t I ���; J THE CASCADE RECORD Published in the Interests of the Boundary and Christina Lake Mining Districts Vol. II. CASCADE, B. C, DECEMBER 30, 1899. No. 8. HORRIFYING POSSIBILITIES England Friendless and Alone in Her Present Struggle. ITALY ONLY SHOWING ANY SYMPATHY Russia and France Bitterly Against Us... Germany Do Not Sorrow Over Our Misfortunes-United States Indifferent. While disclaiming the attitude of an alarmist it would be well to look on the dark as well as the bright side of all questions fraught with poseibile dire consequences. The South African war in which Great Britain is now engaged in volves alarming possibilities���results that might prove to be the beginning of the end of her proud position among the nations of the world. The Victoria Times, looking below the surface, sees great danger hovering over this government. After a careful and studied survey of the situation it claims it is. useless to search the records of British history for a parallel to the present moment. Not since the cloning months of 1814 has the British people been so profoundly troubled and anxious, and even then there was less cause for apprehension than there is now. The danger was single in the person of Napoleon Bonaparte, or of France. To-day the danger is multiplied thousandfold and complication after complication salutes the eye of the statesman who scans the situation from any point of view. In 1814 we could count amongst the nations of Europe at least three staunch and willing allies in our attempt to overthrow the colossus. These were Austria, Prussia and Russia; and Spain, Italy and Scandinavia, with Holland and Belgium were in sympathy with us, though pracitically impotent to aid. To-day we cannot find on the continent of Europe one ally, and barely one friend. Italy alone shows a disposition to side with us; The German people and press are taking no pains to show their satisfaction at the direful news from South Africa, where, as it appears to them, the empire they envy Beems to be slipping through the fingers of Britain. Opinion in the United States is divided. Resolutions sympathizing with the Boers are introduced in the Senate and Congress; a majority of the American papers are hostile to the British cause. But the peril lies mainly around the scene of war. Two great causes for anxiety are there, the one in Cape Dutch, who outnumber the British four to one; the other the Kaffirs, who outnumber both Dutch and British more than ten to one. The uprising of the Cape Dutch would be an awful thing; the united uprising of the KaffirB would be the end of white rule in South Africa for an indefinite period, which would revive the worst horrors of ancient wars and would light South Africa with burning cities, towns and farms, and deluge its soil with the blood of the settlers. No language, no imagination, can exaggerate the terribleness of a general Kaffir uprising. The white renegades who are said to be attempting to foment such a thing amongst the natives would themselves be the first victims of Kaffir fury. The contingency of a native uprising would probably never have appeared in the matter at all but for the string of stunning disasters inflicted upon the British troops in three widely separated quarters by the Boers. As a principal is fully responsible for the actions of his agent, Buller cannot be cleared from responsibility for the massacre on the Tugela. Colonel Long acted according to his fights and training, and it is to be presumed had at least the tacit consent of his superior in running the guns into action at a spot which subsequently proved to be untenable, and which military officers of their experience ought to have seen at once was exposed to a murderous fire at close range. What are the natives to think ? And what are they to make of the frightful slaughters at Magersfontein and Stormberg and Tugela river, when these things are explained to them with due elaboration by the miscreants who wish to see them rise and take the war path ? The loss of effectives at those engagements has been fearful. At Nicholson's Nek a thousand; at Stormberg 500; at the Modder river fights, Belmont and Gras Pan, fully another thousand; at Magersfontein 936, at Tugela river, 1,200. Besides these hecatombs there are the continual, daily, hourly, losses of men killed, wounded, captured or placed hors de combat by illness or accident. There are also the casualty lists of Mafeking, Kimberly and Ladysmith, where death must have been busy as a result of the continus shell fire of the besiegers. It would take a very large army to stand this drain, but it must be made good if we would save South Africa to the empire. The Statement Denied. The French foreign office denies the statement of the Paris correspondent of the London Daily Mail that Dr. Leyds, European representative of the Boers, has asked the services of the minister of foreign affairs in the cause of peace. Twenty Years at Hard Labor. Edward V. Twyman was found guilty at Spokane on Saturday last of the murder of Bernard Wiggins in a saloon in Waverley, Wash., on the night of Nov. 18th, and sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary at Walla Walla, the verdict being in the second degree. AWFUL FATALITIES BY FIRE AND WATER Forty School Children Lose Their Lives While Skating. Ten Children, While Practising Christmas Exercises, Fatally Burned. An awful tragedy resulted from the rehearsal of one of the classes at St. Francis school at Quincy, 111., last week. There were 14 little girls in the class and they were representing different characters. Two of them appeared as lambs and wore fleece on their garments. One of them cpught fire from an open gas jet and in almost an instant ihe whole ring of little ones was in flames. Six were burned t.> death, two died an hour later and three others died before midnight. Half a dozen others were burned more or less seriously. Upward of 40 children were drowned last week in an ice accident at Frelinghem, near the French frontier. The children of the district were given a holiday with the permission to play on the frozen river Lysus. When the merriment was at full height, the ice broke and the children dissap- I eared. A few were rescued half dead but a majority were drowned. Thirty-six bodies were recovered but others are still missing. Qompers the Federation of Labor President. SLID INTO THE OCEAN A Land Slide that Caused Great Loss of Life and Property. BANK PRESIDENT ONLY $9,000,000 SHORT Seventy-five Miners Entombed In a Burning Mine���A Move to Have Canada Vote Ten to Fifteen Millions for Imperial Defenses. At Detroit last week Samuel Gompers was re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor, all of the other officers also being re-elected. The statement that Major Logan of the U. S. army in the Philippines was killed by one of his own men, is denied by a fellow officer. A bill introduced in the U.S. congress proposes an annual pension of $2,000 for the widow of the late Gen. Lawton. A terrible disaster took place on Friday last at Amalfi, a popular tourist resort on the gulf of Salerno. A Rome dispatch states that an enormous rock upon which stood the Cappuccini hotel, slid bodily into the sea with a deafening roar, and without a moment's warning, carrying with it the hotel, the old Capuchin monastery and several villas. Many people were buried in the debris, which sank four vessels to the bottom of the Bea, destroying their crews. The mass of earth which slipped was about 50,000 cubic yards. The loss of life was heavy, which included a number of monks and the occupants of the hotel. The board of trade of Toronto has passed resolutions calling upon the government to provide the necessary money for the mobilization and equipment in the Dominion of a still larger force of volunteers to assist the mother country. B. E. Walker, general manager of the Bank of Commerce, says parliament should be asked to vote from ten to fifteen millions of dollars towards the defense of the empire and the preparing of Canadian reinforcements. President Cole of the Globe National bank of Boston was arrested at the California seaside resort Re- dondo last Saturday by a U. S. Marshal and was taken back to tbe scene of his crimes. His peculations covered an indefinite period, and involved sums amounting to nine millions of dollars. An explosion occurred at Bras- nell coal works, four miles from Brownsville, Pa., Dec. 23d, which entombed seventy-five men. The explosion is said to be equal to the worst that ever happened in that state; it was terrific and was heard three miles distant. The main shaft was totally wrecked and rendered helpless. Four cages of men had gone down to work. The cageman, on his fourth trip went to the bottom with 14 men, and had given the return signal when the explosion occurred. The mine took fire, with between 40 and 50 men imprisoned in the smoke and flames, besides those known to have been killed by the shock. THE CASCADE RECORD December 30,1809 THE OUTLOOK PROMISING Victoria Gold and Copper Mining Com' pany in Christina Lake District. A GROUP OF RICH MINERAL CLAIMS The Victoria, Copper Wonder, Copper Mountain and Evening Star Properties, Near English Point. Mr. D. C. Beach, mine manager for the Victoria Gold and Copper Mining company, passed through the camp yesterday on his way up from Spokane to the com pany,a property at English Point, on the east shore of Christina lake. Mr. Beach is the original locator of the four properties now owned by the company, having staked them in 1896. The group consists of the Victoria, Copper Mountain, Copper Wonder and Evening Star, and the claims all adjoin one another at the point mentioned. About $1,000 worth of work has been done on them up to the present time, consisting of open cuts and surface work generally. The ledge on the Victoria can be traced on the surface clear across the claim, also across the Copper Wonder whice lies directly above. Another ledge has been uncovered across the Evening Star und Copper Mountain, running nearly parallel with the first one. Near the eastern end of the Victoria a ledge has been found which runs at right, angles to the main ledge on the south, but which does not cut, it on the surface. Immediately to the north of the main ledge is a granite dyke, and it is expected that the cross ledge will be found to cross, the main ledge when depth is attained at the point of intersection. Mr. Beach will leave this morning for the property, and work will be commenced at once and maintained all winter with a force of six men, working two shifts. The formation is a contact, between linie.-tone anil granite, and the ore is identical with that of the Le lioi mine. Just about a year ago Mr. Beach made a display in The Miner window of ore from the property, ami the collection attracted considerable attention at the time. Average assays from the ledge ran from $7.50 to $35.25 in gold and copper. The claim is a tunnel proposition, and the work now undertaken will be to turn el in on il.e main ledge on the Victoria until the point of contact with the cross ledge is reached, and then to crosscut at this point. The work will be given a depth of about 900 feet, or foot for foot as the work advances. On the surface the ledge shows from 6 to 20 feet in width, and Mr. Beach states that he will have plenty of shipping ore on the dump in 60 days after work commences. The Columbia & Western railway crosses the property on a bench just above the tunnel to be worked, and an upraise will render shipments a particularly easy matter. The tote road also crosses the property. The company has erected proper mine buildings, and Mr. Beach has a residence completed on the property, and a road has been finished from the buildings up to the workings. Mr. F. E. Starkey of Spokane and Mr. Spellman of Rossland are interested in the company with Mr. Beach. The company has been organized with $1,- 000*000 capital and $250,000 in the treasury, and shares are now being offered to the public.���'Rossland Miner, Dec. 28. Bulldog Mountain Tunnel. The long tunnel on the Columbia & Western Railway through Bulldog mountain now only needs to be cleared out and the track laid through ii to be completed. Messrs. Tye and Sullivan walked through it on Saturday last. The actual tunnel is 3,000 feet long; with the approaches at either end it meas- urts 3,700 feet. It is expected that the Columbia & Western road will be taken over by the operating department of the Canadian Pacific Railway about the 1st of February. ���Nelson Tribune. To Inspect the Chamberlain Group. A Mr. Roberts, of Rossland, will come over next, Monday for the purpose of inspecting the Chamberlain group of three mining clams on McRae week. There is an 18-foot shaft on one of them, and the prospect work so far done has revealed most encouraging signs of a deposit of rich ore of great magnitude. This group is the personal property of Frank Hutchinson. It. is stated that the ore in the Gold Bug mine assays from $140 to $150 per ton. The previous shipment to the Trail smelter yielded $111 per ton. There is another Alaskan boom incubating. It is published that near Dawson an immense ledge, one mile wide and a thousand feet deep loaded with gold has been uncovered. The ore taken out carries values to the amount of nearly $900 per ton. A boom in that section is needed lo keep up the receipts of the transportation companies. It is reported that the mining properties about Chesaw are turning out well, and that it promises to be a place of considerable importance, Mr. Geoige B. Meach am is purchasing claims there as fast as he can, and has acquired 22, aud is still buying. He has bonded the Poland China group for $30- 000. Mr. Meacham represents a Montreal syndicate. The Poland China group consists of five claims three miles northwest of Chesaw, and the properties are considered valuable. Sufficient development work has been done on them to demonstrate their value. I The English Store* 2* =:::==^ ^ * * B C* MERCANTILE &' MINING Syndicate, Ltd., ��,. ....MAIN ST., CASCADE, * * T7 Is the ONE firm in the Bonndary country which is so equipped as to give the PROSPECTOR or the MINE OWNER everything he needs at bed rock prices. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmfmmmmmmmmws | We procure onr staple goods by tlie carload. No ;| ��* one can buy cheaper. No one will sell as cheap. | We can help the prospector right through from the start���give him reliable assays, bond or buy his claim, and if sufficiently worthy place it on the L/ondon market. We carry everything in Groceries, Hardware, Dry Goods, Boots aud Mining Supplies���everything from Dolls to Dynamite. Long distance 'Phone and Assay Office in connection. Nearest store to railway station. Mine Owners, Hotel Keepers or Private Families out of town should write for our quotations. BRANCHES ON FIRST and SECOND AVENUES, +f GLADSTONE, and at *�� McRAE'S LANDING. Christina Lake ���-4 4 Hartford Hotel, Hartford Junction, B. C. This hotel, which is new, is located at the junction of the Phoenix and Winnipeg branches of the C. P. R. All the railway traffic for these camps must pass through Hartford. Give us a call. JOHN DORSEY, Prop. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������j The B.C.Assay <6 Chemical Supply Cu., Ltd.; (Late MacFaulank & Co.) VANCOUVER, M. C. Wc are manufacturers nnd direct Importers, and carry a large stock of Balances, Furnaces ��� Fire Clay mods, Scientific und Practical Hooks, Glassware, i'lutinuiu Hoods, Acids, Clieml-T , cals, ami all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements. ... SOLI'l AliWN'TS for Morgan Oil- T ��� dole Co., Hattersea, Decker's Son's Balances, Etc. Catalogues und particulars an application. ��� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������>���������������������������������������* The Cascade Sawmill A large stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber. Laths, Shingles, flouldings, Etc Estimates Furnished and Prompt Delivery Made. Correspondence Solicited. JOHN EARLE, Prop, December 30,1899 THE CASCADE RECORD 3 of CASCADE, rap rap rap rap [ C r mtr *,i_ /*\vcnuc p mn [Diiu cm] rap ffifd ntD raffi ttrttu ctilDj Km fflffll l.dPt'DHILl wm ���"i'!iM|T iiTTTiTii-nTTTTi rmm mim nnTn.r 0 ; i ; ���,-., i : J li1 I IJJ | | | j j JL [ I 11 V | J j | j, [ [ I I. I jj (.' [ BmrmfnlTrn mrTTH nTTTrimfp JJ L.I 11111 LI,1.1.1,.J lLL.1 ,1 i I NX\ J * LLLUJJ ���= L %] um i PLAN Cascade C rap rap rap rap rani rami rami wm fflitrpirap^rapp [Tfi " South 1 ] j 1 ramin South 8 mi rap rap dip P raffl raffi raira rami 30UTMi m rap quid ldp ram ^wra [Lira raira lira jj \ :iraj rap rap raiD., ^ - ' ' !,iVi:irnTmmtiT /,*& Branch Linf: The coming Commercial, Industrial and Mining Centre of East Tale. The Gateway City Of the Kettle River, Boundary Creek and Christina Lake Countries. A Magnificent Water Power of 20,000 Horse Power. WASHINGTON ( The center of a marvellously RICH MINERAL DISTRICT. A most promising opportunity for business locations and realty investments. A most advantageous smelter location and railroad center. One mile from Christina Lake, th�� Great Pleasure Resort. For further information, price of lots, etc., address, GEO. K. STOCKER, Townsite Agent, Cascade, B. C. Or L. A. HAMILTON, Land Com. C. P. R., Winnipeg, Kan. THE CASCADE RECORD December 30,1899 THE CASCADE RECORD Published on Saturdays at Cascade, It. ('., H. S< Turner Editor. SUBSCRIPTIONS. Per Vear J2.0I) Six Months 1.86 To Foreign Countries 8.60 Advertising Kates Furnlalied on Application. The Kecord Is on sale at the following places: Simpson's Newstnnd , Rossland Linton Bros . Rossland Thompson Stationery Co Nelson 11. A. Kin!; & Co Greenwood K. !���'. Petrie, Orand Korku .lohn W. Graham & Co Spokane, Wash. Cascade Drug Co Cascade Win. Meadows .. Cascade If there is a blue mark in {*������*! this square, your subscrip- ��� ��� tion is due, and you are in- 2 2 vited to remit. ������������������ ABOUT WAQON ROADS. The Inland Sentinel of Kamloops merits and receives public mention in tbe press for the persistent agitation of the good roads question. The press of this province should emulate the most worthy example set by the Kamloops publication. The inhabitants of the Boundary country are being taught a lesson this winter in matters relating to wagon roads that will, or ought to be, a great profit to them in the future. Everywhere the people are short of supplies. The great mining industries of the Boundary districts are greatly retarded by the inability of freighters to get over tbe roads to deliver freight. Business houses of every description have been crippled, large numbers of men thrown out of employment, or delayed in obtaining it, and all sorts of deprivations and inconveniences must be endured because they can not be cured, this season, That so large and resourceful a territory as the Boundary country should find itself in such a plight on the approach of the winter months in conclusive evidence that omething is wrong in road matters both of rail and wagon. If proper attention heretofore had been paid to this question of wagon roads, there would not now be hundreds of tons of supplies at Bossburg aud Marcus, which the people of this upper country so sorely need, awaiting transportation hither. It was cruelty to dumb animals to force them over tbe horrible stretches of mud-channels and sloughs, misnamed roads, between here and the two points named long before freighters and stage teams ceased last fall to crawl through or over them. To be dependent solely upon the not always accommodating spirit of a single railway monopoly is to be placed at great disadvantage to say the least. There are abundant teamsters with good freighting outfits, who, while the population is suffering for the necessaries of life, would have been glad to haul this freight, but they could not on ac count of the impassible condition of tlie wagon roads. Why is this so ? Is it the fault of the provincial government, or of the district or municipal authorities? Will the people be caught in a like trap another winter season or will they insist upon the reparation of the wagon roads between themselves and the sources of supplies ? We are aware that the wagon road between Cascade and Bossburg runs but little on Canadian soil, nevertheless, as the road is needed mainly for the benefit of Canadians, they shou'd see to it that it is kept in proper repair, there being no objection on the part of the U. S. authorities. There can be no possible danger in too many rail or wagon roads; good roads are, as a thing of beauty, a joy forever. The Record joiiiB in the general demand for better wagon roads in this country, and more of them. one of considerable import both to the people and the politicians. It is an occasion of grave fears. The former fear the actions of the legislators, and the latter fear they may be found at the bottom of the heap in the rough-and-tumble scramble for a seat at the official pie counter. Hugh John Macdonald's Platform Here is Hugh John's platform which he go in on and pushed Mr. Green way off his perch: Economy in provincial administration. Equal rights to all. Government ownership of railways. The construction of the Hudson's Bay road. Manhood sufferage. Enforcement of the alien labor law. Encouragement of a better class of immigration. Extension of the provincial boundaries to Hudson's Bay. That the province have complete control of school lands. NOTE AND COMMENT. A test case is be to taken to the U. S. supreme court to test the validity of the act of 1872 of congress that demonetized silver. Twenty-five thousand veterans of Uncle Sam's war with Spain are asking for pensions. Before he gets through with the Philippines, his expense will lie well up in the billions. The many heavy failures of large business firms recently in the United States does not indicate that the McKinley gold-standard-expansion boom will hold out till he can have another "go" with Mr. Bryan. The republicans in the U.S. congress will endeavor to accomplish the annexation of the Philippine islands during the present session. What, then, will become of their election shibboleth, "Protection to American Labor? The provincial legislature, it is announced, will assemble the 4th of January 1900. This event is President McKinley is coming west, say the Spokane papers, joyfully���next September ! That is about the time Mr. McKinley will need the assistance of the voters of the west, whom he bamfoozled on tbe silver question some four years ago, when pretending to favor "international bimetalism." On the first call for volunteers for South Africa, only one resident of Cascade responded, while six answered the second call. This would appear to indicate that the patriotic spirit of the people has been intensified by the defeats which Britons have alivady suffered at the hands of the Boers. The charge made by his partv opponents against Sir Charles Tup- per as a political leader is that he continually discusses dead issues, issues past and gone, and which his party does not like to have resurrected. Like all very aged people ���looking backward instead of to the future. NEW MAP.. . OF THE Christina Lake Mining Camps. Price, $1.25, post paid. Compiled by JOHN A. CORYELL, P. L. S. Tills map contains the latest locations on Shamrock and Castle Mountains, on linker, Sutherland and McRae Creeks, and in the Burnt Basin. For sale by THE CASCADE RECORD, Cascade, 13. C. Notice. NOTIOR IS HERYBY GIVEN THAT AN application will he made to the Parliament of Canada at the next session thereof, for an act to incorporate a company to construct and maintain a railway from a point on the International lloundnry Line near Cascade, Uritish Columbia, thence inn westerly direction following tlie valley of Ihe Kettle river to a point on the llouiulary Line at or near Carson, with a brunch from a point al or near Grand Forks to a point 50 miles up the North Fork of the Kettle river, following the valley of the sameriver.also with a branch from a point at or near Grand forks, proceeding In a southwesterly direction by way of Greenwood lo a point on the International lloundiiry Line nt or near Midway, with power to the company to construct, operate and maintain telegraph and telephone lines, as well for commercial purposes as for the business of tlie company and for all other necessary and usual powers. Dated this 2nd day of December, 1898. LI.OYt) A. MANLY, For himself and the other applicants. 12 Certificates of Improvements. NOTICE. John Bull and Marinette Mineral Claims situate in the Grand Forks mining division of Osoyoos division ol Yalo district. Where located:���Ou the East side of McRae creek, near Gladstone townsite, B. C. Take Notice that I, H. E, Young, acting as agent for the John Hull Mines, limited,F. M. I'., No. H12845, Free Miner's Certificate No. 1113441), intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the mining recorder for Certificates of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining crown grants of the above claims. And further take notice that action, under section 37, in nst be commenced before the issuance of said Certificates of Improvements. Dated tills 27th day or November, A.D., 1800. R. E. Youwi, P. L. S. Young & Burnet, Rossland, B. C. 12 Latest Arrivals ut English Store: r ii(iok after your cents anil tlie bankers will mind your dollars. Look after your extremities and your heart will look alter itself. So that if you need Cheap and Excellent. RUBBERS Hoots,Siloes,Gloves,Hals,Cups, it will pay you to call at the II. C. M. Hi M. Syndicate's" English Store.". V ... ...Ill "ls" Ih'd 'here among the ) OH Will Islest arrivals: Crosse .Si, llhickwell s Jams, Pickles and Sauces, Oysters, Marmalade, McLaren's Cheese, Maple Syrup, Mine Ribbon Ten, Sweet ftlscuit. Chutney, Herrings, Finnan Baddies, Mixed Nuts, >PineB| pies, mill other table delicacies. THE B. O. tjtji Main Street and First and Second Aves., CASCADE, B. C. Branches at McRae Landing, Gladstone, and Eagle City, on the North Fork. THE wm West Seattle. rpHE only place in the Northwest where the genuine Keeley Treatment can be obtained Fine building, good board, pleasant and healihful surroundings, and tlie arrangements admit of the strictest privacy for patients, either ladies or gentlemen. The Keeley Treatment affords the only safe and sure cure for the liquor, opium, morphine, eocouiue, chloral, and oilier drugs, and ttbo for tobacco poisoning Parties Interested are Invited to call at the institute aud investigate for themselves. All correspondence confidential. C. H. Nixon, Mgr. 3 We do not keep "everything under the sun," but we have in stock just what you want when you start out iu the hills or "up the line." J. LYMHOLM, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Etc., CASCADE. B. C. ASSAYERS. QTPT T3V "QTJfVC! of-an Francisco, DJllJ_jJ3 I Dtt\J D California, Assayers and Mining Experts. To the Mining Public of the Pacific Northwest: We beg to advise you that we have opened a branch of our business at No. 205's Washington St., Portland, Oregon, to accommodate our numerous clients in the Northwest. As our name For prompt aud reliable work in the past is known In every mining camp west of tlie Rockies, it Will guarantee onr future success. Our certificates arc Invariably accepted by banks und mining corporations ns final. Numerous investors waiting for sound mining property. We nre now ready for work. Send in your samples with letter of instructions and charges, and we will give you prompt returns. Our charges are���Gobi and silver, $1.50 Gold, Copper and Silver, 13.00. Coal, Soil and other minerals. $5.00 each, zm" Check assays a specialty. SELBY BROTHERS, Assayers aiid Mining Experts, No. 205'i Washington St., Portland, Oregon. Hand Power Stamp Mills for sale���480 complete. tf December 30.1899 THE CASCADE RECORD SXSXSXSXS353XSXSXS MERE'S A POINTER. If You Wish To keep thoroughly posted on the fast moving events in the growing Boundary and Christina Lake sctions, there is only one way to accomplish it, viz: Just get in line, follow the crowd and subscribe to .. jhe cascaije Record. It costs only Two Dollars to get in out of the wet, and receive 52 copies of the Record. Printed on good paper with good type and good ink. IN-CONTINENTAL JOURNALISfl. Hy Stanley Mayall. Editor���You comment in lust week's issue on the satisfaction which recent Brrtish reverses in the Transvaal have afforded to continental nations. Many people consequently argue that war with some of the European powers is probable, if not inevitable, the assumption being that hostilities would be commenced by one or some of the countries whose press is so violent in its Anglophobia; on the contrary it is more than probable that, did the public of the British Empire but realize one tenth or one hundredth of the villainous abuse, the senseless lies and the ceaseless insults of Her Majesty the Queen which are being published broadcast throughout western Europe (more particulary in France) there would be infinitely more danger of hostilities commencing from the British side of the water. Whole editions of French newspapers, at double or treble the ordinary price are being published with the express object of vilifying everything British. A recent edition of the "Rire" published at five times its usual cost and entitled "Voila Les English" was sold out and reprinted within a few hours of appearance and the writer feels safe in saying that for filth, distortion, lying and abuse it exceeded anything that even Paris, the home of "half penny horribles" had hitherto achieved. It is, perhaps, fortunate that Britishers in general are not aware of the full measureof these insults; and further, that those who know something of French journalism know how to value it. For the benefit of those who have read some recently cabled French criticisms, may I offer the following translations from foreign papers which have just reached me. They may have a corrective tone and will counteract much that has been uttered. A gentleman writing on one of the Belgium papers over the initials K. p.. and whom I believe to be Mr. Kist, senior, one of the most distinguished litterateurs in Brussels, says, "As long as the Boers were sixty against nine and thus succeeded, not in routing but checking their adversaries, the half penny press had easy joy. Now, however, that the contingents are landing, the forces tending to equalize, and the English victories at Belmont, Gras Pan and Modder river, precursors of many others, are reported, the penmen have become mad with rage, and are spitting out simply streams of insults the length of their venomous columns." Again Mr. Geoges Duval one of the few Paris journalists of irreproachable character protesting against the prevailing an- glophobia, says: "Thoughtful people and folks simply of decent upbringing are commencing to find this campaign against the person of the Queen of England to be of more than doubtful taste. If it be truly our love for the Boers which makes us as a nation thus forget the most elementary decency then the government which supports these constant vulgarities should send troops to the help of the oppressed and instead of upholding the scribblers and cartoonists make volunteers of them. The situation is vacant. The rifle would have more effect than pen or pencil. If I shared this indignation with the anglo- phobes I would not hesitate to take the trip and believe one would show more bravery in exchanging bullets with Gen. Methuen than in heaping insults on the head of an aged widow lady. But I know my men. I know whence come the attacks and where the blame belongs. As I search among politicians, pressmen and others I do not see one individual of repute among the two-penny Don Quixotes to whom I make illusion. Just as in a theatre it only needs one noisy spectator to incommode the whole audience. So in this matter it only needs a few blackguards to upset the whole country. The remedy I know not, fools being in the majority, but for my own consolation I like to suppose that the foreigner knows how to oppor- tion his bitterness to the littleness of the attacks." Commenting on the above the editor of a Brussels paper says, "What a lesson for us, because in Belgium this anti-English rage exists at least as much as in France. Certain journalists of evident bad faith exert themselves night and day to excite, I may say, to mislead public opinion. When, however, the municipal council of Brussels recently voted an enormous credit for advertising, in order to draw this way foreigners visiting the Paris exposition, there were no insults and no infamy addressed to England, to whom moreover we owe it that we did not share the tyrannies of the Empire, the apish- ness of the third republic and the shame of Sedan. And what is most scandalous is that those who are distinguishing themselves among us in this dirty work, who have 'the face' to cry loudest in the name of the Belgian people are Germans and French. It is unnecessary "to dot the i," everybody recognizes them. "Be logical, ye anglophobesand if you contend that ive Belgians are bringing civilization to the Congo blacks in fighting slave dealers do not find fault if the British triumph on this same African soil from Cape to Soudan in order that all men may be free and equal." It is a pleasure, sir, to discover amongst the clamorous ravings of an ill bred and misguided horde of "absinthe-minded beggars," a few solemn notes of simple common sense and justice. Dec. 25,1899. Manager Graham, of the Waterloo mine in Camp McKinney, has been in Spokane, where he placed on exhibition a $2,000 gold brick, from the Waterloo, the result of a 15-dav run. The B. C. mine in Summit camp, owned by the B. C. chartered company,ltd., of Montreal with a registered capital of $3,000,000, is stated to have $600,000of ore in sight and on the dump. Kmmmmmmmmmm. That We Can Do All Kinds And ALL Styles of mHmmmummmm^mNmi mmmmmfmmmffmfmmf!!! A Test Of Our Artistic Skill Will Prove. Give Us a Trial. WMiffltiMiWimMHHmMMMtiti B5IKK:3KKeSC3C3CaK2&KCS:3&.K 6 THE CASCADE RECORD December 110,1899 THE EVENT OF THE SEASON. The Christmas Entertainment In Cascade a Pleasing Success. The First Presbyterian church was tilled almost to overflow Monday night by people of the town and vicinity, who bad gathered to witness and participate in the exercises befitting the occasion, which had been previously announced. The ladies���always found to the fore in all good works���assisted by Prof. Simpson, Rev. Joseph McCoy and others, had arranged and prepared a programme and trained the particpating children to render it, which they did with marked credit, not only to themselves, but to their instructors. Owing to the paucity of the youthful population of this community the programme nearly exhausted it, leaving no room for choice other than that of Hobson'i. Considering this fact the programme was remarkably well rendered in every particular. The children ranged in ages from 4 or 5 years to 14 or 15, and not one of them faltered or hesitated with fear or forgetfulness. Following is the programme as it was executed : Hymn���"Ob 1 Come, all ye faithful," by the children and others. Recitation���"TheClown's Baby," by Robert Thompson. Recitation ��� "Slightly mixed," by Jennie McRae. Instrumental music, by Miss Darrow. Recitation���"Christmas Morning," by Ava Black. Recitation ��� "Willie's Speech," by Wilbur Greer. Recitation���"The Union Jack," by Andrew Thompson. Scotch Song���By the Rev. Joseph McCoy. Recitation���"Choice of Trades," by ten hoys. Recitation���"Christmas in Fun- nyland," by Jessie Hyde. Song���"The two dying soldiers," by Harriet Lavalley. Dialogue���"The Arithmetic Lesson," by Edwin and Wilbur Greer. Recitation���"There was once a wee urchin called Bill," by John Thompson. Recitation���"Santa Claus is coming," by Margery Wolverton. Instrumental music, by Miss Darrow. Recitation ��� "Good-bye, old year," by Jennie McRae. * Recitation���"In my pocket," by Edwin Greer. Vocal Solo, by Mr. Stocker. Recitation���"The Battle of Ho- henlinden," by Willie Walling. Recitation���"It's coming, boys," by John McRae. Recitation���"Old King Cole," by Ada Hubbard. Recitation���"The point of view," by Willie Thompson. Song��� "Shells of Ocean," by Jessie Hyde and Harriet Lavalley. Recitation���"When mother looks at pie," by Duncan McRae. Recitation���"Two little kittens," by Mary Thompson. Recitation���"Boys' Rights," by Bert Greer. After conclusion of the regular programme Mr. Dalgleish volunteered a declamation entitled a "Polish Hero," which he delivered in a masterly manner. Then, a gingleof sleigh bells that sent a thrill of exciting joy to the hearts of the little ones, and Santa Claus (artfully impersonated by Mr. Stocker) appeared on the scene and began the distribution of presents from a large tree that was loaded from top to bottom with tokens of love and esteem. Following the distribution of presents came refreshments to the inner man, consisting of fruit, tea, coffee and numerous varieties of cake. The refreshments served were excellent in quality and abundant in quantity, attesting not only the liberal-heartedness of those who had to do with supplying them, but that our town can boast of cookery artists of the first order. While the audience was enjoying edibles, Miss Darrow, Rev. McCoy and Mr. Stocker entertained with vocal and instrumental music. One of the reciters, Miss Jennie McRae, who had to give a recitation entitled,"Slightly Mixed," in which a little girl was represented as being sent to a store by her mother to buy some articles, and as getting confused jnid [forgetting her message, put such a degree of realism into her recitation, that some of the audience thought she had actually become confused and forgotten the wording of her recitation, when she was simply acting as a little girl would under such circumstances. "The perfection of art is to conceal all art." The occasion was the first to call together so large an audience in the new church to celebrate Yule Tide festivities, and all present appeared to enter with zest into its enjoyments. Cascade Public School. The following marks, which were obtained by the pupils of the Cascade school during the month of December, show their relative standing for that mouth: Third Class: Jennie McRae, 780; Ralph Wolverton, 738; Jessie Hyde, 725; Robert Thompson, 703. Senior Second Class: Willie Walling, 524; Ava Black 522; Herbert Greer, 521; Harriet Lavalley, 497. Junior Second Class: Edwin Greer, 545; Alonzo Scott, 533; Duncan McRae, 434. Primer: Jesse Baulne, 418; Joseph Baulne, 410; Wilbur Gre*r, 408; John McRae, 343. From the number of pipes which found their way into Mr. Stocker's possession last Monday evening that gentleman need not be minus that article the balance of his life, and should ever be ready to smoke the pipe of peace with all comers. C. H. May was iu Spokane this week, enjoying holiday pleasures in that metropolis. P. BURNS & CO.'S KA&fKT K/flRKET. fisr; anb Oysters, ��ii>e anb ftresseb Poultry WEINERWURST AND SAUER KRAUT. R GRIBI, r\gr. Second Avenue, CASCADE CITY. Y.MOMIER&CO. WHOLESALE ��iquors, ^)ines anb (j5aT9S- A specialty made of Imported Goods. Glassware and bar Supplies Always on Hand. Sole Agents for Pabst's Milwaukee Beer. MAIN STREET, .... CASCADE, B. C. m B. C. Livery Stable Good Saddle Horses for Hire. Teaming on the Shortest Notice. Good Turnouts Ready at all hours to go to any part of the Boundary country. Careful drivers. www J. A. BERTOIS, Prop. Stables on Second Avenue, - CASCADE, B. C. BLACK'S h DTEL... BLACK BROS., Props. Cor. of Main Street and First Avenue [centre of town] ... European Plan. CASCADE, B. C. fl^sr* Always Open. *=��>-$ The Most Popular Hotel in the Entire Boundary District. Favorite Stopping Place for Mining Men and Commercial Travellers. Splendidly Stocked Bar iu connection HOTEL GLADSTONE Situated at the new town of Gladstone, near the Burnt Basin Mining Region and only 18 miles from Cascade; 10 miles from Christina Lake. One of the iiest hotel buildings between Cascade and Brooklyn. Good Livery Stable in connection. FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS.^* ALBERT W. J. BELGROVE, Prop. oL Dcoember 30, 1899 THE CASCADE RECORD 1 I ��� ��� ��� ��� The Centre of the Far-famed Similkameen District. A Mining and Agricultural Centre. :::::: S3 Lots Now on the fiarket. H IS 8 8 THE BUSINESS STREET. Hi i I'd Avenue, 100 Feet Wide. Lots, 30x150. OTHER STREETS. Corner Lots, $100. Inside Lots, $75. H Corner Lots, $150. Inside Lots, $100. Terms, 1-3 Cash; Balance, Three and Six Months. For Further Particulars, Apply +n ��� BBALBT INVESTMENT & TEUST CO., Ltd., General Agents, R- H. PARKINSON, Fairview. GREENWOOD, B. C. E. BULLOCK-WEBSTER, Keremeos. A 8 09 8 8 8 8 8 1900. Tbe Record wishes that this new and last year of the 19th century upon the threshhold of which we now stand may prove a happy and properous one for all of its readers. The stirring events, wonderful progress in mechanical arts, the uncovering and application of hitherto unseen or hidden forces of nature, with innumerable other additions to the world's knowledge, stamps the 19th century as the most remarkable one known in history. We await with hope seasoned with fear, for the concluding acts to be recorded in the coming year, concerning which much that is not pleasant to contemplate, has been prophesied. But hope Is the anchor of the soul; let us hold fast to it. A Valuable Christmas Present. The most valuable Christmas present received by any party in Cascade last Monday, was welcomed at the home of Mr. William Anderson���a brand new baby boy. R. D. McLean, of Greenwood; I. Dikon and W. Forrest, of Gladstone, and Isaac Peering of Spokane, registered at the Hotel Cascade this week. LOCAL BREVITIES. Our Bossburg stages are again running. J. G. Reveler went to Grand Forks Thursday. Ladies Aid social at Miss Dar- row's next Thursday. Dr. Northnrp, of Grand Forks, was in Cascade Monday. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Mahaffy assisted them in disposing of their Christmas pie. The timber work on the dam iB progressing rapidly, though the planking is somewhat delayed by the continued high water. The turkey dinner served at the Hotel Cascade on Christmas day was enjoyed by many of our hotel- ed citizens Warm weather dissipated much of the snow the past week, but more is falling as we go to press, and the roads will be in better condition. The new church was handsomely decerated with evergreens which added much to the attractiveness of the place on Monday, a fact which we did not mention in our Christmas entertainment article. The section house ii now complete, and the force of men are now erecting a large^water tank at tht bridge, at the head of tbe falls. We trust the C. P. R. will let the good w.irk go on, and build passenger and freight depots to replace the present apology. Church Service Divine service will be conducted by Hev. Joseph McCoy, M. A. tomorrow (Sunday) at 11 a.m. und 7:30 p.m., Standard Time, in the new church. Sabbath school at 2:80 p.m. in the same place. All are cordially invited to attend. A. D. MORRISON, UP-TO-DATE Watcbmaker, Jeweller and Optician. Eyes Scientifically Tested Free of Charge Dominion Hull Block, - COLUMBIA, B.C, r HOTEL CASCADE C. H. Thomas, Prop The Original and Oldest Hotel in this part of tht district. Headquarters for Contractors, Mining Men aud Travellers. Well Stocked Bar in Connection. Second Avenue, Cascade City. British Columbia. > 9* ^ossburg-Columbia Stage ��ine, BROCKMAN & LAY, Props. Runs daily from Grand Forks to Bossburg and return, meet trains both ways on the Spokane Falls & Northern Railway. Careful and experienced drivers, safe and comfortable vehicles, good stock and good time. Carrying Her Majesty's and American mails. 2o > 8' THE CASCADE RECORD December SO, 18W Dominion ��� Supply��Co., ���������������������� Main Street, Cascade, B. C. B. WILCOX, r\gr. We Make a Specialty :::: OP :::: FINE GBOCEKflES, Giant Powder, Blacksmith's Coal, Hay and Grain. Let Us Make You .... Quotations. WE PRINT Dodgers Circulars Billheads Letterheads Visiting Cards Business Cards Shipping Tags', Statements, Etc. AT THE OFFICE , . OF . . The Record Commercial Hotel QUINLIVAN & JOHNSON, Props. The Largest and Most Popular Hotel in the city i? Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. First Ave. and Main St., - CASCADE, B. C. D. D. FERGUSON, Plant Drawn and| Estimates Furnished 83 Doors, Sash and all Kinds of Glass. CASCADE CITY, BRITISH COLUMBIA Fire Insurance Agency PHOENIX ASSURANCE COM- PANY, of London, Eng., BRITISH AMERICAN ASSURANCE CO. of Toronto; WESTERN ASSURANCE CO. George K. Stocker, Agent. Sing Kee Expert Laundryman. Bundle? called for and delivered. Work done on Short Notice. Give me a trial. Laundry at the rear of the Commercial Hotel CASCADE. B. C. Hutch ins & Wingard Are now located in Bossburg with ten four-horse teams, and are prepared to deliver freight in Cascade, Grand Forks and Greenwood on SHORT NOTICE. Orders received by Telephone, and prompt delivery guaranteed. WOOD! <^FOR SALE. Delivered free to any part of the city BOWEN & VANCLEVE CASCADE, B. C. IN AND AROUND CASCADE. Mr. and Mrs D. McLeod entertained friends at a, Christmas, dinner. Julius Black and family made a trip to Eholt returning by Thursday's train. C. W. Greer, and Mr. Scott, formerly of this city, but now of Phoenix, enjoyed Christmas with their families in Cascade. A large contingent of the English population of Cascade were entertained at a Christmas dinner by Mr. and Mrs. Rochussen. The excavation for the foundation of the power house is nearing completion. Contractor Quinlivan says another month will show that part of the work nearly finished. It is expected work will be well under way on the big flume by that time. The little tots were entertained Wednesday by Mrs. Stocker who gave an afternoon doll party for their pleasure. Those present were Marjorie Wolverton, Ada Hubbard, Mable Price, Kathleen McRae, Eva Greer and Anna Brown. A party who says he knows what he is talking about, asks us why the water power company of Cascade persists in claiming that it is developing only about 6,000 horsepower, when actually from 15,000 to 20,000 horse-power is being developed ? All we can say in reply is, "No sabby." We can divine no reason for such a course, if it is a fact. Rev. Jos. McCoy ei.tertained quite a party at a "scrub" on Wednesday evening by inviting several of the members of his congregation to the "manse" at 7 p. m , the men to bring brooms, the ladies aprons. The guests on arriving were served to a bountiful dinner, the ladies assisting the Reverend, after which the men were invited to adjourn, with brooms and buckets, to the church where the game of scrub was indulged in until the floor had the appearance of being newly laid. All then returned to the manse where music was indulged in till��� well if the Parson didn't want them to stay so late he should not have entertained them so well. Spokane Palis & Northern System. Nelson anil Fort Sheppard Ry, Co. lied Mountain Railway Co. The direct and only All-Rail Route between the Kootenay District ���AND all��� British Columbia Points, Pacific Coast Points, Puget Sound Points, Eastern Canada and United States. ���Connects at Spokane with��� GREAT NORTHERN RY. NORTHERN PACIFIC RY. O. R. R. & NAV. CO. Maps furnished, tickets sold and Information given by local and connecting line ticket agents. Passengers for Kettle River and Bonndary creek connect at Marcus and Uosiburg with stages dailv. H. A. JACKSON, Q. P. k T. A., Spokane, Wash. canadian >) Pacific Ky. AND SOO LINE. CANADA'S National HIGHWAY America's Great Transcontinental Line and World's Pictorial Route. The Direct Route From Kootenay Country Kettle River and Boundary Creek Districts to all points East and West First-class Sleepers on all trains from Revelstoke and Kootenay Landing. TYYTTDTCT* PAT3C P"'8 Medicine iUUKlOl tAM Hat Dully for St. Paul, Sundays and Wednesdays for Toronto, Fridays for Montreal and Boston. Same cars pass Revelstoke one day euiller. Direct Connection via Robson to and Irom all points. Leave CASCADE Arrive 14.48 Dally ex. Sun. 13.02 For rates and fullest information address niar- estlooul agent or, F. E. Tbbo, Agt., Cascade, B. C. W.F. An-derson, E.J.Coyle, Trav. Pass.Agent, A.G.F.Agt. Nelson, B.C. Vancouver.B.C. 0. K. livorr St v HANDY & CO., Props. Teaming, Packing, Freighting. Saddle Horses for Hire. Near Montana Hotel, Casca��P