f  :  4  ���4  1  i  i  F'.J  i i  Boundary Mines Sent.  Out 500,000 Tons of  Ore in J 902. ,* ^  Phoenix is the Centre  and Leading Mining  Camp of Boundary*  Devoted to the Interests of the Boundary Mining District.  Vol. IV.  PHOENIX,   BRITISH COLUMBIA   SATURDAY, M W 9, 1903.  No  26.  The Big Store  MEN'S FOOT WEAR  Our styles are the smartest of the day, and are recognized as such by a multitude of friends.  The genuine SLATER SHOES���  $4.00, $4.50, $5.00��� in Tuns and Blacks.  Call and see our new Hues ol Heavy Working .Shoes,,  both high and low cut, starting at $3.00 a pair and upwards.  "'.'������  MEN'S SPRING HATS  Larger assortment and better than ever. Every fashionable shape and color in Men's Hats is represented iii  our Spring stock, made by the world's best manufacturers.  We are out to secure the Hat trade, and will if quality and  price mean anything   SEASONABLE CLOTHING  We are handling the Union Made Clothing for ineu.  This i.s an excellent brand, and we know will please the  most fastidious. Come iii and inspect and .you'll surely  Want these goods.  THE V., V. & E.  IS SATISFIED  So   Are   Citizens   Generally  With the  IMPROVED LOCAL RAILWAY SITUATION  Changes Have Been Agreed lo More Sills,  factory lo Properly Owners, tad More  Advantageous to City.  'ff  /������'���^'"^  Iff  SPRING SHIRTS  We also have a large  assortment of Spring Shirts in  Starched and Soft Bosoms and Negligee.     ������=>  Don't forget the various other- lines in our Men's Department,   such   as   Tits,    Socks,    Braces,    Underwear  1 -GloveSj-GapSy Etc- -��� -���-  ������-- .���������.���*^?^;^.^~.f\^-:'''''~L'^ *"  I'll OK NIX  GRKI.NWOOI)  C.RANI) 1'ORKS  Seasonable  Goods. ��� ��� .  &  Poultry Netting  Steel Garden Rakes  Steel Garden Hoes  Screen Doors  Screen Windows  Ice Cream Freezers  Kalsomine Brushes  Paint Brushes  Varnish Brushes  WE KEEP THEM  PRICES RIGHT  The past has been a busy week for  the city council, owing to the anxiety  of the V., V. & E. tailway people ; lo  reach an agreement with the city authorities relative to the entrance ol  that road into Plioenix.  As staled in bsl week's issue of the  Pioneer, the railway company, through  iu solicitor, A. II. McNeill, of Rossland, had placed before the council a  pmpnst.ll bylaw which it was desirous  of having   passed, and   which carried  all the lequests and proposals  of the  company  re  the   granting   of   street  lights and   privileges.    At  the  same  time a blue map was submitted showing where it was  necessary   according  to the  plans,, to   close   and   change  streets and  establish   crossings.    The  council  held   two  long  sessions   last  week at, which the 01 iginal ..proposals  were thoroughly canvassed, but it did  not take that body long to realize, thai  s tine portions ol the   proposal   would  have ii to  ber ' materially modified, and  and ijts conclusions   were emphasized  by nWy protests on the part  of citizens wrjiSse properties would have been  sei.ious'iy^affected.   Engineer Kennedy  and Solicitor McNeill were notified of  lire condition  of affairs and   immediately returned to the city.    After con  sultation with the city council and the  making  of a   few  additional  surveys  'based--upoii^recomiiiendations of the  city's representatives, with   a   view   to  meeting and overcoming the objections  raised by proper t..  holders, the by-law  in a more satisfactory shape  was  resubmitted, and in a session of the council which continued until   after   midnight Wednesday, and was further continued Thursday forenoon, the by-law  was so amended as to meet the unanimous approval  of   the  council, and  very generally   that  of  the   property  owners most directly affected.  As near as the Pioneer reporter  could understand the plan which has  irow been fully adopted, is as follows :  Lot owners in blocks 9 und G will  be allowed access to the back end of  their propeity. v  MonUzuma street between Doniin  ion and Starrdard avenues to be closed  The alley in block F to be closed.  Dominion avenue and School street  to remain open, but the former is to  he somewhat diverted to the north and  extended to Church street.  Dominion avenue from Montezuma  street to School is to be on a 7 per  cent grade, and from School to Church  street an S per cent grade.  School street is to have an 11 per  cent grade up to Aetna avenue and a  14 per cent grade from, that point to  Knob Hill avenue.  The proposal to grade Standard  avenue from Montezuma street is  abar.doned.  Church street will be connected with  Dominion avenue, if convenient to  the Granby company, whose No. 4  tunnel comes to the surface near that  point, but the company does not actually promise such connection.  Instead of crossing School street as  oiiginally proposed, under the amended plan both the tramway and railroad  will now pass under that street near  its junction with Dominion avenue.  By the plan adopted most of thc  objectionable railway street crossings  found in the first plan are avoided,  and it will be noticed that the gradeon  School street is to be very materially  reduced.  WM. D0WN1B PROMOTED  New Post One of Ibe Most Important  Sup-  erlatcodencfes.  William Downie, general superintendent of the Kootenay-Boundary divisions of the Canadian Pacific, is to  leave Nelson at an early date to assume  a similar post on the Atlantic' division  of the system; The new post is one  of the most important superintendeh-  cies on the big road, and the management of the Canadian Pacific could  scarcely have tendered Mr. Downie a  gieater compliment than lo.make the  choice they have in this connection.  The new superintendent' of the  Kootenay-Boundary division Vis not  named, but report connects ,the. name  of Henry E. Beasley, former', superintendent, with the vacancy. James S.  Lawrence, trainmaster, will be acting  superintendent of the local division  pending a permanent appointment.  Baseball at Greenwood.  The Phoenix senior baseball team  went down to Gteenwood Sunday to  play with a picked nine from that place,  Boundary Falls and Midway. The  result of the contest was in favor of  the Greenwood combine. The Phoenix team labored under the disadvantage cf a lack of practice, owing to ihe  backwardness of the seaion. Being in  a much higher altitude here the snow  remains longer, rendering the ground  unfit 10 practice on. The lirte-up was  as follows: ��<..'  Phoenix.  Position.   Greenwood.  Cook  Catcher               Stacks  Strutzel, J.  Pitcher        ,,    Hay ties  Strutzel, A.  ShortStop        Wort man  Bradish  First Base         ": Nation  Bongard  Second Base       Thomas  Church  Third Base     ,       Webb  Clark  Left Field     Thompson  Collon  Center Field .":-,     Medill  Mead  Right Field   .-.      Embry  Score by  innings:  Greenwood���2  0 04 001  1���8  ��� ���'!' h oe'11  1 x���2 0004 1 0 0���7  New Officials are oq Duty.  After the re-arrangement of trie B.  C. Copper Company's local official  force had been completed it was found  to consist of the following competent  and experienced men:  J. E. McAllister the new superintendent arrived last week and immediately took charge of the smelter. B.  M. Snyder, the assayer, is at his post.  A. \V. Irish who was for two years in  the mechanical department of the  Granby smelter has been appointed  master mechanic of the smelter to succeed C. P. Sorenson who left for Salt  Lake when the smelter closed on account of the strike at Fernie. ���:��� Win.  Berg formerly of the Trail smelter is  one of the shift foremen and Charles  Andrean is at his old post as the other  shift foreman.  WEST FORK BRIDGES.  Nenrlng ConrpleKon ������ V'ork Is Substantially  Done.  Harry Kayes, who has   been doing  spring work on his ranch  up the Wesr  Fork, returned to Phoenix last  Saturday.    He states that the   two   bridges  being put in  by  the  government  arc  rapidly   nearing completion.    One ol  the bridges is  located   about two and  one-half miles above  Westbridge, on  Mis. Blythe's ranch, and the other one  about four  miles   up  the river,   near  Boomerang creek.    The work is being  well and substantially done.   T.ast Saturday it \vp completed except planking, the material   for  which . is being  floated down the river from Beaverdel!  by Gus Wheatly.      Mr.   Kayes  also  states much good work' has been done  on the road between the two  bridges.  Complaint is entered, however, against  the manner in which the bridge builders have entered upon the lands of the  ranchers in that section and indiscriminately cut timber, in   many   instances  ctntiiig down many large trees they did  not use, and leaving the debris of, what  they did use i'o  great   masses on the  ground.    This is   not    only  a great  waste of timber, but will  add  to the  expense of clearing, and cause  danger  from forest fires.     There is broadcast  complaint  of the  government's  land  policy in this province,   especially  as  relates to agricultural lands, and many  say they can get better conditions from  the C.P.R. than lrorr. the government.  Dance and Raffle.  The Catholic Ladies Aid have decided to give a dance and raffle, with  refreshments, at Miners' Union hall,  Thursday evening, June 11.  SNOWSHOE AGAIN SHIPPING.  Sending Out 240 Tons Dally to Greenwood  Smeller.  The Snowshoe mine, now that the  Greenwood smelter is again in operation, is putting on more men and resuming old time activity. Last Saturday the first shipment since the last  week in March, consisting of eight  cars, or 240 tons, was made, which  has been the daily output ^ince, and  will be continued if the smelter will  handle it.  WILL VISIT THE B0UNDARV.  L'oston   and   New   York    Capitalists    are  Coming.  A party of Boston and New York  capitalists, prominently identified with  ���.he-copper industry,'it is stated, will  visit the Boundary early next month.  ,lt will comprise the following American directors of the Granby Consolidi  ated Mining & Smelting Co.: John  Stanton, president Oceola, Winona arid  Noliaws Copper Mining Companies,  arrd vice-president of the Copper Range  railway, lake Superior district; C. S.  Houghton, Boston; C. Payne, president  of the Copper Range railway and president of the Copper Range Consolidated .Copper Company, lake Superior district; George Martin Luther and A.L.  White, of New York.'.  Accompanying the party will be G.  F. Herresclioff, general manager of the  Nicholls Chemical Co., refiners ot copper and precious metals, New York.  The visitors will leave New York oil  May 23d and travel west, from Montreal in a special car via the C. P. R.  Their arrival heie will be preceded  several days by that of S.H.C. Miner,  of Montreal, president of the Granby  Co., and probably a number of Canadian directors, including Fayette  Brown, of Montreal.  INTERIOR LIBERALS  HOLD CONVENTION  Boundary and Kootenay Districts Send Delegates.  NEW BRANCH  MEETS  AT  NELSON  Organization Designed to Be Auxiliary lo  Provincial Association���Will Look After  Interior Interests ol Party.  Boundary Mining Notes.  Election at Spokane.  'I he municipal election in Spokane  on Tuesday resulted in the election oi  a Democratic city council and a Republican mayor. For the latter office  there were four candidates running.  The vote for mayor was as follows:  Boyd, regular Republican nominee, !,-  724; AcufT, independent, 1,569; Byrne,  independent, 1,296; Rasher, Democratic,  1,151.  Extensive Machinery Sale.  R. P. Williams, the local representative of the Jenckes Machine and  Canadian Rand Drill companies, returned lo Greenwood last week from  Lethbridge and Crow's Nest Pass  paints. He sold the .Alberta Railway  and Coal Company of Lethbridge a 25  drill new type Rand air compressor  with all the necessary fittings and accessories. The plant will be used ai  the company's coal mines at Lethbridge.  The Jenckes company has also sold a  30 drill compressor plant'to M.K. Rog  ers for the Nickel Plate mine at Hedle;  city. This plant is a duplicate ol the  one-half of the 60-drill air compressor  used at the Granby urines here.  City Council.  Outside of railway matters the council transacted but little business. The  Board "of Works reported that the raising of the Firsl street bridge to official  grade would require an outlay of at  least $900, and recommended that the  matter be laid over until the finances  of the city are in little better shape.  The following bills were ordered  paid: N. Lemieux, $21; Dominion  Copper Co., $10; Dr. Schon, $So;  A. P. McKenzie, 40c; Morrin, Thompson & Co., $1.25; Phoenix Electric  Co., $77.25. After May 8, Dr. Schon  is to be paid $t5 per visit to ]jesl house  instead of $40 per week.  Methodists in Conference.  The district meeting of the West  Kootenay Methodist ministers opened  in annual session in the First Methodist church, Grand Forks, Tuesday  afternoon. Their work comprised the  consideration of business previous and  incident to the general conference,  which meets next week at Victoria.  The following ministers were present:  Revs. J. H. White, Nelson, B. C; A.  M. Sauford, Rossland; A. E. Stephenson, Trail; W. D.Misener, Kaslo; R.  G. Mclntyre, Sandon; G. R. Cropp,  New Denver; J. D. P. Knox, Greenwood; T.Green, Phoenix, and J. A.  Seymour, Slocan City.  Burled in Phoenix.  The remains of the brakeman F. E.  Donohoe, who was killed in the C. P.  switch yards here, were interred last  Monday at ic o'clock, a. m. Nothing  further was heard from the eastern rel  atives to shipping therbody east. A  number of railway men came up from  Eholt to be present at the burial.  Visits (he Boundary.  A. M. Morgan, the recently appointed superintendent of the Spokane Falls  & Northern and Washington & Great  Northern railways, after a trip of inspection as far as Republic, was in the  Forks this week, the guest ol Jay P.  Graves, general manager of the Granby  Co. He had a conference with James  H. Kennedy, chief engineer of the V.,  V. & E. railway, presumably in connection with the impending construction of a spin to the t.ianby smelter  and the main line to Phoenix.  Gelling Down to Reason.  Mr. Robinson, a former resident of  Nelson, who has been in the contracting business at FranK for the past 15  months, says that he and all the other  Nelscnites are safe so far. They had  a close call and'if the slide had extended 200 yards further east not one ot  them would have escaped. He adds  that the coal mine is all riijht and that  550,000 represents the total money loss.  The. Morrison mine, near the Mother  Lode, resumed operations last Monday  with a force of men. The Morrison  company also owns the Athelstan in  Wellington camp.  The B C. mine in Summit camp  now has a force of 37 men at work.  The Oro Denoro in the same camp  has 6 men at work stripping the ledge.  At the Emma a force of 11 men is at  work, and shipping to Trail Junction.  The Montreal Sz Boston Copper Co.,  operating the Sunset smelter, at Boundary Falls, will blow in one furnace  next Monday and a second one as soon  after'ns~coke supplies shall be sufficient  to make it practical to run two furnaces.  The Providence mine, near Greenwood, was closed down last week as it  was found necessary to put in a steam  plant to hoist the ore. The 25 horse  power boiler, steam hoist and pump  were installed at the mine during the  week.  The second furnace at the B. C.  smelter was blown in Tuesday. Coke  is still coming in slowly, the company,  however had a reserve of about 1,500  tons of coke when the works were shut  down in February, so this is being  drawn on, the expectation being that  the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co. will  shortly send in larger supplies.  Manager Graves, of ihe Granby Co.,  is reported to have said to a press reporter relative to the payment of its  first dividend at an early date: "We  shall certainly do so if we can have 60  days full run of the four furnaces. During the past 14 months the smelter,  owing to lack of coke, and the coal  miners' strike, was worked only two  months at its full capacity."       "    ���-  William McCormick, who in the  spring of 1S9 1 located the Mother Lode  claim, now one of the big mines of the  Boundary, has been occupied several  months in running a tunnel on his  Buffalo claim on Baker creek, a tributary of Rock creek, to cut a quartz lead  cropping on the surface above. He  thinks mat in ten feet more he will cut  the lead, lie is also interested with  "Dad" Hopper-in   the White  Cloud,  The convention of interior Liberals,  held at Nelson on Wednesday, hits attracted considerable  attention   in the'  Kootenay newspapers during the past  day or two.    It is stated the Boundary  and Kootenay districts were well represented and the spirit of delegates enthusiastic.     The deliberations of the  body were characterized by   harmony  and earnestness.    The Liberal associations represented and the delegates in  attendance were as follows:  Fernie���F.G. Watson.,  Windermere���(Proxy.)  Kaslo���A. \V. Goodenough, D. P.  Kane, and W. F. Williams.  Sandon���(Proxy.)  Ymir���A. Parr and A.B. Buck worth.  Nelson���Dr. G. A. B. Hall, F. J.  Deane, A.B. Docksteader.  Trail���A.McMillan and A.Dickson.  Rossland ���J. A. Macdonald, J.  Stinson and R. W. Grigor.  Grand Forks���W.   H. P.   Clement  and Dr.. K.C. Macdonald.  Greenwood���Duncan   Ross,   W. S.  Keith and D. C. McRae.  Revelstoke���(Proxy.)  A constitution and by-laws were adopted, and the following officers   elected:  President���J. A. Macdonald, K.C.,'  Rossland.  Vice-president���Dr. G. A.B.  Hall,  Nelson..       ; .....-...''  Secretary-Treasurer���-D.Ross.Green-  wood,  Executive Committee���J McNicholl '  Greenwood; F. G. Watson, Fernie. F.  J. Deane, Nelson; M. L. Grimmetf,  Sandon; W. Lawrence, Revelstoke;  W. H. P. Clement, Grand Forks; A.  B.Buckworth.Ymir; A.W.Goodenough,  Kaslo; R. A. Kimpton, Windermere;  R. W. Grigor, Rossland.  Wednesday a banquet was given at  the Pliair hotel, at which 50 guests sat.  It is not designed that, this interior,  organization shall in any'-way attempt  to encroach- upon the jurisdiction of  the provincial organization, but will act  as counsel or auxilliary thereto.  Excursion 'to Midway.  Information comes from-Greenwood  to the effect that it is proposed to arrange a railway excursion under the  auspices of the local lodge of I.O.O.F.,  for the day to be observed this month  as Victoria Day in lieu of the 24th,  which falls on a Sunday. The running  of excursion trains from Grand Forks  and Phoenix to Midway is under consideration, and it is probable that negotiations now in progress for the rendering of the opera "Pinafore" in Greenwood on the night of the holiday, by  an amateur company from Grand  Forks, will be carried to a successful  issue.  above Midway, in Graham camp, and  on which a shaft is in rock freely mineralized with white iron and a little  chaleopyrite.  The denouncement in the land  scandle in the local legislature on Monday resulted in an adjournment of that  august body for one week, in order to  enable the investigating committee to  complete its work and report. His  worship the Lieut.-Governor has signed all the bills passed up to him, including the noted No. 16.  The membeis ol Snowshoe Lodge  No. 46, 1. O. O. F. are making preparations for their second anniversary  ball, to be held on June iSth, at Miners' Union hall.  BOUNDARY ORE SHIPMENTS.  The following table gives thc ore shipments of Boundary mines tor 1900, for 190  1402, ami fur 1903, as reported to the Plioenix Pioneer���  1900 1901 1903  04,533 231,702 309,S5S  Phoenix  Granby Mine:  ���"Mi.jwslrue, "  Brooklyn, "  Mother Lode, Deadwood .  Sunset, '���  Morrison, "  15. C. Mine, Summit.  R. Bull, "       Emma, "       Winnipeg,    Wellington       !'9Z?  liolilen Crown,        "  Athelstan, "  King Solomon, W.Copper  Jft/l N'o. 7 Mine, Central.  SSJH City of Paris, "     .  Jewel, Long Lake.  Ciirmi, West Fork   Providence,    Providence            Ruby,     Boundary Falls         ....  Miscellaneous       3,230  S17  150  5,340  l!)',494  2.250  1,200  1,731     20,800  '903  120,231  10,500  2,000  100'  Total, tons      90,730  W ran by Smelter treated, tons..    62,387  HP  99,034  802  150  47,405  500  050  1,040  '556  875  005  350  890  80  3,458  390,000  230.828  141.320  7,455  14,8ii  8,530  785  025  482  2,175  219  24.018  2,833  7,590  7,790  2,250  '780  '450  451  507.545 174,079  312,340  114,720  11,300.  7,397  '���i-Mml  zmm  if SSI  MirWl  ,fpl|  ���wm  ��� x$(imvM  '-' &<%��  ��� ������!''-e'w|  :'t\3<x>  mm  '���m ,  ':J''";'<5S|  '.���'..'���ilWA  -;::.��a|  Mx  ;i';V  HI  1 x^;;.^35jai ffl  THE PHOENIX PIONEER  m-  ���  The Phoenix Pioneer.  ItlDSD ON tUTCRDAV BY THE  PIONEER PUBLISHING CO.  AT PIIOKNIX, B. C.  W. B. WILLCOX. Manager.  Telephone.]  | BuxineM office No. 14.  I M��n��(ter's residence, J��o. 15.  SUMCKIPTIONS IK ADVANCE.  rerYtur   Six Months..  ..$2.00  ..  l.Ji  If vou are not a tiibicriber to thit paper, Uiii>  til tn Invitation to vou lo become one.  Advertlolnj- rates luruished on application,  legal notices 10 and $ cents per Hue.  Four weekly Insertions constitute one month1*  advertising.  1903  MAY  903  Sun. Men.  Tuei. Wed. Thu.  Frl.  Stt.  1  2  3   4  5    6    7  8  9  to 11  12 13   14  15  16  17 18  19 20 21  22  23  24 25  26 27 28  29  30  31  1  pise appear* to lie to give the C. P. R.  title to all the natural resources of this  province.  Something should he done to purge  both the Liberal and Conservative  parties of the political traffickers and  shyster leaders which the coast gang  has fastened upon them. lloth parties  and the governments thev fix up will  continue their disgraceful conduct until ousted from' control. This can only  be done hy united and independent  action on the part of interior paiiizans.  A strong suspicion obtains that Gov-  ernon Jolly's delay in signing Bill No.  16, is due to influences from Ottawa.  If the C. P. R. can't, control the local  legislature, the Ottawa authorities can  head il off through the Lieut.-Governor. There is little doubt but that the  story about the Spokane syndicate  tr) ing to job the B.C. legislature is  pure fiction, and its source may well  be imagined.  PREMIER PRIOR'S PLAIN TALK.  Premier Prior's statement to the Ot.  tawa government, a copy of which was  laid before the provincial  house last  week, is replete with facts worthy serious attention, and they are set forth in  forceful language.     It is said Sir Wilfred's sneering reply to the report was,  "It is highly satisfactory  that  British  Columbia can pay so large a portion of  the Dominion revenues.".    If the rest  of the people of Canada had contributed in the same ratio as those of British  Columbia,   the   revenue of   Canada  would have amounted to $2,333,250,-  000 instead of its actual amount, $886,-  360,000.   Our per capita contribution  is three times as great as  that of the  rest of Canada.  The special circumstances which are  pointed out in the report as rendering  the relations between the province and  the Dominion unfair, are four in num  ber, as follows: '  1. The cost of administration, owing  to the physical character of the coun  try.  2. The distance from the commercial, industrial and administrative cen  tres of eastern Canada.  3. The non-industrial character of  the province, as compared with eastern  Canada, whereby a larger percentage  of goods are imported and consumed,  increasing the contributions to the Federal Treasury, in the way of taxes, in a  ratio of three to one.  4. The disadvantage of the province  in relation to the markets for its special  products.  On these special points Premier  Prior addressed Premier Laurier:  "I want to say to you,. Sir Wilfred,  and to your colleagues, as a duty we  awe to the province of British Columbia, that if we do not obtain a just  recognition of those claims, founded  on the representations we have made,  nothing can stop the agitation for readjustment of relations that will grow  out of them, and that sooner or later  the people, who are fully alive to their  disabilities and their requirement, will  as a unit demand as tight what we  pray for."  "The Ozonngram," Ihe product of  the Lowery-McAdams combine, is al  hand, It is a 6-column, 8-page paper,  eplete with sparkling originality, both  in its mechanical and literary departments. The grey matter employed on  this publication is of a superior character, though in some instances it may  need purifying. It will probably nourish. The moral atniosphe/e nece-sary  to the life of a publication of its character is more likely to be found in  populous centres than iii tural districts.  Vancouver will probably extend a glad  hand to Messrs. Lowery & McAdatn.-,  while other people's and sections will  not give it the glass eye and maible  brow.  B.-C MINING  Hon. James Duusmuir has played  the. role of "Innocence Abroad" in  the cirania entitled "The Duiisniuir-  C. V. -RI Land Scheme." He turned  king's evidence and yanked the skeleton out of the closet with such abruptness that Wells, Ebeits & Co. nearly  collapsed. They say the stench of  political and governmental putridity  in Victoria is absolutely terrifying and  indiscribable. And now nothing short  of an investigation by a royal commission will satisfy the people. It is to  be hoped that such an inquiry will be  had, and that it will be able to discover the invisible link -between Sir  Thomas Schaughnessy and the Ottawa  authorities, also.  When one of our cabinet ministers,  who is called to testify before an investigating commission which is probing the Dunsmuir-C. P. R. land deal,  will not answer the questions put by  the commission until he has been  coached by President Schaughnessy,  it is about time to appease tbe hunger  of the whale and dump him and his  affiliated peculators overboard. It is  almost certain the whale could not re  tain them in his stomach a sufficient  length of time to reach the shore.  Mr. Well's heretofore good reputation, as well as that of many of his  colleagues in the present provincial  government, has been seriously battered in the investigation referred to.  Who shall stty the time has not come  when a halt should be called to the  tendency of our government to make  individual merchandise of The People's  hei itage.  It is reported that the Northpoit  smelter is still sulTei ing from a shortage  of coke, even to the extent of being  compelled to shut down.  R. M. Snider, the new assayer for  the B. C. Copper company's smelter,  has arrived from California and commenced his new duties.  Last week's Rossland ore shipments  were:" Le Roi 2,372, Centre Star 2,-  100, War Eagle 1,290, Le Roi No. 2  150, White Bear 110, O K. 20. Total  for yeai, 121,0431011s.       ,  Messrs. l'ophain, McFailane, Campbell, Merrill and Clement, who luve  been prospecting recently in the Southern Oregon gold belt have returned to  'Princeton. They purpose spending-'a  month or so doing assessments in Aspen Grove and on Copper Mountain.  ' The smelter returns lor the last car  of Providence ore gave a net weight 01  41,678 pounds, and the value, alter the  customary percentage deductions by the  smelter, $4,907.46, or a net value ol  about $236 per ton, less ficight and  treatment'charges, The gold value  was 5.09 ounces per ton and the silvei  about 280 ounces.  T. R. Lane, manager of the Wakefield mine, iu the Slocan, returned this  week from England,, where he spent  the gieater part of the winter. He will  immediately open the mine. The flume,  and mill are to be overhauled, and  when completed and running the property will give employment' to 40 men.'  Tne zinc resources of the mine wiil be  mined and milled as.well us the ether  ores.  A very important sti ike was made at  the Ramblei;-Car iboo ��� mine Thursday  last, when two and one-hall leet 01 ore  was encountered. 'The liird was made  in the 700 fool level. The ore is ol a  high grade and ..maintains equally as  jjood vaiues as those mined in the upper  workings. The strike is now, being  drilled on and the management, has  every confidence that the 01 e body will  widen out to a much greater extent, as  even eight leet of clean oie has not in-  rrequeutly been met with in the same  -vein.-' .'  With Monday will Commence the  shipment of ore iu regular quantities  110111 the Kootenay mine, near Ross  land. It will be shipped' by waggon  but just as soon as it is possible an  aerial tramway will be erected liom the  No. 6 level of that mine to the C.P.R.  track. 'This will mean a saving which  will net the company something like  $1.40 per ton, in itself no inconsiderable profit. At present the cost ot  shipping by waggon to Rossland is  about $1.26 per ton. In addition to  ibis the freight rate from Rossland to  the smelter is 25 cents higher than it  will be over the aerial tramway.  0. J. MATHESON,  INSURAN'CK AGENT,  K1KK, I.IKE, ACC DENT.  Cuijiiulsiiiiiiii'r'lui' uklil;; AI'lliluvlw.  PlIOKNIX, B.  H. B. KERR,  Barrister and Solicitor,  notary public;  PHOENIX, IS. C  King Edward Lodge, U. D.  '    A. F.and A. M.  Regular caiimiuiiicnliou 8 p. in.  onil Thursday of each month.  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Hill, head stonemason at the  Granby smelter, met with a painful  accident on Tuesday of last week, by  which he catiia near losing the sight of  an eye. While driving a spike, a portion of the head broke off and flew  up striking him in the eye. It cut a  deep gash. Luckily the ptipil' of the  eye was not badly injured.  There appears to be a   hay   famine  all along the line in Southern H. C.  May 1st, the Rossland Evening  World entered upon the third year of  its existence.  A sale of '300 head of pure bred  Shorthorns, Herefords, Aberdeen, Angus, Galloways, Holstein, Friesians  and Ayrshires is to take place at the  spring show of pure bred cattle at Calgary on May 13th and 14th, under the  auspices of the Territorial Pure Bred  Cattle Breeders' Association.  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Fake publicity is like cheap  champagne���it fizzes and is soon   flat.  Twenty-five years ago advertising  lacked the elements of certainly. It  was a hit-oi-niiss, money-hazard proposition. To-day no business venture  is surer of success than advertising  which is systematically and judiciously:  done.  Hold a dime close to your eye with  your right hand and a bright silver dol  lar a few inches away with your left;  you can not see the dollar because the  smaller coin obscures your vision. So  it is with some advertisers; in their  eagerness to save a dollar they often  lose sight of the fifty within their reach.  Fine cigars are the kind that you en-  oy���donY forget that when you.drop  11 at Albin's News Depot.  Just What You Need.  Chamberlain's, Stomach and Liver  Tablets' are just what yon need when coij-  stipated; when yon have no appetite,  feel drill after eating and wake.up with  a bad taste in your month. 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PHOENIX  PIONEER,  PHOENIX, B.C.  Don't Guess At It  Hut if you are going east write, us for our rates, and let us tell you  about the set vice and accommodation offered by the  ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD  ���Thrown Tourist Cars via the Illinois Central from Pacific coast to Chicago  u and Cincinnati.  Don't fail to write us about your trip, as we are in a position to give jou  ����,JvaUnd.le info,mation and assistance .5,3.9 ��>��le. of track, over wind,  are operated some of the finest trams .11 the world.  Kor particulars regarding freight or passenger rate* call on or address :  1 C I 1NDSAY, T.F. & P.A., . B. H.TRUMBULL, Com. Agt,  J'   " I42 Third St., PORTLAND, ORE.  THE OBSERVATORY  Tll.KOK  TALK I'll Ol'   AT  1 llOMK AND l{I.SK\VIIKfi:  The strike at Montreal  is  still   unsettled.    Dock lahoreis aie being imported from (ilasgow and London.  *��  It will take several nionilis lo n -  pair'lire'dainage to ihe C. I'. R. line  Mt .'"rank, caused by the recent Turtle  mountain slide.  Mf  The labor commission, consisting of  Chief Justice Gordon Hunter, and  Rev. Klli.it Rowe, started its labors at  Ladysniilh this week Monday. The  romiiiissicn will bold sittings in Keruie,  Rossland, Vancouver and Victoria.  ���it  Tlrof-e eastern cities which have been  wont tn  rep.earh   and   chide   Uiitisb  Cobiinbiii for her  labor   trouble!1, will  lie kept busy at bonie for   a   time, lor  they have labor troubles of their own.  I.ig strikes are on in hoih Toionto.ind  Moiuieal.  ���**  Thc cost of administration in British  Columbia per head of ihe population is  $\ 1.62, compared with $4.00 in Manitoba, $1.85 in Onlaiio, $2.70 in Quebec, $2,40 in New Hiiinswii'k, $2.04 in  Nova Scotia and $3,00 in 1'iince  Ed-  ���Aitid Island,.  "���  At the Nelson customs house the  duties collected for lire month of April  amounted to $9,147,03. The fiee  inipoit values were $5,777; dutiable  iinpoil. values, $25,952; total impoit  v.i'ues, $31,729. All import duties  paid in this province are a direct tax  on its citizens for the benefit of the  Ottawa government. In one week  the people of a small section of Southern Hiiisli Columbia pay a direct tax-  bill to tlie Dominion government of  between $25,000 and $30,000, when  to the neaily $10,000 in customs tax  paid at Nelson are added the sums  paid at Rosshind and Grand Forks,  When figuiing your lax bill for government purposes you should reckon in  about 25 per cent of the total cost of  living lor the, tariff lax.  Mis. Par lick Campbell, the great  English fictiess appearing in Spokane  1 his week, is a Londoner by birlh. As  a child she possessed a high degree of  musical talent and won a scholais'iip  at the Guildhall School of Music, in  I .ondon, for a three-years' free tuition  nt Leipsic. The prospect of a brilliant  musical career was cut shun by a very  romantic episode. She was then but  17 years old, and instead of taking up  :lie scholarship she eloped with Mr.  Patrick Campbell, then a stalwart  vouiig soldier of 19. It was during  the engagement of "Magda"' in London that her husband died. At Uie  outbreak of the Boer war he had reentered the army, enlisting as a private, but before sailing was promoted  to tbe rank of sergeant. He was  killed during the first engagement on  Spiorr Kopf, the only fatality on the  English side.  will be a general election for the nonunion House iii the autumn. Organizers have been sent to Quebec to pre-  "pine tbe lists, as only Liberal organizers  can, arrd no effort is being spared to  get a solid Quebec vote. Mr. Tarte's  defection of the position of the key  province has not been as solid as in the  |>.'ist. Many tumors are afloat as to 1  whether Sir Wilfred Lauiier will retire  fiom politics or not. It is well known  that his heart is not in it as it was.  The bourgeois arrogance of Clifford  Sifton and his'-clique, who have already  driven Mr. Tn'tte away, and ihe l're-  mier's ill health, have been too much  lor him. He will piobably, however,  stay with the party till ai'ter the fight  and then retire gracefully, before the  collapse of the corrupt crowd he was  such an ornament to. ��� Kamloops  Standard.  In Periodicals.  To Subscribers to the Phoenix Pioneer.  Hy special arrangement we are able to offer some of the best values in  1 periodical subscriptions yet made. No one who reads should let (his offer  pass witout oideiing one or more of the combinations. Send them to your  friends as presents���a little money will thus go a long way. The combination  price pays for a full yeailv Mihsrripiiott to each periodical in the club. Subscriptions may be new 01 renewals, and will lie sent to one or to different addresses.    The Phoenix Pioneer must be included in every combination.  Special List of Strong and Attractive Offers.  Uncivilized Civ'llzalion.  "As I understand ii,"said the heathen, "you propose to civilize me."  '���Exactly so." ''������'.  "You mean to get me out of habits  of idleness and teach me to work?"  "That is the idea."  "And then lend me to simplify my  method!-' and invent thing* to make my  work lighter ?"  "Yes."  "And next I will become ambitious  to get rich, so that 1 may ictire and  won't hpve to work at all ?"  "Naturally."  "U'ell, what's the use of taking such  a roundabout way of getting just where  I stalled?    I don't have to work now,  CLASS A.  . CLASS. H.  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One application will relieve lire  pain. 11 altfo cures fprairrs and bruises  in one-third t'.u time required by any  oilier treat incut. Cuts, imrin); frostbites,  cpiini-iy, painH in the r-ide arid c.liett,  lira min lur and other swellings are quickly  cured liy applying it. Kvery tioUle war-  ranled. Price. 25 and 50 cents. For sale  by all druggists.  GREATLY AURMED.  By a Persistent Cough, But Permanently  Cured by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.  Mr. II. P. Burlinge, a student at. law,  in tireetiville, S. C , had been trouliled  for four or live years with a continuous  coiigli whi h he Bayp, "prenlly nlarmed  tin , causing me to fear that. I was in the  fi��t suaise of consiliriplion." Mr. Bu'r-  bijie, havinK seen (Jlniiiiberl.tin'ii Cough  Iteinedy advertised, e-.ncliided to try it.  Now read whar lie says of it: "1 soon  fell a remarkable eiinnnc. and after  mdn;: two bullies of the twenly-live. ce.iH  fiz ���, was permanently cured." Sold by  all di'iig^ifete. '  Wliv vou should buv.  WHAT EDITORS SAY  Diun'i' Stop thk Press ��� W. R.  Hearst, the journalist, was married  this week, and he didn't mis* an issue.  ���Kettle River Journal.  Diamond Cut Diamond ���The  thieat ol the members of the live stock  association to put up $25,000,000 and  build a chain of packing houses throughout tbe principal points of the west  and the east is likely to make the beef  trust magnates move uneasily in their  stalls.���-Spokesman-Review.  Hotter Stationery und Job Print.  in|i 1I11111 that turned out bv the  Plioenix Pioneer has yet to be  produced. The proof of Ihe pudding i" in the eatinir. (live-iiu a  (.rial ��ilb your next order. . . .  PIONKKIi  PUB. CO,  PiroK.Nix, P.. C.  'Ii.mi' 14.  Vi-'tnriii Aveniie, Phoenix, R. C.  In Cottage Hotel.  We make a specialty  of Family ar\d Hotel  trade.  Free delivery to all parts of tbe city.  J. S. McCAGUE, Prop.  A Farmer Cured ol Rheumatism.  ���'A man livim.' on 11 f��rm near here  oam'e in a s-hort time ago completely  doubled no wi"li rlieiinni'i.sm. I bunded  hiniabnttloof Clmmberlii.in'8 Pain Halm  and tol.l him to use it freely and it .not  Bft'tipfieil after using it he need not nay a  rent for it,." eavsC.P. Rayden, of Pattern-  Mill.", NY. "A few days later he walked Into the store as straight as a slrinn  and handed me. a dollar savins:, 'givome  another bottle of ChamberlainV Pain  Balm. I want it'in ihe house all the  time for it cured me.' " For sale by all  druggists.  The Nelson Daily News is the best  daily in the interior. Get it from your  local newsdealer.  May Cost Hai.k a Million���  The question of rebuilding the line  through the valley is a most seiious  one to the C. P. R , as ihe space is  filled Ironv the mountain to the bench.  A temporaiy track will be built over  lire debris along the line of the creek  but when it comes to cutting a grade  lor a permanent roadbed, it will cost  several hundred thousand dollars,���  Cranbrook Herald,  I''kkk Tradkr's Vikw ��� The removal of the British import lax on grain  v\ill be a source of saiistaction to all  who appreciate tbe advantages of free  nade. Biitain is the only comiuy in  whiv.li the theories of free trade ait  sustained by the test ��f practical experience. The departure of Britain  fiom tbe universal policy ol protection  is certainly courageous. All the absurd  predictions of ruin, devastation and  commercial deluge were advanced, but  1 hey made the bold departure in the  fr.ee of those predictions ol itiiii, and  experience has sustained their theories  and fulfilled the hopes based on the  economic change.���Kaslo Kootenain.  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Quotations given on any list of periodicals, in any language, fieri'  any country, in connection with the Phoenix Pioneer.    Address,  PIONEER PUB. CO.,  PHOENIX, B. C.  MINERAL ACT.  Certificate of Improvements.  NOTICK.  Dominion Mineral < loim; situate iii the Grand  Forks Milling  Division of Or.oyoos District.  Where located.   On Lookout Mountain, and  near the Lookout Mineral Claim.  Take notice that I, Sydney M Johnson acting  as agent for J  P. Shannon, I-'ree .Miner's Cerr*S-  cate No. II 54495. intend, M'xty days from tile date  hereof, lo aiiply lo the Mining Kecorder for a  certificate of improvements, for the purpose of  obtaining a crown grant of the above claim.  And further take notice that ac'ion. under sec-  lion 37. must be commenced before the issuance  of such certificate of improvements.  Dated this 12th day of July, A. v., 19��2.  Sydney M. Johnson.  MINERAL ACT.  Certificate of Improvement.  NOTICK.  Hig Six Mineral Claim, situate iu   the   Grand  Forks Mining Division of Osoyoos District.  Where located: Iu Wellington Camp, adjoining th< Jim Mineral Claim.  Take notice thnt I, Sydney M. Johnson, acting  as agent for T. I". Mclutyre, Free Miner's Certificate No. 11-51619, and O. K Robinson. Hree Miner's  Certificate No.  H 5S006. intend, sixty days from  tlie date hereof, to ajiply to the Mining Recorder  for a certificate ol improvements, for the purpose  of obtaining a crown grant of Ihe above claim.  And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance  of such certificate of improvements.  Dated this 30th day of July, A. D.. 1902.  Sydney M. Johnson.  Spokane Time Schedule.  Kflecti.-e Dec. 23 1902  Arrive  Daily  I.eaves  Daily  7.45 a.m.   FAST MAIL���Tn and   from  Coeur d'Alcuedistrict, Farm-      v  iunlon  (.AtfieM ' ol fix, Pullman,   *Moscuw,   *i\nueroy,  Wuttsbuig. Davton. W a 11 a  Walla, IVudlelun. 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Tire Illinois Central Railroad Company  hasanall aliklingfaiih in the future of  tliet-reat NorlInvest. A short time aao,  this was inanit'esti'il liy the. establishment, in Seal lie, of an iijtuncy to take  care of their interests there. The latest  effort, is to put oti a splendidly equipped  new train .-erviee between St. Paul ami  Chicago.. The new trains will be run-  ningSunday. November 2nd. Thev will  use th��-ir own rails between Chicago and  Albert Leu, Minn., and the Minneapolis  ot St. Louis Ky. track from Albert Lea to  Minneapolis and St. Paul, running into  the Union Depot at St. Paul, which is  the same that is used by all lines in that  city.  the train is to be known as "The Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis Limited,"  anil will consist, of sleeping car. bullet  library car and reclining chair car  through without charm- between Chicago  and Minneapolis ami St. Paul. Dining  car service will also be maintained, sin -  per bfing served out of ( liii-ago and  Drenkfast into Chicago. Trains will leave  St. Paul al 7 10 p. in. and arrive in Chicago <).:.0 a. 111. Leave ('IriciigO at (>. 10  p. m. and arrives at >t. Paul at S.-10 a.  in. making close connections at St. Paul  with nil western lilies. Tickets can be  purchased via Ibis line, in connection  willinll western lines, al all stations.  For further information regaidinir  rales, routes, time, etc., call on or address,  B. II. Tiu'.Miiur.i,.  Commercial Agen III. Cent. K.  R.  1-12 Third St., Pun land, Ore.  P.m: 1. B. Thompson',  Freight it ra-senyei' Agent,  III. Cent. R. R., Seattle, Wash.  There are just  Two Kinds of  JOB PRINTING  They are the hind that is a  credit to you and your printer and���the other hind. . .  Ours is Said to be the Best  When you want something  Neat,  Clean,  Attractive  IN OFFICE STATIONERY  We have the art and the artists to give  you exactly what you wish.  Our mechanical   department equipped  with the latest and best.  PIONEER PUBLISHING CO.,  PIIOKNIX, I?. C.  The Plague of Statistic?.  DISCUHSINO "The Plague of ��a-  tlstlcs" in the "Atlantic Monthly," Eugene ltlchard White  says: '  "We have come bo to rely upon numerical expression that numbers stand  bot-ti as end and means; no longer dara  we appeal to the emotions, no longer  do men sway men with truth of words.  Fa.its,   and   the   exact   expression   of  thom, are what we seem to desire. Past  ar�� we drawing the chilling- robes about  us;  fast have our finer Instincts, our  higher powers,   become drugged  with  sums total.   Judging from the mean;  taken to convince and excite us, as a  rate   we   are   becoming   Incapable   of  any reason not expressed by one of the  great divisions of mathematics.  Pythagoras would be delighted Indeed to see  our reverence for numbers; for we bow  lower than did he, and for less reason.  "But what actually Is the extent ol  the evil?   We can hardly measure the  effects aright without knowing the extent;  how greatly are we allllcted by  It?   The children  of  the imagination  were long in bondage to science.   Now  they  wander,  let  us hope not a full  forty years. In the wilderness of purely  scientific  expression,   the  arid,  sterile  waste of statistics.   What function of  public life has not bjen unduly brought  under    this   dread   domain?      Understanding    quantity    by  Instinct    and  quality not at all, the appeal Is made  at once to arithmetic.   Would we convince the average American?   Experience has  taught   that It can best bo  done 1>y figures.   The Zerah Colburn In  hlni Is most alert.   Do not the news-  papers rely upon this trait continually?  Latterly, our editorial pages are digests  of tables prepared by various commissions. Does the pulpit scorn this means   '  ')ot   arousing   interest?      Ilow   do   we  raise funds  for starving India?    The  chief Instrument. for  rousing compassion is famine statistics;   the bulk of  the  misfortune  readily  appeals.    We  group disaster as our merchants corner markets.   Do we plead the cause of  temperance?   Here statistics revel, and  they may be had patiently plotted out  even to the number ot drunkards to the  square rod in Cuyahoga County, Ohio,  or the arrests for inebriety in Kokomo,  Indiana, for 1900.    What seems to be  the crux In literature?   How appraise  the  success  of  a   book  save  by   the  number of copies sold In a given time?  How ascertain the merit of a play save  by the number of nights it "ran" in the  dramatic centers?   Thus Is our American mark set on what Is what.   We go  about   reforming   and   purifying    the  world, with a committee report at el-  bo<w and  a statistical  compilation  hi  (Midi .hand."  A Dream's Fulfillment  I  TICKETS  TO ALL POINTS  East and West  VIA  NOTICE.  Not ice is hereby tiven thai, having  b-nsi-d Ibe Central Hole), corner Second  Stiff i ami Old lrorisid' s. avenue, Phoenix, R. C, to luank Anilei-i-un, I am not  refporifible for any debt!- e. ntracted by  or against, said Central Hotel fiom the  1st day of November, 1002.  At'(, 1: r Jackson.  Phoenix Bakery,  Plioenix Street.    Tlione53,  We make good bread,      Try it.  .C. W. GREER, Proprietor  SHORT LINK  St. Paul, Duluth, Minneapolis, Chicago,  AND ALL POINTS KAST.  Seattle, Victoria, Tacoma and Portland,  AND ALL PACIFIC CO vST  POINTS..  Through Palace and Toti'ist Sleeper.".  Dining and llull'et SiiroUins: l.ihra'y  Fast Trains at Convenient Hours *\  Bet. Spokane and Puget Sound ��  For rates and folders and full information regard in tr trip.s call on or address  anv avent V. V. & K. or S. F. A N. Hvs.  A.I..C   PUN-VISTON-,  ti   W. P. A..  Seattle, Wash.  U. Him nut.  C. P &T. A..  Spokane Wn  Don't you want to read the news ol  the tiny while-it is news? You will  find it in the Daily News, Kootenay's  live daily, publish d nt Nelson, B. C\,  at 50 cents per month by mail. Can  be had also of your local newsdealer  on day of publication,  N an essay in "Longman's Magazine" on dreams, Horace G. Hutchinson invited people to send him  accounts of their own experiences  and ideas, and as a result he was deluged with thousands of letters relating to dreams. These he studied carefully, and In a volume entitled "Dreams  and Their Meanings," now presents his  conclusions, and quotes the most strlk:,  Ing contributions to illustrate the parr  ticular class of dream which he la dls-  cuislng. An Interesting class of dreams  is that In which the sleeper finds himself in a certain house or room that is  familiar to him in dreams, but, quite  unknown to his waking hours. Here  is an instance which Mr. Hutchinson  relates:  "A certain lady dreamed frequently  of a certain house until It had become  exceedingly familiar to her; she knew  all Its rooms,' its furniture; it was as  well known to her as that in which she  lived her waking life, and, like a good,  wife that has no secrets from her husband, she often talked over all the details with him, a very pleasant fancy.  One day they (husband and wife) went  Into the country to see a house that  they thought of taking for the summer  months. They had not seen it, but the  account in the house-agent's list had  attracted them. When they arrived before it, they gave a simultaneous exclamation of surprise. 'Why,' said the  husband, 'it is your dream-house!' It  was. The coincidence attracted them.  Tl.ey took the house.  "In the course of their occupancy  they learned that the house had the  reputation of being haunted; that several people before them had taken it  for short terms, but had seen���or fancied they hail seen���Isomethlng,' and  had left before their term of tenancy  expired. ; Had these new tenants not  brought their own old servants with  them it is likely they would have had  some difficulty in whipping up a domestic staff, so uncanny, was the reputation of their apparently quite reputable house. The new tenants dwelt  In the house with all satisfaction and  peace through the summer months, until their term of tenancy came to an  end. On leaving, husband and wife expressed their satisfaction to the local  agent. The only thing;,' said the wife,  'that we were disappointed in about  the house is that we never saw the  ghost."  " 'Oh, no,' said the ghost agent. 'We  knew you would not see the ghost.'  "'What do you mean?" asked the  wife, rather nettled.  " 'Oh,' the agent repeated, 'we knew  you would not see the ghost. Tou are  the ghost that people have always seen  here." "  He Missed His Opportunity.  "Henry," said Uncle Amos from Up-  rreek, who was visiting his city nephew, "who's that man In the house on  the other side of the street? Every  morning he stands In front of a window an' shaves himself. He's done it  now for three days hand-running."  "I suppose' he lias done It every  morning for the last ten years, uncle,"  replied Henry.  "Has he lived there all that time?"  "Yes, and longer than tlsat, for all 1  know. I've been here oaly ten years  myself."  "Who Is he?"  "I don't know."  "What daes he toiler?"  "I haven't the slightest Idea, uncle."  Uncle Amos put on his hat and went  nut.   In an hour or two he returned.  "Henry," he said, "that chap's name  ,s Tlorton. He runs an Insurance office  flown town. He's wuth about twenty-  t��ven thousand dollars, owns that  house an' lot, belongs to the Presbyterian church, has three boys an' one  girl, an' h-j's forty-six years old. I'v*  found out more about him in an hoa��  than you have in ten years. Blamed  t 7. don't believe llv>n" In the city  onxes people stupid."  i.s the lever that moves the business world ��� so the men who  really know, who are conspicuous for their success, assert.  If you wish to reach the people of l'ln enix and the Boundary generally, you cannot do it  without using; the columns of  the Phoenix. Pioneer.  Rules on application to  Pioneer Pur. Co.,  Phoenix, B.C.  '-i.il  -'hi  i':i.'-)U';..i  ������: Si-..He  ���'*;};? !g  ���If!!  "vim  mm  '.;.i!!'$��  SS  :^S  x-d:.  ���ymi  m  '!-'':���"  * �� * *    ��� * �� * �� ��W"i* Vl - �����!_ 1 ��i   '*n 1    1    i-�� '    w      '      w1  Hi     iri  1   ill   1,     .'     1' t     1%        ���"���!    fti  ��!������������-       !.�����*!��� I      !���        *     1  -   / ��*���* "*"�� ii***.. i-r ���'���***.     "ill "��� 1"     ����� ��� _-#_       >_  1�� __  - _���    _-_* _  *        _��    V. _ ��� ���"    * THE PHOENIX PIONEER  I  ^^^^^^Wm^^BBy^^'^^^^^^^^t^^^i  Bellevue i  Cafe   j& J  This Dining Room is First Class in every respect.  Table supplied with the best to be found in the markets.  Well furnished rooms to rent.  MRS. P. A. KI.KIN,   Prop.  i^^^g^^^^si^^gii^^^^^^B^^^^^^^  How About  that New Suit?  | BRIEF NEWS NOTES  MATTERS OF GENERA L INTEREST  TO   PHOENICIANS!  Ma>or Rumberger of Phoenix was  doing business in Greenwood this week.  Dr. Mathison, dentist, will be at his  oSce, Bank block, from May io to 14-  G. W. Wooster, treasurer of the  Granby Co., was in the city for the  week.  \V. R. Williams, accountant for the  Dominion Copper Co., was in Nelson  this week.  G. F. Williams, representing \V.  Brock & Co., of Montreal, arrived in  town Wednesday.  W. H. Thomas, extx-rt for the B.C.  Copper Company, was a visitor in  Phoenix Wednesday. >  A. C. Flumerfelt, assistant manager  of the Granby company, returned from  Montreal Thursday.  The Greenwood court of revision  will be held June ist, and the council  will constitute the court.  The Ladies' Aid of the Presbyterian  church will give a parlor social at the  home of Mrs, I. Crawford, Thursday,  May 21 st.  Rev. T. Green was in Giand Forks  the areater part of this week in attendance at a district meeting of Methodist  ministers and laymen.  The attendance at the Phoenix public schools is reported as improving.  There are 35 pupils in the Principal's  department, and 50 in the junior.  Ii. T. Ceperly, head agent for the  province of British Columbia, for several English insurance companies, with  head offices at Vancouver, was in town  this week.  The gold watch to be raffled by the  Catholic Ladies'Aid society at Miners'  Union hall on the evening of June 11  is on exhibition in the show window of  Boyle, the druggist.  An election will be held in the west  ward at Grand Forks next Tuesday, to  fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of W. R. Trotter, as aulderman,  who went east recently.  Geo. Rogers, who has been engaged  in the hog and chicken business on his  ranch about two and one-half miles  below this city, has sold out to Wm.  Jenks, both ranch and stock.  On May 6th, C.Ben Rossier, at one  time clerk at the Armstrong hotel, of  Greenwood, but now in business in  Spokane, was married at Phoenix, Arizona, to Miss Gertrude May Rich of  that place.  Chas. Sandner, who was employed  at the Snowshoe the past winter, and  who has a country home at the head of  Christina lake, was married" last Wednesday inT Nelson, to Miss Mary Matthews.  Dr. Gordon, of Phoenix, is attend  ing to the practice of Dr. Spankie, of  Greenwood, during the latters absence  in the east, where he went to take a  three months' special course in a  medical institute.  VV. D. Parker, of the Phoenix Dairy,  went to Vernon this week with a view  to purchasing a dozen of good milk  cows. If he does not find what he  desires in that section, he will go down  into the Colville reservation.  Greenwood's assessment roll recently  returned to the city council showed the  total assessed value ofland to he $755,-  905 and improvements at $440,050.  This is over $140,000 less than the  total assessment for last year.  The weather has been squally this  week, as though winter had been dissatisfied with its leave-taking and had  returned to say good-by again, and is  still standing in the doorway, as some  people do long after they should have  departed.  Seven candidates were instituted in  the rank of page at the regular session  of Grand Forks Lodge No. 30, K. of  P., last week. J. H. Hammer was  elected delegate to the provincial grand  lodge, which meets at Vernon on the  12 th inst.  Mr. C. L. Foster, at one time accountant in the Canadian Bank of  Commerce, in Greenwood, was recently manied in Brooklyn, N. Y., to Miss  Kathleen Hague. From the Greenwood bank Mr. Foster was transferred  to the Portland branch.  Two additional hotels opened their  doors for business in Phoenix last weak,  the Brooklyn and the Knob Hill.  Marshall & Shea are conducting the  Brooklyn and C. E. Johnson and Geo.  Bracy are attending to the wants of  ; guests and patrons at the Knob Hill.  - Wm. Farwell, president of the East  em Townships bank, of Sherbrooke,  Que., accompanied by Mrs. Faiwel',  arrived in Grand Forks Thursday.  Mr. Farwell has large interests in this  province, particularly in the Boundary,  and he will spend some time in this  section.  Mr. Samuel Somerville, local manager'for the Wm. Hunter Co., Ltd.,  went to Vernon, Saturday last, accompanied by his family. Mr. Somerville  owns a home there, and his lamily will  remain there during the summer. He  is expected to return to Phoenix on  Monday. 1     ���  \V, J. Taylor, Eberl's law partner,  says Minister Wells is guilty of fibbing.  The whole story of political and official  peculation in relation to C. P, R. laud  giants by.the'. Victoria government is  coming to the surface in sections. Now  the rogues are at outs, the people'will  get on the inside'of the nefarious business.      ,���': .���'��'','  Jay P. Graves, general manager, of  the Granby Consolidated Mining &  Smelling Co., was in town on Tuesday,  after, an extended trip to Boston, New  York and Montreal. He came to inspect ihe. progress of development work  in the Granby mines during the past  month or two, - returning to Grand  Forks Wednesday.  The Liberals of Greenwood held a  very largely attend meeting last week,  and after a full discussion of the question it was decided to pass a resolution  favoring the application.to the Federal  government for' a subsidy iu aid of the  Midway& Vernonrailway project, and  delegated Mayor Smailes to go to Ottawa and press the matter upon the  attention of the Dominion authorities.  C.- H. Mullin, of the Stemwmder  hotel, who has been absent from town  for seveial months, returned home last  Saturday. Duiing his absence he  visited various parts of the Boundary  country and the state of Washington.  Says he stayed as long as he wanted  to, had a good lime, and has returned  to stay. He says, "Phoenix looks good  to me."  "Everybody should prepare lo attend  the dance to be given Tuesday evening, May 12th, by the Hospital Ladies'  Aid for the benefit of our excellently  conducted hospital. You will never  miss the dollar, arid the hospital needs  it.  BUSINESS NOTICES.  ����������>* ���*-�������������� *���-��-  World Wide Mining  ���*->H��'M��������  Gold ore yielding not more than $5  per ton cannot be treated at a profit  with less than 40 stamps, so competent engineers say.  Reports from Cheyenne, Wyo., state  that $15,000,000 worth of high grade  copper ore is blocked out in the Ferris  Haggeity. Upward of 250 tons a day  can be mined for three years without  further development.  Patrick Clark, of Spokane, Wash.,  has bought 16 copper claims on the  Upper Applegate, Siskiyou County,  Cal., for $250,000. The ledges on  these properties range from five to 20  feet wide, and cany values in both gold  and copper.  The new tunnel in the Camp Bird,  at Ouray, Cal., has opened into a  shoot which, it is said/ViM quadruple  the value of the properly, which is now  owned by an English corporation.  Thomas Walsh sold it last year for $5.-  250,000. Its present value is put st  $20,000,000.  ���'-,.,  Give me a call. ,,  Mrs. L. J. DuBuay,  H Biner Block, cor. Knob Hill and 2,  4-DEPARTMENTS-4  Granby Exchange  Harness Shop���new goods aud more complete.,  than ever. '   .�����'  I nrpcts and Upholstery.  l'urniture and Stoves. A fine lot of cooking  utensils. ��� : ��� ' -  .  1'icks, shovels and teamsters' supplies. We  pay and double diseouut everything for cash. Iu  fact, we buy everything and sell everything..  Corporation of the City  of PhoeniX.  Notice is hereby given that a Court of Revision  fortlieiity of fhoenix, B. O., will be held on  Monilav, the 15th day of June, ip03,at Uie hour of  tuo o'clock iu thc afternoon and following days  if necessary, in G.W. Kmnbergefs. office, Baldwin block, for the purpose of hearing complaints against the assessment n�� made for the  year 1903. by the assessor, and for revising and  correcting the assessment roll for that year.  Complaints to be made in writing to the undersigned at least ten days before the silting of the  court. '.'.-���;'������:  Phoenix, B.C., April 16, 1903.  O.J. Matheson,  ..   c: M.c  Dr. Mathison, Dentist.  A .bin's News Depot is the place for  periodicals of all kinds.  Alliin has a new line of cigars that  will suit you to a.T.  Do not overlook the big Sunday dinner at the Bellevue Cafe.  Old papers for sale at the Pioneer  office, at 25 cents per 100.  Aiinstro'ni's chocolates don't melt  this weather, but they will melt in  your mouth.  Fruits and confectionery, fresh and  tempting, at popular prices. Albin's  News depot.  Those chocolates sold by Almstrorn  are the kind that melt in your mouth.  Have you-tried them?  Albion's News Stand has received u  fine line of choice Confectionery.  Do not overlook it.  Can you make a better present to  your eastern Iriends tharr a subscription  to the Phoenix Pioneer for n yeai ?,  All the news of the Ko'itenay .ind  Yale in the Nelson Daily News. At  your newsdealer on day of publication.  If you are a stranger, come in,  whether you want anything or not  you're    always   welcome   at   Albiii's  Now that the strike is over and things  are beginning to look up, you  should place your order for that  Spring Suit or Light Overcoat.  We have received some of the choicest  imported goods for spring trade  ever brought to Phoenix, and will  make up goods with the best of  trimmings, and guarantee a fit.  Where We Shine.  W'e make a specialty of Watches  that will keep the very best of time.  Iking official time inspectors for  the C. P.-R; for the entire Boundary, it can readily lie noted that  we must have the.correct tune.  We keep the finest and most accurate movements made, and can  furnish them on short notice.  G.E.DEY,  The Jeweler, Knob Hill Ave.  Official   C.P.R. Time  Inspector.  Thank Vou!  For having favored us with your  patronage. We trust you are so  well pleased with your purchase  that you .will' visit our sunt  again whenever in need of anything in the drug line. It is-  our purpose to give our customers-exactly what they want and  at piices as low as the qualit)  of the goods will allow.  BOYLE,  The Druggist.  ���I'linne 16  Todav is a Good  Time to Call.  ��� 4-4-f-f-f-f-f-������������-�����������.-������  ALBERT GROILX,  4  .4  ... 4  Practical Horseshoeing, Btacksmithlng, 4  Dominion Avk.. Piiohxiw B.C.      4  ����44-4+4-f4-+4>+4-4'+4-4-4+4 4 4444-4  NOTICE.  Ri:spi:cting Timbkk Lickxcbs.  Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions ur Section 50 of thc "Laud Act," that in  future no special licences to cut limber on (Jrown  lands will be granted or lenewcd until after the  applicants have had the limits surveyed bv a  duly qualified Provincial T,and Surveyor to the  satisfaction of the Laud und Works Department.  W. C. WHLLS.  Chief f'ouiinisstoucr of Land & Works  Laud and \Vo:ks Department,  Victoria. B. O., 26th March, 1903.  r* �����������������������*������**���*���-*���**������ ���-��* *���������***+��-�������������,����������� **-**-* * 4  * ���-�����*���������*���* ������������*���-������������������**��������������*������-*��������������-���������������**# *������>*#-**��������-��� ���  ��� * ������  H   MRS. L. J. DtfBray.   jj  MILLINER   &%  ii&r  xx  H SPRING & SUMMER STOCK \\  jl Has arrived with all the ::  lj LATEST STYLES IN LADIES' AND CHIL- Is  l\ DREN'S HATS. ALSO. CHILDREN'S j:  H       READV-MADE CLOTHING. jj  *fe-��.��+-*-�� ����������������-��*��� ��-!���*���-�� ***���*<  1-�������>����������������+���������<  R. HORRELL.  .     I'Bob, the Tailor,"  Knoii Mill Avknue, Phoenix, 15. C  \ Church Services  J Tomorrow.  J  Catholic���Mass will lie held tomorrow at io a. tn.; evening service at  7.30 p.m.  St. Andrews' Presbyterian Church,  Service tomorrow at 11 a. m. and  7:30 p. 111. Sunday school aiid Bible  class at 2:30 p. 111. Midweek meeiiii).  Wednesday at 7.30 p.m.    Rev. V. M.  Purdy.'B. A., pastor.  ��� - v ���  Methodist���-11 a. m. Talks on the  Life of Christ. 2 p.m., Sunday school  as usual. 7.30 p., 111., evening service.   Rev.'IV Green, 15. A , pastor.  1PAC1FIC ttY.  THROUGH BOOKINGS  '  ���TO   The Yukon  and Alaska  SS. "Princess May" will sail lioni  Vancouver on April 23d and May 3d,  and about every ten days theieafter,  furnishing rihea through seivice'to  Skagway and all Northern points.  Bookings to all points East and West  at lowest lates.  Dates of sale of  Reduced Settlers' Rates Extended  Till June 15.  ..Ifeii  Experienced  * MILLINER *  ..AVIS';   HECKIVKI) MY  Spring and  Summer Stock  Of Ready-to-Wear  Ladies".and sChildren's s tlATS  I IXVITKTHEI.AMKSOF PHOENIX  to call and inspect the same. These  goods are all in the lateft approved  styles, an<L,trimim;f. with the best quality of material. A full line of trimmings  for retrimm.int..'--..-  Having obtaint-d iiiy goods at a bargain I will give my customers the full  benefit of these reasonable prices.  , MRS. ALBIN AUfSTROM,   '  ' Dominion Avknue.  ���    9  ��� Transfer,!  Drj Wood for sale,  Corporation of the CSfy  of Phoenix.  All property holders or occupiers nre hereby  notified to have their back yards cleaned up and  Karbege placed in receptacles so that it can be  taken away by the scavenger.  C. H. Flooi>,  Chief of Police.  Nelson's daily, the News, has all the  news that is news.' At your newsdeal'  er's, or by mail lor 50 cents per month.  sW.ii  ? Residence and stables at fool of  JJ Dominion Ave., Phoenix, B. G. a  J   P 0.1)0x269, 'Phone ����p 40. J  ����o��a.-o��e��0*9O9oee��e0ei*��e��  9  s  ��.:  A Mother's Recommendation.  I have , u'��e'<l Chamberlain's Cough  Remedy for a number of yearc and have  no hesitancy in saying thai, it is the best  remedy for coughs, colds and croup I  have ever need in my family. I have  not words to express my confidence In  this remedy.���Mas. J. A. Mooke, North  Star, Mich.   For sale by all druggists. "  For timetables and further information  apply lo  O. W. Dey, E.J. Coyle,.  Agent;. A.G.P.Agt.  Phoenix, B, C.    Vancouver, B.C  J. S. Carter, D. P. A.,  Nelson, B.C.  PHOTOGRAPHS OF  THE BIO MINES  OF BOUNDARY  WE HAVE A FEW COPIES OF A  WELL- EXECUTED PIlOrCHiUAPH  of the tix bift Boundary mines that  shipped. 500,(1(50 toiiB of ore in 1.102  The mines.are tlie Granby, Snowshoe,  Mother Lode, Sunset, Em ma and B  C. Mine,  As a companion to this we have a  photograph o.I the three Boundary  Smellers, viz.: Granby ��� Mother Lode,  and Sunset, showing them in operation.  Size of each, 10x13 inches.  The two sent  postpaid   to   any address for $1.50.  Address  PIONEEfV PVB. CO.  PHOENIX,   B-C.  Reduced Rates From the Hast.  Commencing Febrnarv 15tn and con-  tinning until April 30th there will be low  rates in effect from the east via the Illi  nois Central R K. to all Washington,  Oregon and Idaho points. If any of  your friends or relatives in the east an-  coining . west while these rates are in  effect, give us their name anil addresp,  and we will make it our bnsine^ to see  t.liat they are given the best possible service. VVe operate . through personally  condncied excursion care, and in fact  giveyoli tlie benefit of the latest conveniences known to modern railroading.  We have 15 different routes between the  east and the west, and are in position to  give yon the biwfit of the best combinations. Wrile-us and we will ujve yon  full particulars. B. H.Tr.i.niMI, Com'l  Agent, III. Cent. R. P., J-43 Third St.,  Portland, Oregon.  Hospital Donations.  l.'Nt-nf D'liialiom. received  nnre Jan.  lst,100.5:  Hooks and Eggs Mrs. Willcox  (diedozen sheets .........   Mr*.liiidin  < iirpet,   bed and  blanket!-  for private  wp.rd, chickens und  provMuiiH ..Mis.  Macv.  A quantity of jum ...'.. .Mr*. Mutheson,  lireeriwbod.  Honks and Preserver"   ...... Mrs. Kcet-c  A quantity of Preserves   ... .Mrs. Hovlc  A case of whiskey '. Mr. A��t ley  Cash���{5       A friend  Cash���-j50 A Men.i  > 11 ivical Dressings A   P   MrK.-uaie  IVddlng  Wm. Yolen Willirtiiis  ItarriBiei Fees .. .. W. II Cuciin.iie  Much needed nvini:splint. Mr. Deliilmy  'I wo'dozen pillow i-lina and one dozen  towels  ...  .Mr Macy  j20   ...:    A friend  Hooks..,   -.:.   Mis. Willcox  Papers and Magazines'. .Mcltiie Bro*. '&  Smith   -.-''������.  Kiiaht small Ward Tables ami  Wicker  Ehsv Chair    ......... A Friend  Provisions  Mrs. Macy  nothing     ...  ..........  ..... Friends  SiihwriptiotiK for seven Magi zinc's,. A. L.  White, N. Y. City ��  ..'Donations for this week: Isteit.     1 top in mid take a look.  Knster Turkev ......;;. ...W.S,Mhcv  ,50 . ^Eastern Townr-hips Hank,  Sheibrooke, Quebec.  Wall  Pape*.  We 1 ave received several thousands cf rolls of the latest iii  WA1J.;PAPER from the .factory  in Montreal, and we want you  to  A SAD  ACCIDENT  Which happened Monday Should act as  A WARNING  To You,  Not to de|ay, but to come and have an  Accident Policy issued inm.-deatdy.  Phe policy. I write will protect your  family in case of death or give you  pecuniar benefits should you fall sick.  INSURANCE.  Also, Accident and Life.  For Rent*,..  STOKES, 'HOUSKS, ROOMS, and  CABINS, At all figures.  E. H. MORTIMER  ACJKNT,  (.KAVKS-Wll.l.lAMS   ������        I'llOKNIX,l!.C  Block, P.O.Box 33,  Private  There are a few subscribers to the Pioneer  ���just a few���who are delinquent for the year  1902. If you are one of.these, the editor will  appreciate prompt liquidation.  Knoii Hi..i.'Avi..,!Pi.oi.s.x, B.C.  Re MARCUS OPPENHEIMER'S ESTATE.  All persons having claims against  the estate ot the late Marcus Oppen-  heimer, of Marcus, Wash.,U.S. A;,  are requested to deliver the same to  the undersigned at Phoenix, B.C,  not latei than February 16, 1903.  R. B. Kkku,  Solicitor for thc Executors.  'Union goods:���You will find the  best lines of 'union: .made- cigars and  tobaccos, at Albin's News Depot.   ,  A new line of cigais at Albin's News  Depot.    I lave you tried them ?  Cotton lacs wanted at the Pioneer  office. Highest price paid. Bring  em along and get your money.  By a Nuue of sojeius'  experience.    .    .    .  Apply to MKS..II.-SMITH.  ; Phoenix, B.C.  Mr v Gauthier,  Fashionable  Dressmaker  GUANUY COI'TAOK No. 5.  ENCKE5  ICHINE  We are Sole Licensee?, for Canada, for the Manufacture of  The Overstrain Concentrating Table.  And we will guarantee this 'able to be the most Efficient Concentrator on the  maltet, exreptin.n none. Our bianch ofJ.:e, or head office will I e  pleased to leceive enquiries and quote piices.    Catalogue free.  PAIPANY. Rossland.  Snerbrooke,  Que.  35 Lansdowne St.  Greenwood  W ��3T Have yon noticed, the price bf  I Copper Going' Up?  iu That means that real estate will also rise in value in Phoenix.    It is also ^K  Jr. absolutely assured that'the-.'���.,.' iii  #     Y. Y. & E. Will Begin Construction Work      #  itu as soon as the weather permits. /IV  Mv.       : I have a few houses to rent on reasonable terms.        . , i��C  f      G. W. RUMBERGER^      #  <|>   Telephone No. 25. ��� x*r 4X \J M1*IH s\J%.9    O.    \*.   ^  tt^<i<i-<;<:&<i^^^<?<i^<i^<t<;<r<r<i<;^^^4r^&'  WHY W  ILL MO  I  The buyer will find here a mammoth assortment of styles and  prices. The buyer is always fitted here. More than that; we  cany the best makes, especially the Geo. A. Slater "Inviclus"  shoe, which combines; the style, fit, finish, wear and appearance  that makes it the highest grade of Canadian production, and the  equal of the very best shoe being made today in America. Our  prices range from . >  $3 5Q to $8.50  Our stock ol .MINING- SHOES is fully complete and second  to none 111 the city lor assortment and value, each price-a leader  in itseli. ..'������"  $2*50 to $10  HI Ladies and Children's Footwear iff  LARGE   VARIETY  Doiniuiqu Avenue, Flj.oe.nix, B. C.  I  '���a  ���3  f^3  iB.w�� iSwAti  'twM^m^^  ��?pr*irfjWWBflJ(BINirrIIR  1 -*  **���+   -an*  'l��  J.   >   -*  ���    t *    *  1 ���'  '�������