I I ftt mm} {ft^y*****^ ^ �� eft*re they are all gone. We have a splendid assortment this year of Ladies', Mens' and Boy's v. Snoes and Skates. Call and see our stock. New and Second-Hand House sliings trunks and Valises Furnished Houses Sewing Machines Pianos for Rent: Skates Ground A. Phone 16 Greenwood, B. C. MAKE Greenwood's Big Furniture Store ��\\m ^ S��*S!p*��T�� & �� to see how a new piece or two of Furniture, will brighten up your home JUST TRY IT We are always ready to make an exchange H T. M. GULLEY & Co. Opposite Postofficc. GREENWOOD, B. C. Phone 27 HOME-MADE TOAST GRAHAM WHOLE WHEAT CREAM ' CURRANT NUT FRENCH And'all kinds of Buns, Cakes and Pastries. When at a loss for something dainty ring .up A126 I CAN HELP YOU William C. Arthurs THE BREAD & CAKE BAKER Vienna Bakery, Greenwood Around Home HAVE YOU SEEN IT? rCLMB CIGAR STORE ===== GRBEKW��0B === WALTER G, KENNEDY PROPRIETOR tl CIGARS, TOBACCOS, PIPES AND SMOKERS' �� ' SUNDRIES ��r CANDY, FRUIT AND CONFECTIONERY ��&- Drop in when you wish to read the latest Papers and Magazines Aeent for Phoenix Laundry, - Office of Piioenix & Midway Stages J THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE 1 SIR EDMUND WALKER, C.V.O., LLD., D.C.L., PRESIDENT ALEXANDER LAIRD, General Manager CAPITAL, - $10,000,000 We have just issued a handsome Illustrated Catalogue that would "do credit .to any mailorder house,' and which "shows at a glance the grip we have on the better class of trade. We want you to see how line a jewelry store we have. SEND FOR ONE A. LOGAN & Co. GREENWOOD. - B. C. __ REST, t $8,000,000 ��.: DRAFTS ON FOREIGN COUNTRIES Every branch of The Canadian Bank of Commerce is equipped to issue drafts on the principal cities in the folio wing'countries without delay: ; Africa , Crete Greece "�� "~%- '._. Arabia . . .*. Cuba Holland ��'-. Argentine Republic Denmark Iceland Australia*. Egypt India , Austria-Hungary Faroe Islands Ireland *.'. Belgium ' Finland Italy .'.' Brazil , Formosa Japan 1* Bulgaria France Java "�� i CeyUn ' �� Fr'ch Cochin China Malta '/r Chili ", ' Germany Manchuria ...'. China' Great Britain Mexico The amount of these drafts is stated in the money of the country where they are payable; that is they are drawn in sterling*, francs, marks, lire, kronen, florins, yen, :taels, roubles, etc., as the case may be. This ensures that the payee abroad will Veceive the actual amount intended. , , �� A233; ..'. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT j; T. BEATTIE, Manager. - Greenwood Branch. New Zealand �� Siberia Norway Soudan Panama South Africa ' ' Persia Spain Peru Straits Settlements Philippine Island. Sweden Portugal Switzerland Roumania Turkey United State* ,* Russia Servia Uruguay Siam West Indies, etc. St. Jude's Anglican Church Services: Holy Communion 8:30 a.m. 2nd and 4th Sundays in the month; Matins, 11 a.m.; Evensong, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday School, 2:30 p.m. Rev. Franklin Watson, Vicar. ' uooars to list In the Swayno House, Silver Street." ' Clean, private and comfortable rooms in a quiet locality at reasonable rates. Hot and cold baths free to guests. ;�� ; �� Send for a catalogue of headstones, and monuments, made by the Kootenay Monumental Works, Nelson, B. O. I P. BURNS & 60. Dealers in Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish, and Poultry. Shops in nearly all the towns of Boundary and Kootenay. X COPPER STREET, GREENWOOD <% INTERIOR FAIRS The British Columbia Agricultural Fairs association while in session in Victoria, allotted the dates for fairs throughout the province in 1912. The Grand Porks fair will be held on September 26 and 27; Nelson, September 23 to 25; Cranbrook, September 18 and 19; Kaslo, October 15; Windermere/ September 20 and 21; Trail, September 25 and 26; Greenwood, September 30; Golden, September 24; New Denver, October 2. Dr. Verral of Toronto, is now located-in Ph'oSnix,, Tuck Collins has opened a barber shop in Barries City., -. Born.��On February 4, to Mr. and Mrs. A. Po'ntesso, a son. Frank Gessler is on a visit to his.old home-in Pensylvania. ' �� There is need of a better wagon road between Phoenix and Grand Forks. '. Billy Hood, the old-time hockey player, is now a, resident of Merritt. ' . , �� - . / Mrs. M. B. Hickey has opened a. private' boarding-house iu Phoenix. -''.',". ��L. E.' Brown of Boston, Mass., is paying'a visit to'Mr. and Mrs. R; N.'Adams. - ��' �� , The weather has been mild this week with a little rain touching the formation."' The fall in the, price of-lead may cause'the big lead mines in Idaho to close down. ' _ Boen.��At Mother Lode Mine, on February 2, .to,-Mr. and Mrs. Hackett, a'daughter, Born.��In Myncaster, on February 4, to Mr. and Mrs. J. G. McMynn, a daughter. There will be a poker game in Greenwood next Saturday evening. All are* welcome.- A. D. .Mackenzie and George Rogers have been appointed licence commissioners in Phoenix. Service in the .Presbyterian church, next Sunday, the 11th, at 7:30 p m. Rev. J. H. Munro, B, D. The opening of the Rawhide mine has caused a few families to move from < Greenwood to Phoenix. ">L.i ��_. ��_ Last Thursday -Rose Brown was fined $50. for 'being drunk and disorderly, and ordered to leave town. Buy Rosaline, the red oil, at Brown's, Ferry, Wash. It will not encrust the wick nor blacken the chimney. Subscribers are reminded that The Ledge is $2 a year when paid in advance. When not so paid it is $2.50 a year. August Buffalo died iu Nelson this week from chronic bronchitis. He was one of the pioneer prospectors in the Poplar Creek camp. Charles Kinney is turning out several orders for sleighs and wagons. This is a good time to order a wagon, and avoid �� the rush.. New spring line of shoes for men, women and children. Oxfords and current stvles in Tans Patent Leathers and Gun Metals, at Brown's, Last year the Grand Forks district, about 25 miles east ot Greenwood, produced more than 30 per cent, of the apples grown in British Columbia. Tom Avisou was in the city this week.' He states that all the printers in New Denver have been deeply attached to the water wagon for nearly two months. A. D. Macfarlane is practising law with Alexis Martin in Victoria. At one time Mac was an editor iu Greenwood where he made a reputation for telling the truth. �� . . �� . The Merritt Herald says that Jimmy Britt looks like a cypher in that city. Jimmy should walk over to that town and make a favorable and visible impression upon the editor. Last Thursday Joe Gunmng- Wanted^ �� Thirty- to forty calves, not less than eight months old, and about half of each sex, if possible.' Senu particulars and lowest cash price, f.o.b., to E, Anderson, Valley Ranch, Wardner, B. C. The Penticton and , Carmi people are using their best efforts to have the trunk wagon road built-between those two towns. The building of the road over that route wonld greatly benefit the towns along the West Fork. On Shrove Tuesday, Feby 20, a social will be given in the Hall Wood block; under the auspices of the Junior branch ot the W., A. of St, Judes. From 3:30 to 6 p.m. there will be -a children's tea, and a bran pie and music will be the attractions. Refreshments provided* for 15c a head and the bran pie 10c a dip. The following have been appointed commissioners for taking affidavits for election purposes in the Greenwood riding: H. W. Farmer. Rock Creek; J. S. Harrison and Frank Roberts, Midway; John L. Coles, Greenwood; Alex Stewart and John Henderson, Eholt; James Mcintosh, Denora. On Shrove Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, Progressive Five Hundred with' refreshments and music under the* auspices of the Junior W. A. of'St. Jude's will be held in the hall, Wood'block. The charge will be 2��c inclusive. All are welcome. Bring your friends. The Castle Square Entertainers played to a small house on Monday evening and the Fire Brigade lost $30. ' The show was good but too recherche for a mining camp. If the Brigade wishes to stay in the show business without losing their bank-roll, they should bring in troupes with an abundance of -short skirts, who will provide a red roaring show,' with plenty "of noise, guffaw and horse play. Bob Perry and Walter Rusk have been summonsed to appear in court this week, charged with twirling the pasteboards and unlawfully handing out booze for a monetary consideration in the city of Carmi. Perry, known to his many friends as the "Lone Canadian." states that he has been 23 years in British Columbia and never received the blue papers. He is naturally indignant and will put in a strong defence. " After spending a few weeks amid the gay scenes of Greenwood, Jimmv Copeland returned to his rural home last week. Jimmv is still a Don Juan, although he came to British Columbia in the gold rush of '5S. and 73 winters have passed away since he first made a chirp. Uncle Jim informed our society reporter last week in a prolonged and confidential whisper, that he Western Float s ham appeared before the court in Midway upon a charge of yag- rancy aud was fined $50. The fine was paid, and Joe hiked tor scenes further up the river. A largely signed petition has been sent to the Minister of Public Works at Victoria, praying to have the two railways at Midway join their tracks together for the accommodation of the freight traffic. Northern apples'sclFfor $4 a box in Los Angeles. Mosquitoes were seen near Blairmore last month. There is open water now from Yale to the coast. There is room for another jail at New Westminister. Ben Wilk cf Kaslo died in Victoria a few days ago. t R. C. Boyes has opened a shoe shop in Mission City. The population of Winnipeg is reported to be 227,000. A. E. Howee is putting up a business block in Princeton. C.-Black and A. E. .Egan aire running a restaurant in Yale. A night school with GO pupils has been started at Coal Creek. ' Recently at Digby' Island the Indians have shot many sea lions. At Blairmore 400 barrels of Portland cement are produced every day. P. G. Graham has resigned" as chiefjofthe fire brigade in Coleman. The steamer on Okanagan lake now carries the mail seven days a week. Nick Rodovich was fined $100 in Ladysmith for selling liquor to Indians. It is reported that The Sun will be the name of .Coleman's next newspaper. A restaurant man at Beaverdell was recently fined for running a "blind pig." There is some talk of building a tourist hotel on the Pannell ranch near Ladysmith. In- connection with his pool room at Field S, Raymer has opened a barber shop. About $5,000 worth of fruit trees will be planted in' and around Kaslo this spring. Pete Annauce has secured a large packing contract on the North Thompson. , Pete McGregor has his real estate office in Kaslo filled with stuffed birds and animals."' 'j;"7'-"'" "<_/"' ' Vernon has 305 telephones; Kelowna 254; Summerland 168, and Armstrong 120. The first city well has been sunk in New Hazelton, and water found at a depth of 20 feet. For refusing to leave town a gambler in Cranbrook has been sent to jail for 60 days. Owing to the reports about the coming of railways real estate in Kelowna is becoming more active. The Brick Co. at Blairmore will increase the capacity of its works from 40,000 to SO, 000 bricks a day. Peter Larson has sold his "Ranch" of 13 acres on 19bh street. North Vancouver for $52,- 000. The business men of Ashcroft have organized a club, called'the Cariboo Commercial Club. It is non-political. A tramp printer was seen in Mission City �� the other day with $900. He didn't say where he had found the money. Within a radius of ten miles of Blairmore, there are eleven coal mines working, that produce 8,000 tons of coal daily.' Last year the Bank of Toronto opened 17 new offices. �� It now has a total of 102 offices. This bank was established in 1S5G. R. W. Tirams of the Orwell hotel in Rossland, was recently fined $25 for permitting a game of solo to be played in his house. The dredging ' lease on tbe Fraser river, between Yale and Emory Bar ha3 again been taken up by Mr. McDonald of Vancouver. In the past says tho Rossland Miner, enough of champagne has been opened at banquets in the Hotel Allan to float a Dreadnought. A man in Ontario writing to a friend in Mission City, says tnat he will be in the market next fall for 10.000 boxes of apples. He also wishes to purchase 5,000 acres of fruit land in one block. Calgary real estate is being peddled through the west, as though it was flour, hay or dried apples. Tho man who buys unseen real estate from peddlers will as a rule make little upon his investment. Wildcat real estate is in the same class as wildcat mining stock. David MacKay for many years a C.P.R. conductor running out of Nolson, has the plans ready for a $50,000 brick hotel at Mission City. Of late he has been conducting the St. Francis Hotel in Vancouver. David is the only con- Keep on though you fail a dozen I dtictor i" tho world who over shot times. I a hear from a moving train. Ho1 performed this feat near Nakusp some 15 years ago. In the flush wildcat days of '97. Rossland' was full' of talented drinkers, and swell saloons. That era has passed away and the old' camp is down to a beer basis. The Miner says that Rossland has seen' the last of the magnificent fixtures with which the old Strand and Queen's saloons were furnished. They have been sold and will be shipped to Moose Jaw. These fix: tures were, perhaps as expensive and perfect as any saloon fixtures ever brought into British Columbia. The opening of the Strand was one of the memorable events of Ross- land's boom era, and four bartenders on the day, with four more at night, together with extras within quick call, made up the staff. Ed. Watson was the host and was deeply occupied as the floor walker of the lace counter in a department store. For a long time visitors to Rossland would go to the Strand to view its maguificence, as well as to see the proprietor. A little later when several good customers left Rossland, the bank took charge of the fixtures for safekeeping. Mr. Watson moved to Seattle, where he died. The Queen's fixtures were even more handsome and superior than the Strand. They were of solid mahogany, and it took eight men to lift the two inch" solid mahogany slab which covered the bar. V c had become a missionary, and intends to take out a marriage licence and settle down. . IRON BOUNTY LIKELY Ottawa, Feb. 1.��The following appears in tonight's Citizen: "Government supporters had another leDgthy caucus today, adjourned from yesterday's sitting. Little was given out, but it is understood that the only matter of outstanding importance discussed had further reference to the bounty on pig iron, for which there is an aggressive, movement. The situation is not changed from yesterday, but the sentiment in the main is favorable to the bounty being granted temporarily. There is a disposition on the part of the western men to object on principle. The final decision rests with the government. The companies ask a bounty of $3 a ton. They will be lucky if thoy get $1.50, and it is said they would be satisfied with Phoenix��A Health Resort It is indeed unfortunate for Phoenix that my "Lady Van," during her visit to this town last summer, was not afforded a glance of that gem of beauty and crystal purity, Marshall Lake. We freely admit that in times past we have never considered it worth a thought, nor has it been the sub- . ject of many poems. This apathy towards our scenic jewel must be dispelled at all cost. We must make the most of it. Let _ us emulate the example of Rossland. The"Ros'sianders have only recently" discovered the healthgiving properties of their climate, and are even now considering ways and means for proclaiming the glad tidings far and wide. In fact, if the state- �� ment of one Rosslander who visited us a few days ago is worthy of credence, the chances of Rossland becoming famous as a health resort are assured. According to the Rossland Miner they have everything necessary except one item. They have no lake for the aforesaid tourists to be- sport themselves upon. Just here is the opportunity_of Phoenix. We certainly have a lake.^ We can even grow apples. The town, according to the Greenwood Ledge, would make an ideal stopping place for airships on the way to the coast, and among other advantages too numerous to mention, but not the least important, we have no Chinks, Japs, Hindoos or Douk- hobors residents here. Phoenix was never a healthy place for Chinks. This latter fact might commend itself to the health seekers of New Westminister. Vancouver and Victoria. ''Lady Van," writing for a C. P. R. publication, wrote in glowing terms of the scenery around Phoo- nix and strongly advised the tourist on no account to miss coming here. She also told her readers that livery rigs, sho called them carriages, could actually be procured here for tho journey "through tho clouds," down to the commonplace earth at Greenwood. What a pity sho never caught a glimpse of Marshall lake.��Phoenix Pioneer. -_vf 1 i. An optimist is ono who would rather believe that everything is all right than know tho truth.��Lip- pincott's. Toll honor. the truth as a matter of �� 1 *M| ",l fc'l 1 �� -l 'JjM ill ��' f �� 'J -.1 '$1 h'it 1 If s fi v. I H U s N1 {* HI & I' ��li n S-il Ml ' it ill Ml m *o ��Vjl Ml >*'l -1 -��'I '-��il ni *-.; * >, m I THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. THE LEDGE Is located at Greenwood, B. C, and can be traced to many parts of the earth. It comes to the- front every Thursday morning, and believes that hell would close up if love ruled the world. . It believes in justice to everyone; from the man who mucks in the mine to" the king who sits on the cushions of the throne. It believes that advertising is the life of trade ; and that one of the noblest works of creation is the man who always pays the printer. The Ledge is $2.00 a year in advance, or $2.50 when not so paid. It is postage free to all parts of Canada, Mexico, Great Britain and the county of Bruce. To the United States it is $2.50 a year, always in advance. R. T. LOWERY EDITOR AND FINANCIER. architecture GREENWOOD, FEBRUARY S, 1912. A blue mark here indicates that your Subscription has become deceased, and that the editor would once more like to commune with your collateral. The selfish plug is never without sorrow. Just now many poets are getting ready to spring their poetry. You have to hoist yonr own white flag. The enemy will not do it. Fuoai reading the ' papers we would advise our readers who contemplate a visit to Vancouver to leave their money with us. In the Hold Up city some maskless chap is liable to run a gun against your ducted upper stope, and cause you to let The cafes never close and it is bo go your portable wealth. It is not tween the hours of midnight and polite, but then such things will four in the morning that they are cathedrals vie with any to be found in Russia, St. Basil's alone excepted. Its opera house is eclipsed only by the opera in Paris. With these refinements came gorgeous hotels and cafes. The principal cafe in Irkutsk is as grand as anything in Now York and its prices are at least four times 'as high. All the delicacies of the world are to be had, including the rarest of wines are to be had, and at prices that would stage. Pittsburg millionaires. ' As the city is a capital, it is well supplied with officials, the governor-general and civil governor having no less than three substitutes. Gilded youths from St. Petersburg and Moscow are seen there for discipline, and the demimonde from all over Europe and Asia are there in largo numbers. Irkutsk is a meeting place for the vicious from all quarters of the globe. There is nothing secret about any of tho vice. Every type of beauty is to be found��beautiful geisha girls in native costume vie- ing with Viennese and Paris women in the latest creations. All the gambling houses aro wide open, and. more important, con- under police protection. world. Its of the C.P.R. who has just com pleted a tour of practically every important city in the States and Canada, states that he will not be surprised if the bubiness is more than doubled. "That may seem to be a very optimistic view of things" said Mr- Benjamin "but it is just about what will happen." The Canadian Pacific Railway last year easily doubled their tourist business for the year before and the outlook �� at the beginning of 1911 was not nearly so goodas it is at present. Certainly whatever the final' results the Canadian Pacific will start the season most favorably. Already several special trains have been booked to carry tourists through the Rockies from Chicago. Several more special trains have already been booked to run from Boston, St. Paul and Minneapolis and on the Pacific Coast a number of special trains havo already been booked to run eastward over the Rockies. The big advance booking bave been largely duo to the numerous big conventions on the program for this year, among which is the big "Elks" meeting at Port- are numbered and you will be a relic before three suns. For forty years we have shared the joys and sorrows of life. We have been In- separable. We have hunted , and fished together in daylight and the same moose skin has protected us from the icy blasts at night. I have wormed your salmon, made your clothes, bathed your temples when you were filled up with hootch and never registered a complaint. All I ask is that you remain single after I am gone and keep my grave green when it is not covered with snow.'' Of course I promised, and have thus far kept the promise inviolate. But as there is always two full months in the spring after the snow leaves and before the grass grows, the only way I can keep that grave green is to paint it, and paint costs money." Knowing what the old man meant, tho Stroller .passed him the price of a can of green paint and from that time to tho present he always writes che Stroller about this season of the year to remind that the off-period for native green is approaching. Accidentally, the Sourest of All Doughs referred to the weather in H. W. Farmer & Coi, ,'. . ' REAL, ESTATE^ '. '. Rock Creek, B. 0. J* J* JX J* JS J* jfi ,_* .jB jt # jg jj jt ,j_. _j| jfi Leaves Mother L.od2 9,30. a. m. 6:30 p. ia. ' Leaves Greenwood 2:00 p. m. 8:30 p. m. % V. % ��^ Saturday last stag-e leaves' "& ��% Mother L,ode 6 p. m. Returning, ^ ��*& leaves Greenwood 10 p. m. % ^ '��s ��S& '; !% ^ Greenwood Office ^ <* NORDEN HOTEL 2 The forests of B. C. must be pre served, or we will be short of water J sorry in a few generations. happen, so leave your money with us, for it is better to be sure than TnERE is danger of a national coal miners strike in England, caused by the eight hour law. After all it is a pleasure to think that in a short time, the bullfrogs will once more [he singing their old-time melodies. Opportunity.knocks at many a man's door, when he is downtown rushing the growler, or playing a stack for the benefit of some avaricious dummy. , The Fastest City. Which is the fastest city in the world? An American banker, Mr. Woodruff, who is a globe-trotter of renown, plumps for Irkutsk, the capital of eastern Siberia, says an exchange. He is familiar with Paris, London, Budapest, Vienna, New York and other capitals, but at their liveliest. Everyone drinks; most of the Russian women smoke cigars, leaving their Parisian sisters to enjoy a cigarette. Tragedies, as might be expected, are frequent, and suicides are so numerous that scarcely any atten tion is paid to them except by the land, Ore., where some twenty or twenty-five thousand delegates will convene. Naturally these conven-1 hig r;cent let~a~9 ~j^ tions mean extensive delegate travel and within the last three or four years these delegates have whenever possible arranged to travel to or from the Coast through Canadian territory, as they have fonnd that nowhere in America can be found such magnificent scenery as in the .Canadian Rockies. Besides the special trains booked 'w-' Frank Fletcher Provincial Land Surveyor,. . Nelson, B. C. immediate friends or relatives. There is extreme poverty in certain districts and there is a large class of poor ex-convicts who make trouble from time to time. A reg- in advance the C.P.R. have ar- he declares that for genuine iment of 1,000 soldiers as well as wickedness they are outclassed by Irkutsk. "Irkutsk is not only the wickedest, but it is the fastest city in the world," says Mr. Woodruff, soon after his return to New York. The government should see that j "There is more night life in that all able men are kept busy. When men are busy they have no time to meet in unlawful assemblages, and wake up the police. Tiie really good need no laws, police or churches. Those things are for the foolish and abnormal beings who cannot be kept in line without a lash of some kind. The money wasted in America by workingmen npon useless and harmful things would feed the world. The "wage slave" has worse enemies than his master. The new morning paper, The Sun, will rise in Vancouver next Monday, and proceed to dispel mental fog. The event is of considerable importance as new morning papers are not born every day in any city. Socialism will be successful when the majority of those who profess it, are willing to give instead of take. At present the majority of so-called socialists give nothing away except hot-air, laden with parrot-like expressions about wage slaves etc. little town of 100,000 people than there is in all Paris or New York. In one of the gambling houses there I saw as much as 8100,000 staked on the turn of a card a dozen times in the evening. Why, the gamblers at Monte Carlo are pikers compared with some of the sporty citizens of Irkutsk. In the cafes I saw gay parties drinking bottle after bottle of wine at $4 per bottle. In all my travels I have never seen so many beautiful and well-dressed women��and women of all nationalities. "The opera there is almost as briliiant as the opera in Paris. Duels, suicides and_J murders are of weekly occurrence, but a formal reception at St. Petersburg could not boast of any more culture than is to be found at a smart entertainment in one of the fashionable homes in this Siberian city. If any images New York is swift, a visit to Irkutsk will opeu his eyes. The quintessence of vice is to be found there." Irkutstk has among its citizens more millionaires than any city of its size in the world, and they have to spend their money in the city, for the reason that they are rp P��* allowed to leave the province. T��E proper way to retorm tbe Mostof ttem-^peeially the rich We want better children and not Lv,�� a* . - ana not amassed fortunes ia gold mining. Physicians | The Baibal mountains, near Irkutstk, are filled -with rich veins ao many of them, trained in the science of stirpicul ture, and the harmonious blending of temperaments should perform marriages, and not the clergy. 200 mounted Cossacks are needed to preserve order and when disturbances arise they make arrests by the whole-sale. As long as these rich residents of Irkutsh content themselves with being fleeced by women from Paris and Vienna with drinking themselves to death or even murdering each other, the Russian authorities don't care. The only thing the officials insist upon is that the residents do not leave the province. Every road is carefully guarded and no one is allowed to board a train on the>ans-Siberian railroad in either direction without having his passport scrutinized by at least half a dozen officials. A native of Irkutsk has to make the best of his life there. Escape is impossible. Even the nearest city, Krasnoyarsk is 570 miies away. During the season, which, as in all Russian cities, is during the winter, all sorts of festivities are in progress. In addition to the opera, there are theatres, concerts by famous musicians, and balls of almost Vienese brillance. The moBt costly favors are distributed at these balls, and dances are almost invaribly given for tho entertainment of guests. There are scores of homes in Irkutsk which cost upwards of a million dollars, nearly all of them with private ball rooms and picture galleries. Not until everyone has drunk so much champagne that the servants have to assist them home, is an event of this kind concluded. Strange as it may seem, the demi- mondaines seem to be received on a basis of equality with the so- called respectable element. The very air seems surcharged with ranged to carry a large number of specially conducted parties and have also had thousands of enquiries from individual parties. Most of the special trains and parties booked so far made arrangements to make stop-overs in the mountains so that they will have the opportunity of becoming personally acquainted with the charms of the Rockies. Banff, (Lakes in the Clouds,) Field, Emerald Lake, Glacier, Revelstoke'and Sicamous are the points which will be most generally visited and at nearly all these places big additions are now being built to the hotels in anticipation of increased business. At Banff an especially large addition is being constructed. The C.P.R. being now engaged in erecting there a fourteen storey extension to its hotel, which will make the Banff Springs hostelery the highest building in the Canadian Rockies. Tho O.P.R. is also greatly improve- ing the new golf course at Banff, which was opened so successfully last season. This course is one of the highest and most beautiful links in the world. "Pain Killer froze in my tent last night and the outlook for a crop of ice worms is fairly good if it gets a little colder. It was 63 below here and five more degrees will fetch 'em. Word from Ogilive where it was 70 below is that they are chirping and have already attained a length of three inches. At ten they are fit for use, but at sixteen they are -in their prime. After that length they become coarse and the skin is hard to digest, especially when allowed to slip down whole. I would like to see one more old-fashioned winter before I join Limpin' Grouse. I have aged considerable and am not the robust man I was when you last saw me.. You remember I always put' a squirt of carbolic . acid in my whisky then? Well, I rarely ever do it now, the straight stuff being sufficiently powerful for me in later years. "P. S.�� Don't forget the price of that paint."-White Horse Star. J. R. CAMERON, Leading Tailor of the Kootenays. KASLO, B.C. HAVE YOUR PHOTO TAKEN, BY- . J. H. JAMES of Greenwood. About Float/ Float is not a periodica}. It is a book containing ��.6 illustrations all told, tind is filled with sketches ar,d stories of western life. It �� tells how a gambler cashed in after, the flush days'of Sandon; how it rained in. New Denver Jong after Noah was dead ; how a parson took a drink at BearjLake in early day's �� , how justice was dealt/in Kaslo in '93 ; how /the , saloon man outprayed the . women in Kalamazoo, and graphically, depicts the' roamings of a western editor among the tender- �� feet in the cent belt. It contains the early history of Nelson and a romance ' of the Silver King mine. Iu it are printed three- western poems, and dozens of articles "too numerous to mention. Send for one before it is too late. The price is 25 cents, ', ' postpaid to any part of'the '.. world. Address all /letters to ; . R. T0 Lowery GREENWOOD, B. C. �� . } STAEKEY & CO. NEI.SON.-B. C, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Produce Don't Be HOODWINKED WE NEVER CHANGE BRANDS ARE A 1 QUALITY The BRILUANTES Are the Best Clear Havaiias In Canada I Made by Union Labor in the best Hygienic Factory in the country. Call for tliein and get value for your money Instead of rope WILBERG & WOLZ.Prop. B.C. Cigar. Factory. New Westminster. B. c. �� a Mountaineer and Kootenay Standard Cigars. Made by C. THELIN & Co., NELSON. He must have abundant faith, who goes to a bald-headed druggist to buy a hair restorer. into a big hole. HEALS THE THROAT AND L0NQ8. 28 CENTS niture moved to any part of the District. General Dray- ing of all kinds. SIDNEY OLIVER. LOWERY'S CLAIM During tho 87 months that Lowery's Claim was on earth it did business all over the world. It was the most unique, independent ond fearless journal ever produced in Canada, Political and theological enemies pursued it with the venom of a rattlesnake* until the government shut it out of the mails, and its editor ceasad to publish it partly on account of a lazy liver and partly because it takes a pile of money to run a paper that is outlawed. Ihere are still 25 different editions of this condemned journal in print. Send 10 cents and get one or $2.50 and get the bunch It. T. LOWERY, Greenwood, B. C. In-New Denver there is plenty of room on the market square for nnlawful assemblages. The air in the Lucerne is conducive to oratory, and the police are not mounted. Those I. W. W. (I Won't Work) chaps in Vancouver should rustle car faro, and rush to the Siocan, of gold and it is no exaggeration to say that thousands, of men in this taIk of beautiful mistresses, duels comparatively small town in the and -favors won. heart of Siberia has become rich be yond the dreams of avarice. The flood of gold has naturally attracted all the luxuries of the world and as usual the luxuries have brought the vices. The Monastriry of St. Innocent which cost upward of $7,000,000, is one of the finest specimens of The Tourist Trade "The tourist business this year will double that of last season" is the way Canadian' Pacific Railway officials answer inquiries as to what the outlook for the tourist traffic for the year of 1912 is. O. Painting a Grave The Stroller had a letter one day this week from his old-time Dawson friend, the Sourest of All Doughs, who, by the way, is the original white man of Yukon, he having come into the country in the early '60s. He readily assimilated with tho natives (many have done the same thing since) and singled out for his own that illustrious daughter of the forest, Limpin' Grouse, the name being familiar to readers of Yukon papers ten and twelve years ago. Ten years ago, the Sourest of All Doughs, then an old and broken man��financially as well as physically��confided to the Stroller that he had made a promise to Limpin' Grouse as she was dying. His dis- cription of. the promise, with the time and place, was as follows: "She had been ailing for a week and I realized that her glim was about to be doused. She lay on a pallet of willow boughs and beneath moose skins to keep her warm. I was sitting on a stump inside the tent when she called me to her Bide. I obeyed and this is Benjamin, General Tourist Agen J tho spoil 0ho gave me: "My days WL 1S.Sltuated on the Wes* Fork of the Kettle fiver, at its junction with Wilkinson week, It -is 57 miles from Greenwood and �� miIes ffom Gtan* Horks, It is located ZL ^A Pla*au��n * 14 LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA WESTERN - - HOTELS. THE KOOTENAT SALOON Sandon, B. 0., has a line pf nerve bracers unsurpassed in any niouii- '' tain town ot the Great West. _ A �� glass of aqua pura given free with spirits menti. NKWMAKKKX HOTEL Is the home for all tourists and millionaires visiting- New Denver, British Columbia. Henry Sfcegc. Propr. THE PROVINCE HOTEL ' Grand Forks, is a large tnree- story brick hotel that provides the public with good meals and pleasant rooms. A new building but the same old rates. Enill Larson, Proprlotor, THE KASLO HOTEL Kaslo, B/ C�� is a comfortable home for ali who travel to that city. ' Cockle & Papwortn. BRIDESVILLE HOTEL. BridBsvillo, B. C. Provides oxcollcnt accommodation for tourists and travcl- lor.s. Frosli Eggs and Butter. Spociul Irish Whiskey always on hand. THOMAS WALSH, Proprietor. HOTEL CASTLEGAR, Castlegar Junction. All modern. Excellent accomodations for tourists and drummers. Boundary train leaves here at 9.10 a.m. W. H. GAGE, Proprietor GRANITE CREEK HOTEL Granite Creek, 'B. C. Headquarters for miners, prospectors.and railroad men^ Good stabling in connection. Tasty meals and pleasant rooms. . H, G00DISS0N, Proprietor. '��if)':?.. ~M ��'.V Ky-^n SnBRRROOKE UOTJSK Nelson; B. C. Ono minute's walk from C. P. R station. Cuisine unexcelled; Well hoated and ventilated. Roy or Bros., Proprlotor TREMONT HOUSE Nelson, B. C.*, is run on the American and European plan. Steam heated roomB. All white labor. Special attention paid to dining room. Rnnaoino & Campbell, Props. . ( -' JLAKEVIEW HOTEL in Nelson, B. C, employs, all white help and is a home for the world at $1.00 a day. , Nap. Mallctte, Proprlotor. GRAND UNION HOTEL Hedley, B. C. American plan and moderate rates. First-class mineral display from all sections and will exchange for specimens from any part of the world. Reliable, information will be given investors and working men. ANTON WINKLER, Proprietor. TULAMEEN HOTEL Princeton, B. C, is the headquarters for miners, investors and railroad men. A fine location and everything first-class KIRKPATRICK & MAL0NE, Proprietors. HOTEL KEREMEOS Keremeos, B.C. This first-class family hotel is opposite the G.N. depot and under the personal supervision of the proprietress. All stages leave this hotel daily," including the auto to Penticton. -" " Mrs!*A."F.KIRBY. E More clothes are rubbed out than worn out. GOLD DUST saves rubbing and saves your clothes Do not use Soap, Naphtha, Borax, Soda, Ammonia or Kerosene with GOLD DUST. ; GOLD DUST has all desirable cleansing qualities in a perfectly harmless and lasting form. The GOLD DUST TWINS need no outside help. .�� ftGOLD DUST lathers.instantly in hot or cold, hard or soft water��converts itself instantly into thick, vigorous suds that remove grease, grime and settled stains and clear out germs.and impurities. It leaves only*cleanliness and wholesomeness in their wake. - -. GOLD ..DUST ..spares you and protects. your, clothes from washboard wear. �� .... Save yourselllongJhour* ... of weary, dreary toil, and double the life of your clothes by buying and trying, a package of GOLD DUST next.wash-day. GOLD DUST it sold in fOo size and large packages. The large package oScrs greater economy. "Lat the GOLD DUST TWINS do govr work" Made by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, - - Montreal Makers of FAIRY SOAP, the oval cake. ESTABLISHED 1817 Capital, all paid up, $15,413,000. Rest, $15,000,000. * �� UNDIVIDED PROFITS, SI,85(3,185.30 '* Hon. President: Lord Strathcona and Mount Royai,, G. C. M. G. President: R. B. Angtis, Esq. Vice-President: Sir E. S. Cr,ousTON, Bart. General Manager: H.-;V. Meredith, Esq. ; BranchestaLonaoi^.{^ Buy and Sell Sterling^Exchange and Cable Transfers. Grant Commercial and Travellers' Credits, available in any part of the world. - SAVINGS'' BANK DEPARTMENT n^��1S.at Greenwood Branch - C. B. Winter, Mgr. 1 TEMPERANCE is all right if shorn of humbuggery. , Too much water drinking; is; just as injurious as too much liquor or anything else., ;..��-.' OUR PURE WINES . AND LIQUORS are medicinal if not abused. Every household should have a moderate, supply lof pure wines or liquors in the closet for emergency��either .unexpected visitors or sudden ill-, ness, when a drop of pure liquor injjtimelmay forestall all necessity for drugs. emnwoofl liquor Company, importers, Greenwood, B. & �� b909991M999994tQQM99999<99*9Q99Q99Q09999 @��9QO&9Q9��@8 I Greenwood to Phoenix Stage �� " * Leaves Greenwood Daily at 3 p. m. =�� Arrives Greenwood Daily at 10 a. m. ; ,=s CLUB CIGAR STORE 3 ST GREENWOOD OFFICE ��H. M�� LAIMG, PROPRIETOR.3' Itiaiaiiiiiiiiisi'iuiiiiiiuiuii^uiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiii^ GRAND PROGRAM from Tuesday to Saturday Night HOCKEY Championship of B, 6. SKI JUMPING Championship of Canada SKATING Championship of B..C, Masquerade and Dance, Tobogganing, Curling Bonspiel Horse Races, Boxing Contest, Children's Sports. Two Large Bands. Handsome Trophies and Prizes. Reduced' Transportation Rates �� " _ For further information'write to A. M. BETTS, President. E. E. PLEWMAN, Secretary. South Africa A year has been completed under the union' of .the different British colonies in South Africa with the exception of the protectorate of Rhodesia, and such a change has not been altogether without result to the mining industries of South Africa more particularly with regard to gold mining in the Transvaal. Tho effects of the placing the Raud under the legislative control of the other colonies now called provinces of the union have already been shown by the opposition in parliament to the carrying on of milling operations ou the mines on Sundays displayed by some of the legislators unacquainted with the Rand, which at one time seemed serious, but despite the efforts of the Minister of Mines to induce the opposition to be more conciliatory a compromise was only arranged by making the Sunday act only applicable to those mines dropping stamps for the first time after Sept. 30. Thus in the future will be seen the remarkable sight of some mills being able to run on Sundays while others will be perforce idle. Among other subjects discussed of vital importance to the mining industry was that of miners' phthisis. The production of gold during the year has continued to make steady progress in the Transvaal. The year has not been a prosperous one for the coal trade iu South Africa; everywhere except in Cape Colony the output, however, has increased, but it has accompanied by a steady fall all round iu selling prices. Despite the scramble there has been during the year both in the Transvall and Free State provinces to discover a new Rand, up to the time of writing the efforts have not been attended with the slightest success. This is much to be re-' gretted because the Witwatersrand, with its 25 years of continued progress, has ceased to have many of the desirable attributes of anew field so desirable to many residents on the Rand, and even any important discovery would be especially welcome. There has been less boring done on the Rand itself during the past twelve months than for many years past. Even on the Far East Rand comparatively little boring has been taken in hand, the fact being that the outcrop of the Main reef has been fairly well established by boring even as,far as the Nigel property near Heideberg. On the whole little additional information about the Far East Rand gold field has been actually obtained during the year by boring operations, it being regarded as far as boring operations are concerned,. a fairly well proved field. - , See me for the Finest Suburban Subdivision in New Westminster. When Port Mann is a good townsite proposition New ,,. Westminster will be a large city. y W'ords 9 523-524, Pacific Block, Vancouver, B. C. OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE Unequalled for .Domestic Use." HEALSTHELUNGS STOPS COUGHS KS&^iKS Coal Mining in Siberia 1911 ,' Eastern Siberia possesses great quantities of coal, in many places quite large seams out crop on the surface. Tlie only deposits which are exploited at the. present time are some in.the South TJssuri district in Manchuria, together with others on the Island of Sakhalin. No coal mining has taken place in the Amur district, but since the building of the Amur railway was commenced, there has been evidence of industrial developments. The first coal deposits to be examined and surveyed by experts, and which are now to be worked, are situated on the river Bira at a distance of about 110 miles to the northwest of Chabarowsk. The reports on these deposits are favorable, and it has been proved that there is available a quantity of at least 3,000,000 tons of coal, which can be raised at a very moderate cost. , At* Chabarowsk a new company, the Biri Coal Mining Co., has been formed, and operations have already been commenced. As the deposits are close to the river Bira, which is navigable, the coal will be carried by means of barges to Chabarowsk, where there is a market, and after the completion of the Amur railway the later will be available for transport. It is estimated that the shipments>from the mines during 1911 will prove, to have been more than 300,000 tons. QUICKLY STOPS COUGHS. CURES COLDS. MEALS THE THROAT AND LUNQ6. 25 CENTS Mining ,in Australia One remarkable feature of the last few years has been the number of abandoned mines which have profitably reworked, especially in New South Wales, many ounces of gold per ton being obtained. At the Long tunnel, near Gundagi, the stone is among the richest known: Many profitable finds are continually being reported,but comparatively few are permanent. In Queensland Mount Morgan retains its reputation as a gold producer, as does Mount Boppy in New South "Wales, and it is in the highest degree probable that the .copper districts in northern Queensland will also be found exceptionally rich in gold. The days of auriferous production in the commonwealth are by no means approaching an end. There is millions of tons of low-grade ore yet to be worked at a profit, like the dumps at Broken Hill. There may be no more Golden Miles) but there must remain an incredibly vast amount of auriferous wealth hidden in the ground awaiting discovery by future generations. Certificate of Improvement Notice (60 days) $7.50 Application to Purchase Land Notices (60 days) $7.50 Delinquent Co-owner Notices (go days) ��10.00 Water Notices (small) $7-50 All other legal advertising, 12 cents a line, single column, for the first insertion; and S cents a line for each subsequent insertion. Nonpariel measurement MINERAL ACT. Certificate of Improvements. NOTICE "St. Lawrence" and "Copper Queen" Mineral Claims,, situate in the Greenwood Mining Division of Yale District. Where located:��In Carmi camp. TAKE NOTICE that I, Isaac H. Hallett, as agent for Norman Morrison, Free Miner's Certificate No. B29365, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for Cer- ificates of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining Crowu Grants of the above claims. And further take notice that action, under section "37, must be commenced before the issue of Isuch Certificates of Improvements. Dated this��i6th day of January, A. D.' 19"* '��-_. - .. ,-r- -. .1.-H. HALLETT. �� LAND ACT Similkameen Land'District. District of Yale. TAKE notice that I, Michael Bombini, of Anaconda, British Columbia, occupation, farmer, intend to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted at the South-West corner of Lot 1569; thence North, 40 chains; thence East, r.2 chains; thence South, 40 chains; thence West, 12 chains. MICHELE BOMBINI. Dated, 26th November, 1911. John" $Ke]ryeli&tt Proprieter. nelson, B. ��. W. C. WKL.LS, Proprlotor. First-class in' everything. Steam ' heat, electric light, private "baths. Telephone in- every room. First-class bar and barber shop. 'Bus meets all trains. ' GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL Opposite Postoffice, NELSON, B. C, American and European Plans. H. H. PITTS, Prop. CENTRAL HOTEL PHOENIX. One of the largest hotels in the city. Beautiful location, fine rooms and tasty meals. A. O: JOHNSON PROP. (F WJJclillafl;& WHOLESALE GROCERS Corner Smythe and Beattie St's, VANCOUVER, B. C I Agents for STIRT0N & DYER Cigars The Best Value of any Cigar made in Canada Brands:' SALOME. SAVANNAH. SMART SET. CARIBOO. UTOPIA. Big Engines The Grand Trunk Pacific have received in Winnipeg during the past few days seven large new locomotives, from the American locomotive company of Montreal. These engines have been built specially for the haulage of passenger trains, and will be used on the main line of the Grand Trunk Pacific from Fort "William through to the Pacific coast. Each of them is 73 feet lone, and weighs over 200 tons. Their track of power is 31,- 600 pounds, and each of them has six driving wheels with trailers attached. The water tank on each of the engines will hold 8,000 gallons of water, this being 1,500 gallons more than other locomotives in the west. The tender will hold ten tons of coal, which will enable them to go through a whole division without having to stop. These engines have also been built for high speed, and they will be able to draw ten of the largest carriages now made at full speed over any part of the line. This is only part of an order which the Grand Trunk Pacific has placed in the hands of the contractors, as the company expect to have as many; again delivered to them within a few months for use on their lines in the west. The coal which thoy will use is the best obtainable, and equally as good as the Pennsylvania. It is obtained from the Jasper colleries, and the company have in store several thousand tons of it; !\... COUNTY COURT OF YALE. A SITTING Of the County Court of Yale -will be holdcn at the Court House, Greenwood, on Tuesday the 27th day of February 1912, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. By order, ' W. G. McMYNN, Registrar C. 0. of Y. MINERAL ACT Certiticate of Improvements. NOTICE Red Metal Fractional Mineral Claim, situate in the Greenwood Mining Division of Yale District. Where located:��Deadwood Camp. TAKE NOTICE that C. J. Leggatt, Barrister, Greenwood, B. C, as agent for Frank Bell, Free Miner's Certificate No. B29462, intends, sixty days from the 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, under section 37, must be commenced before the issue of such Certificate of Improvements. :; Dated this 2nd day of December, 1911. C. J. LEGGATT. QUEEN'S HOTEL, , PHOENIX B. C. The Newest and Largest Hotel in the City. Everything neat, clean and comfortable. Steam heat and electric light. Meals and drinks at all hours. R. V. CHISHOLM, Proprietor. DANNY. DEANE, Manager. THE RUSSELL HOTEL Is pleasantly situated in the heart of Grand Forks, and is convenient to all the leading financial and commercial instifcutinns of the city. Travelers will find it a comfortable place to sojourn when in the city. FRED RUSSELL WINDSOR HOTEL The Windsor Hotel is one of the ' best furnished hotels in the West. It is located in the heart of Greenwood and within easy reach of all the financial and commercial institutions of the Copper Metropolis. Heated with steam and lit by electricity. Commodious sample rooms. The bar is replete with all modern beverages and the cafe never closes. Rooms reserved by telegraph. TJie Windsor Hotel Co E, J. Cartier, Mgr. BULL CREEK HOTEL One ot the oldest stopping places on the West Fork. Good accommodation and plenty to eat. Fish and game dinners in season. Rooms reserved by telegraph. GORMAN WEST Prop. NEW ADVERTISING SCALE. The newspapers in Greenwood, Phoeuix and Grand Forks have adopted the following scale for legal advertising: Application for Liquor Licence (30 days) fS.oo. HE DID NOT ADVERTISE. Breathes there a mau witli soul so dead, Who never to himself has said: 'My trade of late is getting bad, I'll try .another ten-inch ad!" If there be, go mark him well, For him no bank account shall swell, No angels watch the golden stair, To welcome home the millionaire. The man who never asks for trade, By local line, or add displayed, Cares more for rest than worldly gain, And patronage but gives him pain. Tread lightly, friends; let no rude sound Disturb his solitude profound, Here let him lie in calm repose, Unsought except by men he owes. And when he dies, go plant him deep That nothing may disturb hisslccp, Where no rude claiu'or may dispel That quiet that he loved so well. And that the world may know its loss Place on a stone a wreath of moss, And on a stone above "Here lies A fossil, who did not advertise." ALEXANDRA HOTEL OKANOGAN FALLS This hotel is situated in one of the most delightful sections of the Okanogan and provides ample and pleasant accommodation for the tourist, sportsman and farmer. Information about the district cheerfully furnished. Stage line to Oroville, and steamer on the lake. ARN0TT & HINE - Proprietors ON PARLE FRANCAIS NATIONAL. HOTEL GREENWOOD, B. C. The Really Best House in the Boundary. Recently Remodelled and Strictly Up-to-Date. Restaurant in connection ��a -, �� i'..' ' �� .';' hi ROY & BO YER PROPS. iriWII^I||,yUJIIK��Jjtet^l��,lJltMUIMUIJ��imiJMUIIJlWIMIt liiummmsiaivjMm mumsmn tmssmTmsmSsmsmtmtnm KHQUUUyiMllUUII #; judiii��i.MUJ!iimiiin.��ii)Hi.m. THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BEITISH COLUMBIA. I BOUNDARY MIKES I Last week the Greenwood smelter treated 9,734 tons of ore. Last week the Mother Lode mine shipped S,320 ton's of ore. Last week the Emma miiie shipped 353 tons of ore. Running eight furnaces the Granby smelter treated 23,0)55 tons of ore last week. The Rawhide mine resumed operations last Sunday, and will soon have its full force of 1G0 men working. ', The coke supply having become more satisfactory, tho big furnace will soon again bo iu operation at tlie Greenwood smelter. prospect, and, where any' development has been judiciously carried out, tho results have been surprising and gratifying. What "the quantities of pay ore may be, it is of course, impossible to tell without consistent development, but the district is of a most promising sort. It has much to offer the prospector and investor,and signs are not wanting that the spring will sec. the South Belt a scene of activities such as have not been witnessed around this portion of British Columbia for many Miner, a long year, Rossland A in width. With the .opening up of railroad facilities to the Pacific coast, and when the country along the westerly portion of the Tula- meen river becomes more developed, this section will then be in a position to produce an enormous tonnage of ore. Coming down Champion Creek to the south is Olivine mouutain, while across the valley is Loadstone mountain, which both contain high-grade ores. ��Province. **a B. C, MINING NEWS The Consolidated Co's smelter at Trail received, during Deceinber, 22,022 tons of ore and smelted 24,- 512 tons. The value of the month's production was ��13,320, of which 38 per cent, was gold, and the value of six months' production was S2.477.J12, of which 58 per cent, was gold. Mining affairs in the South Belt have been rather quiet lately, but ��the latest rumor in the city, that the necessary finances to start up some of the properties there have been raised, turns people's, attention once more to that locality. Many experts have examined the properties there lately, and very favorable opinions have been expressed, and the fact that money is not so quickly forthcoming for real estate investments now as formerly, encourages one to think there will bo more for mining ventures. That the ore in the South Belt is of a rich quality is conclusively proven by the assays repeatedly made. One of the richeaj sections struck in the Tulameen district is Granite Creek. It was struck in 1S85 and is still worked at a good profit as some of the benches are very rich in gold. Granite creek finds its source, in tho Hope range and flows into tho Tulameen about ten miles west of Princeton. Granite, situate at the confluence of the two rivers, is a thriving mining camp. It's activity is caused to a certain degreo by the Great Northern Railway Company's workmen who are at present laying rails along the route. One of the numerous creeks which flows down the mountain MANY NEW TOWNS Forty-seven new towns will be placed on the market by the Grand Trunk Pacific in the prairie provinces during the coming spring.' This is the official programme of the company for 1912, as announced by S. T. St. John, of the Transcontinental Townsite company, who has charge of the G.TP. development department. Mr. S. T. St. John stated that tho company was making every effort! to build up the new towns located upon its lines, and to accomplish this end it was bringing business men who would set up factories and warehouses. In doing this there was no possibility of the towns failing to go .ahead and �� @ MANUFACTURING JEWELER, The Only Up-to-Date Optical fyrri CdfalU D C Department in the Interior. H Ls LaO Wlij Doll. Mafhien's Syrup ol Tar and Cod Uver Oil not'only stops a cough but cures it. Its tonic and restorative properties enable the system to permanently throw off a cold-. 35c for large bottle. Sold everywhere. ��tfATnnro col, ��*��. ngiunuwiim ^ D-HUCLE Dt F01EDEMORUE DeUATHEEU a , KATHTJEITS Syrup of Tar GODUvittO tt^~ u. suamxa. ntAMiilifAa.nl ��. C sides and from a tributary of the becoming a drag on'the market. Granite Creek is known as Newton He further announced that a Creek. It has had twenty-four contract was awarded to a Minn- bench leases located on it during esota firm for the construction of COD LIVER OIL. Day and night shifts are constantly at work on the long tunnel that is being driven by the Argo company, and it is expected that a large body of gold and copper ore will soon be struck. The property adjoins the city, and tourists and others are always welcome at the workings. OLA LOFSTAD, President. In the last few days there has been quite a stampede of mining men to Minitonas, in Manitoba, the results being of a disappointing character to all who stampeded, and now there is talk of prosecuting the promoters for having brought off a "gold fake." How is it men who are prospectors and experts will not turn their attention in larger volume to the Rossland district and not leave it to'one or two individuals. This camp has a history of steady production, for something like two decades, that no other Northwestern ming camp can equal, and, great as the amount of ore extracted in past years has been, it is small compared with what may be produced in the future. Geological experts have pointed the past season, from which high returns were recovered both in gold and platinum. This past fall some returns showed the values to be as high as $1.50 per cubic yard. The main camp of the Tulameen river is further west. All of the placer ground there has been relocated and is now developed either for hydraulic or steam shovel plants. Coalmont situated on' the Tulameen River, fourteen miles west of the town of Princeton, is another mining town that is coming to the front with rapid strides, and bids fair to flourish owing to its close proximity to the mineral belt. The G.W.R. has already its rails laid past this point which is only two miles west of Granite. The townsite is situated in the center of a coal field which already has shown four seams of bituminous coal that run in width from fifteen to forty feet and extend over an area of fourteen square miles. Coking coal has been found in the vicinity of Coalmont in such quantities that all the smelters both in Kootenay and Boundary countries can be supplied. v ' A few miles further west along the Tulameen are Bear and Champ, ion creeks mining �� camps. The latter's values are in gold and silver principally and for the past five years development has been going on in a small way. The values run, however, from 820 to ��80 and twenty-five general stores, at a cost of ��200,000 in various towns along the company's lines. It was pointed out that this innovation had been introduced by tbe company to avoid the possibility of the towns being left temporarily without adequate supplies. Where these stores will be located has not yet been finally decided upon, but the definite announcement may be expected within a few days. Distributors for Western Canada�� FOLEY BROS., LARSON & COMPANY, INC., Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver, Saskatoon. E. W. WIDDOWSON, Assayer and Chemist, Box biioS, Nelson, B. C. Charges:��Gold, Silver, Lead or Copper, $i each. Gold-Silver, or Silver-Lead, $1.50. Prices for other- metals: Coal, Cement, Fireclay analyses on application. The largest custom assay office in British Columbia, HOCKEY to the South Belt as the place to the ledges are from two to six feet .-x-^Xk^ *.; mf?sbi $��!��**�� Marriage Law in Senate Ottawa, Feb. 1.��The following appears in the Citizen to-night: "It is rumored that there may be "another discussion over the marriage law, this time in the senate. It is said that a Liberal senator there may introduce a.bill along the lines of that brought down by E. A. Lancaster in the commons. This would be for purposes of political advantage, though just where it would lie is not apparent. It would be a most un- poplar thing in Quebec, while the Catholic senators, among whom p\;��i many of the most prominent Liberals in the Senate, would be solidly against it. "There is a pretty general opinion that on a subject involving so much question the first step desirable is to settle all doubts by having the courts interpret tbe rights of the Dominion and the provinces. With this course decided upon in the house nothing will of course come of any move in the senate, even if it should be made." The Greenwood team left en- ronte for Rossland Carnival last Saturday aud played at Nelson on the way. The game was a splendid exhibition and Nelson won by 9 to 8. Lynne, McDonald and Reading were the stars. On Monday they �� played Rossland and won a fine game; by 12 to 2. Ou Wednesday the hoys played Cranbrook at the carnival and defeated them by 5 to 3. Phoenix- beat Rossland ]0 to 5 .and Greenwood and Phoenix meet today, when a great game will be witnessed. Phoenix intermediates beat Greenwood intermediates by 5 to 4 last night. LIQUOR and TOBACCO Habits A. McTAGGART. M.D.. CM.. 75, Yonee Street, Toronto, Canada. References as lo Dr. McTagjrart's professional standing and personal integrity permitted by Sir W. R. Meredith, Chief Justice. Sir Geo. W. Ross, Ex-Premier of Ontaria. Rev. N. BurwasU, D.D., President Victoria College. , Rev. J. G. Shearer, E.A., D.D., Secretary Hoard of Moral Reform, Toronto. Right Rev. J. G. Sweeny, D.D., Bishop of Toronto. Hon. Thomas Coffee, Senator, Catholic Record, London, Ontario. Dr. Taggart's vegetable remedies for the liquor and tobacco habits are healthful, safe, inexpensive home treatments. No hypodermic injections, no publicity, no loss of time from business, and a certain cure. Consultation or correspondence invited. 1 iMooaeeeo-oaesaoaeMeesoef I > II j [ Get your Razors Honed j ! and your Baths at Frawley's Barber Shop, Greenwood, iMMMMMMMW GREENWOOD and MIDWAY STAGE Leaves Greenwood for Spokane at 7 a. m., and for Oroville at 2:30 p- m. Archie Gillis. The Kootenay Monumental Works, Nelson, B. C, manufacture all sizes and kinds of headstones and monuments. �� Not Satisfied || The product of Grapes 1 ��p* A successful business man, and the proud father of several daughters, was endeavoring to find out a certain young man's intentions in visiting his house. "Yes," said the old man, "I am proud of my girls and would like to see them comfortably married. I have made a little money and they will not go to their husbands penniless. There's Mary, twenty- five years old, and a real good girl. I shall give her five thousand dollars when she marries; then comes Bet, who won't see thirty-five again, and I shall give her ten thousand dollars; and the man who takes Eliza, who is forty, will have fifteen thousand dollars with her. Ahem I" The young man reflected a moment or so, and then inquired: "You haven't got one about fifty, have you?" Boundary League Schedule Grand Forks at Greenwood, Jan. 1 Greenwood won, 3 to 1 Greenwood at Grand Forks, Jan. 5 Greenwood won, 3 to 1. Grand Forks at Phoenix, Jan. 10 Phoenix won, 10 to 2. Phoeuix at Grand Forks, Jan. 15 Tie, 1 to 1 Phoenix at Greenwood, Jan. 19 i Greenwood ,won on protest Greenwood at * Phoenix, Jan. 23 Green wood-won on protest Grand ForksatGreenwood, Jan. 26 Greenwood won, 7 to 2. Phoenix at Grand Forks, Jan. 29 Greenwood at Phoenix, Feb. 2 ' Phoenix won. Phoenix at Greenwood, Feb. 6 Greenwood at Grand Forks, Feb. 12 Grand Forks at Phoenix, Feb. 1G TIRED RUN-DOWN PEOPLJE A North Carolina Man Suggests a Remedy Greensboro, N. C��''For a -long time I was so run down and debilitated that I could hardly drag around. My appetite was poor and I could not sleep nights. I had tried different so- called tonics without benefit I was advised to try your cod liver and iron tonic Vinol, and I am so glad I did, for it gave me a hearty appetite, I soon commenced to sleep soundly, and I feel strong, well and more active than I have for years. Every rundown or debilitated person should just give Vinol a trial." K. Allsbrook. What Vinol did for Mr. Allsbrook it will do for every weak, run-down or debilitated person fn this vicinity. To show our faith wo will furnish the; medicine free if It does not do as we claim. Come in and get a bottle on these, .terms. John L. White, Druggist, Grccnwood.B.C. W. F. M. Greenwood Miners Union, No. 22, W. F. M., meets every Saturday evening in Union Hall, Copper street, Greenwood, at 7. Also in hall at Mother Lode mine Friday evenings at 7. BERT de WIELE, Secty LYNN CREEK DAIRY DELIVERED To any part of the city or district OFFICE at Walter G. Kennedy's.' J.McDONELL, Proprietor ^mmmmmmmmnifnnimmmmmmminmiBnimij! ing material has arrived and we are now in a position 13 to do all kinds of job work at greatly reduced prices 2i in any part of the city or district S2 PHONE 12 McArthur & Glerf f R4M0US PEOPLE BY FANNIE M.IOTHROP CITY LEAGUE The following is the schedule of City league: Mother Lode at Smelter, Dec. 22 Smelter won, 6 to 4. Greenwood at Mother Lode,Dec.25 Mother Lode won, 2 to 0. Smelter at Greenwood, Jan. 11 Greenwood won, 3 to G Mother Lode at Smelter, Jan. 16 Mother Lode at Greenwood, Jan. 30 Greenwood at Smelter, Feb. 15 Smelter at Mother Lode, Feb. 19 Mother Lode at Green wood, Feb. 23 Smeiter at Greenwood, Feb. 28 TENDER FOR QUARANTINE . ACCOMMODATION TENDERS are invited for the construction of a Quarantine Station at Keremeos, 15 C, the exacts location of which may be obtained from Win. Thomson, V.S., of Keremeos, B. C.from whom specifications may also be obtained. Tenders must be addressed to the undersigned, forwarded by registered mail and marked plainly on the outside covering "Tender for Quarantine Station at Keremeos, B. C. Tenders must reach Ottawa not later than noon on Friday, the 1st day of March, 1912, and must be accompanied by an accepted eheque for ten per cent of the amount of the tender. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Newspapers publishing this advertisement without authority will not be paid. A. L. JARVIS, Assistant Deputy Minister and Secretary of Agriculture. Ottawa, January 5, 1912. The now school building at Trail will cost $45,000. Don't be afraid of overtaxing your strength; work kills very few people. There is a good deal of difference between fighting to a finish and finishing a fight. STOPS COWCHS^icTafSI' Dry Humor The governor of Maine was at the school and was telling the pupils what the people of different States were called. "Now," he said, "the people from Indiana are called Hoosiers; the people from North Corolina Tar Heels; the people from Michigan we know as Michiganders. Now, what little boy or girl can tell me what the people of Maine are called?" "I know," said a little girl. ''Well what aro we called?" asked the governor. "Maniacs." F%cueni*i\ii'MisSS:.iiiT33& - MAttGZTRET ANSEHJ Canada's Successful Young Actress Miss Margaret .Anglin, the popular young Canadian actress, has manf. tested her Individuality on many occasions��and In her portrayal of Camllle in Dumas' play she defied the conventions by creating tho rOIe on new lines, making the heroine a sweet, simple, sincere ingenue, uncontamlnated by the f atmosphere In which she lived. The actress made a strong defence for. her conception of the character and gave chapter and verse from, the writer of the play to prove her contention. ��''..-. Miss Anglin was born in Ottawa in 1876, and here first asserted her individuality by choosing as the scene of her debut on earth the hallowed precincts of the House of Parliament, her father at that time being Speaker of. the House of Commons. Her early education was at Loretto Abbey, Toronto, and the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Montreal. At the age of seventeen she determined to go on the stage, and went to New York to study at the Empiro School of Dramatic Acting, and began to show her ability by her clever character work in two matinees given by the students. In 1894 she made her professional debut at the Academy of Music in flow York in Bronson Howard's successful play, "Shenandoah." A season of barnstorming and the cares, trials and troubles incident to one-night stands proved of value in giving her a* deeper Sx^'Utpip certain phases of life, in incrc-islng her repertoire, and in prepaWi.'ijr her for her' later "ju'ecesses. In 189C-7 Miss Anglin. as tho leading lady of James O'NoJU's company, made a tour of the United States and Canada and did splendid work as Ophelia in "Hamlet," Virginia in "Virginius," Julie do Montmar'in "Rich- olieu" and Mercedes In "Monte Cristo." The case and simplicity ofrker acting and her versatility were again shown in her clover portrayal of Megfki "Lord Chiunley," and aho rendered oven more absolute and secure her plal]\ in the hearts of Canadians during hor tour through the provinces. \ \ Her brilliant acting in "Mrs. Dane's Defence" and her later work in MrV>*> Manslield's company revealed the mellowing and refilling of her powers and �� fr* 11m lironiloiilng of her gen Inn. -Through all great acting runs tho golden '�� ' tliroad of. personality, and the natural refinomentr culture, sweetness and ", ��'' strength of cliai'iK.'ter of the woman'morely fliulH new expression in thn work '* of thi! nrtr-an. In addition to her dr.imntic talent of a high order, Miss Ang- l.'n Is 11 lirll'l'int. n-iiislda'i. limakn Vr��\v\ fluently Ir^cr c^r.i, clear, charm- i:i.';ly moilulntdd voice, ami is a writer of oast!��and #*, A;o. ��V"> I aiKnrilliiif lu aoi ul llu I'liri'itiiiuiil nri'j'UiU, lu tlm ytur IMS, liy W. II. 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