THE MINES IN KOOTENAY ARE AMONG THE RICHEST IN AMERICA. Whole Number 245. *fil(' 307.V OKK Slin'MKNTS, ilth le JOtli AI-JW,. Silver Kinu to Omaliu Alamo " ;. Alpha " Kucccau " Noble Five " TONS. ati' iW4 "13 1������. ���������>_ Idaho " Molly Hughes to Pilot, Hay Wur Eatflc to Great Falls Le Uo' Jo T .coma Black Diamond lo Tacoma Payne to Everett 130" iir 80' l.i 2!l 5- Total shipments since June, 18.1: 722' Nelson Trail Creek (gold ore) Ainsworth Slocan via Kaslo Slocan via Nakusp ;... Kx. Blue Bell TONS 723 J 4,3-1. 7:*) !I30. 5,273. U.9__ " 18/JC2. Nelson, British Columbia, Saturday, April 27, 1895 Price Five Cents. NEWS OF THE CAMPS. A Git EAT MINE. Milling l)euln at Trail ('r_-k.-T)i- Idaho Tram- wii.v.-Comiiiencenient of the Kuslo-Sloriiii. MINING TRANSFERS. HOSSLAND. Lynch to J. II. Fraser April 16.-Bellevlew.-W. Beevers, .J interest, $1;"j0. April 10,���������Golden,���������T. Blakely to D and T. Stack, j interest, $1. April 17,-rM'ayflower No. 2,���������S. II. Cross to T. "A. Mill-, ���������interest, $200. April 18th,���������Mountain Gem, Belmont and Granite���������J. McPherson to F. C. Bellamy, 2-9 interest, $-00. April It),���������Granite,���������Miko Morris to J. McPherson, J interest, $.->00. April 18,���������Belmont,���������Huj*_. McGlynn to J. McPherson, 111 interest, 8f>00. April 19,���������Lookout,���������J. Urady to Geo. Pferd- ner, whole, $1,050. April 19,���������Lookout,���������Geo. Pfcrdner to L. Linusav, ������ interest, $l,o00. April 20,���������Don,���������T. Ulark to D. O'Neil, no consideration mentioned. April 20,���������Iron Mountain,���������II. B. Shorn to E. L. Tate, i interest, 81,500. April 20,���������Mountain View,���������G. Gilbert to I. N. Peyton, i interest, $1,500. NEW DENVER. April 9,���������Monarch and Governor,���������E. Becker to J. L. Retallack, ' interest, SI. April 12,���������Miner Boy,���������J. J. Barclay to C. W. McAnn, J interest, $1: April 13,-St. Keverne ������, O. B. II. 1, Frosty J,��������� S. Norman to G. Clark, 91. April 15,���������St. Keverne, O. H. B. I, Frosty i, ��������� S. Norman to M. Landrigan, $1. April, 15,���������Exetor 1, Keystone J,���������G. Clark to M. Lundrigan, $1, April 17,���������Antoine,���������J. H. Thompson to H. Cody, i interest, $1. MEW LOCATIONS. R0S8L.AND. April 16,���������Emma Webber,���������H. Adams. 10,���������ljii Uegina,���������J. Albano. 10.���������Easter Monday,���������T. W, Stack. ��������� " 10,���������Kriiiin'a,���������W. L. MeKcii-ie and Antoine Guidottc. " 17,���������Britannia,���������T. S. Pott. " - 17,���������Alice No. 3,���������A. M. Symous. " 17,���������Helen No. 2.-.I. C. Haas. " 18.���������Uncle Sam,���������S. J. Collee. " IS,���������Gem,���������J. Crumie. " 18,���������Mispicklc���������T. Ulakney. " 18,���������_liur Cliiof-5.���������ll...v������ite. " 19,���������Snow Bird,���������I. Iv. liliiKiiui. ������������������ in ���������No. 1, Leblanc Group,���������J.- Leblanc. ��������� ��������� lV���������No. 2, Leblanc Group,���������L. Sweetser. >' i. A. Fraser. " 19,-Syifdicate.-A. M. Lcitcli. ������ m ���������Katie Putnam.���������P. C. McMillan. " 20.���������Hiehiiioiid 2,���������J. Johnston. " 'm���������Trilby,���������l'-O. McMillan. " 22'���������Mountain Sprinc*,���������G. Petersen. - 00 _|_ist Chance,���������B. Atkinson. " j''-lieechwood.���������G.IIieken. '���������> " ���������>������������������silver Star,���������Jacob Stierle. '������������������ _���������]'���������Vcnus.-rJ. CorriRan. " 90 ���������Gold Bug 2,���������G. Eichmann. ��������� ��������� ������������������_'���������Golden Lion,���������W. Saunders. ' - **- - ��������� ������������������- -T. F. Frank. 23,- 23,- 23,- Loung. Lane. -Fairy Queen,���������John Gloyn. -Ticer 2,���������A. B. Campbell. -Wolverine 2,���������W. II. Harris. AN ENGLISH PAPER ON B. C. MINES The-LondoD-Board-of^TriuleJoumal,. 11 paper of large circulatiou and great -weight, has a long article from its "own correspondent" on B. C. mines*. The following is its own editorial comment .thereon. Its remarks about the Slocan Star tunnel are of course inaccurate, but the gist of the article cannot but help this country: , "While the mineral resources of South Africa, Western Australia and India are receiving constant attention, it -is surprising that the mining. development of British Columbia should be left entirely tothe Americans.. The letter from our Victoria correspondent calls special attention to ��������� the out look for investors iu mines in that part of the world. Our correspondent, we have reason to know, is neither directly or indirectly, interested in mines; and we should have a very- strong objection' to booming one particular set of mines above all others. What he has written is, we believe, the result of strong.convictions, and careful o study of ihe conditions existing iu his ' province. It seems scarcely possible to convince outsiders, and particularly the average British investor, of the extent and richness of the minerals of. British Columbia in gold and silver. In the dis' trict of Kootenay their occurrence in great bodies widely distributed is remarkable. The Silver King properties were syndicated in England, and stocked at $1,-00,000. The report of the expert upon which the mine was negotiated is available, and from this we gather that the ore in sight will pay for the mine and leave a surplus of several, times its cost. This is the only property in which British capital is largely interested, audit is only- one of the great properties that are being developed. The rest are in the hands of Americans, who practically control the mining industry in the southern part of the province, and everything imported, men and machinery, is American.. The Slocan Star, for a sixteenth share in which S100.000 was refused, has a tunnel of several hundred yards working in solid ore. This is perhaps the most remarkable property being developed, but the richness of the ore is not less noteworthy, averaging .100 a ton at the smelter. Picked ores run much higher. There is certainly every reason to believe that this will be the next great mining country.- So much is thought of the prospect, that three different liues of railway have been built into the mining districts of Kooteuay, which depend solely upon the oie to come out for their earnings, aud several more have been projected. _. THAU. -R1_KK. Through some misunderstanding the coinpletion-ot* the Monte Cristo deal has been postponed. The Surprise has been bonded for .$13,000, payments to cover eight mouths. A contract has been let for a 50 foot tunnel on the Mountain View. - The survey (if lhe Columbia will be completed today. The claim proves to be snort. It is reported that negotiations are pending for the bonding of the Mugwump, the property of Joseph Ward, for $12,000. * ' '��������� Mr. Hislop returned from the coast last week. _\V. H. Harris was in town last night. He has staked a new claim called the Wolverine 2, upon the great porphyry dyke between Rossland and Lookout Mountain. The claim makes an exceptionally fine showing, much of the outcropping being solid ore. The Josie commenced shipping ore last week. The cabin on the Columbia is nearly completed and work will becommenced on the lead in a few days. The Kootenay is one of the best prospects in the camp, the ore twenty teet from the surface assaying 3 oz. in gold, 3 per cent, copper and 2'ok. silver, lhe body of ore is immense. Postmaster St ussi savs that he intends to work the High Ore through the season* The vein is now over two feet in width. Wednesday forenoon. After being closeted for three hours the jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff. The court, adjourned at 7 o'clock, all cases having been disposed of. Mr. A. Guthrie, of the firm of Foley Bros. & Guthrie. St. Paul, contractors ol the Kaslo-Slocan Ry., arrived bv Wednesday's boat. Mr. Guthrie confirms the report-that construction will commence in a few days. One of the two scows being built here is about completed and was launched Friday afternoon. Posters have been out calling a public meeting for Friday evening, for the purpose, of making arrangements for the proper celebration of Her Majesty's birthday. A double wedding was celebrated on Wee smelter at OmaLa. The mines represented were���������tbe Slocan Star by 7 ears, Alamo G, No. Five 2, Idaho 7, and tlie Alpha 1 car. There is au unusual movement among gold prospectors, and thousand- of meu are exploring in every direction. Eastern and southern Oregon, northeastern Washington, central Idaho, the upper Pend d'Oreille, Trail Creek, and north of the Columbia Reservation, to the headwaters of the Skagit, and coastward along the Alaskan line toward the Arctic circle, an army of men is scattered through the northern country. Throughout the long clear summer the million square miles northward from the California line and eastward from the coast to Long. "104������ W., will be traversed.��������� Mining aud Scientific Press. The latest ne-v gold discovery is reported from Alberni, Vancouver's Island, where it is stated quartz taken from the Mountain Rose claim assayed as high as 8900 to the ton, the lowest result being given at $40. Manager Stoneham, of the West Australian gold fields, writes that water can be had anywhere uow for four pence per gallon. This is certainly a boon; now that it is known that water only costs eight cents a gallon the California rush .... . to the Coolgardie gold fields will take the j first form of an exodus. PAYMENT OF CORONERS JURIES. Log- MIDWA-. Mr. J. McNicol recorded the Hecla, an eastern extension of the Great Hesper, ou April Gth. There is a four foot vein and the quartz is well mineralized. Captain R. C. Adams, of Montreal, is sending out his son, Walter C. Adams, B. A. Sc, to Midway, to attend tohisminiug interests at Boundary and Osovoos. He desires to let a contract to sink a shaft on the Cordiek claim in Summit camp, and ._? J)roP0__-!_ *������ L.a*_e tl]e claim surveyed graduate*. of McG'll College, Montreal, and ma> be available during the summer to make reports 011 mining properties. A few days since M. W. T. Smith came down from Summit camp and brought a sample of ore that those conversant with the ores of the two districts claim was identical in appearance to that fouud at Trail Creek. Whether it assays the same remains to be proven. Briar Creek is the name given to the new camp, situated between the Providence and Summit camps, by the discoverers of the.Big Windy mineral claim, Messrs. Tkomet, Behaermen and Peterson, who recorded the Big Windy on April 5. There is a three and u half foot vein, which shows quite an amount of native copper.���������Advance. The Montreal Hydraulic Gold Mining Company has incorporated at Cariboo, "to acquire the property of the Montreal and British Columbia Prospecting and Promoting Company, Limited, certain placer mining properties in Cariboo and to operate the same." Capital stock, *2-0,000. Trustees, P. A. Peterson and J. Kennedy of Montreal, J. M. Browning, F. C. Iunes and S. O. Richards of Vancouver. During the winter forty-eight men have been washing the banks of the Lardeau, B. C, for gold. Two men took out $3,000 in dust aud nuggets between them, aud all have made good wages. Some of the nuggets taken out were worth 925 each. A large quantity of float, carrying gold, was found in the -creek, and the miners will combine and prospect the mountains with the intention of discovering the ledge from whence came the quartz. LOCAL NEWS. MIXING N0T.'S. (From our exchanges.) Mr. Tom Taylor has been appointed mining recorder of the Trout Lake district. -��������� A claim, carrying chiefly copper, has been located by Rickards & Thompson on Ingram mountain.' . Free milling ore has been found at the bottom of the tunnel on the Anarchist claim, Camp McKinney. Considerable work is being doue on the Defiance, Providence camp, a continuation of the Last Chance. - Ten locations were entered nt the Kettle River recorder's ollice in March". aud three certificates of work filed. ���������The Monarch claim, Gieenwood camp, has been bonded to P. A, Largey, of Butte, Mont, for $10,000, 81,000 paid down. Eight or ten companies will work in Trout Lake country this summer. Ore will probably be ah pped from the Black Prince. The Gertrude Gold mining company, of Spokane, with a capital stock of ������500,- 000, intends operating iu the-Slocan .this summer.0 O. D. Hoar, manager, of the Columbia and Kooteuay mining company, has gone up to start extensive work near Trout Lake city. It. is' reported that Col. Peyton has secured a bond on the Duncan and Lardo, two claims in the W'agner group in the Lardeau or Trout Lake district. The amount of the bond is ������15,000. ��������� ��������� - There is' quite an excitement over the Slate Creek mining camp in Washington, near the international boundary, and on the summit of the Cascades. The ores are chiefly freemilliug gold. John Cloonan, of San Francisco, who reported on Holdeu hydraulic mine, Smith Creek, Big Bend, has returned to Revelstoke. The hydraulic plant will probably be put in this summer. Some prospectors will likely go to Champion Creek, which falls into the Columbia about live miles ^ Owing to the compulsory absence of -oniere'nce'or tile iv������etiioui-i'i.uiii-cii ni B' C. I here; will be no services for three weeks succeeding this notice in the Methodist Church. The appeal court in Victoria has reversed, the decision of Mr. Justice Crease in Brown v. Jowett and has ordered the defendant to be personally liable for the costs in the administration "of the McDonald estate. The celebrated Bon Ton case was decided on Monday last when a verdict was given in favour of Capt.' Adams and his partners. This case has been before the courts so long that it has become historical... The details, however, were mere matters of evidence and contained uo dispute upon a point of mining law. No one can deny that the people of Nelson are public spiritea.. In other towns when anything is wanted the municipal council or other body is invoked, with more or less success. Here in Nelson we have no municipal council, thank God, and when folks want a thing they do it themselves. For instance a sidewalk is badly wanted from Baker street up Kootenay street to the Presbyterian Church and then along Victoria street. Messrs. Clements and Hamilton have started the work and other public spirited individuals are chipping in. Tbe new work will be a great improvement to the town. The new time table on the Nelson & Fort Sheppard Railway commences tomorrow. Trains will run from North- port to Nelson three times a w.eek, ou Tuesdays, Thursdays aud Saturdays returning on Mondays, Wednesdays aiid Fridays, leaving Five Mile point at 8.15 a. in. (and Nelson about 9.1-0 a. tn.) The run of the s. s. Nelson will be altered iu consequence. She will meet all trains ou the N. & F. S. lly., and run to Bonnet's Ferry on Mondays and Fridays returning on Tuesdays and Saturdays. She will also make, local runs from Kaslo to Nel-. son and back on .Wednesdays and Thursdays. The new time table will be published next week. AC'i-isix-il l)erelict.-A Hood Indian.���������Death of Sir Joseph Needliniii. W. Atkinson was killed at Mills ging camp, Sechelt Inlet. The Dominion Express Co. has opened offices at Nakusp, Roseberv and Three Forks. Sir Joseph Needham for. many years chief justice of Vancouver Island is dead at the age of 82. The body of Chief' Capilano who has been missing for some days has been found off Brockton Point. He had wisely governed his thrifty tribe for upwards of 20 years. Eleven acres of ground are being cleared at Oak Bay, Victoria, by the tramway company as a recreation ground. A grand stand will be erected capable of accommodating 2000 people. The coroner's jury in the case of the Swiss boy, Roy, whose remains were found ou the ranch of farmer Jones, at Cloverdale, declared that he was murdered by a gun fired from behind, three months ago. A capsized derelict has been seen near Cape Flattery and it is feared that it will turn out to be the sealing schooner "Behring Sea." There is no sign of the crew which was composed of five white men from Seattle and 14 Indians. One of the first acts of Chief Justice Davie at the sitting of the Appeal Court in Victoria was to call on those cases which brought counsel furtlus' from their homes so as to inconvenience them as little as possible. This is a dis- tiuct advantage to dwellers on the mainland. The poll ut the Alberni-Cowichan election has resulted so far as follows: T. A. Wood 154, G. A. Huff 99. The polling stations in the Alberni district where Mr. Huff resides have yet to be heard from, and as there are 70 or 80 votes there, the contest may be close. The matter is purely one of personal interest, as both gentlemen are supporters of the preseut government Consideration has been given to the question of the payment of coroners juries with the result that the British Columbia Gazette contains the following notice, by which it will be seen that the government has recoguizod the justice of the contention put forward, aud has acted accordingly: "His Honor the Lieutenant-Govenor in Council, under the provisions of the 'Fees Act,' and by virtue of all powers and authorities thereto enabling, has been pleased to order that the fe-*������-".nri__ii___- ances in the following rw^der the conditions in the said regulation specified. "Every coroner shall, in transmitting an inquisition to the Attorney-General's department, furnish a report of the names of jurors and witnesses who have been required to serve at a distance of three miles or more from their residences (with particulars), and also a statement of the time occupied by the proceedings, and any special circumstances affecting the services rendered by such jurors or witnesses. "Such report-shall be subject to 11 revision by the department, aud jurors aud witnesses who are held to be entitled thereto shall receive the same fees as they would be entitled to if attending an assize and tbe same allowance for expenses, which shall be verified by their statutory declaration." . ���������> THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERT. -A--BR-EAGH-OF-GOOD--M-A-N-NERS-- NEWS OF THE WORLD. '^Arrangements are beingj made for M. Faure; President of the French Republic to visit the Queen at Windsor. Queensland is inviting tenders for a 3% per cent loan of ������1,250,000 at a minimum of-97}.- - Vacant houses, stores and hotels that have been closed for some time are being rented daily. Ou Front street the Lake View Hotel is being fitted up for the reception of guests. The two upper storeys of the Columbia are also let and will be occupied in a few days. On A Avenue Mrs. Taylor has furnished rooms for boarders in the McDonald building, adjoining Green Bros.' block. Real estate and engineers'offices have also been opened up | ^_diug and asses;iraent work will be during the week A general feeling of ; do_e _������0Q_ Qp tWQ cl���������hus Th fl__t or��������� prosperity prevails. j di8COTered waa jn 1891, but the place was The County Court opened in the f inaccessible. ?������T5^^-" .^S^L =���������_���������*:! The new mining law for Arizona The forenoon Havana dispatches say that the Cuban rebellion is spreading but the insurgents are badly armed. A Seoul dispatch says a plot has been discovered to dethrone the King of Corea 1 in favor of his nephew Li Shue The conspirators have been arrested Mrs. Vanderbilt, the divorced wife of W. K. Vanderbilt, expressed no surprise when she was asked if she was about to bove Trail j marry Belmont, and declined to answer. j Anarchist plots to assassinate Pre.J- [ dent Faure on his visit to Havre have I been discovered, and-infernal machines i have been found in two places in Paris. Umra Khan the troublesome chief in Northern India has been subdued by Sir Robert Low. He is driven to bay in the When a man comes to make his living in a/ country, it is not good to insult the institutions of that country. If we did not know that the editor of the Kaslo Prospector was an alien and that he has only recently moved to Kaslo after failing to make a hit in one or two other places that he has tried, the article which appeared in his paper of of the 25th headed "Court at. Kaslo," might be looked upon iis a deliberate, attempt to insult the Court. We=feel sure that the good people of Kaslo, who after long effort have at last succeeded in getting the Court to sit in their town,'must be heartily ashamed ofthe papei, which is one of their most recent importations. The writer's ignorance of the proper appellation* of the Judge might appear funny if written as a report to a paper on the other side, but ii.is only rude here, and appearing as it does in a British journal shows that its editor is unfit to conduct it. The sneering reference to our well beloved Queen, who is respected in every country on earth, of whatever nature its government may be, is simply not to be tolerated. The paper which uses it ought to be boycotted until it learns better manners. The writer further proves his unfitness as a journalist by showing his extreme ignorance of the matter he is writing about. We believe the only members of the. bar present at Kaslo ' were Messrs. McAnn, Elliot and Kerr. The Prospector further makes a deliberate display of its ignorance of journalistic etiquette by deliberately mispelling Mr. Elliot's' name, we say deliberately, because the proper way of .spelling it could be at once ascertained on reference to any directory.. It is at least a Yun. .journalist'- duty to know how to spell the names of barristers practicing 'in wn district A new departure in the musical line was made on Thtisday last, when the Nelson Philharmonic Society performed Cowen's well known cantata, "St. John's Eve," to a large and appreciative audience. The theory that only the lighter kind of music goes down in Nelson is at an end. Not that Cowen's music is heavy. It is not. It is extremely light and sparkling, but it is at the same time a step above ballads and. several steps above negro niins- trelsy. The audience were supplied with an elaboiale programme containing the libretto of the cantata, and that it was followed closely was evidenced by the crackling of the paper when the leaves were turned over. The story called on the title page an "Idyll," is an exceedingly feeble plot constructed oh the fable that if a girl wears a rose on St. John's Eve her future husband will be the man who plucks it from her dress. The words, however, serve to embody some very bright music, particularly the opening chorus' "Bring branches from forest," the Bonfire chorus and the Invocation in Scene III. lhe solos were sung by Mrs. Troup (soprano) Mrs. Goepel (contralto) G. R. Robson (tenor) and H. B. Perks (bass). lhe chorus consisted of (soprano) Mes- dames Akehurst, Chapman, Hodson, McFarlaiid, Oakes, Wilson and Miss Delmage; (contralto) Mesdames Day, Stewart and Miss Sharp; (tenors) R. ��������� Hlundell, J. E. Turner and C. Walcroft; (bass):H. S. Akehurst, C. Cregan, Geo. Morden, C. St. Barbe and P. Turner. Mr. W. J. Goepel look the organ part and Miss Sharp and P. B. C. Tur- '*,*->' divided the piano accompaniments. Mrs. Troup's fine rendering of the air, "Say what dost thou bear," in.the second act, showed off her voice to great advantage, and Mrs. Goepel's singing of the legend in the first scene earned her well merited applause. Mr. Perks sang his best in "A lover if bold," but unfortunately a severe cold prevented Mr. Robson giving, anything like the effect of which he is capable to his numbers. It was plucky ofhinr to come and do his best, but it was evident that he was singing under a. great disadvantage. The whole was under the conductorship of W. A. Jowett, whose reputation in that capacity is pretty well known in many parts of Canada. The society is fortunate to have Mr. Jowett as generalissimo, but it could not possibly have performed the piece if it was n0t_������ 1.!cky eno'-Bl1 to number Mr. 1. B. C. Turner among its "members. During' the several weeks of Mr. lowett's absence Mr."Turni-r tookUie__ -r������������������KKTO���������Ty^lFf���������t������������l���������" . ��������� 11 ���������Til���������X���������- stand that the next performance of the society will be in the direction of an operetta, such as "Pinafore." or "Rip Van Winkle," but it is hard to see how they are going to do it as there is not at present a suitable building in the town. On the whole Nelson is to be congratulated on ils new society and it may look forward to many pleasant musical evenings in the future. 1-LAT1NI'M PRODUCTION. The increasing demand for platinum, more especially in the manufacture of incandescent electric lamps, gives great importance to this metal and its sources of supply. It is widely diffused, being found, iu almost every mining region in the world, usually minutely disseminated in serpentine rocks or their debris, but only in the Ural mountains, Russia, does it occur in grains, and only in those mines is it thus secured in any considerable quantity with accompanying profit. In Brazil and Columbia, South America, Sinaloa Mexico, various counties in this State and Oregon, aud other localities on this continent, native platinum occurs, almost invariably in-gold sand or gravel. Thirty years ago platinum was quoted at ^LoO an ounce, it steadily appreciated iu price till "11 corner" in '89 sent it up to $17.50 au ounce. That enormous figure of course occasioned great activity, and three years ago the price went. down to $7.50 an ounce. Since that there have.been the usual re- bouiid- and reactions that have affected u everything made or mined iu the world except gold; platinum is worth -to-day .10.50 an ounce, aud it is" uot. likely it will ever be less, as the practical supply seems limited while the demand must necessarily increase. About ten years ago placer" miners on the Similkameeu river, British Columbia, were bothered - with a stuff' they called "white iron" and threw it away, as valueless. The Mining and. Scientific Press investigated the subject, with the result that the apparently worthless by-product was found to be platinum. As usual it was in placer ground, but Prof. Dawson's explorations gave color to the assumption that the belt of diorite cut by the stream at the point where the platinum was found was lhe matrix of that metal, and that it would be found in - place, while Blake, Van Cotta and others held " that it was" only au incidental product" from debris of serpentine or peridote. The Tulameen Improvement and Hydraulic Company was subsequently organized and active operations prose, cuted, hydraulicking the placers of the Tulameen river with varying results. Of late that company has doue little, but will resume active work this season. - In .- this instance, as in all others except in its a , We regret that the offending mini- j Russia, gold! is the principal inducement, her of the'Prospector reached us too 1 the platinum output .being but inciden- laie for this note to appear in our edi- : t_]. lorial columns. "��������� _ . j. ft is believed that the. present annual "_'._:: ! consumption of platinum in electrical and other industries in this country approximates 50,000 ounces, nearly all of which is imported. It is found in con- S������kS? Pnr d&g^a = be" ! ������������F_ ������������ ^e locator to work his claim of small cases. In the afternoon the j or !-banuon-*' case of Anderson vs. Terr ill et al was i After July 1, the charge in Montana :. mountains, but has been offered a safe called and a jury^ empanneled. This | for recording a quartz or placer, claim i asylum in India if he and his men snr- case occupied all the |afternoon and J will be ������2 instead of ������1 as at present. 1 render! The owners of the Siunlk.-rneeu, B. C, i platinum mines claim that theirs is the j seco. d largest deposit of the mineral in , u-^ ^j* iridosnline in]>atte PlumaS) the world. Active work is to be carried Sij,kiyonf Tr-uity and Tuolumine coun- 1 ties iu this State, aud its great present ! value (about on**:-l_alf that of gold) gives ' it proportional importance.���������Mining and i Scientific Press. on this summer. . J. Coryell and McCarren have located I two new claims in Smith's cainp, South ] Okanagan. ' THE MINER, NELSON, B; C, SATURDAY,, APRIL 27, 1895. A VA-ci^TINE. Ml ���������**.��������� What would j kimi:1 you, O fi-icnd ot iniue? Clustors ol' ljlossoms To smile and shine. Pansics to gladden, Roses to bless, , Lilius to .end in Their frail loveliness. But snowdrifts havo hidden All beauty away. "Not a smile's in the country This winter day. .Everything's waiting To smile by and by, When summer's returning With bluo sunny sky. But, dear, I can never Forget you, you know, When winter is frowning And chilly winds blow. 80 I am sending; Dear heart, to you Wishes most tender And love most true. ���������Womanklndl. THE MAHATMAS. The storm showed no signs of abatement. The snow, driven by tho wind, had found its way here and thero through tho "chinking" of the cabin and lay in miniature drifts upon tbe floor, the fine/dry crystals sparkling in the firelight. We were fairly -warm and comfortable where we sat on our rolls of blankets, placed upon the rudely laid rough hearthstones, but ton feet baok from the fire the air was bitterly raw and cold. Tired though wo all were from the day's rough journey, there was but little temptation to leave the comparative comfort of the fireside for the hard, drafty bunks which awaited us, and Calkins and I still sat drowsily listening to the theosophist as lie discoursed monotonously of reincarnation, Karma- Loca, and kindred topics. He was a fidgety, clean shaven little man, with weak eyes, long iron gray hair and a pasty complexion. Ho spoke in a confidential half whisper, lest he should awaken his unsympathetic friend, the professor, rolled in his blankets near by, and provoke controversy. "A mahatma," he said hesitatingly, in answer to my inquiry, ' 'is a being difficult of exact or satisfactory definition to a mind unfamiliar with at least the elements of esoteric philosophy and unattuned to the harmonies of oriental thought. He has been tersely but inadequately described as 'one who by intense self absorption has attained supernatural powors aud faculties.' Ho is of the 'Illuminati,'of tho 'Brothers,' an 'Adept,' in tho occult senso. Developed and perfected by a spiritual asceticism, he finds himself able to read -nature's oooult laws, to pass unhindered from one distant place to another in the twinkling of an eye, to melt from view and reappear at pleasure, to surround himself with phantasms"��������� "What do you call 'em what does all this?" queried Calkins, with awakening plied the theosophist, not relishing the interruption. "I run against a pair of 'em onco way out on the desert oast of 'Old Woman's Springs,' and I recolleot well how they done me. That's why I asked," explained Calkins. "A pair of zuabatmas! 'Done'you I Impossible!" exclaimed the theosophist. "Well, if you say it's impossible, I reckon that settles it," said Calkins, and he spat aggressively into the white ashes in the fireplace. "But, my dear sir," remonstrated the theosophist in a conciliatory tone, "I did not, of course, intond to suggest any doubt of the perfect sincerity of your assertion. But the idea of your having met two of these phenomenally gifted beings and of their having, as you say, ~'dbne Tyou "strucknine^'fo. "the"l_~o__-_rt7 yon know���������merely for the moment���������as ���������well���������as certainly most remarkable.'������������������" "Well, it was just that," said Calkins, softened. "It was, as you say, the remarkablest racket, considered all round, I ever was in, and I'll allow I've seen more astonishin things in my time than most men." "Would you mind giving us the particulars of your experience, Mr. Calkins?" urged the theosophist, with genuine interest. . "Well," said Calkins after a moment's pause and with tho tone and air - of overcoming a reluctance to speak further on the subject,"with,.< a man who didn't know me"���������ho had met the theosophist that ovoning for tho first time���������"and hadu't the loan-in and understands to tiicklo such matters I'm froe to allow I'd hesitate to give 'em -this account. But with you it ..scorns different somehow. You'll seo tho boar- in's of it as p'r'aps some wouldn't. "I had a claim about 40 miles southeast of Old Woman's springs, and there was a rock 'tank' within a.milo-where I could get water for camp use. I'd rigged up an arastra near tbe 'tank, 'and had been packin ore down from tho claim with the ono mulo I had, and then turned him into harness to-run the arastra, but it niade the work hard and slow both for mo and him. "So after I'd made one pretty good run out of about a ton and :a quarter��������� I got three balls of. amalgam, which, , When I'd roasted and hammered 'em, weighed risin ten ounces���������I started to go in from the desert, cash my bullion and.buy some burro to pack with. ''It was/well into November when I'd finished my run aiid started'1 to come Jn, and tho nights was gettin too sharp for sleopin out with any comfort. I j planned to make Higgins Wells first I night out, for theie was an old stone ; cabin there, half built into tho side hill, j without much roof, to be sure, but fur- j . nishin Eome cover ' and givin a shelter fromitbe wind. "Well, I cached my tools.and powder and straightened things out at camp before leavin, arid so didn't get started until well on toward noon. It took about eight hours steady hustlin to get to the Wells, but I knew I had a moon to tuvttl with when the son want down, so I didn't feel hurried, though tho days was gettin short. "About sundown it grew raw right away, and then the mountains to the east and every little knob and buttc stood out sharp, with a chilly dead light on 'em, like they was gettin purple witli thecold. Thero wasn't a cloud nowhere to be eeon, nor a breath of wind stirrin, and I know it was goin to be a still, pinchin, frosty night, aud I buttoned my coat up tight, and for the first time on tho trip begun to hurry up my nmlo. "Just after sundown on a clear, sharp night's the lonesomost time to be trav- eliu on tho dosort when you'ro by yourself. .With tho dusk comin on and the rod fadin out in the sky you feel somehow liko evorytliin in the world but just yon and your mulo had been stone dead for a hundred years, aud feelin that way your animal gets to bo groat company. When the moon come np, it was somo choerfuller, but I felt glad enough when I scon tho buttoWhere tho Wells and the stono cabin was and thought of a fire and blankets. "When I'd got to within p'r'aps a quarter mile of tho cabin, I seo some- thin I never seen before aud couldn't no ways account for. It was like along, wavy lino of mist, comin from the east, ruovin through tho air just above tho ground and makin for tho butte faster'n a locomotivo and straight's a bee flies I "It didn't look like mist exactly neither, but more like a string of misty figures, with long, while streamers blowin out behind 'em on the wind 1 I scarcely had timo to spoo'lato what it was, when just by the cabin it melted away and disappeared altogether. The air was clear and as dry as a bone, so I knew it couldn't bo just a flyin vapor I'd seen, and besidos there was nary breath of wind to drive it. "While I was wonderin at all this, a light broke out of the-cabin door and through the little window, like some one had just started a fire inside. Then next I seo a campfire flame up, just down tho hill by tho Wells, and men and animals movin about near by. I thought it was queer I hadn't seen 'em till just that minute, for the country was open all round, and up to now there hadn't been a sign of life anywhere. "Then I says to myself, 'Most likely it's a prospectin party, and they was hid by the willows growin round the Wells,' but somehow this explanation didn't satisfy me, and I rodo up toward the cabin, feelin glad at the prospect of company, but still wonderin considerable. Tho place had got to be sort of public property ever since old man Higgins died, and I didn't feel no kind of delicacy in ridin right up to the door, even if there was some one'ahead3of me. So I dismounts, unsaddles, and after hobblin tho mule steps in. "I'll never forget how all struck stiff I was by the sort of old man I seo stand- in by the fire aud just star tin to conic toward me, with both hands stretched out and a smile on like he'd boon ox- pectin me. But when he seen who 1 m-~ i._u,-i,_,-_-_,a r._-������._ _\M?��������� *���������__"> ___MJ/* pointedlike, and his hands dropped, and then I see he'd thought I was somebody else ho was waitin for. "He was dark comploxionod aud very old, judgin from his--long whito beard and the wrinkles on his face, but ho was tall and as straight as a tampin stick, and his eyes, though deep in the sockets, was as bright as a hawk's, but kind and friendly, I thought. He was dressed out queerer'n any man ever I see outside of a tho-a-ter.- His head was wrapped all about with great strips of whito muslin, which bulged out all round in a roll. He was buttoned up. close in a long dull yeller colored, quilted silk overcoat, with a broad fur collar, and his shoes was red and turned up in long points at the toes. "I seen at the first glance he was spmethin out of the common and wasn't no prospector, but what ho was I couk!i_']T make out neither. I said 'Good evening' arid he said 'Good eveuin' back, pleasant enough, but speakiu queer, like he wa'n't much used to speakin, English. Then he motioned me, lookin very hos- pit-ablo, to take a seat in one of the three old rawhide bottomed chairs before tho fire, which I done with a 'Thank you,'for somehow, without bein anyways uppish, tho old man acted liko he owned the whole place, and I felt some- how^liko ho did too. Well, when I sot down, he set down and muriiblod somo- thin I didn't just make out, boin in a language I'd- never hoard bofore, and, though lookin pleasant an sniilin, be seemed sort of abscntniindod and kopt lookin toward thc door, liko ho was ex- pectin somo one. "Whilo I was gazin at him and wonderin who and what ho was, and where ho como from, and was makin np my mind how to lead tho conversation round kind of dolicato up to them points, I was startled clean through by seoin the old man's chair suddenly got empty��������� that's tho clearest I can put it���������and findiu him standiu just outsido the cabin door lookin" off over tho desert.. He hadn't got np from that chair, so far as I could see, and there ho was, 20 feet away from it, without" so much as stirrin a leg. "Naturally thisexcited my curiosity considerable. And I got up and went to tho door, too, to see what tho to Destination, NT.. O-n-ro-iR Oli;'l-'l--l.T1130. l*quipm_nl, Unsurpassed, combining palatial Dining jind Sl-isping Cars, Luxurious Day (���������oaclies, Tourist -looping Cars and Free Colonist Slc-ping Cars. Kor information, as apply to nearest agent, to rates, timo, etc, .������. IIAMM/ro.V ABont, Nelson, Or to I'M*. Mel/. IIKOWN, District Passenger, Agent, Vancouver. Mummy Wli������at. Candarolle says that the "mummy wheat"���������that is, wheat taken from mummy cases���������has never been known ,V. sprout. Instances to the contrary are believed to bo tho result of fraud on tho part of Arabs who frequently introduce modem grain into tho sarcophagi iu order to impose on tho credulity of travelers. ��������� . Bank of Montreal. COLUMBIA & KOOTENAY STEAM NAV. CO. (i.iMixi'n) Str. "Nelson's" Time Card: KASLO ROUTE. -l.������'iiv������->i--(-l*������ii-.or l.������'aVfs-|i!i*I���������"f-_r K: Mo: .\-l.������flli: Mondays at I p. m. Sundays at. a. in. W'l'i-NhSnAYs.S.'Op.ni. Tui'SDAys at 3 n. in. Thursdays at! p. in. Thuksdays at 8 a. in. Satuudays at5.lt) p. m. Km days at li a. in. Conii.ctiii.on W'ednes- Connect ins? on Tuesdays ami Saturdays da}'-and I'Vidays with with N. & "?*. S. train Nelson & I*'!. Sheppard from Spokane. Hallway for Spokane. -AI'ITAI, (all liiiltl Ul>), $l'.',*MM),IMMI KKST, ... -,O00,OO0 Sir DONALD A. SMTTI. -..Presidei t Hon. GEO. A. DKUMMONU,...Vicc Prcsideni E. S. CLOUSTON General Managei Neslon Branch: N. *W. Corner Baker anc! Stanley Streets. Branches in London (England), New York .inr Chicago and in the principal cities in Canada BONNER'S FERRY ROUTE. Leaves- Nelson for Uonncr's Tuesdays and Fridays at 7 a. in. Leaves Ivaslo for Uonncr's Tuesdays and Fridays ul li a. in. ���������> Leaves Uonncr's Ferry for Pilot Bay, Nelson, Ainsworth and Kaslo at2 a.- in. on Wednesdays and Saturdays. . Closo connection is miidcnt Bonner's Fcrry with Kiist and West bound trains on tlio Great Northern Railway. TRAIL. CREEK ROUTE: .Steamer Lytton leaves Waneta for Trail Creek on Tuesdays mid- Fridays immediately alter IlieniTivalof train from Nelson connecting with stage for Itossland. Leaves Trail Creek landing nt 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays, connecting at Waneta with train for Nelson, l'ilot Bay aiid 'Casio. The company reserves the right to change this schedule at any time without notice. T. Allan*, J. W."T*ioui\ - Secretary.- .Manager. Buy and sell Transfers. Sterling Exchange and Cablt Grant, cbmmerical and traveller's credits, available in any part of the world;' Drafts issued; Collections made; Etc. SAVINGS BANK BRANCH Rate of interest at present 3 per cent W. A. JOWETT MINING & REAL ESTATE BROKER lM-UR.tHiCEmill ��������������������������� -OMMISSIOV A������E\T. NELSON, B. C. THE SHORT - FAST - SCENIC ROUTE Seattle, Victoria. "Vancouver & Puget Sound, and all Paci- TO-% fie Coast Points, St. Paul Chicago and Points Beyond - - Modern Equipment. Kock.Kullnst Uoadbed Attractive tours via Uulutli and the Great Lukes in conned loir with exclusively ]>n������seiiK: iMMiit .iiiovi: list; -list-It o.������iCi:. "3 BANK OF M ^ (Incorporated by Koy.il Charter, 1862.) -AI'M'AL (piit'l tip), ������-00,000 . $>,9'j0,i:0 (With power to ncrease. ItKSKKVt- F(ISI������, * ''0,-00 . . 1,3-5,33!) _sr__3__,so_sr _3_=t_A__sro_a:. a Corner of Baker and Stanley streets B_=t___nsrc_E_:__is = o Canada���������Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo and Kamloops. United States���������San Francisco, Portland, ' _a_oma"~~aiHrScaltrc". HEAD OFFICE: GO Lombard street, LONDON. England. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS: CANADA���������Canadian Bank of Commerce and branches; Merchants'Bunk of Canada 'am' branches; Imperial Hank of Canada and branches; Molson's Bank and branches; Bank Nora Scotia UNITED STATKS-Agcnts Canadian Bank of Commerce, New Yoi'K ��������� Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. Traders' National Bank, Spokane, OAV1NGS DEPAUTMENT- Dni'osn's received al������l and upwards, and interest, allowed (presenti-ate)at3percent, per annum. GRANGE V. HOLT, Nelson, July 17,1893. Agent. Among the exports from British (.oliitiii-iii are six convicts, who have been sent to do I heir time at the Stony Mountain Penitentiary, Winnipeg. (. THE MARKET FOR KOOTENAY LEAD. Our.Rossland namesake, speaking of Mr. Hendfiyx's application to the B. C. Board "f Trade at "Victoria for help in securing an extra duty on lead; says: '���������The first effect of that protective legislation would be to establish other A terrible slur has been cast on lie- publican America. Some time ago tenders" wore invited in a London daily paper for the purchase of a title, in the sale of which the government* of the country (a South American one) would acquiesce. Twenty-two replies were received mid among theni six bore United States, postage stamps. To vary the phrase we may suy that '.'A li.epubli._n may-be not without titles save in his own country." The Revelstoke Mail points out the hindrance to settlement - that arises from the attitude of the Indians along the Columbia Kiver. We have lately had a taste of the same sort of thing, only rather more so, on the Kootenay. It is simply absolutely necessary that settlers should be completely protected in their holdings and be allowed to pursue their peaceful callings unmolested by troublesome natives. If the government will see to this well "and good. But if it .will not, it is well to look at the class'of men by whom this country is settled and to remember that they all have Winchesters. KODAK AGENTS. Amateur Work Developed. " Iliologriiplilc. SiiiKli'li-s Suppllcri. FLEMING BROTHERS 61 Govei-iiniciil Street, Victor In. NOTICE. rT! I IK partnership heretofore existing bc- -*- twocn Armit & Rashdall at New Denver* ii. C, has this day been dissolved by mutual ���������i-jreement. L. Nai'IKI' A km it. Ciiaki.ks S. Hasiidai.l. Witness: Cl. Hi'uiikiit Kasiiimi.'.. A11 accounts owing by and debts due to thc late linn to be sent to Charles S. ltashdal at New Denver. Dated April 1st. 1895. , (115) International Commission Co. Importers and Wholesale Dealer* In POULTRY, VEGETABLES, FEED, FRUIT and GENERAL PRODUCE. Sole Ax-iiIh for Koolena-t for Ihe Celebrated Imperial Kuby Birds-Eye Twist Tobuceo. _N"_EI__SO_lSr_ _B_ o. (52) .MiLIHS KHKLICH, Itluiiuuer. MINERS HOTELKEEPERS and ALL OTHERS. \I7"TT~Yr SEND your money out of the TV XJL A country for provisions when you can do as well in the province. You make your money in British Columbia and it is your J) UT Y io leave partof it here rather than to send it away. Wo are well aware that you' arc cutoff from the coast ,iust now, but we want you to .study the following price list and lo send us your orders as soon as communications with us arc open. We guarantee all goods of the finest quality and defy all competition. _P_=IIC__3 LIST. . I7, eight Rate to Nelson per iuo Ibb. BAKING POWDER. Dr. Price's, 12 oz. tin s per doz ?5 00 Dr. Price's, 2i Ib tin, each 1 40 Dr. l'rice's, 4 lb tin, each 2 00 Koyal, 12 oz. tins, per doz ."..., 5 (K) Cook's Choice, 2. lb tin, each each Jo Swiss,- per lb 40 Currants, per lb (C) C Cocoa, Fry's ' lb package 10*1 "- " perlb 35 [. _ lb 3 50 TABLE Shun lug the. llHtes ami Places or Courts or or .Issl/.e, Xlsi I'rius, Oyer and Terminer, and I'enersil t'-iiil Unlivery r������r llie. Vear IS..1. . ; Hulk, per lb 35 Van Houten's, ' Ib 25 f nO. Coal oil (best American) per case. Canned Peas, per doz 110*t Corn, " 110 " Deans, " 115 " Tomatoes, per doz 1 25 " Apricots (California) doz... 2 75 " Peaches and Pears (California) doz 2 75. Corned Beef, 2 lb tins, per doz 2 !X) Roast Beef, 2 lb tins, perdoz 2110 Cotl'ee, Turkish, 10 lb tins, per lb... 35 " " 2 lb tins, each .... 75 " Royal Java, 25 lb tins, per lb 20 Evuporatcd Apples, per lb 12A _______���������_.���������50 lb box*....-.-.���������11��������� " Apricots and Peaches. 12' " Apricots and Peaches, 25 lbs or over 11. Sugar, Granulated, per lb .J 81.52 81.70 Sl.'JS $1.70 Sugar, Yellow, per lb. Syrup, 5 gallon kcx; " 1 gallon tin " Maple, 1 gallon Soap, Electric, 50 lb box .-. " Yellow " - French Castile 2.J Ib bar Raisins, Valenuias, per lb '���������' " Sultanas, per lb Rice, China, per mat���������' Japan, per sack MISCELLANEOUS. !"icklcs, 1 gal. keg..: -'. ; " 3 gal. keg -.. Candles. 11 oz., 20 lb bos T. & B. Tobacco, 3 plugs for I'. of W. chewing, per lb Macaroni and Vei-micell, per box.. Washing Soda, 100 lb. sack." Jams and Jellies, 7 lb pails " " " 5 lb pails ' Marmalade, 5 lb pail : Salt, line English, 50 lb sack salt, coarse, 100 lb sack Meats at regular market price. 1* 2 25-> 00 I iooJ 2 50 200 ' 50 7 11 100- 2 10 80 2 ''5 2 50 (H 57 85 ' 125 . 701 . 50 V 75 -" , ti", , 85 1.52 1.52 1.52 1.52 1.52 1.52 1.52 -1.52- 1.70 1.70 1.25 1.25 1.25 1.25 1.25 1.70 1.70 1.52 1.52 1.52 1.52 1.52 1.5. 1.52 1.70 1.25 1.52 1.25 1.25 THE BEST MINING . STEEL IN THE WORLD. It will pay* you to write to us for prices of this @ celebrated make of steel, for which we have been appointed Sole Agents for B. C. We will quot<_ ������ delivered at nearest station or steamboat land ing to your mine. Correspondence solicited. E. G. PRIOR & CO., Ld. VICTOEIA, IB. C. in 0 SPRING ASSIZES. - Nanaimo Tuesday. 7th May New Westminster..Tuesday. .......14th May Vancouver...' -..Tuesday. 21st Mav Clinton Monday.. ...'....27th May Viel oria Tuesday. 28th May Kamloops...'..'. Monday.. 3rd June Vernon Monday. 10th.I line "Donald: Friday... 14th June "Nelson Wodnosd ij* 19th June FALL ASSIZE 3. Clinton Thursda\ .2(ith September Riehlield: Monday. .30th September Kamloops Mondav. 7tli October Vernon -Monday. ....14th October Lytton .. ..Friday. . ....llth October New Westminster...Wednesd iv.fith November Vancouver Monday. .llth November Victoria..: Tuesday. . 18th November Nanaimo Tuesday. .2(ilh November "Special Assize. . 1)7 We handle everything in the grocery and pro vision line. If there is anything you want not, on this list write for quotation. Tkak from lUu. per lb. Samples sent free on application, TKKM.S : Cash with Order. Reference���������Bank ok Ukitish Columbia. 18 S. GINTZBURGER, PROP. - Vancouver. Cohdova Stkekt, P. O. Box 500. N. B.���������Where not otherwise' specified prices are the same whether you buy the u.vuhokkx r.vcKAGB or hy the I'ousi), by the dozen or by a single piece. - ��������� . .81 CHAELES S. RASHDALL, Mining Broker. There are two .cases before the courts at present, both occupying the closest public attention, und they serve as excellent examples of the different modes of treating criminals under trial in England and America. In England th- case of Wilde has horrified the eutire community. It is hardly too Conveyancing, Notarie Public Mining Abstracts. ��������� THE MINER can be obtained from the following agents: Victobia, The Province Publishing Co. Vancouver, The News .-timd, Hotel Vancouver. ������ _"_*w Denver, Messrs. Armit & Kashdall. Rossland, Keefer & Hall. Pilot Bay, Gilker & Wells. j .-,. '',. . , .. Kaslo, Kennedy & Porter. j Complete lists of e-istu-gMimnglocation*- Nelson, Turner Bros., Gilbert Stanley! _cn__s pehjung & pub. go., Ltd. I NEW DENVER, B, C. ST_A._riO_l_T__D_R"3r __r__^___Nra~5r g*oo_3s RIESTERER'S BREWERY MILL STREET, NELSON, B. C. Is now able to supply the town and'district with a first-class quality of Draught and Bottle Draught Beer ax 50c. per gallon. Bottle Beer at $10 per .Barrel. OKiwita i.tv iti* u:. i xr m iikii's ii..Ki*itv. haij, (iKiiKiii* I'KourrM .i.h:.m������i-i������ to. R; RIESTERER, Prop. 83- - Tremaine Steam SJa-mp JJfii THE LATEST PRACTICAL MINING MACHINE NOW PERFECTED (Ilii:li<:sl ..wnril at World'* Fair CIiIchko.) The machine consists of a Two Stamp Prospecting Mill, and is capable of nuttinjf through Six Tons per dieii*. The entire, plant consists of Boiler, Steam Pump and Copper Tables. Weight, 2,800 pounds. Itis built iu sections which can be taken apart and easily transported by pack animals. These Mills can be erected tind placed in ruuuing order at from $2,000 to ������2,500, according to locality. Full particulars from M. S. DAVYS, SOLE AGENT _sr_3xJso"isr- _3_ c- Amoug all the mining machines and appliances shown at the World's Columbian Exposition there was nothing which excited more interest and favorable comment than the Tbemaine Steam Stamp Mill iu the Mining Building.' It was a positive novelty to the great mii'joritv of mining men. It commanded attention by reason of its simplicity and evident practibility. Experienced mining engineers were astonished to Wm that nucha machine bad beeu in successful operation for over two years iu the extreme north-western part of the United States. ������ (9) NOTICE. J. H. BR0WNLEE MINING BROKER. so .VICTORIA, B. C. -VTOTICK is liorcby Bivcii that the uiider- JN iii-ini'ine'l rcsiicclivii-amoiiiits will 1>_ I-iidus bounty for Ihii huml of ovury pni'tliur. j ��������� wolf coyoto kill.d in as-UK-il ilisM-iutof the I'roviii-0 on tho corlincut, of a JiiMicu of the i'eaca tlmtsiich aiiiiiml was killed in a .set tie- merit, and lliiiitlio head was produced to and destroyed bv him, namely:��������� ; Kor each piintlier, seven dollars and fifty CUl"or 'ludfwolf, two dollars <$J.(W). For each coyote, one dollar (SLOO). Hy Command. J AMI'S I'Al.KI'. Provincial Secretary. Provincial Hei'retary's Ollleo, ' (26) '.2nd A'i_i!?t, 1801. CiWsjComer VANCOUVER, B. C. Buxton-& Rodney " -IwiIOI.ESAI.B AND HKTAIt��������� - -TOBACCONISTS- Agents for the celebrated |_. &. CO. (Loewe Hun orall Kiii-l"-. H-hliiB Turkic In 1'ivnl Vnrlrly. ���������At IMlMiMS STKKKT, - VICTORIA,-B..<;. mivim;. A large"stock of "OWN MAKE" Pipes Tobaccos of all kinds and all smoker's I requisites kept on hand. JCOI'.NTKI' OKHKKS 15V POST I'l-OMI'TIA ATTKM������KI> TO; THE TRADE SUPPLIED. I. . C. CAMPBELL-JOHNSTON "V. i of Swansea, India, and thc United Statef. j "METALLURGIST. ASSAYER, AND MINING ENGINEEK Properties reported on. All assays undertaken i Furnaces and concentrating plants planned, and erected. Treatment for ores given- Orel 1 bought and .old. Box 10, Vancourer. JB.C. THE MINER, NELSON, B. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1895. CANADIAN NEWS. The exports for "March show an increase of Sl',500,000. Hon. Thomas McGreevy has applied for a recount in the Quebec West election. At a meeting of the Dominion Educational Association at Toronto, Hon. Col. Baker of Victoria, was appointed vice-president for British Columbia. Hon. Peter Mnelaren, of Perth, has filed a petitoon at Osgoode Hall yesterday for the immediate winding up of the Empire Printing Co., on the. ground of insolvency. A French paper in Eastern Canacla says that a charge is to be preferred agaiust a Cabinet minister of having accepted S25.000 in connection with .the passage of n railway bill last session. Not much credence is attached to the statement. The relatives and friends of AVilliain David "Walter, who was sentenced to death at. St, Thomas, have decided to circulate petitions throughout Western Ontario praying that his sentence be commuted to a term of imprisonment. They contend that Walter was used, as a tool by his fellow prisoner John Hender- sliott to carry out his devilish scheme, concocted for his own personal benefit. Archbishop Langevin of St. Boniface has received a letter from Cardinal Vicar Ledochowski at Rome on the "Manitoba School question. The following is an extract: "Some have erroneously thought that there is no danger in those schools which nre called "neutral," and that Catholic children can be indiscriminately sent to those schools; but the very fact of such institutions excluding the true, and all other religious, from their teachings inflicts a great wrong upon religion itself and degrades it from the high position it should occupy in every human life, particularly in the education of the young, It is not right to say that parents can supply privately the religion which should be part of the school routine." ��������� CHURCH NOTICES. Sunday, April 28th, 1895. Methodist Church. Services in Hume's Hall at 11 and 7.30. Morning subject: "Three Links; Friendship, Love, and Truth." A special sermon to Oddfellows. Evening subject: "Highways and Bye ways." ( ,Chubch of England Services at ll a. m. and 7.30 p. m. What She Missed. "Did yon have a good rest over at your Sister Mary's?" asked ono of Mrs. Jennie Woolson's neighbors. "I s'pose 1 had a good rest enough," answoreci Mrs. "Woolson. "1 didn't have a. thing to do for a week. But I was as., homesick an lonesome as an old cat." "Why, I* thought they'd entertain you first rate!" exclaimed tho neighbor. "I understood Mary kep' a hired girl and.lived real stylish. "Well, so she does," admitted Mrs. Woolson. "An thoy did everything thoy could for mo. But Mary's husband's shop is right across tho street, an he's always homo just on tho tick for his inoals. An sho's got a hired girl that's just as capablo as slip can ho an don't need a mite o' lookin aftor. An hor two boys aro just liko little clocks���������I never seo .wo such stiddy young ones in all my days." "Well, I should think you'd havo had a real peaceful time, " said tho neighbor. "I did," returned Mrs. Woolson, "but it wa'n't like -what'I'm usod to. Thero wa'n't a thing for mo to worry about from mornin till. night���������tin 1 missed the excitement; that's jest what the trouble was. An I come home two days beforo my visit was out because I got so dreadful low in my mind I begun to feel kindor sick. " "Yon look all right now," said the neighbor, with a glance at Mrs. Wool- son's red cheeks. "Mussysakes, yes! Why, when Cyrus met me at the depot.yesterday, ho said fust thing that he thought by the looks of the corn 'twas all dryiu up, an.we shouldn't havo any thin, to pay for all he'd spent on the field this .year, an he said that Miry looked to hiih as if she was comin down with the measles, an Johnny had eat somethin that ho reckoned was p'ison the day before, an was liable to bo took sick any minute. An, lawzeo, I begun to feel jest as homey an contented as ever I was in my life An by the timo we drove up to the door I ���������was all chippered up an ready for anything!"���������Youth's Companion. P. O. box 69. Telephone EDWARD APPLEWHAITE * CO. S, E. corner Baker and Josephine streets, NELSON, B. C. REAL ESTATE, FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE AGENTS Loans negotiated on Nelson property. Collections made. Conveyancing documents drawn up. Town Lots Lands and Mining Olainis Handled on Commission. Hudson's Bay Company, BAKER STREET, NELSON. Deals only in First-class Goods and Sells at the Lowest Price. Just Received a Large Consignment of Imported and Domestic Cigars. Special attention is directed to Good Cooking Butter at 15c. and Condensed Milk (October canning) 8 cans for $1. SAN lEANOISOO, CAL. A SFK_I.4_.TV. MINING MACHINERY -Hre ���������������������������Nurtinc- VoHr.y Art, 189JI." As Aiiu;ii������1i:i1 by th. "Fire Insuraiive l'<������ll-.V-_ili.iHlin.nl Acl, IK-,",," ������ GERMAN WHIST. One of the Few Interesting Games of Card* For Two Hand.. There are, for some undiscovered reason, very few simple two handed card games. And of these the best, and perhaps the least known, is German whist. Essentially a game of skill, thero is a sufficient element of luck combined to insure a good game even between two unequal players, and the issue is always snore or less uncertain until the last moment An ordinary pack of whist cards is all that is required, and as far as play is concerned the rules of whist are almost entirely applicable. Thirteen cards are dealt to each player, as in the ordinary four handed game. Instead, however, ot turning np the twenty-sixth card, the twenty-seventh card is placod face upward on the remainder of the pack. The suit of this card remains trumps throughout the game. The dealer's vis-a-vis plays first by leading a card, and the dealer must follow suit as in whist, or, if ho cannot, either trump or throw away a useless card. The first trick is now on the table, and whoever picks it up draws the trump card from the top of the pack. The card below this is drawn by tho loser, who does not show its face. The third card on the pack is now turned up and will belong to tho winner of the second trick, the loser again drawing the card underneath, and so on through- ^~o_t_t*i_~pa-k. _u~tliisway tho player has 13 cards in his hand until the end. As tricks of two are difficult to keep distinct- it is generally found advisable to pile them indiscriminately for the time being and to count them out at the end of each game. In playing tbe cards have tbe ordinary whist valuations, and when the last cards havo been drawn the 13-which remain in the band are played out in the . usual way.. The "difference between the . number of tricks taken by tho,dealer and his opponent is tho number of points the winner scores. Each gamo is usually considered .complete in itself, but it is no nnnsnal occurrence to find at the end that each player has 13 tricks. It is difficult in such a short space to give any reliable hints for players, but any ono accustomed to whist will fall into the way at onco. Obviously, how-- ever, it is not always an advantago to' take tho card which is turned np, and in the case of this boing a low ono a ���������speculative player will often lead the lowest card in his hand in the hope of drawing something better nndernoath. The player is happy who, when it comes to playing the last 13 cards, finds himself with one long suit aud the majority of tramps I���������Homo Notes. Can Drive ������ Bargain. The small nephew of a friend received 15 cents from his father a few days ago and was told to get his hair cut. The boy walked boldly into the barber shop and pnt this quostion to the tonsorialist: "Say, mister, can yon give me 14 cents' worth of hair cut?" The barber said he could ahd gave the boy the regulation cut. The youngster then blew in his penny.for taffy, and it was his smeared face, that led first to suspicion and then to confession of what ho had done.���������New York World. FOUND. After the concert at the Fireball on Thursday evening, a silk handkerchief. Owner can have it by applying ut Tin. Mixer office. 118 MEII>-_AL. E. ARTHUR, A.M., M.D., PHYSICIAN, Ere. COROXER FOR WlSST KOOTENAY, Oiilcc over Nelson Drug Store, West Raker street. Nelson, B.C. Night calls at residence, corner of Victoria and Stanley streets. "\J OTICE is hereby given that His Honour -L^ tho Lieutenant-Governor in Council has further postponed tlio commencement, of " An Act to secure Uniform Conditions in Policies of Fire Insurance," from tho 1st day of April, 1884, until the 1st day of July, 18D5. JAMES BAKER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Oftlco, - 28th February, 1895. (97) POST OFFICE STORE GILKEK & WELLS, NELSON AND PILOT BAY. SPRINGGOODS ��������� Suits, Mens, Youths and Boys, Splendid Value. Boots and Shoes to suit everybody's taste and pocket. ���������'Waterproof Coats, a fine line; Rive-ted Overalls; Shirts and Underwear- Spring Novelties just opened up, including a SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF FINE CALIFORNIAN FLANNEL GOODS FROM THE FAMOUS STOCKTON MILLS. Hats and Caps Gloves and 1 ,es,'Pipes and Pocket Knives, Stationery and Office Supplies. Cigars, wholesale and retail. POST OFFICE STORE GILKER & WELLS. NELSON AND PILOT BAY. m Dut Your Best Foot Foremost and walk right into W. H. Graham's Boot Store on Baker Street, Nelson, where you will find the Best Boots and Shoes and full lines of all the Spring Novelties at prices that cannot be beat. no Spokane Falls <& Northern R'y* Nelson rco'crv_-B, 33. o. ....Si 150 :2t)b '250 '366 00 G50 800 900 10 00 word: Over 150 words :*���������. Over 200 words words Over 250 words words -.. And for every additional cents Municipal by laws, requiring only one insertion, to be at one-haif the above rates. Advertisements in tabular form will be charged double the above rates. The above scale of charges will cover the cost of four insertions. Over rfour insertions, 50 cents extra for each insertion. Notice is also hereby further given that all persons in arrear for advertising in the Gazette are peremptorily required to pay the amount of their indebtedness on or .before the .'iOth June, 1895. - ' . AH cheques or money orders to be made payable to Richard Wolfenden, Queen's Printer. Victoria, li. C. 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Cargo at Company s Wharf until 9 a.m. -l-OOItYYIIXE FEKKl*. Leave Moodyvillc���������7, 9, 11:45 a. in., 2:30, 4:30 p.m". ' . - Leave Vancouver���������8,10:15 a.m., 1:15, 3:30, 5:30 p.m. -STStcamers and Scows'always available for Excursion, ./lowing and Freighting Business. Storage Accommodation on Co.'s Wharf. W. r. TOPl'IM*, Manager. Telephone 91. - 1>.*0. Box 771. FRED J. SQUIRE, Merchant Tailorl COR. BAKER AND WARD STREETS. 90 Job Printing at the Miner BRITISH COLUMBIA IRON WORKS Gqneral Founders, Engineers, Boiler Makers, and Manufacturers of All Classes of Machinery. Sawmill and Marine Work a. Specialty. -TO- ....".per vol. 3������00 " 4 00 ..... " 2.30 2IHI 150 .30 50 iii 5 00 I-'.1. Hunting, Survey, Prospecting PARTIES AND OTHERS THE NEW, FAST��������� _ STEAM LAUNCH "FLIRT" Can be CHARTERED by,day or week on reasonable terms. Oi tiers sent trough the pursers of the steamboats Nelson or Ainsworth, -with whom arrangements eaiibe made, or by mail or telegraph to C. "W. Busk, Balfour, will receive prompt attention. (19J SOLE HAXIIFACTIIIIER- OF THE Kendall Band Mill, B. 0- Shingle Machines, Steam Log Hauling Machines. We keep in stock a full supply of Engineer and MM Supplies, such as Pipe and Fitting- Brass Goods, Sheet and other Packing Rubber Valves, Belting, Oils, and Lubricants, etc. , .Rubber and Leather HOISTING ENGINES and SINKINGPHMPSFOR MINES Corner Alexander Street and Westminster Ave., VANCOUVER, B'. C. D. CARTMEL, J. ������. CAMPION, J. E. W. MACFARLANE Agent Wert Xootenaf. SecretuT-Treanrer. Muaftv