"V V' Sheep, Deer, Goat, Wolves, Grizzly and Brown Bears Little Minds are Quickly Tamed and Subdued by Misfortune Princeton is in the heart of a great Goal and Ore Producing Zone—Coking Coal is Mined at North Fork of Granite Greek—The Conditions are most Favorabk for the Smelting Industry—Water Power Available for Electric Motive Purposes—Coal is $3.00 per Ton. Vol. ix. No. 41. PRINCETON, B.C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1908. $2 a Year, in Advance COPPER MOUNTAIN Development Work on Colorado Group now in Progress. the Tunnel Scheme for Copper Mountain Advocated—Owners Invited to Unite Efforts. Many will recall to memory, and it has been said within the last two months, that the group, known as the "Colorado Group," was barren ground Andpromi nent citizens have advised workmen to carry ore from any old place and report the same to the people of Portland, Ore., who are owners of said ground, hoping thereby to get more unearned money. However, it is a noteworthy fact that the people mentioned are looking atter their own interests through a reliable ageut, and it is through his efforts and direc- t ons that proper development work has g ne on all summer and which has o jened up a fine body of oie assaying in gold $9 10 per ton and copper 18.97 per cent. And, from indications shown in the tunnel, one of the largest, if not the largest, ore bodies on Copper Mountain has been uncovered. Arrangements are being made to run a lother tunnel at the 200 foot level. All intelligent and progressive mining men of this section will watch with keen interest the results from this tunnel, since it has become an established fact that all Copper Mountain needs is development work, which will uncover or penetrate the ore at depth. How much better results could be obtained from a tunnel run from the Similkameen riverside which would cut the hill near the 2 000 foot level ? On all sides one can hear the same story : "Yes, that is the thing, but who is going to do it?" " Who is going to do it ?" That question puts oue in mind of the story told by a contractor who was erecting a large bridge in China by the use of native labor. He said: "I came along wheie the laborers were and I saw one Chinaman take hold of a large piece of timber, then another did the same, and so on until a dozen or more had tried their strength. The Chinese foreman said he could not get a man that was able to lift the stick of timber. I then said 'make them all lift together.' The timber immediately arose to its place with ease and they _fl smiled." That homely illustration exemplifies what can be done where united effort is required. If all get together and lift a little in one way or another the tunnel will be put through, i It is going to be done. Some one is'^going to reap the reward. Why not the owner of the prospect ? Miners, prospectors and owners, get together, select a leader, organize and formulate plans—for in union there is strength. Many have waited from ten to fourteen years for the copper to come to the surface and very little of it is closer now than it was at the beginning, and it is safe to sav another period of waiting will elapse unless some energy and activity is shown by those who have interests and who wish to exercise their privileges. Start the tunnel and the first thing to result will be a developed mine—no mat ter whose it is—ship the ore, and Copper Mountain will do the rest. Anyone interested in developing this big mountain of ore and wishing to realize on his property should drop a line to the Star, giving the name of the pre - perty, also the name and address of the OADfr and partners, if any. It may be, however, that some will prefer to withhold any information, desiring to keep their property as a legacy to their great- grand children. WHERE FRUIT CROWS Similkameen and Okanagan Valleys the Home of the Apple And the Peach, while Other Fruits Grow to Perfection and with Big Yield. TOWN AND DISTRICT. People Passing to and fro and Current Events Here and There. A. Murchie, photographer, returned from a trip to Penticton and the Okanagan last Saturday. Anderson, Oleson and Alberson have the contract for constructing all the culverts on the V..V. & E. between Hedley and Princeton. H. H. Avery, jr., left on Monday for the Spokane fair and Nelson. Dr. and Mrs." Whillans and Mr. Hincks were a party of visitors to Princeton oh Sunday. County Court will be held in Princeton on Friday at 11 o'clock. F. W. Groves, P.L SM arrived on Monday from Okanagan Centre and will remain about a month. ' Fred. A. Kribs of Portland, Ore., was in Princeton last week in connection with his timber interests. He left on Sunday for home, with J. Garrison, his cruiser. Charlie Lambert has closed down work on his placer claims on Granite Creek. He has everything ready to begin work next season washing gold from the can yon. A. L. Davis left last Saturday for Butte, Mont., from whence he goes to Salem, Ore., where he will have charge of a chemical plant for the Goldquick Min ing Co. D. O. Day returned last week looking like his former self after hospital treatment in Portland, Oregon. Harry Bishop, Nelson's crack hockey "goal tender, was in town on Oct. rst representing Thorpe & Co., aerated waters of Nelson. Gordon Murdoch returned from a trip extending as far as Summerland on Okanagan Lake last week and expresses both pleasure and surprise with the almost phenomenal development of the countty beginning at Keremeos and extending northwards along White Lake, Green Mountain, Okanagan Falls, Dog Lake, Penticton Naramata and Summerland. The whole country is undergoing rapid transformation, due largely to the hunger for fruit land manifested by Manitobans. No better class of settler could be found in all the world than these people. They are the cream .of the wheat belt where they made money growing "No. 1 hard' and raising large families. In his travels Mr. Murdoch noticed that everyone talked fruit as well as ate it. He was most courteously shown over different properties by land agents who kept a carriage and pair for the use of visitors. Where a few years ago the wolf, coyote and bob-tailed deer roamed at will, now laden fruit trees and beautiful residences adorned the laud. Small capital was required to begin a fruit ranch but its reward was so generous when once the trees bore that revenue led expenditure by a long pace. Mr. Murdoch considers Summerland an ideal residential place. No liquor is sold there, hence there is no constable and no arrests. It wi 1 be a day's drive from Princeton when the government completes the road from Five-Mile to Trout Creek. Messrs. Lawrence and Md- Alpine, formerly of Princeton, are located here and are doing well, the latter having married a most excellent wife and has issue a fine boy. Mr. Carry, the C.P.R. engineer running a line from Nicola to Penticton, is at Summerland with his f party. At Penticton a pe?ch and tomato cannery is in operation. Here the Messrs. Shatford are doing much to improve the town and country. At Keremeos everything indicates pro gress and expansion. The big irrigation ditch will be finished in time for next year's crop and great results are anticipated from the reclamation of uplands. Apples and peaches were an abundant crop, the demand for them exceeding the supply in Winnipeg and the Northwest. A ton shipment of grapes' from a small vineyard gives one an idea of the productive value of a patch of ground well V supplied with water. The average price of fruit from growers was 3j«jC. per lb. Trips abroad only serve to emphasise the fact that Princeton district is ahead of all in variety of natural resources. Its mineral, timber and agriculture alone being assets that must forever prove a vast source of revenue and wealth to tbe country. The railroad is the last link to be forged in the chain of development— after that steady and permanent improvement must ensue. TOO MUCH BOOZE. An Indian freighter on the Nicola road had a 'close call' resulting from booze and bad dfiving. His wagon left the grade throwing him off his seat. All unconscious of the danger he laid until a tiniely passei-by got him into a place where he could safely snooze until sober. The horses were detached from the wagon and made as cpmfortable as could be under the circumstances. There is a law against supplying liquor to Indians but its enforcement is largely a matter of chance. SOME PLAIN FACTS. Newspaper at Vernon Misleads—The Telephone Mismanagement. On the 2nd page will be found an excerpt from the Okanagan in which reference in false terms is made to the owner of the Star. He never dealt with "government telephones as though they were his personal property " nor has he "been breathing vengeance against the Liberal party and Mr. Ross." In the first statement allusion is probably made to connecting the wire with the Howse Co's store. Permission had been asked to have telephone connection made as formerly when the public phone was removed to the government office. Pending a favorable reply connection with the main line was made without the authority of either Mr. Ross or Mr. Stevens. It was in no malicious or high handed spirit that it was done. It was reasonably presumed that the store would be given a wire as formerly since it always had been a customer of the line since building. To the astonishment of the Howse Co. not only was the connecting wire taken away but stubborn refusal made from that time, nearly a year ago, to the present to grant telephone connection. A phone was. installed in a private residence since the Howse Co. were denied one. A big mercantile company with a store at Nicola as well as Princeton cannot obtain a phone, though an old customer and its members Liberal, voting for Mr. Ross at his first election. Mr. Ross favored a Conservative rather than his own friends. Of course politics should not enter into the management of a public utility—first come, first served should be the guiding' principle. But mention is made of it to- (Continued on 3rd page.) THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR October 7, 1908 ^ THE STAR, ^ One Year, J. M.WRIGHT. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: Payable in Advance. $2.00 Subscribers will confer a favor on this office by promptly reportftie any change in address or irregularity in receipt of their paper. Advertising rates furnished on application. Legal notices io and 5 cents per tine. Four weekly insertions constitute one month advert ising. No transient advertisement inserted unless accompanied with the cash. HYPOCRISY EXPOSED. Of all low class, contemptible journals the one which under the guise of saintliness and purity proceeds to "knife" a' man or another newspaper is the lowest in human depravity. Editors of that stripe are the "Black Hand" of journalism, ready to take by stealth what is more valuable than gold, aye, than life, character. After a lecture on campaign morality and " fair play " the Vernon Okanagan assails the Star and those connected with it for daring to criticize the member for Yale-Cariboo, Mr. Ross. Its hypocrisy, its "veiled" suggestions and its false statements show that the man behind the quill is an adept in the treacherous role he fills on the Okanagan. Let us look at him in his mud-thrown ele ment : " The gentleman who owns the Star •was bred and born a Tory. He may have , given the Liberal party some support when it suited his purpose. It was not a question of political principle at all, but of personal advantage, and when he was not allowed to deal with government telephones as though they were his personal property, then he turned and has ever since been breathing vengeance against the Liberal party and Mr. Ross. If the Conservative press want to know what is at the bottom of the 'S'ar's animosity, they can get full, particulars from the gentleman referred to who is now in England, &c." The first assertion would lead one to think that if a ri.ian were born a Tory be should remain one all his life. Because a man's parents were of that political creed is it to be inferred that he shall follow suit ? s If a parent.isja Nihilist should the son be one also ? What figure does . bir^h cut in any intelligent man's political affiliations ? None ! Only ;in the mind of the party blind, stupid adherent like the Okanagan editor do hereditary politics have any influence. If it were not for the free, independent, intelligent /< elector there would be no change in :i corrupt administrations or unfair representatives. It is the history of all governments that mischief and corruption thrive best with a long retained party in power. Yet the narrow minded Okanagan endeavors to heap odium upon a man because he leaves the political party of his forefathers because of its corruption. There would be no Liberal' government in Canada today but for those intelligent and fair-minded Tories who threw out the "nest of traitors" in 1906 and put Sir Wilfrid in. It was a political triumph that any loyal son of the country might well feel proud in contributing to. All honor to the man who has the courage to forsake his party, his father, or any other tie that he may. vote according to guiding conscience and ennobling convictions. "It was not a question of political principle," says the Okanagan. That is .the stab of the dastard. The Okanagan man would not give a person credit for sincere and genuine motives. He might say the same thing of the fifty thousand other voters who revolted. Can this hypocritical scribe know the thoughts and intents of men? No. Then why does he ascribe mean, despicable motives ? There is only one answer. Because he is' mean and despicable himself. The owner of this paper has no axe to grind and asks no favors-frora the'Liberal or.any other party. All he asks is to be treated fairly and.not discriminated against by the, member or any of his underlings in the matter of a telephone. The? - 'ft Princeton Livery I and |5S§ Feed ■ J| Stables. j§| HUSTON BROS., Props. Nine Fine Ranches 160 to 640 Acres Each Good Soil and Well Watered, all from two to ten miles from Princeton. In ihe lamous fruit belt of B.C. Prices range from $5 to $15 per acre. ki^ Two elegant business corners, also inside business lots. A nice 5-room residence, on two, lots. 12 most desirable Residential Lots, Cheap1.' '"' ' For Rent—A 5-Room---house. .. One... small house. Nice location, J List your property with us. AVERY &, AVERY Real Estate, Insurance, Notary Public W General Livery business carried on. Horses for hire, single or double. Wood pr coal' delivered on shortest notice, Draying in all its branches. Prices right Satisfaction guaranteed. FOR SALE. TULAMEEN W^§L ...LIVERY SAM CASSIDY, Prop. Driving Rigs, Pacfc? and Saddle Horses for Hire w need to eat meat if you want to enjoy life. We have the best. Horses Pastured and Delivered SUMMERS & WARDLE BUTCHERS PRINCETON Lot 4, Block Four ; Lots, 8, 9 and 10 Block One. Price, $500 Cash. Adddress : M. M. POWERS, Vancouver, B.C. TICKET J'S Myrtle 1 fNaviLip Largest Sale in Canada For further particulars . apply to SAM CASS IDY,; |s*j Tulameen, B. C. Brags;;;:.! pDPugs I jj H Brags A GOOD ilf SPRING TONIC is what you require. Campbell is the man to see about it. Don't delay. CIGARS AND it TOBACCO I AT The Citg Drug store J. R. CAMPBELL. PRINCETON - B. C. Gpca! Normern —— HOtCl— MANLEY & SWANSON, Props. First Class room and board Wines, Liquors, Cigars prinecion, B. c. F. W. GROVES Civil and flining Engineer B. C. Land Surveyor Examinations and reports made on mines and prospects.y*}.",;.'. Has a thorough l^nowledge of the Similkameen and Boundary Districts. , Plans of .all Surveyed Lands and Mineral Claims n the District. PRINCETON. B.C PRINCETON LODGE I.O.O.F. No. 52. Regular meetings, 8 p \gkg_jgg' -<^b/ in., Thursdays. Sojourning brethren.welcome. Hall situated in Star building. N. Huston, J. O. Coulthasd. 6 Noble Grand. Secretary. fc> __^_____ WHISKEY CLEAR ROCK MINERAL WATER make a Perfect Blend Sold bv all Dealers. It Pays to Advertise. A_ October 7, 1908 THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR -SOME PLAIN FACTS. show the utter faithlessness of Mr. Robs in making such a glarii g exhibition of favoritism and partiality. Princeton seems to have been discrinr- nated against in regard to a public telephone, for, as everyone knows, there has been, until recently, many montts of inferior service or none at all. . The people nf Princeton contribute thfeir quota to the ie*euue of the Io ninion andare entitled to fair and equitable treatment. Public and private denunciation of the telephone management, for which'Mr. Ross cannot escape responsibility since he muse have known all about it, has often been made. It remains for the people to resent such unfairness and make good their strong protestations or will they turn and lick the hand that smites. A. MURCHIE "Eg" PHOTOGRAPHER wnniB-se Photos of Families taken at their Homes—Views of Princeton and Surrounding Camps. AMATEUR WORK FINISHED Address - PRINCETON. KC. __r LOCAL AND GENERAL After long and serious meditation it 1 a 1 been decidjd to petition the govern- m :nt for money to build a road to the North Fork coking coal mines Word was received Monday that the 2 year old son of Donald Macphail had died at Nicola. Many expressions of sympathy art heard for Mr. and Mis. Macphail in their bereavement. 5*5tj$"Ji Pulfprd, the Hedley forger, has been se itenced to 8 months in lafllfesHfe:.. Robert Stevenson returned from Hed ley last week He is mending slowly from his serious accident of a month ago. J. R. Campbell and W. Summers returned from Hedley on Monday. Claude Snowden and his nephew let f ■ Olga, Wash., last Saturday, going out v-.a Slate Creek. v*^wj' Subscribers in arrears who "refuse" tl e Star at the P.O., will please cail and set- lie account. 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Certificate of Improvements Frieda, Cabin, Colorado Fr., Edward 7th, Fr„ No's 6, Fr.; 7Fr.; 26, Fr. and 27 Fr., mineral claims, situate in the Similkameen mining division of Yale. Where located: On Copper Mountain. - Take notice that I, G. Evert Baker, Free Miner'8 .Certificate No. B20055, acting for self and as agent forT. T. Burkhart, F.M.C. No. B2C053 and Frieda E. Baker, F.M.C. No. B20054, intend, 60 days frttri date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, uhdeT. Jwc-j tion 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 19th of September, A.D. 1908. 89-48 WOOD, VALIANCE & LE**4***<,**,0<>**<^^^****************************** HI The fS "if Tf A. E. Howse Co. 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