TEMAi Has Mines lh.it are Paying Dividends and Hundreds of ProjDerties that can be Made Dividend Paying' Mines. ���A '\. ��_^-5> 0- -'-%_*js__tftf*' KOOTENAY Has a Mineral Output of Upwards,ot Ore Million Dollars Every Month In The Year S EVENTI-J YT___K.- NO. NELSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA,. SATURDAY,-DECEMBER .I,. 1898. TWO, DOLLARS A YEAR. VOLTAIRE AND KOLA. Over a Century Ago Voltaire Played the Part Which Zola Recently Played. It; i.s a curious coincidence that somewhat less than 150 years ago there arose a celebrated case that bears more than one mark of resemblance to the .Dreyfus case. In each was there a wrongful conviction, an undeserved punishment: in each were popular passions aroused to the point of frenzy, and while the revision of the Dreyfus case is due to the intellectuals, led by Zola, the reversal of the Galas .judgment was due to the untiring efforts and lavish generosity of Voltaire. ' 'In 1700 and thereabouts Franco was given over to mediaeval bigotry and superstition. The revocation of tlie edict of Nantes had recently expelled many of her most thoughtful and reasoning citizens. In Toulouse, in the province of Lunguedo'c, where the Call as tragedy occurred, religious intolerance reached its highest pitch. Such horrors as the massacre of S. Bartholomew were celebrated with processions and thanksgivings. There was living in Toulouse a merchant named Jean Calas, a prosperous, and worthy citizen. He was honorable, industrious, broad-minded and, unfortunately i'or himself, a Huguenot. He had a wife and six children, two of whom were away from home when the tragedy occurred. His oldest son, Marc An to hie, was of a morbid and gloomy disposition aud had become despondent because, being a Huguenot, he was forbidden to practice law. Ou the evening of October 13th, L'7fll, after having been unusually gloomy all day, he left his family at the supper table and went down stairs and hanged himself, where he was found by his brother about'ai* hour later. The outcries of the startled ��� family draw a curious crowd outside. It soon was whispered around that a sudden death bad occurred within. Tho crowd saw two young men leave the house hastily and hurry in different directions, one was going for a doctor, the other for the police. The excitement in the crowd increased, and someone exclaimed justes the magistrateai rived, "Those Huguenots have killed their son!" 'That settled it. No more was to be /said. Magistrates, clergy and pcuph- were fully convinced that that was the case. They scouted all notion of suicide. Tlie entire family, including a friend who had taken supper with them, and the servant were immediately arrested, and Marc Antoine was treated a.s a martyr.' But oven in those times they could not convict a man with_'_t winy .videiu-o, and here is where the first- striking resemblance to tho Dreyfus case occurs. Not having a sera)) of eviaence against tlie Calas family, yet being determined to convict, they were forced to manufacture some. JO veil the clergy announced from the pulpit that all who had any knowledge of this matter by hearsay or otherwise should produce it. Fven then the imagination of the people could not supply any direct evidence against the family, but a large amount of hearsay testimony sprang up. One man testified that a boy wlio had been iu told him that he had heard a voice cry out: "Oh, tuon Dieu, they are strangling me!" When searched for the boy could not be found, a fact that bore heavilj- against the accused. Another witness testified that some one, he had forgotten whom, had told him that oue of his friends had told him that his apprentice had told him that he had beard a voice begging for mercy. This important evidence was admitted by the court. It was gravely asserted that it must have been murder, for the victim' could not possibly have hanged himself in the position described. This the court accepted without taking the trouble to send an officer to examine into its truth. Aud yet this court was no ordinary tribunal, but a special committee of the parliament of Toulouse. On March 9, 1702, this committee, on evidence of no more value than the above, rendered a verdict of guilty against .Jean Calas, and sentenced hi in to torture and death, hoping in this way to force from him a confession that would justify his own conviction and that of the rest of his family. This sentence was executed the next day, but Jean Calas, having nothing to confess, remained silent, and the baffled court was forced to release the rest of the prisoners. ��� 1't contented itself with putting the daughteis in a convent and confiscating the property. Such was the first stage of the.case, a stage in which popular passions, reflected only too accurately by the authorities, overrode all law and justice. A few days after the execution of Jean Calas, a merchant who had been in Toulouse at the time, and on whom the tragedy had made a great impression, was visiting Voltaire and told him the story. Voltaire was not much impressed, saying that unnatural as it was to suppose that a father would kill his child, it was still more unnatural to think that an intelligent aud uubiased court would wrongfully condemn a man to such a death. But he was sufficiently interested to make further inquiries and quickly came to the correct conclusion, that Calas and his entire family were innocent. He then threw the whole force of his will aud intellect into the struggle to reverse the judgment. Tho Calas family were nothing to him. but it was a great deal to him that such a fearful wrong should take place in France. He soon saw that it was impossible to do anything with the parliament of Toulouse. That body, like the present general stall' of France, refused to admit the possibility of error, would ou no account reopen the case and would permit no one to see the lecords of it. Voltaire turned to Paris, lie wrote himself to the minister of justice, and interesting all his influential friends, and through them their friends, he deluged the minister with letters, urging a revision of the case, .lie published pamphlet after pamphlet, telling the whole story and pleading powerfully for justice to this unfortunate family, lie engaged the ablest lawyers in France to push the case, and he paid all these expenses out of his own pocket. He was slowly arousing a public opinion that would demand a revision in on unmistakable way. Contributions came in to help him in his work. Mine, dn Pompadour was his friend, but the king, who had signed the revocation of the edict of Nantes, was. hard to move. Since the public opinion of J-Yance was insufficient, Voltaire determined to call that of Europe to his aid. His letters and pamphlets on the case were translated into several languages and scattered broadcast. All Europe was aroused to.in- dignalion: subscriptions came in from the young queen of J_ngland, wife of George 111., from the king of Poland, and many German princes. Under" all this pressure from at home and abroad the king at last consented, just one year after the death of Calas, to have the case reviewed by a commission. This com mission ordered the records of the case to bo furnished by the parliament of Toulouse, and a new trial to be held in Paris. There were still many delays, so that it was two years or more befoie the fiual verdict was rend- dered, but when it ctimeitwa.su complete vindication. The judgment of the parliament of Toulouse was declared reversed; Jean Calas, his wife, his children, his guest and his servant were pronounced absolutely innocent of the charge against them, and the family reinstated, as far as possible, in their old possessions. ATLIN LAKE GOLD FIELDS. Provincial Government -will Make a Clean-up by tho Sale of Town Lots in the Spring. The provincial government has appointed a gold commissioner for the Atlin lake section, and within a few days a surveyor will leave for the same point, to survey a townsite within tbe reserve- which was placed upon the land when the news of the gold discoveries reached the coast. It is the tributaries of Surprise lake that are supposed to constitute the most valuable part of tho new district. This lake and Atlin and Taku Arm are nearly of equal length. They are nearly parallel to each other, with a trend about north and south--narrow, river-like stretches of deep, clear, water, abounding" in trout and white_sh._ Surprise lake is inought to lie at least /() miles long, but it is only the southern end that has been much explored. Here are at least four tributaries, Wright and Otter on oue side of the lake and Jluby and Boulder on the other, that have had work done on them the last two or three months. Of the four Wright creek is most developed, but all have made a satisfactory showing. Cold has come from nearly all of the different creeks where mining has been attempted. From .the standpoint of a miner there is hardly any resemblance between the Atlin and the Klondike diggings. In point of richness or of total product iu prospect it is not claimed that the former compares with the latter, although Atlin is in its infancy and its possibilities are not yet to be defined. In the Atlin district hardly any of the ground is frozen in summer, and the depth to bedrock is only from two to eight feet, the average depth being from four to five. The pay dirt is of a free aud friable nature, without clay, but the gold is not distributed throughout any thickness of the gravel. It is all concentrated upon bedrock or in crevices. EAST KOOTENAY NOTES. * J.evelopment work ou the North Star mine is proceeding at a most gratifying rate. The new double compartment shaft is down close upon 100 feet; it is said that crosscutting will commence as soon as a depth of o00 feet is obtained. The new hoisting machinery will soon be in operation. During the summer of !3 of the act, which provides that no free miner shall suffer for the act of any govei nmentofficial. The trial judge held that under section 2-1 the act provides that if the assessment work is not done in each and every year tlie claim shall be deemed vacant and abandoned, any rule of law or equity to the contrary notwithstanding. As many claim holders have relied on extensions under the same order in council, the judgment of the full court will be of great interest. Squabble Over Dominion Creek Ground. The first appeal from the ruling of the gold commissioner of the Vukon has been taken up at Ottawa in the railway committee of the house of commons. Andrew Donnelly staked a claim on Dominion Creek on June l.th. This claim was staked previously by Swanson Blade, the stakes which Blade had erected having in the meantime been partially obliterated. Donnelly recorded his claim ���*.& No. ol below l.'pper Discovery, and later on Blade recorded the same claim as No. above Lower Discovery, so that the fact t hut the claims were identical was not discovered by the gold commissioner for sonic time afterwards. Donnelly erected a cabin on his claim and commenced excavation. Blade subsequently resigned his right to the location to Lucille Elliott, who in turn assigned it to a Mr. Nelson. The gold commissioner decided in favor of Donnelly, and Nel.-on appeals. Must Have Good Teeth. The -.pecial public school committee of Toronto, which was -appointed to consider means for remedying the condition of school childrens teeth, has decided to petition tlie legislature to give to school boards power to insist on the production of a dentist's certilicate for children before admitting I hem to the schools, and. to have an examination of the teeth of children in the, schools. Tlie solicitor, in a lengthy communication lo the board, thought "l his the course to pursue. He will confer with the minister of education and later prepare a bill. Economy in Coke Making. The establishment of a large electrical power plant, to be run by gas engines and to utilize the surplus gases from the by-product coke ovens, at Dunbar. Fa., has been propoted,''and there is no reason why it could not profitably be done in a district where there is a demand for power. The suggestion is worth serious- consideration from coke-makers elsewhere. Power, considered as a by-product of the coke-oven, may in many cases bean important and profitable one. Will Not Move to Sayward. For .some days past the rumor has been current that the British American Corporation, which recently secured the North- port smelter, intends to move the plant to Sayward and to do all its smelting operations ou this side of the line. Fdwin Durant. the ollice manager of the corporation, denies that the corporation has any such idea in view. -fflfc ��� ^v_^S_-^^^ ���?."-__ "I**:- V'" ��'j. .-*_: KWJ.A*. s-._-.>*-.V.."-^v_ j-;. v-a/i-i-V---������..'���-. - '���: *-*���- ���"'���r -T ;--**��� * -7 ' ���?.?} il-.V. -���>/f/���r'-.-i'i*' :* -Pi" j.-.' '���._ ��������'.-��� 'Ji:._--������>*(��� \ -"I-- ,-���*.*. ?-." _-*"*y-1-- -V. _ .���..I3*.*-_ -*.*'&} **��� fc*..l i 'Vj: -j**. -���*���.-.-**.*������_ V. ������-. *.V~;,*.',. ,v., .-.���.-.;������ i., ,������; _*\:.*-'* *t w-, ,; '-���.������!, -.->���** -j.-'..: -\ii\��-. .���.���>-���������-������_-. --- fti,'-.',��� *_4>.*fi*'i:, g^^Ml^li 2- THE TRIBUNE: NELSON B.C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER-"!, 1898. . "Silver Plate thai Wears." 1847 and to have our claim as such admitted by all the people of the city, is the aim which we have had since we have been in business. The Choicest Line of WeA SOUP TUREENS, BAKE AND VEGETABLE DISHES, CAKE BASKETS, NUT BOWLS, BERRY AND FRUIT DISHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Perhaps yours have seen their best days and you have about made up your mind to ' purchase new. ��� You think you are sure if you ask for and receive ''Rogers goods" it will be all right. You are not, how- ' ever, for there air. many grades of so- called "Rogers goods." Theie is only one "J 847 Rogers Bros." brand of Knives, Forks- Spoons, etc. (note "J847"), which is the original and genuine. This same brand was used by our grandparents and is the only "Rogers" silverware which has been in use since the year 1847. Fictitious brands of "Rogers" spoons, etc., were unknown till many years later. Be sure the prefix "J847" is stamped on every article ALL GOODS ENGRAVED FREE OF CHARGE and you will get original quality. There is only one place _n Nelson where you can get the BEST IN' QUALITY, ASSORTMENT AND PRICES, and that is at PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. THK TRIBUNE is published on Saturdays, by Tiik TlHIUJXE I-'UIIUSIIINC C'O.MI'ANV, and Will 1)0 mailed Lo s-ub.-criben* on payment of Two Doi.j.aiisii year. Xo subscription taken for less than u year. It KG Ul-A It ADVKItTIdKJIKXTS primed at the following- rates: One inisli, !?'/(' a year; two inehes, $60 a year; three inohe.-, SSI a year; four inches, ��96 a year; five inches, $105 a year; six inches and over, at tho rate of S1.50 an inch per month. TRANSIENT AD VKRTISKMENTS 20 cent.-* a line for first insertion and 10 cents a line for each additional insertion. Birth, marriage, and death notices free. also prevented from discussing such action of tli. ministers by reason of-.the fact that a comparatively unknown newspaper man had been committed for trial for alleged libel in that connection. Now it is the Colonist people who are made to suffer because another crowd of politicians have the upper hand. It is time that the local oil reading matteu notices 25 cents a j publishers of newspapers in Hritish Co lino each insertion JOB PRINTING at fair rates. All accounts for job printing and advertising payable on tho first of every month; subscription, in advance. ADDRESS all communications to , THE TRIBUNE. Nelson. 13. C'. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. LA BAU & KORIN���Physicians and Surgeons. Rooms | 3. I and 5, Bigelow block. Nelson. Telephone 12. j DKV .7. A. ARMSTRONG-Governnienl. Veterinary Inspector. Treats diseases of all domestic animals. All stock inspected at Nelson. Nelson, B. C. DR. .1. \V. QUJNl.AX, DENTIST Baker Street, Nelson. Oflice: Mara Block Among the economies which have been made by the new provincial administration, which will commend itself to most people, is that in connection with the subsidizing of physicians in different parts of This week we opened' up a complete stock . of fresh groceries. These goods have been laid down in Nelson at rock-bottom prices, and our customers get the benefit of them. Our stock of crockery and "glassware is the largest in Kootenav. Canadian General Electric Company, Ltd. Capital 31,500,000. Head Offices Toronto, Ontario. All types of electrically operated mining- and power apparatus Sole ag-ents for complete Victor Blasting' Machines We also sell the genuine Bell Telephones British Columbia Branch Offices Granville St reel-VANCOUVER' ICootenay District ���-N ICLSON _r_H._=__ST__: X3-_i._=l__I_Src3-, Kootenay Agent AGIi.VT ������*01t WIIIB IIOI'K AND (il-'XI-'KAI. MAClll.VICH Y > S C i of 700 to 1,000, and are operating a sled line to take in supplies, etc. A sni-vnyinp party lias been picking out a good trail from Log Cabin���at White pass summit��� north down the Foo Chi river to Poo Chi lake, and on down the lake ten miles, and then southeast, over to Atlin City, about twenty-five miles farther. A big rush is expected into the Atlin country, as well as on to Klondike as soon as spring opens. A Pai-nell Story, li. B. O'Brien in .his "Life of Parnell" just published, tells this story of Parnell's extraordinary insolence and coutemp- tuousness towards individuals and tlie public. When the lord mayor of Dublin was presenting him with the " Parnell lumbio ascertained what rights they have and made up their minds to stand up together for them instead of shouting in gleeful chorus whenever one of their number is caught in the toils of proceedings for contempt of court.. Tribute." a cheque for ��37,000 raised by the Irish people in recognition of his services to the nation, Parnell interrupted the lord mayor as the latter began his congratulatory address, saying, "1 believe you have a cheque for me." The astonished lord mayor said he had. "Is it made payable to order and _ros--cd ?" The lord mayor again said "Yes," and was ,..���.. ; , . . . ,.,,. , ���. .. about to resume his speech when Parnell "���*-��������. | to physicians in dillerent parts ol the took tho cheque out of the lord mayor's hand, folded it and pur. it in his vest pocket. That ended the ceremony in less ttt j. h. holmks, c. _.���Provincial Land Surveyor, i the province. Heretofore it was the prnc- w - P. 0. box 82, Kaslo, b. c. j* j tice f)f , *ie r,ovei.,-ment fco v*ote annuities AH". HOLD ICH���Analytical Chemist and ��� Victoria Ktrcet, Nelson. . ��� ! province without respect'to local condi- T C. GWILMM, B.A.Sc. & W. S. JOHNSON, B.A.Sc. I _. .... i i ��� ��� *-*��� ���Mining Engineer*- and Analytical Chemists, | tlOIlS. II there Was a needs'- physician Slocan City, li. C. j wi10m fc*-e government of the day wished i to assist he was voted JpHOO a year, and it 9 BRANCH MARKETS ...'.'. Rossland and Trail, in Trail Creek District Three Forks and Sandon, in Slocan District Kaslo in Ainsworth District Prepared to supply consumers with everything in the way of fresh and cured meats. Orders by mail carefully filled and nromptly forwarded. BU\CK8MITHiNC hM XPE^T HORSESHOEING IS NOW ri'KI'AI'KI) TO Iil-X'KIVK ORDKItf* FOR Domestic and Steam Coal and Blacksmiths' Fuel LODGE MEETINGS. nklson lodge, NO.23, a.k.'&a.m. Meets i not infrequently happened that the state second Wednesday in each month. Sojourning j aic-(K| doctor moved about to Centers of brethren invited. | i population and entered into competition KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS���Nelson Lodge, No. '_>. ; .,������,.���-, nrilfll. m.rli'���.*-*) mpn wl-n rlpnf-nd'-d Knights of Pythias, meets in Cat-tie hull. Macdun- ! u ir'n Otliel tni.Cll~ai men \\ no nepenctcu aid block, corner of. Josephine and Vernon .streets, every-j entirely upon their fees for a living, second and fourth Tuesday evening at S o clock. All i ���!' , , - , ���,. ��� ��� visitiiiR kniKht? are cordially invitnd to attend. j There are doubtless places where it IS 111 pLKGKG.r'ov!0acC' ��f" & S' j the public interest to maintain a physi- - ��� -��� cian, but the practise was generally ffTH'P _TTl*th'l'Ttl'I* abused by the previous administrations, idjy-l-UP la/^ivwtVf j __d th_ decii,ion -j the Semlin adminis- -ATUKDay morning.' decemuki. it. lsis | tration to lop all such votes as are not i*e- ��� ~ ' quired will be received with satisfaction. than five minutes, speeches. and there were no ' Tin*: news comes from Ottawa that the j Japanese government has entered a formal protest against the legislation passed by the British Columbia legislature, which prohibits the employment of Japanese by any company receiving concessions from the crown. The Japanese ambassador does not like the statute in question, and it is said that efforts are being made to secure its disallowance. That it will be disallowed does not follow. The provincial legislature has simply announced that for the future no set of men will be authorized by act of parliament to construct any public works or carry on any bii-*iiie.->-* except upon the condition that they will not employ any Chinamen or J a pan cm-*. This legislation expresses the feeling of the people of this province upon the subject of the employment of Chinese or Japan esc. aud for this rea-*on it is not likely that tlie federal authorities will disallow it. The province has taken tlie position that those who approach its legislature for concessions must be prepared to make some concessions in return. In return for such advantages as they icceive from incorporation, they imi.-it undertake that there shall be no (Jliine-e or Japanese employed by them. It is a fair contract, and now that the province lias a government that is favorable to the cause of labor there will be no conniving at. Victoria with disallowance proceedings at Ottawa. Labor stands a ! chance for' a fair shake, something it i never had heretofore. j 1 Ci. A. Hi;kk, the defeated candidate in Alberni. says that it will be dead easy to defeat Neill in the approaching by-election in that constituency. Tn making this announcement Mv. fluff is somewhat severe upon himself. Tn the last contest the general feeling upon Vancouver Island was that the Turner government would be sustained. Huff was the government candidate in Alberni against Neill, but the electors of Alberni gave the opposition candidate a big majority over I Iu IT. To make the defeat of Neill easy it will therefore be necessary to secure some opposing candidate other than Huff. Titionio should be an investigation into the circumstances connected with the wrecking of the steamer Ainsworth on Tue.-day evening, by which nine men lost their lives. The general opinion is that the Ainsworth was unsafe, and should not have been allowed to carry passengers. On her last trip from Nelson the steamer was said to be leaking so badly that a-deck hand who had shipped at Nelson left the bout at Pilot Bay. Reduced Postal Rates. The reduced., postal rates to come into effect next Christmas Day will apply to letters passing through Canada and the United Kingdom, British India, Newfoundland and the following African pi o- tectorates : British Must Africa. I'gand.-i, Z'in/.ibar. British Central Africa,' the Niger Coast, protectorate and the Nig..:r Company's territory. The postage mi these letters will be reduced from .cents to 2 cents per half ounce. Railway to Tap Atlin Lake District. Private letters from Skagway, Alaska, ive a satisfactory account of the progress Pko.m the .afliilavit.s which have been published in connection wilh the contempt proceedings taken against W. IT. Lllis and U. Ii. Lugriu. of the Colonist, it appears probable that those who launched ! of the railway now being constructed to- t he contempt proceedings against the ' ward Da wson Uit.y, in the Klondike con i- newspapermen ha . e done" more to bring, f*-'' T1!V l'��un > ru,,l,il,B re^iUai- trnuis . ,��� i ��� ��� ' h | to near the White pass summit, winch is the courts o! .the province, into contempt > twenty miles from Skaguay. and graders thai ' ' Notice of Application for Certificate of Improvements. t HM*K IIICI.l. .MIN'KHAI. CLAIM. SITU AT K I.V TIIK NI'I.SO.V .MiNi.vr; nivisoi.v ok kootrnav i>iSTfiicrr, and i.t>- '���ATI*:!* I1KTWBEX I'OUCl'I'l NH AND MUAH I'KUKKS. Take notice Hint I, .1. A. Kirk, acting as agent, for John Dean, free miner'.-, certificate No. 187:2a, adniiuis- tralor for the estate of the late .Silas l<*. Uollinsworth, free miner's certitieate No. :'l,t)7S.i, intend .sixty days from the dale hereof, to apply to the mining recorder for a certilicate of improvement:*, for the --ni-posc of obtain in.i; a crown irrant of t he above claim. And further take notice that action, under section :*7, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. .1. A. KII.K. Dated this lith day of November, lSilS. [Nov. aithj Notice of Application for Certificate of Improvements. Ill,ACIC DIAMOND MfXEKAI, CLAIM, SITl'ATK IN TIIK NKI.SON* MININ'* DIVISION OK KOOTKNAV DISTIUCT. AND LOCATliD NKAH THE DUXIIKI! MINK. Take notice that I, J. A. Kirk, actintr as agent for John Dean, free miner's certitieate No. 187*i.\. and John J. McAndrews. free miner's certificate No. lH,li*>(i.\, intend sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the mining recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements, .f. A. KII.K. Dated this Kith day of November, tSOS. [Nov. _ith| Notice of Application for Certificate of Improvements. '' WiriTK." '" IIAIIDUI'," '"KLKCTIO.V," AND "MY KJIKlt" MIXKHAI. CLAIMS .SITUATE IN THE NKLSOX .MINING DIVISION OK WKST ICOOTEXAY DISTRICT, AND LOCATED NEAP. THE I'OOIi.MAN CI. MM ON EACH.!-- CKKEIC. Take notice that, 1. A. S. Farwcll, agent forthe NeNon, Foiirman Gold Mining Company. Limited, free miner's certificate No. '_J''(*A, intend sixty days frum the date hereof, to apply to the mining recorder for a certitieate of improvement--, for tbe Ihe purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claims. And further take notice that action, under section 37. must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. A. H. FAKWICLL. Dated this **nd day of .September. ISO-i. [.Sept. :s.| Notice of Application for Certificate of Improvements. III.UE ICVK1I NEI.I.IE MINI-'IIAI. CLAIM, SITUATE IN THE NELSON MININC DIVISION OK WEST KOOTENAV DISTItlCT. AND LOCATED ON I'ORri'l'INK C'ltKKK, Allot T TWO MILES KltO.M Till-: NELSON AND l-'lll'T SHKI-l'Af-l* ItAII.W.W, NOI1TII OK AND NEAIt THE .1U llil.El* MINERAL CLAIM. Take notice that. I, A. S. Karwcll, acting ,-is agent, for i the Iflue Kyod Nellie .Mining Com pan*,*, Limited Liabil- 1 ity, free miner's certilicate No. i'-ti:'A, inlend. sixty ilny^ from Ihe dale hereof, to apply to the mining rucor'lcr fj,r n cerl.ilicalo of improvement-*, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of tho above claim. And further lake nolicc that action, under section .'!7, must be commenced before the issuance of such ccrtillcale of improvement!-. A. S. FA ItW'KLL. Dated this I lib day of October, !S!��. , |Nov./illi, 0S| Wagon Repairing Promptly Attended to by a First-Class Wheelwright Special attention given to all i^inds of repairing and custom worl^ from ou-tstde points SHOP: (Jor. Baker aqd Hall Sts. kelson. Domestic Steam Coal, $5.75 per ton Blacksmiths' Fuel $10.00 per ton I TI-;il.M8: Cash with order ! Ollice in O. W. West & Go's buildin] CHARLES ST. BARBE, Agent W|ake sure ij|at you are getting O. W. West & Go. have been appointed ag.nts for H. W. McNeill & Company, and are now ready to receive orders for the delivery of Anthracite Coal at Nelson or at any point in the Slocan. Terms are cash before delivery. TIIK OHKAI-KST I'LACK IK TIIK CITY FOR FRUITS OK AH, KINDS. MILLS & LOTT, Cor. Baker and Ward Sts., Nelson. C. W. WEST & CO Baker Street, Nelsor*, British Columbia. BAKER STREET Having secured the inure commodious and convenient. (|iiarlers of the above hotel, Air.*.. K. (.'. Clarke takes this opportunity of thanking her former patrons at the Clarke Hotel for their patronage in tho past, and for soliciting a continuance of the same. __.xjco:io_sr_____s,s ESTATE Al FINANCIAL A&ENT BAKER STREET, NELSON ~ i" ~ " Kootenay Lake Sawmill, G. O. Buchanan, Prop. Rates $2 per Day E. C. Clarke, Proprietor. hirst class lumber at right prices Also a full line of Sash, Doors, Turned Work, etc., constantly on hand. Yard: Foot Hendryx Street. JOHN RAE, Agent. ��� ,r~H JO n Notice of Application for Transfer of Liquor. License. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned. Alary _ Inlletto, will apply to the board nf licensing commissioner.-- of the City of Nelson at their next, sitting for the transfer of license to sell Ii(|iior by retail, at present held by her, to Abraham N. Johnson, and the undersigned Abraham N. .loliiisuu will applvto I he said hoard a! their next setting for the transfer of the license now held by Ihe said Mary Mallette from the premises known as tlie Kootenay hotel, ou -Vernon street, to the building on premises contained iu tlie east .J of lot !l block I, on linker street in Ihe said city. (.Signed) MARY M A I.LK TTK. A. M. JOHNSON. Daled at Nelson, H. ('.. October lith. ISIS. Notice of Application for Liquor License. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will apply lo the hoard of licensing commissioners of the city of Nelson at their next silting for a license to sell liquor tit. ' " ... . . -|1|(1((, I. on ,I|RM llMS I'll" |>l|i-.li-.|*injrof ������ilVtl-illf,' thtit i arc, HOW beyond the .summit pushing WOI k | retail at li.rholel. known as the Kootenay hotel, sit an! ", ... , I i , . ,J 1-/1/1 ' ._, . I . I on ihe west .! o! lot a. and the i-asi..'. of lot I. in block I. u his !i|.)|)_;ii-c.l iii the (olomst. fluting i lio ��� ������ n.*a(J. About l;*()() men tire emplo.N eil on j vurnon sireut. in the Cit.v of Nelson. ..,��������� |',.VV ......,tl1s I- is i,Mr ��/. v.i i- l,,n nor, SO \et\ tOIlK i- i i . i i ii* I UnU-ilut \e Nnii { C Oz-lo ln-r I lib IS'IS , ii- ��� " i ttMidintc the road on fowtrrd Atlin. where "���'���'-" ���'��� .n'.'-o". h. c. qciodci inn, imp, ! ��� tiKO si lieu tin* 1'ics- ol ihi-i pt'ovmet! wa pi'ijvc-nl.'.'d f'fi mi ili>. iisv.-i , cm t ci't'd, but which liin'iH'vi'i' yet, conn* to trial. A I'ew i\'_eks laid' the ii iciii -_._�����*. uf tlu^ legislature were the recent gold strikes were made. This fli-trii-t promises to rival tlie great Jvlt-ti- dike. Hut, as winter has set in there iu earnest, the deep snow and short days retard the railway construction very much. But the compttny litis 'provided I'or the immense travel over this route by .securing all the available horses to tlie number CHANCE OF PARTNERSHIP. Owners of bona, fide mineral claims, the surface of which belongs to this Company, wlio desire to ;it'(|iiii'c title to such surface, should make application for same at once, as the Company is now receiving .numerous applications foi* the purchase of land in tlie vicinity of Rossland, and '.along the line of tlie Nelson A* Fort Sheppard Railway, and it is .the desire of the Company to give- the owners'of bona lide mineral claims, the first privilege of purchasing the surface of such claim. " ,-' jNelson & Fort Sheppard Railway Co. STEAM TUG FOR SALE BELOW COST. When Requiring Thoroughly Seasoned Lumber Call and Inspect Stock. In .-lock Mooring, lining, mouldings, doors, and sashes, '"'very description of joinery, doors and windows made to order. OFFICE AND MILLS CORNER HALL and FRONT ST. NOT 1 <"���*������. I have this day .-old my interest in tlie llrm of Kurley t_ Simpson, Oroccr.-. and in the Grand (.Ynlral Hotel, to Frank .I. Donley. The as-cls and liabilities of the linn have been a.-suined by Hiiupsori _ Donlev, to whom nil debts must-bo paid. F.'.l. FAHLKX. Nelson. I!. ('.. November. ISflS. One tug about Iu feel, long by 7 feet beam, frame of natural oak crooks, double framed and nut together at the coast, planked and finished at, Kaslo with special Hi* timber. Has one water tube boiler of 20 II. I*., tested to iSI) pounds t..'. W. T.. fastened throughout with galvanized iron: two double reciprocating reversible engine.-i; one special *.Iai-.-h Mcum pump; one double tube metropolitan injector: lu-a-s side ligbis; brass .'-leering wheel, etc. Kitted and finished throughout and within in lirsl* (���Ififs order The Following Machinery at a Bargait*. One steel upright boiler with linings complete. 12 V. V., but lit.Ho iisT_I!X_SO_>"J' MALONF, & Th'KOlLDU*--. I'roprielor.-. I.s one of the best hotel-, in Toad -Mountain district, and is the headquarters or prospectors and minors. .J----: A.-itting of tlie supremo court for the trial of ci vi matters, will be he'd at Ihe court, linusc. Nelson, ou Monday, t.heath day of December. A. 1>. I��)S. K. T. II. SIMI'IvINa District Itegistrar. Dated this 2(!lh day of October. 1S0S. w '83 lys *c. _ ���as m 5 THE TRLBUJSTE: NELSON, 13. 0..'SATURDAY DECEMDEK ii, I89&. ifi Capital,a11 pald Rest, IkU up, $12,000,000 6,000,000 LORD STRATIICONA AND .IT. ROYAL, President 1-Ton. GKO. A. DRU_IMOND Vice-President K S. CLO USTON G eneral Manager KELSO-? _3_S.__-_NrC__C NT. W. Cor. Baiter and Stanley Streets. t___t_e _B__f__.__>r____z OF NELSON mtAXCIIKS IN LONDON (England), NEW YORK, CHICAGO and in the principal cities in Canada. liny and sell Sterling Exchange and Cable Transfers (���KANT. COMMKKCIAL AND TKAVKLLKIIS' CKKDIT8, available in any part of the world. [ilCAKTS ISSUKD COM.KCTIO.NS MADE; K-'C. SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. CUli l.KN'T RATIO OF INTERK-ST PAID REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO. Few visitors to'Italy ever make tlie excursion from L.imini to San Marino, the smallest independent republic* iu Europe, ..although it is one of the most curious places iu Italy, if not in Europe, for it has maintained itself as a republic ever since the earliest times of Christianity. San Marino, which lias tin area of thirty-three square miles, lies between tlie provinces of Forli and Pesaro-Urbino, and is thus entirely .surrounded by Italian domains. It is situated on part of the eastern spurs of the Apennines. Monte Titano, the central and culminating summit, has three peaks, each surmounted by it castle. Tho coat of arms of the republic is three feathers, which seem to have been suggested by these rocky summits with their Fortresses. The city of San Marino, the capital, has 1.(500 inhabitants out of the S.000 of tho republic. It is one ol' the most picturesque place.-- in the world, being perched on perpendicular cliffs, and when looking at them one can understand that tlie extraordinary mountains and rocks introduced into the backgrounds of the paintings of 1'erugino, Raphael and other umbriau painters were not nightmares, hut were really taken from nature. 13or- go di San Marino, at die foot of the cliffs, is the commercial centre of the republic, and here visitors find the money coined by it. From the castle there is a magnificent view of the Adriatic, and on a clear day even the coast of Dalmatia may be seen." Jt is said chat when the mail arrives at Borgo a bell is sounded, and those who live on the cliffs have to descend to get their mail it." they wish it, for owing to the primitive state oL' affairs the postman never ascends the rock. It may well be asked how it is that such an anomaly as the microscopic republic is allowed to exist in the heart of monarchy. The history of San Merino is an interesting one. The first authentic document dates from 8S5. The . inhabitants purchased territory .from neighboring princes and the commonwealth assisted Pope Pius II. (Aeneas Sylvius) against the Malatestas of Rimini, and as a reward received three little castles. On the annexation of Urbino to the states of the church in 1031, the independence, of San Marino was acknowledged. Iu 1797 Napoleon decided to preserve the small republic, and in'lSiii 'Napoleon III. saved it from the designs of* Pius IX. When Italy became unified, San Marino obtained excellent terms..... . ... It is governed by a great council of (>0 members, 20 nobles, 20 burgesses, 20 rural laud owners, named for life by the council itself. From this body is elected the council of twelve, which, with a legal adviser, decides all questions. Two captains- regent, elected every six months, represent the state, which has also its home secretary, its minister of foreign affairs, its chancellor of the exchequer, its army of 950 men, aud a regular budget. By treaty with Italy, San Marino receives, a certain proportion of the Italian customs revenue, but exacts no customs on her borders. She also agrees not to grow tobacco, but is allowed to import tobacco duty free. in order to avoid copyright difficulties, there is no printing press in San Marino. It is a curious fact that the commissary judge and the physician must both be strangers and they are paid out of the public purse. Such are a few of the curious facts connected with the smallest independent republic in.Europe, or the world for that matter. Compressed Air as a Motor. Compressed air as a motive power is running neek-and-neck with electricity. 10. P. Ford, a Pittsburgh mining engineer, read a pa.per before the Coal Operators' Association of America a few days ago which dealt very thoroughly wilh the advantages possessed by electricity tind compressed air, respectively. "Most'of our engineers," says Mr. .Ford, "frankly admit that'the electric motor is not an economical machine where the use of power is to be variable and intermittent, it being essentially ti constant speed machine. If we so block an electric motor that it cannot move a considerable current of electricity will run through with-, out doing any work, while a compressed air engine wastes no, air ...or energy in starting, for air only escapes with piston movement." Mr. Ford then proceeded to discuss the remarkable progress, made by compressed air : "The last few years have witnessed a very remarkable development of compressors and compressed air apparatus, due, no doubt.'quite largely, t.o the active competition of electricity in the many fields where the power is used. The great improvement made iu compressors, together with reduced cost, had led to their more extensive adoption and the enlargement of their uses. In all respects its progress has fully kept pace with that of electricity. The compressor, people are now called upon to ..design and construct machines to develop heat and produce cold,.to move air with a force only sufficient to press gold into a sensitive tooth, and to blow shot from a cannon. There is hardly a department of any large shop or manufactory that cannot, testify to the remarkable economies that this power, ingeniously applied to various machines, has established. There are not less than 200 distinct and established uses of compressed air���to 90 per cent, of which electricity is inapplicable, and in the remaining 10 per cent., constituting the field open more or less to the other agencies besides air and electricity, we find air generally has the advantage.'" It may be added that the cars on the Third Avenue railroad of New York are now run entirely bsr air, and, according to its president, " they have been easily handled, started, stopped and reversed," in fact, the system has many'good points and few drawbacks. CROSS-EXAMINED IN ' RHYME. Lawyer Mix*abeau L. Towns Widens the Field of His Poetic Gifts. Counsellor Mirabeau L. Towns, of Brooklyn, has frequently summed up iu rhyme, but it is not recorded that until last week he ever-cross-examined a witness in rhyme. The witness did not for some time recognize the-fact. Justice Frederick E. Ward, who presided, first noted the counsel's effort, and then the jurors discovered it; but the witness, intent upon his expert testimony, seemed for a long time totally unconscious that the questions rhymed with each other. This appeared to amuse the jurors still more. Having succeeded so well in the cross- examination, Mr. Towns determined to do his summing up in similar fashion, utilizing verbatim where possible the carts of the examination which the rhyming had been most effective. The appreciation his effort met with was manifested-after the conclusion of the case when .Justice Ward honored the poet with a request that the lines be dedicated to the court, tind the jurors each asked for a copy. The case was that of Bridget Langin, a young woman who was iujured at the JBrooklyn end of the bridge on the night of November i. 189-J, when she fell between a car and the station platform on leaving a,bridge train., ft was the third trial of the case, which has already been through the court of appeals. It is stated that the law in the case was Settled, and that the issue was really' merely a matter of the assessment of damages. The chief feature of the trial was the expert testimony of two opposing physicians, Dr. John G. Johnson, a witness for the plaintiff, and Dr. Thomas W. Topham, for the defence. Their testimony was flatly contradictory as to the injuries of the woman and their effect upon her. The jury made their choice, and awarded the plaintiff $10,000 damages. It was Dr. Topham's stethoscope that furnished Mr.Towns with the inspiration for his rhyming cross-examination. The doctor had been emphatic in his declarations that the woman was not injured, 'declarations-based upon an examination he had made of her, although he acknowledged that she had told him where she was in pain and had winced under his touch. But the fact was settled, he said, by the stethoscope, which showed that she was sound, and which could not go astray. "So you used the infallible stethoscope?" Mr. Towns asked.- The doctor repeated that he had. "And with that the woman couldn't cope . " The doctor held that the testimony couldn't prevail against it. He said that had there been any pleural trouble he could have heard it. "One can hear a mangled pleura rattler1" asked the lawyer. The physician said emphatically yes.* "Hear as plain as guns in battle? " the lawyer pursued, and the doctor assented. Perhaps he began to be suspicious, but iu answer to further questions as to what means he took to hear, he said that he applied his ear, and when Mr. Towns queried: "You put your ear upon her breast'." he nodded. The lawyer observed, "Surely a most delightful test," and the game was out. There had been, however, much more than has here been given of the' rhyming questioning, aud Mr. Towns embodied "the whole in his summing up to the testimony of the cross-examination. This is what he said to the jury.: Kxpert, Dr. Topham. what, says he? ** In consideration ofa modest fee I examined the plaintiff mo-it carefully : I found no sifjn of pleurisy. 1 saw no more than I wanted Lo sec. I laid my check upon her breast It is a most delightful test: Then, if your ears arc Ioiik. like mine. And vou'ha\*c studied medicine, A mn'nulod pleura's rale and rattle Vou'Il hear as plain as guns in battle. I looked her over carefully. I had lo earn lny expert's fee : I saw no more than I wanted to see. I'.'ach of her ribs, or I'm no scholar. Was u;tiod and sound as a ' daddy's dollar. So when the poor creature ventured to cope With mo. Dr. Topham. and my stethoscope. For her. vou will sec. there was little hope. She might scream in anguish (ill the cud of her breath��� _ ly opinion, once formed, would hold unto death. She fell through a hole clear up to her arm *. Vos, that's finite a fall, but, if did her no harm ; In fact, if she'd fallen from Mount Chiiiibora/.o I'd say she's unhurt, and continue to say so. Such a fall from such a height. I'm free to observe Might break all her ribs but ne'er injure a. nerve. Hut, 1 hope to he seized with tho dance of St. Vitus If I found on the piuinLill'intercostal neuritis. So you might.just, as well stop (|Ue.-tioniiig me. I saw no liiorc than I wanted to sec. Fur I'm Dr. Topiiiun, and I. made up my mind Before I saw Bridget just what 1 should Iind. Such course i.s ea.-.y, il assists diagnosis, And .-implltles matters for dnrfrirs'l-nivcs .nnd doses. ' IN TIERRA DEL FUEGO. Are now prepared to issue Drafts and Letters of Credit on Dawson City, Yukon District. The Oiia Indians of northern Tierra del Fuego are hunted like wild beasts. They are shot down without question when they are seen near the white establishments, and every big sheep station has its men ' who keep a lookout for them. No account is made of such as are killed. There is practically no law in Tierra del Fuego, aud although both' Argentina and Chile own portions of it, the greater part is as wild as was the United States at the time of Columbus. Before whites, came there were '.something like 3,000 of the Vaginitis Indians. They were described by sea captains as a' healthy, hardy, naked savage race. The l_ngli.li established a mission in south Tierra del Fuego, and persuaded them to put on clothes. Jt is claimed that with the wearing of the clothes came consumption and pneumonia, and this has reduced their number to less than 500. The head of the mission among these Indians is the Jlev. - Thom.as Bridges, who has-a big sheep farm in the south. Be has an.Indian settlement, where the people live iu houses, aud where they farm oh a small scale. ��� , One of the wonderful things about the Yaghans is their language. 'With "no means of writing they have a vocabulary of about 10,000 words. Mr. Bridges, who has made a Yaghan-English dictionary, gives this as the number. The Eskimo use, it is said, less than 10,000 words, and Shakespeare's vocabulary contained only 21,000 words. There are only 7.200 different words in the Bible, and in all of Milton's poems you will Iind less than IS,000 words. The Tierra del J. uego of the geographies and encyclopjodias is a very dreary land of snow and ice, of glaciers and rocky wastes. Such is not the case, however. The archipelago of Tierra del Fuego is made up of'hundreds of wooded islands, mostly mountainous, but a few of which have valleys and plains covered with rich grass, on "which sheep and cattle grow fat. The chief island is Tierra del Fuego proper. It is half as big as Ohio, and it now supports hundreds of thousands of sheep. The best lands of the Chilian part of it-have been taken up within the past few years under leii.se from the Chilian government. The Argentine portion is not so well settled, owing to the difficulty of access and the uncertainty as to boundary. Tierra del Fuego has been called the Klondike of South America. So far, however, there is no justification of the term. There is plenty of gold, but up to now no large quantities have been discovered, and that found is difficult to mine. The gold is all placer gold.- Some of.it is in the shape of nuggets as large as marrowfat pens, but the'greater part of it is in leaflets or scales. The most of the mines are in the southern part of Tierra del .Fuego proper and the islands adjacent. The gold is found on the shore, the clay containing it running down under the water and being exposed only atlow tide. The gold is covered'with shingle tind sand, which must be removed before bed rock is reached. At the Slogget Bay diggings, for instance, there is six fe-!fc of sand and gravel above the bed rock. This has to be shoveled off, and when the tide comes in the gold-bearing clay 'is again covered. Almost similar conditions exist at the washings on the island of Nayarino and elsewhere. There arr only a ���'-few- places where gold has been found in auy quantity, and these are nothing in com- parisou'with the' great gold deposits of the Western States and British Columbia. There are two or three companies who work sluice boxes with machinery, pumping the water from the sea aud gathering the gold dust with machinery on copper plates. The most of the mining, however is spasmodic and uncertain. The territory is extremely difficult to reach, and ,the prospecting is coupled with hardships and expenses in the way of getting supplies. ',, - Sir John,Won the Wager. John Ashtou tells the story of a quaint wager in his recently published " History of Gambling." Sir John Lade, for a trifliug wager, undertook to carry Lord Cholmoudeley on his back from -'opposite the Pavilion at Brighton twice round the Steine. Several ladies attended to be spectators of this extraordinary feat of the dwarf carrying the giant. When Jiis lordship declared himself ready, Sir John desired him to strip. " Strip ! " exclaimed the other; "why,-surely you promised to carry me in my clothes !" "33y no means," replied the baronet, "I engaged to carry you, but not an ounce of clothes, so, therefore, my lord, make ready, and let tis not disappoint the ladies." The peer paid up. Silver wai*e Trust. Trenton, New Jersey, reports that the articles of incorporation of the International Silver Company the silverware trust have been filed with the secretary of stiite. The com pan v has an authorized capital stock of $20,000,000, of which $'���>,- 000,000 is preferred stock, to receive 7 per cent cumulative dividends, and the remaining $1.1,000,000 to bo common stock. The company is authori/.ed to .manufacture and deal in silverware,��� plateware, pottery and glass. . K. tiger's Irish Baker. Anew danger to England-has'appeared under the souchcrn cross in South Africa. However the world may talk of-universal peace,- however fast may be the progress, of-an offensive and defensive alliance between Great Britain and the Anglo-Saxon race in other hinds, it is different in South Africa. When the Jameson raid .struck the empire of Oom 'Paul lvruger there was a quiet 'Irishman there pursuing the vocation of a bilker. Ilu war, an excellent bread man, though he gave no outside sign of-being anything else. But when tlie war-Morns were heard this son of Erin, Peter Gillingham by liame, threw off his obscurity like a worn-out garment, called on his brother Irishmen in that region, raised a company to light the men under the cross of St. George, and performed services so brilliant -hat the son! of Oom Paul warmed toward him, and he began more and more to lean upon him for counsel, until now Oom Peter is the real-power behind O'.-in J. aul. Thu-. while i he Jt'ish Kitchener has been, subduing all north Africa in the interests of Her.Majesty, this other Irishman. Gillingham, has been sowing seeds of distrust and rebellion against her in South Africa. ' But the precedents are slightly against Gillingham. The Butler that pressed the wine into the' enp for Pharaoh was exalted, but of the baker that had the baskets on his head which he had filled with thanksgiving dinner, it went tough with him, iind when the next raid comes and Oom Peter is forced to make an accounting to Cecil Rhodes, things may be mightily mixed with him, for things are going to be even as theywere ot old���-the nation that has the corn in tlie granaries is bound to make' the others pay tribute. Peter may be in clover now, but he is not going to arrest for so long as twenty minutes the conquest of Africa or the stretching of a railroad from Egypt to the southern cape. Imperial Postage. Mr. Mulock does not believe in allowing art to conflict with patriotism. The designs for the new Imperial penny, postage stamp which were submitted to him by the artists did not -satisfy his Imperial idea. "Then he sat down," says the Globe's Ottawa correspondent, "pencil in hand,' and roughly sketched on paper what he wanted, after which he passed it over to on artist, that the lines might be skillfully and symmetrically drawn. The result is a design strikingly original, artistic to the eye, and flattering to the pride of the people of British sentiment." The feature of the stamp is a neatly executed map'of the world, in miniature, distinguishing the British Empire from the possessions of all other powers. The British possessions are printed in red, aud those stand out in bold relief against a dark background. Surmounting this instructive picture is a. representation of the crown, underneath which is a buuch of oak and maple leaves, symbolizing the union of England and Canada. Had the Gold Fever. In western Australia in 1SSS the Malliua goldlields were discovered by a lad in this wise. The boy, iu picking up a stone to throw at it crow, observed a speck of speck of gold in it and reported it to the nearest resident magistrate. This gentleman was so excited at the news that he telegraphed to the then governor and (stated that a lad picked up,a stone to throw at a crow, omitting to say, in his excitement, "iind saw gold iu it." So the governor wired these words: "What happened to the crow?" Made a Mason in Bed. In Richmond, Virginia, the Lie v. Dr. Moses D. J Logo, D.D., has been initiated into the Masonic order while confined to his bed with a broken rib.' "Dove Lodge" marched to his re-idence, headed by the Grand Master of Virginia, Judge Jt. T. W. J Juke, jr., aud the degrees were conferred while Dr. iloge sat up in his bed. He made,an address after the ceremony to the 'masons gathered in the room. It is the first time the honor of conferring masonry in., this manner ever,took place in Virginia. The Governor-General's Titles. Lord Minto title's are not quite so numerous as Lord Aberdeen's,but they figure quite lengthily enough. Here they are : His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir Gilbert.���'John Elliott Murray-Kynnyn- mond, Earl of Minto and .Viscount Mel- gund of Melgund, County of 'Forfar, in ���Peerage of the United Kingdom, Baron Minto of Minto, County of Roxburgh,--in the Peerage of Great Britain, Baronet of Nova Scotia, Governor-General of Canada. A Payinp Swindle. One Charles Mitchell has been arrested in London, England,'for blackmailing on a large scale. -By advertising a .patent preparation.he induced some S00O women to write to him. To each of these he sent a circular demanding $10 on the threat of exposure and arrest. Mitchell had already amassed a fortune when caught. ���Spokane "Falls & Northern, . Nelson & Fort Sheppard, Red Mountain Railways. Tlie only all rail route without change of cars between Nelson ai,d Rossland, arid Spokan^ arid Rosslat]d. Leave 0:20 n. in ... l'J.O.-ia. in . S::iOfi. m..._ Tho train tlml DAILY TRAINS. '��� ��� ��� Arrive N KL.SON -">::'.J I-.-". UO.S SLAND !-':-'> p. m. ...... .SI-OKANK 3:10 1>. m. ���aves Nelson ul, li-L'on. in., makes close connections at Spokane with trains fur all 1'ncilic ('nasi points. ,/-,,' PasKcnKcrs for ICc.-t.Mo Itiver and Boundary Creek con riect at Marcus with slatfe daily. (.'. ti. DIXON. O. IV .**c T. A. _sro_?ic__ Is- Tiii.; M \tti-*i. (>��������� 'nu-: (.'oi.oir.iA and Kootknav ' Stka.m N'avii.-atio.v (.'omi'anv, l,i.Mrri-:i) I_.\himtv. Notice i- hcri-bv given that tho criMlitors nf thu above- named .loiiitiiiuv Wi* hereby required on or before the 71 ii dav of 1'oee'mber. ISIl*'. to send their names and ,-ifl- iln.\--i.s, and thu part ienluiv of their dflits or claims and the names and addresses of their solicitor.-, if any. to li. M. Kellers. I', q.. linril-of Montreal Chambers, Victoria. [���.('.. the liquidator of the -aid company, and that at the expira-iion of tins -aid time the liquidator will proceed to distribute the a-sels of theconipanv or any part thereof amongst the parties --milled lla-relo. having re- Kard onlv to llio claims of which the liquidator has then notice- and the liquidator shall not lie liable for the assets or anv part, thereof as distributed toany person ot whose claim he has iml had notice at the time of dis- tributiic- the assets or a part thereof as the case may be. 1'tiled aL Victoria. Ii. ('., tliis!.'7lh day of October, A.It. Mciqill.I.II'S. WOOTTON _��� HAIiNAK!'. Hank of Monl real Chambers. Victoria, II. (..'.. Solicitors I'or Ihe said Liquidator. ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP TICKETS. 'i'o and from Kumpean points via Canadian and American lines. Applv for sailing dales, rales. tie".ct..s, and full information to anv Canadian I'acilic.railway agent or CKt). S. HF.FM, ('. I'. II. Agent. Nelson. WILLIAM S'l'l'I'T, Coner.'il H. S. Agent, Winnipeg. IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA. Capital Paid-up, $2,000,000 Rest, $1,200,000 DIRECTORS: , ��� , . H. S. HOWLAND, President, T. R. MERRITT,' Vice-President, St. Catharines, WILLIAM JIAMSAY. KOBKUT JAKKIIAV. UL'CII KVAN. T. SI"nH-'KLANl) stavnki:. KI.IAS 1 ���<>(������������ I ;���-:. _-_:____-__��������� office,, o:o__,o_Nr_?o. D." R. WILKIE, General Manager. E. HAY, Inspector. KSSKX KICK'.* I*.-* O A WV INT'I'-RSOLl .ST. CATHARINES; ST. THOMAS ��� WELLANI) WOODSTOCK . . BRANCHES IN ONTARIO: NIAOAIIA .ALL:-* ��� TORONTO, :*l Wellington .St. K. \tvP\$tTl\GiK1': u Alaska Commercial Company payable at St. Michaeis. Alaska and Dawson City. I)I!AI-T.S SOI.il. available al all points in Canada, Culled Stales and Europe. AliKNTS IN GREAT HRI'I'AlN ��� Lloyd'.-, Hank. Ltd.. 72 Lombard Si., London, with whom.money may be deposited for transfer by letter or cable io any of the above branches. MONEY ORDER*-* K-ned payable at anv Hank in Canada, liiito". -L'nder sli.i, .v* .10 to .-*_ I. Hi,-; ,-;-*ii to SKI, llV: -?:',li lo AVI. He. , J. M. LAY, Manager. Just received a consignment of Harris home made tweeds from Talbot Harris, Scotland. The supply is limited, so call early and examine this stock HAKER .STREET NELSON D BRITISH COLUMBIA GOLOFIEL HEAD OFFICE, LONDON, ENGLAND. in All communications relating to British Columbia business to be addressed to P. O. Drawer 505, Nelson, British Columbia d. RODERICK ROBERTSON, General Manager; S. S FOWLER, E.M., Mining Engineer I NELSON, B.C. LICENSE AUTHORIZING AN EXTRA-PKOVIN- CIAL COMPANY TO CARRY ON BUSINESS. 'CO.MI'AXIIvS' AUT, 1K'7." Ca.v.M'a: I I'l.OVI.VCl'* OK Ritrnsii Cor.ir.MtiiA. / * ' ..>. 11-J. Till**! IS TO CERTIFY that, the "Yinii* Cold Mines. Limited." is imthorinL-d mul licensed to carry on business within tho I'rovince of Brilis'iColumbia, and co carry out, or cll'eeL all or any ot the objects licreinafler .sot forth to which ihe legislative nut horny of tlio li-gislu- tiire of liricisih Columbia extends. The head ollice of the Company is .siluiile in England. The amount, of Ihe capital of tlie Company i* tiuO.OtW, divided into ���ifKl.liOU t-linre-, of one pound each. Tlie, head ollice of the Company in lhi-j Province i- situate in Nelson, and ,lame> Kntloriek l':cd in any foreign country or place, or in any colony or elsewhere: (p.l To do all such other thini's as arc incidental or conducive to t In- attainment of tlie above objects. Given under my hand and seal of oflice at. Victoria. I'rovince of Briti-h < lolumbia. Iliisat.li day of < li.-tol.ier. om- ihoiisand eight, hundred anv nmctv-eight. [l..s.| S. Y. WOOTTON', llcgisi rar of Joint Hlock Companies. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION. The pari ui-r-bin heretofore exi-ting between the undersigned at the City of N'i-Isoii. in '.iie province of Itriii-li Columbi.i, a.- !m;it builders, under lb" lin;i name and style of *' Elliott tV I l.ilc." i- hereby di.���ol ved a- from the day of the date hereof b.\ mutual consent. Ailiiinnc.Ns owing in ihe .-aid partnership are lobe paid In George W. Hale, who iis-umes and will pay all liabilities of the said linn. Witness: ||. C. ELLIOTT. A. M. John.s._ . Solicitor, GI-.'O. W, MALE. Nelson. Hrit i.-h Columbia. li.-ilcd at \'c!-on. (���*,. ('., thislMh dav r.f November. I-;'.>* Between Duia-tii and Bukkalo via tlie inag'nific.iu passcnycr steamships "North West" and " North Land." Touching en route: "Thi-: Soo," Mackinac Island, 1)i*> ,.-,'troit, and Clkviclano. Connecting" at Buffalo for New York and Boston. Also at lake ports for all points Kast and South. Two cltiily Great Northern trains ( Kasleiii Railway of Minnesota), from Si. Paul -mri Minneapolis connect, with stwnners at Ihiluth. Before.dei-idiiiLC oa. m NKLSON. C.-.M p. ir. Makes connection at I'iinl Uuy with steamer I.okaiu e in hoth direct ion-. .learners, on ihcir rc-pi'divc routes call at principal landinj,rs in hoth direction.-, and at other points when signalled. A-certain Kates and full information by addressii ���_- in-iirc'sl local am-nt or C. S. BEER, City TicKet Agt., ��� N , B c J. HAMILTON, /\gent ,' Neison' *-" ��*��� W. F. ANl'KitsdV. TrnvHiiiK I'nsscimcr Aj-vnt. Nelson. K. .1. Covi.i:. Mi-'i I'assciister Ak'cnl. Vancouver. Notice of Application , ("or Certificate of Improvements. m.mi'.i'.i: two mim:i;ai. it.viM.-i'1't'.vi'K in -iii t-: ni;i.son MIXINIi lilVISlnv or HIST I.I10T!*.\\\V IMSTIl.'.CT. AM' i.ocviki) Dpi'i-siri' iiikiv-mni: mii.k ciskkk, *i\v<> AM. A IIM.f .Ml I.MS HISTANT l-'KOM ICOOTKNA V AM) l OI.fMUIA l:\IIAV W. KiiKMKIM.V TIIK J HUSKY UI.V Ola UN I'. Take in.tie.- thai I. ( n-oiKe It (I. (I'Mri.-cnlL for myself and as .-I--, nt for Kdmtiii'l C Traves. free miner's certilicate No H-'iIa. and Ccnr-*c II. II. Sy 111 (> 1111 -. free miner's i-ertilicnte No. ���JI7"A. iy<-<- miner's certitieate No 2~5I\. intend sixty da>- fi-otn the dale hereof, to apply In the ii linin'-; re cord it for a cert i Urate of iiop'oviiucnt-. I'or the purpose of ohiainine; a crown Kraut uf tlie above claim. And further take notice thai act ion. under section .'(7. nuts', he commenced before tin- i-siiancc of such ccrtilli.-ute of improvements. (iKOUGK It. 0. OMH1SCOLL. Dated this 'I'lth day of Novemher. IS!'.-*. |N'ov. '_ ith* ' 'I W7^.T_^^ ���^TTT K ��� iv -.1 ,(��� IIL-11J*-T-' r-TTT5TTa J""*' l**'"-*,*-**-7,*rv. *-*--*i-**-_ THE 'TRIBUNE: NELSON B.C. SATURDAY, DEOETW BET! 3, 1898. Those who ,desire lo keep warm during the winter nights should remember that we wili offer great bargains this week in woolen blankets. Vou can have voiir choice from the best Saxony and Canadian makes. Our offer of. 25 ' per cent off Ladies' Jackets and Fur Mantles still holds good, season's si vies as we' desire to clear the stock off. The discount is on the In catering to the requirements of the people of Nelson in the matter of their Thanksgiving Dinners, but that is nothing to the satisfaction we can give with our stock of , ��-��- Make sure that you are getting new fruits for your Christmas Dinners by purchasing from ' THE Aberdeen Block' Batcei- 3 tree. NELSON �� 0 LOCAIi NEWS AND GOSSIP. P. Burns nnd "Blake" Wilson this week completed the ���jnr.lm.s-oi'aj! interest in the California, paying over the sum of $1 ...000, which makes $1:1,000 in all that the interest has cost them, aside from tlie amount TTr,��� , .. , , ,-��� ji _ _��� -m i spent upon the property iu development. Will buy the lot on the northeast corner of Baker The Calitorniait located on Silver monn- -i r i ��� o_ __ r\- *-/_** j _\ /_ _- _. mi - tain, near New Denver. Close upon $7,000 ailCi JOSephllie StPeetS. SlZ6 50 DV 120 iGet. TllIS ha-' been spent in development, resulti'i*-? ��� -i , ��� iii ___>_.*���._. ii i i in somethiiig like iioo feet ot work. Dm-;lot is one block east or the lot recently purchased Lmpped'y^ the Bank of Montreal at $300 a front foot. wiiuam mcdohkhm, engineer on ..he Apply to Ward Bros., Real Estate brokers, Nelson. steamer Alberta, received word tins week _ _ <���/ of the accidental shooting of his brother in Hamilton. Thomas _IcDoutrtill, the victim of the accident, was duck-shooting on Thanks-riviiij*- day, and in pnlliner a shotgun out of a rowboat received a charge of shot in his side. He died in _0 minutes. The deceased was a machine operator in the office of the llnmilton Herald. .J. A. Mara and F. H. Barnard are on their way to England for the purpose of floating some transportation schemes in connection with the mining industry iu the Canadian Northwest. 11. Harris, assayer at the Mall Alines smelter, was m-n-riod in Vancouver on Saturday to Miss I'na Still. Air. aud Airs. Harris arrived in Nelson this week. The members of the Nelson St. Andrew's and Caledonian Society gave a very enjoyable banquet in the Queen's hotel Wednesday evening. There were about eighty members ot the society and their, friends around the table, and the fun was kept going until well on the following morning. The arrangements made by Airs. E. C. Clarke of the Queens were most complete. Walter Askew lias severed his connection with the civil service of the provin- trroom: Air. and Airs. Groves were in Nelson this week. They will make their home in Boundary. The regular monthly meeting of the Hospital Ladies' Aid Society will be held in the Presbyterian schoolroom on Alonday afternoon at-S o'clock. The annual collection iu aid of the Kootenay Lake General Hospital will be taken up in all the churches in the city tomorrow. J. (j. and "W. 0. AIcLean have taken a.cut 21 miles of the work on the Nelson Ac Bedlingtun railway. McBeath & Peters also have a piece of the work. The subcontractors will get to work at once and the work will be rushed. George A. Higelow will leave for Cres- ton next week, where his sawmill is located. Creston promises to be a very busy point during the construction of the Nelson <*_ Bedlington railway. Itisabout 20 miles above Kuskonook, and is known as the eighth siding. It will be the contractors' headquarters during construction. George announces that so soon as he has a few trees cleared out he will pio- ceerl at once with the organization oi'a pioneer .--ociety in order that his claims cial government, and will for the future ��� for membership may not be again over devote himself to the life insurance busi nes--. having accepted the local agency for the New York Life Insurance Company. W. J'. Robinson, who for several years past has acted as deputy to sheriff Redgrave, of Donald, this week received notice uf his appointment as sheriff for the electoral divi*.ionsol Nelson, Slocan, Rossland and Southeast Kootenay. Heretofore sheriff Robinson, as deputy, has covered the work in this territory and divided ihe fees with the sheriff at Donald. This was all right for the man at '���Donald, but put/the working officer practically upon half pay. The change niade this week should have been made years ago. The following arrangements have been made for. .the ��� opening of St. Saviour's church. On Wednesday, .December l-lfcli, i ���.'Archdeacon Pentreath will preach at the j morning service, and Canon Perine, of I Spokane, in tiie -evening.' On Thursday | ��� ���veiling. December .loth, the Rev. li. j (r\in. <>f Ilns<.|and. will preach, and on ' I'Yiday evening, t he Kit h,. tins Rev. C. F. Vitii"', uf New Denver. On Sunday, the jNt.h. the vi.n.r. and archdeacon I'entreal h will lake the 'morning and evening service- ii'-pert i vely. At all the services there will be special music The r.riii--h Columbia 'Goldfields i** working a large force of. men on the Gulden Weige property tit the junction of the main and second north fork of Lemon creek, li i- a gold- proposition, and a c,ro-*scui, tunnel ISO (Vet long has cut the ledimai 17-1 feel ih-pili. proving it to be IM feel. wide, with 10 fee'., oi' quartz, assaying as li:_h a--$70 in gold. and averaging $17 or $hS ad ii*--. the ledge. The company has abott' 17 men at work. A sawmill is running full blast. For the convenience of thn.-e who de-ire to make Christinas presents and don't know wli-ii to -I.loci .Jacob Dover has this sea-otl lit i'i '������! l I'd a de.-ei i p! i \'(-* 'en I a logne of t he Vood.-s whieli he has --ecured for the holiday trade. F. W. Gioves -nf Ka-lo was united in 'marriage t�� A!is- Eva.Jvmie- of Ros.-la.iid on W-*u*ll'-'Iny i-veni:i<,' at St. George's church. Re- ceremony, i.- looked as they were in this city. i Ou Thursday John A. Turner, secretary I of the South Kootenay Board of Trade, j received notice of his appointment as gold commissioner for tlie Nelson mining . division. Of till the persons mentioned in ! connection with the vacancy there were I none who gave more promise of satisfac- j torily filling the position than the appointee. He should make a good ollicer. .'Postmaster' Gilker will mark the new year by enlarging the postoffice, utilizing the whole of the present store for '-postal purposes and adding a large number of boxes. Al. J. Barrett, foreman at the Hall JMti.os smelter, is recovering from a three weeks' attack of sciatica. He was able to be about on Thursday. ~A special general meeting of the South Kootenay Board of Trade will beheld on Alonday evening at 7:o0 o'clock, to discuss matters in connection with the Ainsworth disaster. A meeting of those interested in curling will'be held in the board of trade rooms j on Alonday 'evening at S o'clock, for the j purpose of organizing for the winter. j So far there are'between '>t_0 and 700 j names upon the city voter.*' list. The j time for the making of declarations to j qualify as householders expired-on De- ! (���ember 1st. The list must be. revised and :' corrected not later- than the 10th instant. . Don't Bother about Canada. As to the prospects of a, successful isnte from the negotiations between Canada aud the t-nited States, the ("lobe correspondent stiys the people of Canada can hardly understand the feeling of absolute indifference toward Canadian affairs that one continually encounters 1 r, may bethought that this indifference i.s the result of tin* present stress and strain on public men following upon the war, and that with the sett lenient of the terms of j peace the Canadian negotiations will be- j come a matter of general interest. Noth- j life the dominion of Canada does not exi.st. Canada may be the next door neighbor, but it is not on his visiting list. It would be agreeable to say that Americans take an interest in our affairs and know something of our development, bur. if a small official circle wlin-e duty it is to look into Canadian questions be excepted, the governing class at Washington knows nothing a.bout us, anil does not want to know. Liberals Don't Want McCarthy. Leighton McCarthy is not altogether acceptable in North Simcoe. Although his surname is tlie same as his great uncle's he is not the same, you know. The executive of the Liberal Association tried to give the young man a clear field, the understanding being that D'Alton McCarthy's nephew would vote with the government at Ottawa. But the majority of the local Liberal association would have none of him, and at Stayner last week they met and elected a candidate, in spite of a dissuasive speech from.Tamps Mi-Mullen, Af.P.P. The candidate is .lames Martin, merchant, of New Lowell. Dividends of Canadian Banks. Thursday was dividend day at many of the Canadian banks, when the half-yearly dividends are paid. On that day the fortunate stockholders were paid over $],- 000,000 in dividends, to carry them over the Christmas season. The Bank of Montreal heads the list, dividing $000,000 among its shareholders. The Imperial Bank of Canada divided $.0,000. to fit your feet at to suit your pocket BOOT AND SHOE HOUSE AllKliDKKN' HtOCK. 1'AKKK .STItKKT. CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF NELSON. TENDERS FOR ICE PRIVILEGE. COAL COAL GOAI Coal beaters suitable for home, office op hotel use. A new line' of cooking stoves and ranges 'to burn either eoal op wood. Also a complete stoek of fancy heaters for wood only. We carry the best. Come in and examine our goods and get our prices. We handle Anthracite eoah ��� __SS _*��__��. NELSON, B. C KASLO, B. C. SANDON, B. C. / y --���y .::-.V- .* ,-- S>--&2%fe*r This week we have opened out a new consignment of Toilet Soap, which includes all the favorite brands, and offers better values than can be secured elsewhere. �� Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Baker Street, Nelson ._*** A j>K# rp_E_E_E]_R_E ~W~_A_S ___k_ TIME v .-* >-'��� AND When tli<* liiii-i.'is were used foi* ���.���uiiveving fond (,<> i.lic iMiisidorcd good form. Now that the sea win of hmne will he iiiTi-ssary (-> haw an extra supplv of inoiiili. hul al jii'fscni il i.s scarcely '���nlcrtiiimni'iit has fairlv sol, in. it CTTTXJ_Ei]_R-y .*" i'S his (li'parlinf'ni or our hardware husincss is t'nlly iMiuipperl aiifl we line ot' Carviii1;' Sols. .Steels, I vory. Celluloid and Mono !ian Sil\-ei- Platerl Knivijs, l-'orlcs .and Spoons. Kte. show iiil;' a ���.���.ry liaiiftsome T.dile Knives and Forks. '������Vfi-UYTIIINl. IN 'I'lIK IIAIIDU'AI.I-: LINK ��-=l F'S 61 tiu Coi-dov.-i .StruuL, Viiiii'OIIVl-l*. Uiik' which may be ocen.--ii.iMed iii conneclion wilh Jie removal of iee from oil' ihe said reservoir. .ruled lenders marked outside "Tender fei* ice privi- letfe," are required to lie .-.nl. in nol later than .Monday, the .'illi December next, al, :i o'clock p. in. The eit.y eoimcil do not hind themseh-cs lo accept l.he lowest orany lender which may be sent. in. Ilv order. .1. IC. ST1.ACIIAN. City Clerk. Nelson. B, C. November _S|li. 18(18, seem mysterious to the ordinary man, but when it comes to knowing where the best shoes are to be had for the least money, the practical side'of her nature stands out prominently. We haven't advertised a barg'ain sale, but it has become known that we are selling'a particularly Fine lot of ladies' shoes at very- moderate prices. That is enough to bring- those 'who like g"ood stylish footwear. We g*ive a few pickings from the laryc and varied stock'. THERE WILL BE AN ECONOMY THIS WINTER IN THE USE OF COAL AS FUEL THOSE WHO DECIDE TO USE COAL SHOULD SEE THE LATEST DESIGNS IN COAL BURNING STOVES THIS CAN BE DONE BY CALLING -��� AT THE LAWRENCE HARDWARE COMPANY'S NEW STORE S^-Si^^H^^-iS.-il^iE^SS-S* 'i_.-.-_*S_*^^^��f_==-_ -*"-*-���-_ ^a-*".***-^ Ki*"1" _- " NELSON SHOE STOR iaker otreei ielson ���; } ��� 'A I \ .*��� J',