White Lily, sessions will be held in the Salon des j Ambassadeurs. nurse of a lew days. The men arc delighted at tlie prospect. A cable message announcing that Mis. Miles, aci-iiiiipaiiii'il by her daughter, sailed for Ponce on tl.e transport Olalam Iron. Charleston lust Saturday will delay the departure of Miles and staff* probably several days. (leucral James II. Wilson hus assumed control of the district of Ponce und hus ordered all saloons closed for three days witli a view of quieting existing disorders, lieneral (Irani has established headquarters here. ���The Pennsylvania and Missouri volunteers aud batteries are to follow thc other regiments home. (.ieneral Hay nnd his staff are here and will return home immediately. Ueneral (iarretson will succeed (Ieneral Henry. $3.75; Whole wheat., $4.25; rye, $5; graham, $4. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Feed���Bran nnd shorts. $11 per ton; Our new Philippine possessions will of- shorts, $12; bran, $18; rolled bailey, $20; fer some strange and interesting ex per- ! chicken feed, $15(ii20. iences to Americans visiting the islands Hay���Timothy, $8 per ton; baled tim- for thc lirst time. One of them will be Hie j othy, $10; wheat hay, $7.50@8.50; oat hutlike chow shops in which stewed grass- j hay, $7.50; alfalfa, $10. hoppers arc sold. Kggs���Ranch, $4.50. The general association of colored Bap-] Com���Whole, $23; cracked, $24. tists of Kentucky, in session at .Tank- I Wool���Pine medium, 6@7c per lb; me-1 ,*,"���'.'���'," ��� ��� . ,. , _ . .... fort, adopted resolutions favoring the di.tm, 5@0c per Ib. '* ���""'' ��_"Ut?'_f* f1"''"';1 u*.,,"> �����*** ' ' -��� . I .. . -57 )mttpr 4_|pJ rnptdre and Sir Clauds has Intimated , that (ireat Britain will regard us casus I belli a failure on the part of China to ENGLAND AND CHINA NEXT. HeliitlniiM llt'tueen 'i'lioiu Strained to the I,list I',,Ioi. London, Aug. 28.���Authoritative confirmation was received from Pekin to tho Duily .Mail yesterday morning, asserting that the relations between tlie Tsiing Li I Viimcii and Sir Claude .Macdonaid, tl.e sending of colored missionaries to Cuba, Produce Fancy creamery Poison* Thirty Peraon*. Motintaindule, Pa., Aug. 20.���Thirty persons who have been spending the summer at Greenfield were poisoned last Sunday by eating ice cream. Two women have since died, Mrs. Jessie Sefer of Mount Vernon and Mrs. Michael of New York. Twenty persons are still confined to their rooms and some of them will die. A ton of Atlantic water yields, after evaporation, 81 pounds of salt; of thc Pacific, 70; of the Arctic and Antarctic, 85; of the. Dead Sea, 187. ,-- Canada has had no contagious or infectious disease among cattle for six years. anticipating annexation \,\ this country. The last two descends ills of Christopher Columbus nre said to In- occupants of a pom house al Cadi/. It is said that an ordinary caterpillar ii'cien-is Iii.ihiii limes in l'lill. 30 days from the time il is hatched. Captain Kmiiis of the battleship Iowa is suffering from typhoid malaria at the Hoosevclt hospital. New York. H The cabbage still grows wild in Greece, ewt; cucumbers, 7s5c per box; onions, where it originated, Biidislies are n.i-!$1.50 per cwt; beans, l}@l}c per Ib; live to China, but have lieen grown in : carrots, $1.25 per cwt; beets, $1.25 pet Kurope for centuries. |c\vt. lb lulis, 20c per Hi: prints, 2Sc per Ib; California butter, 23@20�� Ib; Columbia 1 butter, 24c; country butter in rolls, I8f per Ib; ionising buttW, lOe lh; eastern Dreamery, prints, 83c; chssse, twin, full! cream, I2U- lb: ranch eggs. $4..">Of�� 5; se- 1 'acted eggs. $0; honey, white bomb, l.'itia j 14c III, fancy, ls">e per lb. Yegetaoles��� Potatoes. $1.25 per cwt; cabbage, $2 per cwt; turnips, $1.25 per Observe her wishes. If necessary the British squadron now assembled al Wai Mai Wai will support the Hi it ish minister's demands, To I'orni n Jrivlxh Colon). Kansas City, Aug. 211. Burnett Pru- San's pjlaii to form a Jewish colony for Puerto Hico has been taken up hy scv- eral families iu other cities. Mr. I'ni- xan is daily in receipt of letters of inquiry regarding Ilie scheiuc flour every portion of the United States and many have signified a determination to go in. (ioveinor Scolield has pauloned -Patrickl Poult.y-Chickens, live weight, 10@Uc| _.jj;'fl_j��_M,t Secretary" 0f the intWior, McDonald, an inmate of the state prison, I lb; dressed, 12(�� 13c; spring broilers,^3(8}' " ' sentenced for life. McDonald is over SO years old and has been for 30 years a trusty. Jose Castelhiiios. alius (ieorge Vainler- hilt, the Spanish spy imprisoned at Portress McPherson, has been released. His presence iu Atlanta excited such a hostile demonstration that he had to be placed iu the police station for safe keeping. Senor Vicuna, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Chile to thu United States, has arrived in this country as the new Chilean minister. Newspapers in tlie south say that the cotton crop in Texas alone will lie equal to a pound of cotton for every man, woman and child on earth. Irishmen of all parlies are prosecuting the movement for securing the restoration in Ireland of Celtic gold ornaments 3.50; turkeys, live 11�� 12c, dressed 12(S 13c; spring ducks, dressed $4(��'4..)0 do/; geese, live 103(ri54e; valley and bluestem, 57c. Metals. San Francisco, Aug. 29.���Silver bars, 50c. Mexican dollars, 40Jc. Lead. $3.90. H Mr. Davis, has been written for information ns to tlie character of the climate and soil of the land. Should the land lie thrown open lo settlement Mr. Pru- zun estimates that at least 50 families will embark for Puerto Rico. KiinIwii Pnn-ellaon Injured. Philadelphia, Aug. 29.���Ensign Pawell- son, who served on the battleship Maine, when she waa blown up, and whose testimony relative to the explosion of the battleship waa of great Importance. Saturday received a compound fracture of the right leg and a fracture of tho foot by falling down an elevator shaft on board the cruiser St. Paul at Cramp's. The demand for government liquor licenses in prohibit ion Kansas this year has been the greatest in the history of the state. ^****N Turkey forbids the use of cocaine. ! IK *"TATTOO f i f ALARM" Some people are awakened I are MS by a sudden, loud noiBe, ������;, but soon fall asleep '. tgain. To such the ordinary *i". Alarm Clock is but a ���$*�� murmur in the ear. For JSj, theso is designed tho "Tat- jji too-' whieh rings its alarm k.1 Intermittently tlirougli apoi # iod of a quarter of an hour, t i We have this useful clock ��������!' in stock, and would like you .��.���> to see it. tt f LAMONT & YOUNG, f RONTST., K AS , B.C. ./'// //'(y/*/- tY/**.*/ _700_& JE guaranteed. **-?*��� ."it j TOWN TOPICS. I The water in the hike ib yet about two feet higher than its ordinary level. i S. Palmer has purchased a lot on the hill and will erect a building thereon at once. .1. EL Gray hud u narrow escape from a broken limb by a fall, at tlie wharf Thursday. The News will be delivered to any part of the city for three months for .r>0 cents cash. Lamont _t Young have removed to new quarters In tlie Aroher-Hartin Block lately erected. ��� The Bed Star look down a large raft af dimension timber for the new wharf and bridge at Kuskonook, this week. Monday next being Labor Day there will be a public holiday when every one can ttike in tlio sports at Sandon. Thursday evening the tug Hercules brought, up from Sanca a large raft, in three cribs, of pine and Br logs foi Buchanan's sawmill. As an instance of how the B.C. News helps to advertise Kaslo. we notice that our description of the town is copied in tho Vancouver World. The heavy rainfall of Tuesday and Wednesday quenched the forest tires that, wero raging on the hills In this vicinity for some time pust. The net profits of the K. & S. Ky. for last year are given as Follows: 1st (( months...,.. 134,000 2nd (i months 69,000-493,000 The public school opem d Thursdays Now that the grading of the grounds is completed it is proposed to sow era-,* seed ami plant trees and generally improve the grounds. Rev. A.ct Green, Dominion Alliance lectuii'.i' and organizer, will give a lecture in the Methodist church Tuesday evening next, nl 8 o'clock. Everyone is cordially invited. Tlie Kootenny I tail way a Navigation Co. in addition to acquiring the line of the K. & S. take over 200,000 acre, of land 'granted In connection with con struetion of the lino.'' Mrs. Johnny Holland, accompanied by lier father, Mr.l.ouls Devi, returned from Lob Angeles Monday evoning. Mi's. Holland was summoned to tho death-bod of her mother ubout six months a^o. Hterman Tashner, engineer on the ���tug Kaslo, died Saturday last at Pilot Bay of heart oisease. The body was taken to Nelson for burial. The de- ceieed had a host of friends who will regret to hear of his sudden da-ifi. Miss Nellie Grist, late of Omalin, died Sun��lay morning and wns burled Monday. She had an attack of pleurisy about a week previous from which she nover recovered. Rev.Father Furlaad administered the last sacred riles to t.ie dying girl. ���"If you pre not ready to paffer your house now, take the dimensions of each room and buy tefo|>-"tftie Kaslo Drug Co. htive^Ml��r*8,aTall the choice de- sisjttBf^hey ore going fast and you ce*n buy-now for half the monoy it will cost-a month later. ��� * Road the News, Subscribe for tho Nows, only 50 cents cash, for It months. There was a kind of autumn feeling in the air Wednesday. Snow appeared on i be surrounding peaks, . Ped Btrlanism Is becoming popular in Kaslu. A party of ladies walked to Kemp Springs Thursday and partook of afternoon tea with tlie campers there. The K. sV S. Ky. s change of time came.into effect Thursday. The passenger leave.- at 8:30 a.m. now instead of H o'clock, and arrives in Sandon at 10:-S.". J.eaves Sandon at 1:15, giving two and a half hours in tlie Sunless City. in support of our article In last week's Issue, "Kaslo as a summer resort" a party of ladios a/nl gentlemen from Rossland is staying at the St. Pancras, and express themselves as delighted with Kaslo's climate and llid splendid outdoor recreation it affords. At the special mooting of the council of the Board of Trade held Monday evening it was resolved to authorize J. B. MoArthur, uf Nelson, uow in the east, to represent this mining district. on the subject, of lead duties, at the Quebec conference ami a telegram ami letter were dispatched to that effect. For good maple syrup with vour hot cakes goto tlie Queen. Advertise In the News it pays. !>lil Vrtpi-ra tor .Sule. * Several thousand old papers for sale at this ollice at "illc uer hundred. Of tlio foregoing, tho follow ing have paid dividends as follows: Pavne ��l,800,000iNoble I'ivo ... I'l.imo Blooan Star 100,000 Goodei >ugh��� 82,800 Ruth.. . BM.OOO Washington HMXKI Reeo 287,500 Ja.'Is-- ll. . 20,000 Rambler-Carl., 40,000 Burpr :*,'.,, .. .ii.uuo iv, Mi, tho foregoing, other mines, nnatock- eil, have paid dividend*, an i. llowa: Idaho Whitewater. Slocnn Boy .'i ii''1' 1,11*1 ' iiahco.,. XlTSBt) 194.000 Antolne 88,000 28,000|Monitnr 18,000 Following Isa comparative statement ol ore ���nipped from partaoftboSlocim and Ainsworth mining districts, passing through lim custom house at Kaslo to foreign imeltcri for ihe live recorded luuiillis 01 ISO.",, all of 1896 andl897: KASLO & SLOOAN RT Taking effect 1:00 o'clock a.m., Sept. 1st, 1&..8, Pacifloor 120th Meridian time. Year. 1898 (8months).. 1896 (12 months). 1X97(12 months). Totals. Grosi Weight of Ore in Los. 2,-02,8TS. Iioiii .Ian. 1, IS'.W, to dale tne leiidiiu! mini's of the Slol-illl feglon have ttnlppcil over the Kasto .v sloean Railway Ioi wster transports- lion Iioiii Kaslo. ns follows: iflue, fons.i.Mlsie. Togs, I'livne 20.KI Kuieka I'i Rn'th 2122 Fidelity 1.1 Whitewater. . .. I7u" soverefsn ��i Hei-o Sin''lieen Ileas 170 gloea 1 st���r*.. 518] Jackson 4fc Rambler-Cariboo 38f. Hlbsnn 16 l.ui-l:-,- .Hm 91)0 Moulesunia* MK Last Chance 8SU;charleston 30 Goodeiinu_h 20:Antolne 185 nardiriolles 67 Ajax 49 Silver I ltd I ........ 02 Bismarck .. 6H - 'Concentrates. The follo.rlng Is a partial statement of orc shipinonts over the C. ��, R. from Slocan and I.ar.'.euu points since January 1st. not included In tho foregoing: Mine. Tons. Mine Tons. Vancouver 4LlSilverCiip ,... 440 fSloran Star IWWavcrley 60 Pavne., 21fi0 Idaho 1000 Ento,prise jOOtteen Hess ��� ��� ... 610 iftooesntrates. No. oi Par Marki't Companies. Shares Value Value Payne. l.OOO.iiim $2,601 i 1,000,111111, .601 S'J.OO Ruth 120,1)00 ��1 Reco 1,000,(100 ��1.00 1.60 1,_00,000 1,00 .18 Washington l,000,(x*Q 1.00 .'J.ri Rambler-Cariboo ) .000,1110 LOO .22 Surprise 226 1.00 5 130,1 ��� 11 1.00 (: Qoodenough BOO, - 1.00, s26 Great Western BOO ' 0 .80 M, Jaekson(North'nBelt) l.OIH'.'slil 1.00 .2., Anicrii-a'i Boy 1,000 tt 11 l.IKI .16 Kaelo-Monteanma.... 1,380, 1.00 .il Dardanelles 1,(SH) nun 1.00 .09 Gibson ��� 660,000 1,00 ,17W Wonderful 1,000,000 l.IKI .08�� SI. Keverne 1,000,11111, l.OO' .04 Idler 1.000,000! 1.00 ,16 London Hill. 600,01)0 .36 Blaol Diamond. 1,200,000 .so ...i Dellie 750,000 1,00 .11 Ellon 1.000,1"' 1.00' mi McLeod 1,000,111X1 1.00 Twill 1,000,0001 1.00 .i'i $Xo stock on tha ma rkcl (iniuK West. 8.:��a. m. l.v. S.5;'i a. in. I.v. 9.'t-"' a. 111. J.v 10.00 a. in. Lv.. 10.01, a. m. Lv. 10.20 a. m. Lv. 10.84 a. tn. Lv. 10.3*1 a. m, Lv 10.46 a. 111. ,\r Mixed, Daily. 11.00 a. m. Lv. 11,10 a. 111. I.v, lll'i'ia.m. l.v. TlMKCAItD. Daily Kaslo . ..South Fork. . ... .Sproule's... . ..Whitewater. Dear Lake. ..McGulgan ... . I'ayne Tram.. .Cody Junction. Sandon COD*. BRANCH. - snndon - ��� - Cody June. - coily - - TIMF. CARD. Steamer Ainsworth, EIToetive Juuo 13tb, 1898, "Between Nelson anil Bonner's Ferrv. Going Last. ..Ar 8.110 p. 111. . ..ArS.OSp. 111. ..ArSslOp. m. . ..Ar2.00 p. m. ...Ar LfiO p. m. ...Arl,88p. ni. ..Ar l.'JH p. 111. .. .Ar 1.22 p. m. l.v 1.1.1 p. 111. Mixed, Dully. Ar. 11.89 a .m. Ar. 11.60 a.m. Ar. 11,86 a.m. GEO. F. COPELA.ND, Supt. ROHT. IRVING. O. F. A I'. A. 1 Leavo Nolson, 2:30 p.m.; Pilot Buy. 5:80 p.m.: Kuskonook, B:S0 p.m.: MoniltiyH.Weilnesdaj'H and Fridays. j Leave Ry km ts, 2:30 a.m.; Port Hill, 2:40 a. m. Arrive at Bonner's Ferry, 0:1)0 a.m.; Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, I Leavo Bonner's Forry, I p. ra,; Porl Hill, 6:30 p.m.: Kykorts, 0:10 p.m.; Kuskonook, 10:00 p.m. Tuesdays] Thursdays and Saturdays. i Leave Pilot Bay, 1:30 a.m.; arrive at ij'elson, 4:30 a. m. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. 17 .1. MATHEWS, Manager. mm rails Nelson $ Fort Sheppard, Red Mown ia in Railways. Tiie only all rail route without change of cars between NbIhou and Rosslanda**'.1 Spokane aj__ Rossland. TIME CARD. Daily. I.ens e 6,20a. in Nelson Arrlv 6.X, p. ni I.eave 12.0S a. m...Rossland....Arrive 11.'io p.m Leave 8.80a. in Spokane Arrive 3.10 p. 111 Tha train that leaves Nelson at 0:20 a. in. makes close connections it Spokane with trains for all . . ��� PACIFIC GOAST POINTS. i 'ns-.ii'.'i.i's (or Kettle river & Boundary ck. oonnect al Marcus with stage daily. I NTKIi NATIONAL Navigation^ Trading Co., ua Steameri International and AlHerla oa Kootenay Lake and River Summer'liuie Curd In ef- I.'i-i loth March, 1898 Subject to change. SI'F.AMLR INTERNATIONAL -Leaves Kaslo for Kelson mill way poinls,daily excapl Sunday, 8.80 a. m. Arrive' Northport 9A6 a. m.; Rossland, 11,20a, ni. and Spokane, i'.io p, in. Leavo Kelson tor Kaslo and wuy poinls, dally axcopt Sunilay,6,o0 p.m.Leave Spokane 8.80a.m.1 Kouiland, s.-ria. in.; Nintliport. t.8Bp. m. Five Mile l'liiiitc.oniiiiliiiii wilh all passenger tiaini- nf N. 1(1 F. S, Kv. to and from Northport, OoMlatvd am". Spokano. Tiekclssold and bag- tnge I'liuekcl to all l.'niled States po'.nfo. S'l IC'.MI.i: ALB KUT A -leaves Kaslo for Ku��- konook ami way points and Bonner's Ferrv.lda. Ttiesdayisand Saturdays at 5.00 p.m., arrivlngat Kuikonook at lOJtOp.lu and Honner's Ferry at 8 a.m. next day. Returning lvs. Houuer's Kerry Wed., Fridays and and Sundays at 2 p. in., arv. Kuakoneok 8 p. m., Kaslo 1 a. in. following day. Also*froiu May 6th steamer will makesame trfp leaviiiii Kaslo every Thursday at �� o'clock a. m. Round's Ferry connection with all passenger trains of Q.N. Ry.,arv. westward nt Spokane 3.10 p. in., or Iv. hoimer'n Ferry for the eusi si LIBp, ni. Mi'iiln anil liei tha not Included. Cuss, ngi rs 0088 International from Nelson, etc.. lor pointd on hike south of I'ilot Hay, will connect at Unit polnt.with the SS. Alberta. Pajaangers for Nelson via SS. Alherta, Irom point? south ol I'ilot Day, can. hy arrangement with purser,have Btop-over at Pilot Hay or Alns- worth.or conneet wlili liitennillonal at Kaslq. cempanv's itcauiera conneel Kootonay l.ake uml Cloeati points v.ith i,!l |>oiiils in U. S, and L'annda by wayof Spokane nml Kootenay river. U. Ai.KX.iNlUSIt, (Ieneral Manager. P.O. Ilox UT.*, Kaslo, It. C. Subscribe For the News The liveliest and Newsiest paper in the Slocan. *$2 Fer Annum. .#1 .For 6 Months. Special trial offer for Cash.��� 3 Months for 50 Cts. OlvVb Oiler. ��� We will send The News and the Toronto Mail and Empire to any subscriber not in arrears for $2 in advance. Tlie reliable Insurance Companies are: The Imperial Fire Insurance Co. Limited, of London, Eng. The Northern Life Assurance Co.. of London, Ont. The Ontario Accident Insurance Co., of Toronto. \ :*j:;); Rates low. Plans eg ui table. H7 E. IK PETTIT, A^ent.