;\*# MAR 'S'']&__ ';i:1>'/ Nvfy? - " "fifch'Jl I Provincial I.ibrnvy Presents an Unequalled Field for the Developer of Mineral Claims showing Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, and Zinc, as Well as for the Investor in Producing Mines. SECOND YEAR.- NO. I :>. KELSON, B.RLTI.SH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, MARCH. 3, 1894. 'l9.Hi*, hii^' RAILROADS Already Completed or Under .Construction arid Steamboat Lines-in Operation Make the * Mining Camps and Towns in Kootenay Accessible the Year Round. , ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS' WORTH OF PROPERTY DESTROYED BY FIRE IN THE CITY OF KASLO. More Than One-Half the Business Housoh of the Town Wiped Out by a Fire Started in the Basement of a Hotel-���A List ot tho Losses���Nearly AU Those Burned Out Will Resume Business. If tlie engineer who platted this town ol Ivaslo could have forseon tlie devastation caused by the lire (���link broke out last: Sunday morning, he would never have attached his name ton map that showed blocks (i()() feet long separated by (iO-foot. streets. Had Kaslo's streets been a hundred ieet wide and its blocks AGO I'eol; long, many of the men who lost their all by Sunday's lire would not today be feeling as if the fates were against them. Front sl reet in Kaslo, is but sixty feet wide, ami the block between Third and Fourth streets is 000 feet long. On both sides of the street were almost solid rows or ranges of one, two, and three-story frame buildings, all as combustible as dry lumber stood on end could be. Few of tlie buildings were plastered and only one tin- roofed. When the lire oiic-e got under headway it could only be .stopped by the blowing up or tearing down of buildings, and this' wa.s either objected to or was not commenced until too late to be effective. The (ire broke out in the basement of the building known a.s the Noble Five hotel, a barn-like structure that stood on tlie north side of the street, about midway between Third and Fourth streets. By the time the alarm was given, at I :u() a. in., (lames were leaping through the rear doors and windows clear to the roof. The iiremen were on the ground promptly, but they could do little more than act individually in saving the effects of the occupants of buildings adjoining the one on fire. Within fifteen minutes the cornice of the three-story "Baldwin hotel building across the street was aflame, and then the ��� people began to realize the situation. * J_veryeffortwas-nia.de to remove stocks of goods, fixtures and personal effects, and it must be said that the willingness, to lend a helping baud was general. Several attempts were made to blowup burning buildings with dynamite, but the only effort that was a success and which resulted'in saving other property, was the one made on the Byers Hardware Company's store. When that building- was beyond saving lot) pounds of dynamite ���was-placed under it and -'fired, and when the air was cleared of (lying debris, all that remained of the -"best-appointed store'in Kaslo was kindling wood. The blowing up of the Byers building saved the row of buildings -opposite from the Leland hotel to the corner of Third street. The loss will approximate $100,000, as the amount of insurance was small. No lives were lost, and only two men received injuries, although several took great chauces in their attempts to save the Leland hotel. The following is a fairly accurate list of the losses and the insurance: XOI'TII Sim* <>'������ STHKKT. Value I'itlace hotel, JVInhonev & Luinlbcrg��� I-iiililing- ���*. (i,lll)0 -FurniLtii-u, .stock, and lixtui-s, saved in damaged condition. . Victoria Hotel, 1). IJ. Kane��� ittiilrtiiiK 'Furniture, stock, and fixtures, valued at ��1,200, belonged lo T. Trenory & Co., wlio had no insurance. Oflice huilding, I). I'. Kane- Building Occupied hy Di*. lingers, who lost efl'ecls viilued ul S_(J(I, on wnich there was no insurance. Gold liar restaurant, .1. M. JJurko estate- Building The restaurant was run hy Nicholson & Koi-liii. whose loss is $.'. HI. Montana hotel huilding, A. \V. Wright��� Huilding A. W. Wright had goods to the value of S*!(KX) stored in the basement, on which there was no insurance. The lirst and second floors were occupied by Ileal lie St ���Saunders as a saloon and furnished rooms. Their loss will foot up $700. Oflice building, John McDonald������ Huilding The occupants were a shoemaker aud a barber, who both sutlered small losses. The Chicago saloon, II. K. Morebeck��� Huilding Occupied hy S. Adler, whose loss i.s about, ��12i)0 on stock and fixtures. Noble Five hotel, l_inge & Freeman ��� Huilding Occupied by the Hon Ton restaurant and Club saloon. l.ange & Freeman ran the restaurant, and tlieir loss is estimated at SHOO. Carson & Mack ran the saloon and they lose Slaw. Dardanelles hotel, Goldstein & Flaherity- Huilding Furniture, fixtures, and stock Oflice building, Henley & Ii.iuliurri.soii ��� Huilding Occupied '>.' W, I'. Robinson, whose loss is merely nominal. Buchanan Hlock, Buchanan & Dawes��� Huilding ��� Great Northern hotel. Mrs. Hannah Kwiii ��� Huilding The hotel was run hy William Itoberls. whose loss on furniture, fixtures, and stock will aggregate St'il Ml. .Stone building. O. T. Stone-- Building The building was occupied by (I. T. Stone and .lohn Keen as oilices, and (he Inl tor's ' loss is estimated at SHOO. Jinlfour Trading Company':* building. .1. Alinoiir��� Building The loss on goods will aggregate i'A.ttnO; no insurance. '���Oflice building, l.cndruiu and Byers- Building ... Occupied by Miss Hell as a millinery store and Iiy the collector of customs. Myers Hardware Conipany building ��� Huilding Slock : l.o'io .ai.ooo * _,(KK) (1,1)00 s :i.ooo $ i.mx) .'too l.O(K) None Ximu I..VX) None -'.(HKI None ���_,.V)() l.;")00 1,100 1,000 None SOC'I'll sllii: ()!������ STItKKT. Grand (lentnil hotel, A. Sc .1. Fletcher��� Huilding Furniture, fixtures, and slock saved, although damaged. Ollice building, Andrew .lardlne--- Huilding Meal Marknl, huilding, Wilson & Perdue-- Huilding Slock iml.daiiuigcd except hy loss In removal. Klnnce s barber simp was in this building. Slalbcrg building Huilding Occupied hy S. .1. Ilender.-on as a clothing .-lore, whose loss will fool up SI7S0: no insurance. Store huilding. A. Carney��� Huilding '. Occupied by Cress & llarrop ns a cigar and fruit store, whose loss was SSHI. Store building, T. .1. I.endriiin -��� Huilding Occupied by Slocan Drug Store and Wil- Hiiuistju \* .M<:l,ui>d's cigar store. The fanner's loss is est (muled nt Sl'iitl iiml the In Iter's ii |, ��.�����)(); neit her insured. II. (!i"gcrich's store Huilding The lo-s (in stuck is estimated at $'A'M), on which there wa.s insurance, hut. how much could not be ascertained. Haldwin hotel, I). McMillan ��� Huilding . v The huilding was occupied by Thompson it Marlin'ssaloon. Mrs. Gunn'sfurnished rooms, and the Home restaurant, whose aggregate loss is Sl 100; no insurance. Cusur d'Alone hotel, John F. Ward��� Huilding Furnillire, fixtures, and stock Hank building, J. M. Hurko estate��� Huilding Occupied by .1. L. Kclallaok and lhe Washington Mining Conipany, whose losses were conlined to fixtures and personal elleets. Store building, F. A. Woods��� Huilding : Store building, J. G. I'eppard- ��� Building Iceland hotel, Devlin & McKay��� The building was damaged to the extent of sfflOO. The Kane building. D. P. Kane��� This building was occupied by Burns, Melnne.s .t Co. as a meat urirkcl. The damage to the building and loss to the occupants will not exceed $-00. Green Brothers store��� The loss is principally conlined to the removal of goodsand will not exceed "jUnOl'. 11'. A. Pot t or s grocery Hi ore��� The loss is conlined to the removal of goods, and is estimated at, $-')(>. J. W. Liver's drug store-- Damaged to the amount of S500 hy the removal of goods. J. B. Wilson's store- Damaged by loss in removal of goods to the extent of Sl.ioO: covered hy insurance. Archie Fletcher's dwelling��� Damaged hy being lorn down and removal of furniture. UKS17.M1.V11 BL'SINKSS. Within forty-eight hours fully half those 'burned out had secured quarters in which to resume business, and within a week all, with -.few-'exceptions,-will-be doing business again. So far, only H. Giegerich and Goldstein and Flaherity have commenced' to rebuild: the former on the site of his old store, and the latter on ti lot near Garland's dry goods store. There was no actual suffering from lack of either food or abiding- places, as the residence portion af the town was un- 'A.ftOO ���.',000 1.500 1.000 1,001) None ft" ft !I00 None None AGITATION HAS BORN GOOD FRUIT. A Wagon Road, a Wharf, and. a Money-Order Postofiice for the Benefit of New Denver. Agitation in New Denver has as usual borne good fruit. Tlie petition for a money-order office has resulted in a recommendation from Victoria to Ottawa that such an office should be established here. The following replies have been received from the government and land department with regard to the wharf and the condition of the wagon road between New Denver and Three Forks: I). B. Boci.i-:, Ks(* , New Denver. B. C���Dear Sir: I have your two letters of the 10th instant, enclosing peli- I ion and resolutions in regard to the proposed wliarf at New Denver and certain road repairs whicli are rcn,uircd | between New Denver and Three Forks. I am alout lo j see the chief commissioner upon this subject, and I ' think you may rest assured that the matters to which i you allude will receive timely attention. In fact I j know that instructions were given to the government i agent, captain FilHsf.ibbs, before he left here in relation ��� particularlv to the wagon road. Yours truly, TIM-'JDOI-K DAVfK. I Victoria. February 151 h, ISill. I). B. Boci.i*. I'7a<.., New Denver. B. C.���Dear Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10t.li instant, enclosing a petition requesting that, lhe money appropriated for the construction of a wharf at New Denver be expended for that purpose. In reply, I beg to say that captain Fitzstubbs has been instructed to proceed at once with the erection of the wharf referred to. I have tlie honor, etc., \V. S. GOItK, Deputy Commissioner of I_inds and Works. Victoria, February lU_.li. 1891. The anniversary of George Washington's birthday was the occatiou for a tremendous celebration in New Denver. An amateur minstrel show followed by a ball, given for the benefit of the fire department, brought a crowd from Three Fori.:-, and from start to finish things were lively. The show was one of the most creditable yet given in New Denver, und tlie hall was crowded. The real entertainment of the evening however, was a. scrap, which took place after the belli was over. It lasted about half an hour, did no one any serious harm, ended in peace and good will, and brought out the lighting qualities of two or three citizens who were never known to have been iu a. scrap before. New Denver has now a theatre comiquc on tt small scale. The only thing wanted is the stage performance; but that, after till, is a mere detail in sucli theatres. The Mountain Chief is no longer shipping ore. A few men have been paid oil", the rest are busy on dead work. When the lower tunnel i.s put through to the ore chute, the Chief is ready to become a producer again, and"~on a ' larger "scale than before. KEMP ON ��� EXPERTS. Randall H. is Dead Down on the Yellow- Leg-ged Boys. To thk I_i)iTon ok Tin*: Tmnuxi-:: Some time since I noticed an article in a newspaper published, i think, in Spokane, organizing a mining engi- the time the good one, and wherein the question of northwestern institute o. neers was discussed. At idea struck me as being a for the benefit of the mining industry and possible investors such an association should be formed and kept up. 1 doubt if there is any business known that has as many sharks and incompetents as adhere to the mining industry like barnacles on an old hulk and pass under the name of ���"mining experts." The profession of "'expert" in this line is tilled from every walk antl avocation of life. We see dishwashers, hay pushers, pumpkin rollers, and wood choppers passing as "experts," when they scarcely know the difference between a foot-wall and windlass. Since the decline in real estate speculation, the army of ���'exports" in mining sections has been gre.-i.tly augmented. The "agent" or "broker," who was too impecunious to purchase a- blotting pad, pen and paper, or hire an office, consequently did business ou the curb-stone, has blossomed out to be a full-fledged "expert," his name is legion, and he will be found all the necessary outfit. He will use sleds made out of the hides of hair seal for the first season,'and if the plant pays he will build a more permanent tramway next year, fie figures that he can handle between 20U and _(X) pounds of freight in each skin sled. He made an experiment recently on the hillside back of Juneau City, in the presence of Karl Koehler, A. A. Beattie, and others. He raised up the hillside for a distance of -00 feet upon the snow, a skin sled carrying rocks weighing 105 pounds. A sled containing soft snow had sufficient gravity to haul the loaded sled up the hillside upon the snow track. Messrs. Koehler and Beattie pronounced the experiment a success. Should _tlr. Peterson succeed in building a tramway from Sheep creek up the mountain side, he will.be the means of opening au easy route to the Yukon river, so that the difficulty of transportation will be lessened to little inconvenience and trouble. The travel to the Yukon country would be greatly augmented also, as the difficulty in crossing the divide deters many from making the trip. TREACHEROUS COLUMBIA. EXAGGEEATED BEPOBTS OF MINES RESPONSIBLE THE LOW IN MANY PRICE OF WAYS SILVER. FOR It Has Always Been the Disposition of Miners and Mining- Men, as Well as Newspaper Correspondents, to Tell All They Know About the Paying Claims of a District and Say Nothing of the Many Total Failures. touched, thievin' There was considerable THE VOTERS' LIST. Insurance. None 'A.tmo Non>! ."}()() None (Jill) None 'I.IKII) S I,.-illll fifld None ���-.(HH) None ...IXHl None New Names Coming in at an Average of Over Fifty per Week. Following are the names posted for registration at the court house, Nelson, for week ending March 2nd, 1891: Tre-iillns, Alfred, liotoll'eepcr. Nelson Russell, Kdniund Clowes, gentleman. Nelson Dorey, .lolin, farmer. Nelson .Stewart. Alexander Ktmllay, carpenter,'Nelson Flaliilt. Kdward, miner, Nelson Merchant, Charley, miner. Nelson Can way. l-'rederiek .lames, .salesman, Nakusp I'lainzi, .lose, laborer. Nakusp I'roper, .lames, logger, Nakusp Mauir, .John, laborer, Nakusp1 McDonald, John II, blacksmith, Nakusp Ilaig, Andrew, miner. Nakusp Coroin, Charle< Al, lineman, Nakusp Maig, .lames, contractor. Nakusp Parks. .John Vincent, ���A.fttm H.OOll None None IftO None If.DlKl ���i.ftOO l.jillll ���i.WK) None I.IKII) hotelkeeper, Nakusp Cotton. Y (! Stapletou. hotelkeeper, Kevelstoke Hillyer, Charles, builder. Nelson ltoss. Louis, laborer. Nakusp llordau. Oliver, slioemaker. Trail Caseoete, Dorig, shoemaker. Trail Saunders, William E, roadmaster. Trail Ilartle. Charles, miner. Trail Sopton, .lorry, laborer. Trail Bloomnuist, A. laborer. Trail L-jliby, .lo.-iuph, cook, Trail Mcl-innon, John Joseph, contractor. Waneta Spencer, James Siuilli, miner, Nelson Hall, Abraham, bricklayer. Nelson I'lilliinl, William H. cutter. Nelson ICirkpatrick. Kdward. miner. Nelson Irving, William, cabinetmaker, New Denver Ash, John Itawl, carpenter. New Denver Cooper. Kobert. miner. New Denver Kerr, Kobert Bird, barrister. New Denver Hair, Thomas, miner. New Denver Kincaird. A E. rancher. Thompson's Landing .Murnncy, Andrew, section foreman. Allien Canyon Stanbi'r, John, miner, .Siiniinil Lake .McLullan. William Alfred, miner. Ainsworth Spratl. .lolin. miner. Ainsworlh .Sandilnnds, Kvclyn Montague, provincial constable, ���Muswortli Alcliae, John, miner, Ainsworlh Marshall. Thomas K. rancher. Nelson Couch, William, rancher, Kootenay Kiver Donovan. Timothy, carpenter, Koolenay Kiver .Smith, William, miner. Nelson Howard, John, watchman. Nelson Cameron, John A, contractor, Ivaslo Wilson, Samuel John, miner, Kaslo Collison, John, miner. Three Forks Mcl'hail, Daidel 1), merchant. Kaslo Dumont, Joseph, laborer. Three Forks Houston, William, miner, Kaslo Moore. David Wilson, bookkeeper. Kaslo liell, James Kdward. dairyman. Kaslo Finger. William Alexander, contractor, Watson Ifonson, Kobert Forrest, bridge builder New Denver Kdwards, Frank, contractor, New Denver Huehaniin, James, carpenter, New Denver Murray, Walter, bridge carpenter, New Denver Anderson, John, blacksmith, New Denver Link, Alexander, bridge carpenter. New Denver Latham, .fumes I', bridge carpenter. New Denver Housed, James A, bridge carpenter, New Denver Tumiessen. Kdward, bridge carpenter, New Denver Wall, William If, carpenter. Kevelstoke Davidson, Kdgar 11, teamster. New Denver A good deal has been said about the 1200-pound chunk of ore sent from the Washington mine to the Midwinter Fail-. The Slocan Star can beat that all hollow. The day before your correspondent visited the mine a cube of galena ore weighing 2500 pounds was detached by a shot iu the upraise from the lower tunnel. It went through the roof of the tunnel like a bullet on to the tramcar below. It was as square cut as a building stone and clean ore right through. It would be a pity if so unique a specimen were broken up. The Slocan Star's warehouse at Three Forks i.s almost filled with ore. Shipping .must.be,stopped or.more accommodations provided. . The ore shipments from the -Grady mine.to Slocan lake are gcing on steadily; over a hundred tons are now at the water's edge. It is no uncommon thing for a.s many as seven'-1-horse teams to come into i\ew Denver with supplies iu a. single day. Freighting from ivaslo is down to a cent a pound. Yesterday evening Press Woodruff gave an entertainment here. It was fairly well attended and the entertainer's-impersonations of Chinamen, .lews and Swedes were well received. ETHICS IN BOXING. Was and is Practically Closed. The Kevelstoke Stnrshould be nm/./.led, as it is showing signs of becoming rabid. It viciously attacked Tun Tmnr.vK for slating that the route down the Columbia was practically closed, as it is. When Tiik Tkiiscnk made the slatenient, the st.cM.iner Arrow was icebound near Nakusp and ' mails had been thirty-one days in transit between Kevelstoke and Three Forks. That was over a month ago. Last week a gentleman arrived at Kaslo who wa.s fifteen days en route between Calgary and Sew Denver, having been foolish enough to take the Kevelstoke Nakusp route. Queensberry Rules Means a Fair, Square Stand-Up Exhibition. How many men who think of the squared circle a.s a scene of pure and simple brutality, and of the Queensberry rules tis so much criminal literature, have ever read thein? The first of those famous but little-read rules is in these words: "To be a fair, stand-up boxing match, in a 21-foot ring, or as near that size a.s practicable." "A fair, stand-up"contest, mark you! The ring is to be large enough to give each contestant plenty of room to try every fair form of strategy���rushing, slipping, getting away, stepping to tins- side or that, delivering his gloved hand tis best he can, and evading his opponent's as rapidly as possible. In short, both men are to have '"a fair field and no favor." Is any man so dull or perverse as not to see tiie wholesome moral teaching of this rule "a fair, 'stand-up' boxing iiiatch?" Why, that is the very best foundation- stone on which to build a strong moral character���-a recognition of the equal right of the other man to as fair a chance in the battle of life as yourself. No one ever knew a mini who enjoyed boxing, who could stand up and take a blow as well a.s give one. and abide in perfect good temper the result ol a set-to in which he had no advantage over his antagonist, except such as his own powers gave him, who was consciously and deliberately unjust, over-reaching, or cruel iu his daily dealings with his fellow-meii. And iew have ever known a man who was habitually grasping, mean, tricky in his business treatment o who was nol q like coiisincei brutality of boxing. aiming his views wherever he etui obtain hearers, if he can afford a pair of eyeglasses and use jaw-breaking terms while alluding to formation or minerals he is in his glory. If the organization spoken of ,��� was formed, each applicant for membership should be put through an examination and if found worthy be allowed to become a. member; those incompetent should be dismissed. Such an institution, if properly managed, would, iu tt great measure, rid the mining industry of the hord of sharks and cheeky hangers-on which invade every new camp and bring a legitimate and profitable industry into disrepute. The qualifications of a mining engineer should be: first, a knowledge of geology and minerals: second, he should be competent to test or assay his own samples, so as to determine their-value; third, a knowledge of engineering or 'surveying, .jWhereby he. can'make a surface or underground survey and intelligently 'map the .same: fourth, he should have practical experience and-varied, the more practical he is, the more thorough he will be and the more useful to the profession. If statistics were gathered of the men who have made the greatest success in mining, it would be found that the practical men far outnumber the theoretical. Other branches of industry organize for mutual advancement and protection, so do the professions, then why not the mining engineers of the northwest? It would not only be a benefit to those who have learned nature's secrets regarding mineral veins and put in many a long shift breaking rock underground, but it would be a protection to the capitalist who invests ���surplus cash in mines, thereby benefiting many deserving people while developing the resources of the west. The yellow- Ieggeel "expert" would probably have to seek 'employment elsewhere, but he could go ; -ach. to the hay-field, the wood-pile, or carrying the hod in a dining-room. Marl the prospector or miner who first ventured into the Slocan listened to the '"expert," that rich section would be practically unknown today. The practical man, in nearly every instance where he followed the prospector, met with success, and the showings in that famed section now astonish the mining world.. The prospector and miner have demonstrated the value of the mines in a thorough manlier; the mining enginess will be useful in planning concentrators, measuring ore bodies,.aud making detailed 1 eports from actual tests and measurements, but can tiny one tell what use the "expert" can be unless it is to rope in a sucker on it "wild cat." K. II. Kk.mi'. Three Men Narrowly Escape Drowning Near Dead Man's Eddy. Northport News, 22nd : "lidward ITaney, Tom Kirkpatrick, and P. A. Derinody had a narrow escape from drowning about 12 o'clock Saturday night iu the Columbia river. While making their way through the swift riffies just above Dead Man's eddy a pot-boil suddenly rose up and upset the boat. Mr. ITaney, who wa.s nearest the shore and iu shallow water, jumped from the boat, taking with him a long pole he was using to keep the boat from the bank. .Mr. Dermody clung to the boat and managed to reach the pole llaney held out to him. but Kirkpatrick, who was in the stern of the boat, was thrown into the treacherous waters of the Columbia. By quick action and great presence of mind Mr. Derniody madeagrab for him and was fortunate in securing a firm hold just a.s Tom was disappearing out of sight. With one hand grasping the pole and the other the drowning man's coat collar Derinody displayed a great amount of courage as it was almost impossible for llaney to pull both men ashore, but Derinody would not let go his hold on Tom. At times the current changes near the shore and to this fact and ITaney's staying power .the two men owe their lives, as all of a sudden the swift current, which was endeavoring- to take the. men out to the middle of the stream changed, and by its aid they were landed safe. They were in the water but a few minutes, but it seemed hours to them. The night was very cold and their clothing was frozen stiff ere they reached an empty, cabin which contained a fireplace, and, although half frozeu, managed to'get a'fire started.-- "ITaney a-nd Derinody do not seem any the worse for.tlieir-night's experience, but Tom Kirkpatrick took sick and was unable to proceed any farther. He was to be brought to Northport Monday, but owing to his serious illness wa.s unable to stand the journey and was therefore taken,to Dr. Miller's house at the mouth of Deep creek. "Before leaving Northport Mr. Kirkpatrick d ropped remarks to several friends that-he was positive something would happen on this trip and that he did not think he would reach Trail creek alive." , and unfair other men of the utter Hilarious. .An all-night session of legislature on February Erastus Wlman in Jail, l-i-astus Wimaii, who has long been well known iu Canada as an .advocate of commercial rieiprocity with the t'nitcd States, and at one time considered a millionaire, has been indicted by the grand jury of New Vork for embezzlement. The most important clause in the complaint reads: "Mr. Wimaii was a salaried man for Mr. Dun, with such powers as only the contract gave him. with additional power to draw checks. The property of K. (��. Dun 6c Ct>. was not his property in any sense. The moneys of K. (J. Dun -C Co. were not his money in any sense, and the profits of K. (J. Dun A: Co. not his profits, ami yet by various ,acts of embezzlement, through misrepresentations, concealments and breaches of his agreement, misuse of the powers with wliich he wa.s en trusted, he succeeded during the years ISSN. IKS!), I SIX). |S!)|. antl IN<)_, and up lo February, IS!).'{, in stealing from Mr. Dun the enormous sum of $22<.),()I.S. a year; six inches and over, at the rate of SI.50 an inch per month. TRANSIENT ADVICUTISIOIICNTS.'_() cents a line for first insertion and 10 cents a line for each additional insertion. Hirth, marriage, and death notices tree. LOCAL OR READING MATTER NOTICES 2ft cents a line each insertion. , . , JOH PRINTING at. fair rales. All accounts for job printing- and advertising payable on ihe lirst or everv month; subscription, in advance. ADDRESS all communications to THE Till HUNK. Nelson. H.C. D. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. LaBAU. M.D.���l'hvsicinn and Surgeon. Rooms 8 and 1 Houston block. Nelson. Telephone ���!_. Lit HARRISON, U. A.���Hamster and Attorney at, ��� Law (of the province of New Hrunswiek). Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner for Inking Allidavits for use in the Courts of British Columbia, etc. Oilices��� "Ward street,, between Raker and Vernon, NeNon, H. C. ��lte f&vibxmv. SATURDAY MORNING... .MARCH 'A. lS'JI SOUTH KOOTENAY CONVENTION. The electors of the south riding of West lvootenay electoral district who favor nominating a candidate for member of the legislative assembly, at the next general election, arc requested lo elect delegates lo a nominating con vention, to be held al Nelson, on Saturday, Aprill I-I.h, 18111, at 2 o'clock ip. m., the primary election for the election of delegates io be held on Saturday, March 21th, IS!H. between the hours of 2 and 5 o'clock p. m. Citizens whose names are on the voters' list alone lo be allowed to vote for delegates. Representation in the convention to be as follows: Precinct or Number of voting place. delegates. Waneta I Toad Mountain I Nelson ft Balfour 1 Pilot, Hay 1 Rykert's Cuslom House.. 1. Ainsworth 'A Delegates-elect, if unable to attend the convention, shall have the privilege of transferring Lheir credentials to parties who can attend. Delegates' credentials must bo signed by the Lwo judges and Lhe clerk of Lhe primary election, lhe judges and clerk to bo chosen hy the voters present at their respective polling places immediately prior to Lhe hour of opening lhe polls. .Delegates must be registered voters. THE WORLD HEADS THE LIST. Precinct or Number of voting place. delegates. Robson 1 Trail 2 Kaslo 7 "Watson 1 Three Forks . - Of all the newspapers iu the iirovince that support the Davie government through thick and thin, The Vancouver World certainly heads the list in timeserving obedience. A.s difficult a.s the actions of premier Davie are at times to defend, he aud his cabinet have a champion in The World that will never fail them. With a facile pen, and a hand that lias grown adept in applying whitewash, the editor of that paper stands ready at beck and call. The government's every action, no matter how trivial, whether a a collective body or as individual members, is dwelt upon at length and pronounced "statesmanlike and scholarly. ' If the premier introduces a bill or moves an adjournment, The World i.s sure to ap pear with a column editorial pronouncing it a "masterly effort." 'If provincial secretary Baker delivers one of his semi- sessional speeches, The World, in duty bound, declares it to be-'"scholarly'and brilliant," and follows up with the "long and honorable war career of the gallant colonel." If the speaker of the house renders a decision, it is cluiracteri/.ed as "exhibiting wonderful tact and ability." What energy The World possesses that is uot wasted in besmearing the government with whitewash' is-exhausted in mud-throwing and abuse of the Opposition, party. Their every act is criticized and denounced tis a stab at the prosperity and credit of our "fair province," and it is only, The World would have us believe, by untiring energy and wonderful tact on the part of tlie government that they are able to checkmate these "revolutionists and anarchists" in their villainous schemes. It. makes one side of the house "honorable gentlemen'' and the other "treacherous anarchists." in a recent discussion in the house in connection with colonel Baker and his "Cran- brook estates," The World wants the public to accept all his statements in reference to the "deal" as facts, because, it argues, "he is an honorable gentleman," and, it might be added, "witha long and honorable war record." If at the next general election the Davie government is defeated 'and the Opposition returned topower.it i.s dollars to doughnuts that the editor of The World will bow down in humble .submission to the men he i.s now so busily engaged in abusing. "Forty years experience in journalism" has taught him one thing, and he lias learned that well, that is: Always pull with the government in power. RAISING FALSE CRIES. stories regarding the public meetings held at' Kaslo that' they blush at their own mendacity. Xow they are attempting to belittle the intelligence of the people by raising the cry of "bossism" and "clique rule." The people who favor the convention plan of nominating a candidate for the legislature know no '"bosses." if they did they would not favor the convention: that they do not belong to "cliques" i.s disproved by the fact that what they do is done openly and above board. The cry of "bossism" and "clique-rule" is a false one, and will collapse as utterly as will the candidature of the man in whose interest it is raised. The Mixer is very fearful that property owners will have their rights trampled on if The Hall Mines, Limited, i.s allowed to expropriate land in order to secure a right-of-way for the company's proposed tramway and a site I'or its proposed reduction work's. The Hall .Mines, Limited, 'may be a soulless corporation, but it is no more soulless than some of the men it will have to deal with in order to get a right- of-way to the water front below Nelson. The legislature should not hesitate to give the company the right it asks for, a.s the laud over which the tramway will run is not worth a dollar an acre, and no owner of such laud should have it in his power to throttle an enterprise that will benefit not only Nelson, but the province. It is all very well for The Miner, to state that tho right-of-way can be had for the asking: but the company should place no de-- pendence in such statements, for if it does it will surely find itself deluded. In order to gain sympathy, the adherents of a faction iu Nelson are circulating the report that "'No I_nglish Need Apply" placards are posted in business houses in .Ivaslo. No such placards are posted in Jvaslo or anywhere else in South H'.ootenay, however much the faction would like to see thein posted. If The Miner's circulation was general throughout South Kootenay, the nominee of the convention would go in unopposed; but as its circulation is limited, its abusive twaddle will have little effect on the electorate, as it i.s not read by half a hundred voters in the district outside of Nelson. Tiik Miner likens itself unto a tiger; but the people judge it by its bray and likens it unto an ass. not far wrong. And the people are SNAKES IN OUR MIDST. The few would-be politicians who oppose the South Kootenay Convention have only one object in view, that is, divide the vote that cannot be controlled in the interest of their candidate. In order to attain that object they do not hesitate to circulate reports that are untrue. They reported that the people of Sew Denver had declared against the convention, when no such declaration was ever made at any representative public meeting of the citizens of that place; they stated that the people of Nelson took no stock in the "bogus" convention, yet they did not dare to call a public meeting to make good their assertions, but conlined their meetings to private oilices to which only the "elect" were admitted; they told so many conflicting Small Snakes That Have Their Runway in the Human Veins and Arteries. While it lias long been known that a man who follows strong drink may arrive at a milestone where.the .way is beseiged with all sorts of serpents and firey dragons, medicine and science are now able to demonstrate that snakes live and mnve in one's being. An important discovery in this direction, only a few months old in Europe and just announced in this country, was told the other day by Dr. G. W. Stiles of the Bureau of Animal Industry at the -Department of '"Agriculture. It i.s a small white snake that lives in the veins, securing entrance into the bocIjr through the'medium of drinking water. It wiggles about and chases up and down ���the avenues of the blood at its plea-sure. These little reptiles have strange domestic habits. The mail is about four-fifths of an inch in length and cur\es himself into the form of a half circle. On the inside of the curve he forms'a little canal with the edges of his body and there he keeps Mrs. Snake. He isn't larger than a cotton thread nor longer than the breadth of one's finger, but together they are capable of working a great deal of damage to a, healthy man's circulation. It is certainly not a comfortable'thought to know that you may have a few pairs of these animals tucked inside your jacket. The medical men have another name for the disease which results from their devastations, but it would be popularly called "'poor blood." The story of this parasite's existence is curious. Its name has long been known, but its life history, which i.s the most interesting and the most important thing to know, was only recently discovered by Professor Sonsiuo, a learned man of Pisa, Italy. In some respects this snake is like ti fluke worm. The eggs or larva* from which it hatches are found iu the water whither they have come from some man's body. They swim about there until they lind ti certain microscopic crab. This crab they seize upon and live with. They stay inside of him till someone drinks the water and the crab, which is nothing but a harmless animalcule, and then the human snake i.s in its element. It grows and thrives, and bores its way through the walls of the intestines with the persistency of ii wood worm till it finds lodgement in the veins As this pestiferous reptile infests cattle iis well as human beings some knowledge of it is necessary for the farmer as well a.s the physician, and Dr. Stiles has been searching vigorously for its existence in drinking water since the discovery wa.s announced and is prosecuting his search at the Bureau ol Animal Industry. The disease i.s best known in Southern Europe and iu Africa. An Egyptian at the World's Faiv who danced witli one of the attractions in the Midway I'laisance was all lie ted with this disea.se and became a patient at the (,'nited States Army Hospital. Aside from this case, the parasite has probably never been reeortletl in the I'nited States, but Dr. Stiles thinks it by no means improbable that it will be found among lhe negroes of the South. In fact, the original slaves imported from Africa brought with them kindred ills, and through them, perhaps, this snake has been living for 200 or 300 years. So long as the a miction spreads with such wonderful rapidity.it is not improbable that Chicago may haven seige of it on account of the luckless Egyptian. It is difficult to conceive how the Chicago water could have escaped'pollution, as the larva; are given off rapidly and in great numbers. Methodists in tlie Lead. The total number of marriages in Ontario for the year 1S02 was __.!)(')_, and in 185)1, 28,378. The Methodists are the most marrying denomination, because, of the total number in 185)2, 10,131 were by Methodist preachers, and in 185)1 10,112. The comparison of the various denominations I'or 185)2, the hist year for which the returns have been received, is interesting. Methodist ministers performed one marriage in every 2.S1 that were .solemnized in the province; the .I.Vosbyterians came next, with one in every 4.5)0 marriages: the Episcopalians had one in every 0.2: the Roman Catholics one in every 0.0. and the Baptists one in every I7"0. The Methodist marriages have remained at the same proportion for 10years; so also have the Presbyterians. The Episcopalians and Boman Catholics have decreased in tlieir relative number, und the Baptists have gained considerably. The birth rate in the province in 185)2 was l!).o por 1000 of the population, as compared with 21.1 per 1000 in the year previous, and 22.2 per 1000 in 1883. There were 0.7 marriages per 1000 population in both the vears 185)2 and 185)1, and. 7.-1 per 1000 in 1S5J3. Transparent Leather in Paris. They tire always inventing something startling in France. The latest evolution of the Parisian brain is transparent leather, which has lately been perfected and put on the market. The information comes that the process of letting light through the hide of the ox does not unfit it for use as foot-gear, and now it may reasonably be expected that the new material will soon appear as the latest tad of fashion. Just think of transparent shoes. The chiropodists will have a rich harvest. The worried shoe store clerks can fit the feet of their lady customers with the sizes that they wear, a-nd not the sizes that they want. Misfits will show as plainly through the new shoes as ;i troublesome corn. The owner of a really pretty foot can take it certain pride in her shoes oilier slippers, provided that somebody comes forward and devises a style of hosiery that is also transparent. The Age of Steel and Iron. The Effel tower, built wholly of metal, is a good example of a step in the direction which architects will be driven to follow in future. The great railway stations, exhibition buildings, and other structures of steel, concrete, paper, and glass, which the needs and inventions of our day have called into existence, show which way flows the stream of tendency. The new building material has come lo stay. In another century houses may not merely be .built with steel girders, they may be made of metal frames bolted together and gripping walls of paper mat-he. Then the age of the tent will return. A man will buy his house from a manufacturer anrl will hire a site to set it-upon. When he moves from one place to another, he will take his home with him. Building leases, will, die a .'natural death. Towns will wander about, and a great many curionsresultswillai-i.se. Likely to Become of General Use. Inventive genius has not stopped with the -pneumatic tire on the sulky and bicycle, but has been busy with the work of perfecting ball bearings with such success that a few days since a street-car, which was equipped with the latest inventions in ball bearings, that would do away almost entirely, with friction, was drawn a distance of several hundred feet by a single man tugging gently at three strands of ordinary sewing-thread attached to the car. Perhaps a more .interesting experiment was that of a carriage manufacturer, who put another style of ball bearings upon tt.e wheels of a large coach, to whicli four horses were ordinarily hitched. Then he took a trained dog", and harnessed and hitched him to the pole, when the dog drew the huge coach easily around the yard. This sounds like fancy, but it is a fact. Justly Indignant, in Hungary there are many traveling nuns. It is made a great point of piety, as well as hospitality by persons of position, to entertain them. A host of this kind was lately honored by a visit from two nuns which lasted several weeks. They were traveling, they said, to collect money for the erection of a. convent. All of a sudden these nuns disappeared, carrying away all the portable proporty they could lay hands on, anrl it was discovered tlmt they were not nuns at Jill, not even females, but brigands. What adrls to the indignation of the host is the fact that one of them, in her role of Mother Superior, used to kiss hi.s wife every night. Men May Disguise But Women Dare Not. Although French law prohibits women from going about disguised in men's clothes, except when they have obtained permission from the perfect of police, curiously enough, there i.s no legal obstacle to men parading the streets in women's clothes. This fact hits just been brought to light by the Paris courts, which have acquitted a man named Florentin Gosrei- tier, who was charged with wearing an unauthorized disguise with the object of concealing himself from the pursuit of a revengeful wife. Signs of the Sun. Dr. Zergler, a German scientist, is of the opinion that it will be possible to predict the weather by means of photographs of tlie sun far more accurately than by a study of the barometer. Circular or elliptical luilos round the orb of day. he says, indicate violent storms, especially if the hnlos are dark in tint or of a large diameter. Lightning and magnetic_ disturbances may also be expected from these signs. Ho! for the ,-_..���._,���- ~ Grouse Mountain Mines! The Rich Copper-Silver Mines on Grouse Mountain are easily reached from the new townsite on the east side of Kootenay Lake, and which is distant about sixteen miles from the mines. There is bound to be a rush to the mines on White Grouse Mountain in the spring, and DAVIE is sure to be a town of importance, as well as supplies for, and ore from the mines must pass through it. For prices of lots apply to DAVID BLACK, Pilot Bay; Pr��r_Wr_ f!r>ar_f Tlfln GEORGE NO WELL, Victoria; vlUWIl Ul CLIIL A 1 Lit/. ��� or JOHN HOUSTON & CO., Nelson. The Twenty-Third Psalm. IX HUOTlMI VKI'SK. My ain f-cnid shepherd is tho Lord. When leevus iiliunc the sky: Aye kin uii" careful' been o' me. In ii' the yours gone hy. .11 oo can I ever be ill sill". ���Since 11 _ gangs nt my side? Km- baith my Mini nn' body's weal. He shairly will provide. lie gies me a (piato Inline tne rosl, Wi' dearest sines, sit nielil, -An' whan the niornin' lieht blinks in. I'm up, sin' out, sac hrielit. l-'or me. lie wsileth ilka slop, Mv hale day's wsirk He sees; "What's rich! 'tae itlu-r full* I dsie. Ny bonnie Chief 1st_ please. In trouble sair. His lips drsip (iiiiin (.Iran' greeious words n' cheer: .list whan 1 got Himsel' in sielit, Sly hert. lino ken.-, nsio I'eiir. (The estsile of MoK.-ichron & On. iu liquidation.) THE HOTEL SLOCAN, TIIK PRINCIPAL MOTI-.L IN TIIK CITV OF KASLO. C WV lovihg liiinds, lie spread.- An' Ink's me tae His In-iest In spile o' u' my files anion��� 1 hae a denty feast. my board. The glodsoino oil rins owro my hoid. It niiik's my face tae shine; Sweet, cov'na'nt eup wi' blessings best, lie tells me si' are mine. Twti fiiitlifu* freens are aye. -\'i' mo, Gudenoss mid meroy lair; Until I stey in hesivenly fauld. Wi' .loses ever there. Two Types of Japanese. Tho re tire two totally distinct types in Japan, which may almost be said to be each other's opposite*. The lirst, wliich the .Jaiianese themselves call the Chinese or (Joroan, is the more common. Those belonging to it- hsive round laces, lint noses. Cull cheeks, rather thick lips���very pretty ones often���and very good white teeth. Those belonging to "the second, or true Japanese typo, have longand comparatively pale faces, noses arched like the beak of a bird, thin lips, large eyes, with not. very strongly marked eyebrows; teeth mostly good, always very white, This house occupies two lots on the corner of 4th street and A avenue and is 50 by 100 feet in size. It has three floors and about 70 bed-rooms, nearly all of which are furnished. Arrangements have been made by which the lotseau he sold wilh the house. The bouse has been running' eight-iiiontlis.nnil has done a paying business, and which by good management, i-ould be greatly improved. For terms and parlioulars apply lo Kaslo. I! G. 0. BUCHANAN, Assignee. ('-.. December ISth. l.S'M. (Notary Public) MINING AND Parties wishing to engage in the hold business enn do well b.v writing to I-'. I!. Harper. Summit Hotel. Hear Lake. Hrilish Columbia. The Suiuniil. Hotel ran be bought i-henp for esis.li. The hotel is fully equipped in every depart meal and is iiiiw doing a good'business. Of the mine-- in the immediate vicinity, whieh are al the present I inn- employing a large force nf men and shipping ;i great quantity of ore daily, are the Washington, Dur- iliiuellus. mid Surprise. The Elinor Hoy and Lucky Jim mines will shortly resume upcrsit ions. The headquarters of the freighters and puckers are at Hear take. Hear take is in the heart of the. Slocan country. The Kn.-Jo S: Slocan railway will be built right, through the lown in .lune. I'rice. Sl-lill. which includes lot. building, fixtures, and stock. A great bargain. B. HARPER. iloi-iiii district. H.C, January "list. ISill F. Hear l.ak but often long and irregul This is the aristocratic type, whicli, when at its best, is really worthy of admiration. To be called liandsone a. Japanese must belong to it, while tJio.se of the Chinese cast-of countenance a re never more titan pretty. BARGAINS. SEW Dl-NAM-It LOTS-Lots il and 10 (1011 by 120 foot). Block I, in govern ment part of Now Denver. Price StiOO: S-SO cash, balance to the government. A 30-FOOT LOT on Vernon street. Nelson, on which there is a one-story ollice building. Price, ��12011; ��5110 cash. balance in easy payments. A 250-ACItK\ltANCI-I. situated on the outlet, 12 miles northeast of Nelson. Ten acres cleared and 100 acres more that can be: 10 acres in wild hay. Good story and a half hewed-log house. I'rice, $.000: half cash. time ou balance. Title crown grant. Call on or address John Houston & CO., Nelson, B.C. Nelson and Kaslo. Will contract to supply mining companies and steamboats with fresh meats, and deliver same at any mine or landing in the Kootenay take country. THE TOWNSITE OF EVANSP0RT is situated at the head of the northeast arm of Upper Arrow Lake, and is but twelve miles distant from the famous Trout Lake Mining District. Lots are now offered at prices ranging from $25 to $100. Apply to EVAN JOHNSON, Evansport, via Revelstoke, or to John Houston & Co., Nelson. KOOTENAY LAKE ospltal, Nelson ESTATE BROKER, AUCTIONEER and COMMISSION AGENT UiCl'l'l'Sl'NTlNCI The Confederation Life Assoeisition, Thcl'lucnix Fire Insurance Conipany, The Provident Fund Accident, Company; ALSO. The .Sandy Croft Foundry Company, near Chester, Kngland. makers of all kinds of mining machinery, air com pressors, reek breakers, stamps, ete. . Jowett Building, Victoria Street, __T___:__SO_-T, _3. c. LOTS FOR SALE IN ADDITION "A" Adjoining the government townsite of Nelson, AT $125 and UPWARDS, with a rebate I'or buildings erected. The best residential properly in Nelson. Value sure to increase. Apply to -:- W. A. JOWETT, -:- Mining and Real Estate Broker, Auctioneer and Commission Agent, Agent for Nelson and West. Kootenay District, or to INXKS & RICHARDS. Vancouver. IJ. O. C.&K.S.N.C0. limitf.d. WINTER SCHEDULE (KOOTKNAY LAICIC) In ell'ect January Sth, ISill. The hospital of the Kootenay Lake General Hospital Society is now earing for pntienis. The society will contract with mining companies nnd other large employers of labor to care for their employees on the following terms, namely. Sl a month per man. Individuals can make arrangements for care by paying Ibe following subscription-;: Six months. SI!: twelve month -. SID. The above includes nursing, board, and medical attendance. For private patients (lie following rales will be charged : private ward, Slf> a week; public ward. SIM a week: patient* lu pay for their medical attendance. For further particulars address cither FRANK FLKTCIiF.I!. President. orGF.OIiGF. A. HKi KI.OW. Secretary. Nelson. John" M. Ki:i-:i-'i-:k. .1 aiiios \\\ Si'Ai.i-:, STEAMER I.EAVKS Nelson: Mondays, 9 a. in. Wednesdays. .5:10 p. m. Thursdays. 5. p. m. Saturdays. ;"i:l() p. in. "NELSON" IjEavks Kaslo: Tuesdays, 'A a. in. Thursdays. 8 a. m. .Fridays', 'A a. in. Sundays, S a. in. Passengers from Kaslo. to make close connection willi Nelson & Port. Sheppard Railway for points south, should take Steamer Nelson, leaving Kaslo at li a. in.'on Tuesdays smd Kridays. The conipany reserves the right to change this schedule iit anv time without, notice. J. W. TROUP, Manager. Spokane Falls & Northern Railway, Nelson & Fort Sheppard Railway. All Rail to Spokane, Washington. Leave 7 A.M NKLSON. .Arrive 5:10 P.M. NELSON Office and Market, 11 East Baker St. KASLO MARKET, Front Street. FURNITURE PIANOS ORGANS james Mcdonald & co. Nelson and Kaslo. Curry complete lines of l-'ur- niture, as well as inanufacl ure eveey grade of Mai Iressos. They also curry Pianos and Organs. Undertaking. Kootenay Lake. Sawmill LUMBER YARD, Foot of Hendryx Street, Nelson. A full stock of lumber rough nnd dressed. .Shingles, laths, sash, doors, mouldings, etc. Three carloads dry. clear III* Mooring and ceiling I'or sale nl lowest rides. G. 0. BUCHANAN, Proprietor. HENRY DAWES, Afifent. KEEFER & SEALE TEAMSTERS. Job teaming done. Have several hundred cords of good wood, which will be sold at reasonable prices. I.KAVK OltPKKS AT J. F. Hume & Co.'s. Vernon Street, Nelson. Nelson Livery Stable Passengers and baggage transferred to and from the railway depot, and steamboat lauding.. Freight hauled and job teaming done. Stove wood for sale. WILLIAM WILSON PROPKIKTOR Notice of Applieation for Certificate of Improvements���Rand Mineral Claim. Take notice that I. I). Y. Slrobcck, free miner's cer- tiltcate No. .|lil_l, intend, sixty days from Ihe dale hereof, to apply lo the gold commissioner for a cert iliealo of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. And furl her take notice that adverse claims 'must, be sent to the mining recorder at Ainsworlh und action commenced before the issuance of such ccrlilleale of improvements. dated this lltth dav of .laiinury, ISill. I). Y. KTPOHKCMC. NOTICE. The silling of the county court of ICootcnay, to be holden al Nelson, bus been postponed until Monday, the .1st day of May, A.I). ISill. T. II. (MI-'I-'IN, Registrar. Nelson. II. (1., December I lib. I SIM. NOTICE. We are making a change in our business on the 1st. of March. All parlies indebted lo us arc rciiuesled lo settle wild lhe- undersigned by cash or otherwise before the end of February. After I hut dale ull old accounts will he placed with'our solicitor I'or collection. .JOHN A. TIM1NKK, Manager for.l. Fred Iluine& Co. Nelson, February ftl,li, ISill. Commencing January Sth, IS!)t. on Tuesdays and Fridays trains will run through to Spokane, arriving there at. 'ft-.'AO P. M. same day. Itet.urning will leave Spokane at 7 A.M. on Wednesdays ami Saturdays, arriving at Nelson al ;">:I0 P. IU., making close connections with steamer Nelson for all Koolenay lake points. Official Administrator's Notice. In the County Court of lvootenay, holden at the east crossing of the Columbia river. In the matter of Klipbalet \V. Harris, deceased, and In the mafterof tho Ollicial Administrator's Act. Dated the ninth day of January, A. D. ISill. Upon reading Iheallldavil of Arthur Patrick Cummins, if is ordered that Arthur Patrick Cummins, ollicial ad-, ministrator for tlie County Court Districfof ICootcnay, be i administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits of FJinhalet W. Harris, deceased. And that this order lie published in the Nelson Tribune newspaper for the period of thirty days. |Signed| WILLIAM WAIU) SPINKS. The creditors of Klipbalet W. Harris, late of Nelson, in the district of ICootcnay, shoemaker, are required within sixty days of this date to send particulars of their claims to me, after which time I sliall proceed to distribute the said estate. Dated at Donald, in the District of Kootenay, this ilth January. ISill. A. P. CUMMINS. Ollicial Administrator. Official Administrator's Notice. In the County Court of lvootenay. holden at the east crossing of the Columbia river. In i.he matter of Hougera Ciovani, deceased, and In the matter of the Ollicial Administrator'-- Act. Upon reading the allidavits of Arthur Patrick Cummins and John Miles, if is ordered that, Arthur Patrick Cummins, ollicial administrator for the County Court- District of Kootenny. shall he administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits of Hougera. Ciovani. deceased. And that this order be published in the Nelson Tribune newspaper during the period of sixty days. Dated, lhis .'Ird dav of January. 1S!M. ISignedl WILLIAM WAIU) SPINKS. The creditors of Jlougera Ciovani, late of Nelson, in the district of ICoolcnay. laborer, deceased, are required to send to me within sixty days of this date statements and full particulars of I heir claims, and after the expiration of such lime I shall proceed with the distribution of the said estate. Dated at Donald. 0th January. 181)1. A. P. CUMMINS. Ollicial Administrator. .n'-v.'i"- . *_ v. .^����.-, ,-;v-'..-.-'.. IK*:! ^^������������-���r^_^\r-:_Cf-3,V'-*y^^ THE TRIBUTE: MLSOtf, II C; SATOKDAY, M'AfeC'ii :;, I.W. o Why give traveling* tailors orders for suits wLen you can get good goods, good fits, and reasonable prices from resident tailors, who, like yourselves, are doing* a share to upbuild the towns in which they live. The only way to encourage home industries is to patronize them. The merchant tailors of NELSON and KASLO respectfully ask for your patronage. 9 West Baker Street, Nelson. 9 Fourth Street, near Front, Kaslo. Weinstein, Fourth Street, near Avenue A, Kaslo. �� Cor. Baker and Ward Sts., Nelson. Capital, Rest, all paid up, - $12,000,000 6,000,000 Sir DONALD A. SMITH, Hon. GKO. A. DliUMMOND, E. S. CLOUSTON President Vice-President .doners*.] Msinager ktelsoit _3_E.____src_-_: N. W. Cop. Baker and Stanley Streets. llltANUIIIW IN* LONDON (England), NEW YORK CHICAGO, and in the principal cities in Canada. Buy and sell Sterling F.xohaiigo and Cable Transfer." UKANT COM.MliltUlA], A .Nil TUA VI'l.I.I'USs' -UUPITS, available in any part of the world. 1'uai.*ts iss-ioii; _oi.i.i-'_tio.ns maiik; i-rrc. SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. RATK OF INTFRK.-T (at present) .'H Per Cent. HIS UNLUCKY ANGEL. That morning tliore litul boon a \vro_k on tlio ��Sotitlioi-n l'ac-.i(i_, nnd I'roin the western slope ol' the Di-mgoon summit they were clearing up the debris. When the through freight crossed the divide, the air-brakes caught unequally and tlie cars broke draw-heads, leaving the train in sections. ".';.'. On this mountain' down grade an engine cannot hold brakeless derelicts, and trucks loaded with railroad iron are things of impact that must not be retarded. The train crew knew this, for they jumped as soon as they found gravity controlled the train,-and landed, with hands bleeding and clothes torn, in the cholla cactus on the bastard granite ledge through which is cut the road-bed, and then got up and watched the train pitching down the long, winding grade below them and felt glad they were no longer on it. When they saw the cars lurching around the bends of the grade tinder gravity speed too great for 'sharp curves, and car wheels spinning free in air above the outer rail like the guides ol' a pristnoidal trolley, they were even thankful they had jumped into the cactus. . At the Oro Fino curve the locomotive left the track and knocked out-a span of trestle. Here the cars piled through the trestle draw, filling up the arroyo, and over all spread the bright steel rail-; ranged in every direction like spikes drawn in mass with grab-tongs from a keg, forming a grand chevaux do ("rise, protecting from further assault both wreck'and trestle. From the summit the metallic mass glinted in the clear morning sunlight, and ���men riding the divide rubbed their eyes and wondered how a. pool of water con 111 lie in Oro Fino during an Arizona .June. That flay we made a dry march from the Santa Rita foothills to Oro Fino station, where the company pumped wtiter. sunken below the mica sand, anil filled the tanks and tenders of toiling locomotives that groaned up this heavy grade, fetching the freights bound eastward across the Jiigh divide. The seel ion boss would sell it and the government would pay for it, so the horses should have .-ill they wanted, and we would wash our dusty laces in the cool trough after the animals had finished drinking. We would also board the overland express, if it watered at the station, and buy newspapers and poor cigars, and bribe the .Pullman car porter to sell us bad buffet whisky at four prices. Now we were encamped at Oro Fino. on the. mesquite flat just above the debris, with these things accomplished. We had stretched our shelter-halves to protect us i'roin the afternoon sun: too small by half is indicated, but too thin by half is not whispered to contractors by the purchasing minions of supply departments who do not campaign under canvas at com fort- able eastern depots. Ho we thickened our shade witli wet saddle-blankets and the drawn-work shadows of mesquite.foliage, and made ourselves comfortable by smoking on our saddle kits and watching' the wreckers toiling in the grilling afternoon sun at the debris in the arroyo pit be- below us. I'\>r the wires had already spoken, and the office men were working at the wreck. The division superintendent had orderetl out the wrecking Hats, and the bridge- gang at Tucson had loaded extra tackle on the shear and derrick truck, with string- pieces, studs, ties, and struts ou other cars to rebuild tlie demolished trestle. The train dispatcher was conning the office line from Yuma to I.l Paso, and working out position ])w///,les whose result wa.s always place considered as a function, of time, and depended on grades, curves, and side-tracks, and trains with their cars and loads, tuifl the number of the engine ha.nl- ing them, and its working rate of speed, and platting all with pretty colored silken threads,-while dictating to station agents along the line orders that moved, side-tracked, or tied up trains, and caused the public to swear anil ask conductors when the wreck would be clear. The ticket agent at the terminals would tonight be overworked telling the traveling public the time of arrival aud departure of trains. The actuary in the fiscal office had paused in hi.s monthly report of earnings net, waiting for the amount of delay and the details of the wreck before platting those different colored lines which tire easily read by the management, meaning running expenses anil earnings, gross or not, on whose integral depend coupons paid, and the rating by the ticker at the stock exchange. Today these fat curves would have a sharp break and reference to an asterisk���a summary detail of the wreck in explanation of these crisp points to the directors. The overland express eastward wtis tied up at the west switch of the Oro Kino side track, and the passengers and Pullman crew were loitering in our camp, watching the work on the wreck, where foremen, with working gangs, wrenched and pried at the tangled web of steel which covered it. Section bosses signaled to their squads for concentrated effort with their crow bars in removing the heavy timbers that jammed the trestle- di-iiw. while wreckers, with their axes, dismantled broken box cars skewered together in the wreck by the steel rails that 'had pierced them. Now the trestle span was clear, and the men were picking the mica shingle and shoveling out the sand to place in the huge timbers. The donkey engine at the derrick puffed in the wheezy, broken way of draught horses in short wind when doing heavy, intermittent pulling. From tho east switch a station-locomotive, used for doubling on the .summit, shunted the wrecking flats on to the side track as fast as they were loaded ab the ���".derrick. The sky had clouded over, and the sun had set, and -lie men, no longer fearing sunburn, stripped to the-waist and filled train ton-lies with oil, which they picketed in the mica sand about the wreck, working by their flare far into the sultry night. We Ave re lounging on our camp kits, watching the Avork. Across the arroyo below us, the face of the headland wa.s in half light as high as the scarp of its counter-slope from tlie torches at the wreck. Over this face the shadows of men mo\*ed in the swift, still Avay of those cast by chopped clouds sailed rapidly by strong winds; tit times they would rise up anil stagger like drunken men, or lurch over the crest and be lost iu the dark beyond. A traveling salesman tor a cigar firm had done the heavy generous with his sample case, and we till had real tobacco. Our guests were asking us about the campaign, aiid discussing the heat. "It will rain tonight," said Hopkins, our citizen packer. "No, '.Hopkins, it won't rain. It may earthquake: tomorrow this may be the seat of a .volcano; the country may even tako.fire and burn- but no, it won't rain," I replied. "Yes, it will rain before midnight," repeated Hopkins. He was lookingsteadily at the train torches and had not questioned the sky. "Here's ten to one it don't," bantered a. trooper. "I never bet," said the packer, with hi.s eyes still lixed ou the lights tit the wreck. "J3tit it will rain tonight; this is the twenty-fourth of .June." Hopkins was an educated man. but experiences had made him superstitious. "What's the twenty-fourth of .June got. to do with it?" asked the train crew. "Oh, the unexpected happens; everything happens on St. John's day. All the towns are full of prayers and masses." "If the road directors could see the dimensions of this wreck, 1 fancy they would say the unexpected did happen," ventured the salesman. "Well, if they will run their trains on St. John's day, what can they expect?" "Come, Hopkins; what did St. John's dav ever do for you?" asked the packer's heiptii-. "It started meat the 'diamond hitch' and scraping aparejos. Why, 1 used to run the biggest 'game',-it Tucson, until I got broke and had to punch mules," growled the packer. Hopkins spoke with the bitterness of one who feels he litis fallen by the hand of something less itn- partial than fate. lie. had settled himself for narrative among the cargoes and was still gazing only at the torch flames. "Let us have it, Hopkins!" called the camp in chorus. "It is twenty years ago tonight, and those torches remind me of it. They were holding the fiesta and I was running the roulette game at Correo's d'arden. You see, I was in the Confederacy, and, after the scrap went against us, l' came west. Tucson wa.s a-liiuniniiig then; they had just struck the Silver King, and the Richmond Basin north of the Phials was chock-full of pitying claims���chlorides, horn silver that could be worked without capital aud gave the prospector a. show. The 'Sunset' hadn't crossed the Colorado then, anil they freighted it from Laredo to San Antone. The government ra.n big mule trains into Yuma, depot, through the Seven Devils country, and avo were on the main California, stage route. Pveseen ti regiment come in from a six-months' scout a.nd drop half tlieir pay before night. Oh, the place was in bloom, and these mining towns are like a-cactus���they don't blossom every year. ".Joe Harney was my partner, aud avc struck it full. We ran the roulette and faro game of the town. It was known as bhe 'Oasis,' and occupied the same adobe the ' Fashion' does now. AVo had cleaned up about one hundred thousand and played half of it on the salted layout on Pinal summit, where Chamberlain got taken in. I wanted to copper it, but Joe said to copper wasn't his style. Jle always allowed to play a. game open; said a man only coppered because he was chicken- hearted and wanted to hedge, so Ave let it go���and go it went. You see, Joe's system is all right in a game of chance among gentlemen. He was innocent a.s a babe among these mining stock pirates, for I ve always noticed unless you copper their lies, you are pretty sure to go fluey every bime. " 11 was the twenty-fourth of June, 1870, and all morning bhey had held prayers and masses for rain. We had the gaining privilege at Correo's ��� you know the pretty orange grove on the Santa Cruz, where they still hold their fiestas? All the town anil country was there���miners, Mexicans, vaqueros, teamsters, la brail ores, peones, and soldiers. The garrison Wets iu town then, and the barracks faced the plaza.' "We had taken our -wheel into the garden. All afternoon the betting had been croAvded, though not heavy, and running slightly "against the bank. Later in the evening, when the baile started, the crowd thinned away to participate iu the dance und watch the dancers,' Joe was twirling the wheel, with only desultory bets placed ab intervals, and I was receiving anil paying'them in an absent way. "I was seated at the roulette table, listening to'La Goloiulrona' anil watching a young girl, sitting on a bench in the grove near by. Ah, such a face!���pure as the moonlight streaming" through the vines above it. Her eyes were raised heavenward, and her hands were clasped as if in prayer. She had taken no notice of the baile, and now seemed not to hear 'La Media Noche,' which followed bhe national anthem and suffused the senses with its soft, vagrant accent wandering from note to note of this strange tropical waltz. Her face held my gaze in rapture ���I can't describe it. it was the face of an angel, and the brow was broad aud low and seemed to shed light. You know the type? You've seen it in Mission San Xavier, where men who saw angles failed to paint them. "Presently she'arose and walked over add stood under the flare of the feast torches at the roulette table, placing a .small silver coin on the number six; Joe had twirled the wheel, and J watched her while the ball was rolling. I'm sure I saw an angel, for I saw only her, anil she was seeing heaven. '"Seis en el Colorado!' "I paid the bet mechanically, and she moved the coin without any hesitation on to the number twenty-four. "I was still watching her eyes. There wa.s no eagerness, no greed, in their calm level light. I was not looking a"; eyes: I was viewing a soul!���but the bet won, this time over a hundred dollars, being thirty-five to one. I had to change my hand to the pile of gold in making this payment. "I was transfixed: women are too emotional: they play best? at games of chance. She wa.s serene, and her lips shaped themselves as if in prayer a.s she placed five gold pieces ou the number eighteen in the red. "The wheel spun round. I had looked too long tit her beauty: it unnerved me. My eyes recoiled from the strong, steady light of her brow. I gazed at the moving wheel, and its rapid motion steadied me. Ordinarily, if you look at them too closely, they will stop and .send you and the table round, leaving you loco at the winning. "The wheel died slowly, and the marble fluttered through several compartments, finally lauding in the number eighteen. This winning wa.s thirty-five hundred dollars, which I paid in gold. "Again she made her bet- ten gold pieces- on the number seven in the black. There wa.s no faltering, no uncertainty. An inner consciousness seemed to guide her, and she placed the coin on the number seven with lhe same confidence she would have placed her hand in that of the padre's tit confessional. "Again her bet won. "Sieteeuel negro!' Joe's voice trembled, and I looked up at him after paying lhis enormous winning. He was very pale and nervous a.s he turned the wheel. "This time she placed her betof twenty gold pieces on the single (), and I watched Hasheesh and its Results. Like opium, hasheesh i.s chiefly used for smoking, and When thus used it i.s almost always in combination with tobacco. First a plug of tocacco is placed at the bottom of the bowl of the pipe, and on the top of this a small piece of hasheesh, and over this, again, a piece of red-hot charcoal. Or this hasheesh is kneaded with the tobacco by the thumb of one hand working in the palm of the other until thoroughly incorporated, when they a.re transferred to the bowl aud lighted. as in the previous case. Its lirst effect when thus usetl is one of intense exhilaration, almost amounting to delirium. The victim uses the . power of thought ami will carry ou in the most extravagant manner imaginable, alternately laughing, singing or dancing, till the time believing himself to be acting rationally. Water Overcome by the PreealnK Process. One of the most ingenious expedients I'or overcoming the difficulties of sinking shafts for milling or other purposes in wet "measures" is the "freezing process." Supposing that the bottom of the shaft is so continuously flooded .that the miners tire unable to use their picks or in any way proceed with the excavation, pipes are run down from the surface to the flooded locality, and through these pipes is^ forced a powerful freezing mixture. The consequences is that the impeding wtiter becomes solidified, and the workman can quarry his way through the ice, wliich now becomes a protection from lhe body of waler beyond, and the sinking of the shaft can be continued. Feats Performed by Strong Men Loiik Ago, Louis de Hottfllers, who lived in the sixteenth century could break a bar of iron with hi.s hands. The strongest man could not take from him a ball which he held between hi.s thumb ami lirst linger. While standing up. with no support whatever, four strong soldiers could not move him. lb; remained as lirm as a rock. Sometimes he amused himself by taking on his shoulders his own horse, fully her slender hands, almost too slight to ino.ve the heavy coin. Again there was no faltering iu the placing t f the bet. Her certainty shook my nerves, and I clutched the table to steady thoni a.s the marble bounded from black to red among the stalls. "I could look no longer. I closed my eyes. Seconds passed���they seemed hours. Joe did not call. I turned to him; lie could not speak, but motioned me to pay the bet. The wheel had stopped, and the marble was lying on the single O. "Joe never rallied or spoke; he died in "my arms before the surgeon from the garrison could reach him. When the surgeon came he said it washeartdisea.se; but of that 1 can't say. " L never again saw my unlucky angel. They say she Avent straight into the convent, and that San Xavier soon afterward had an altar furnished entirely with gold, Avhich L have never seen. My losses that day wero thirty thousand dollars. The night of Joe's death, a light rain reached as far as Tuscon. and next evening bhe Santa Cruz flooded the lower town with water from the mountains. After Joe's funeral. I continued the game; but it all went, and I knew my luck was done, so J took to rolling niantas and scraping rigging for the government." "An' you raising till de row because yo' pal died, an' you went fluay on de twenty- fourth of June?" roared a Bowery dissenter. Hopkins had told his story well, and the rest of the camp were quiet, tlieir eyes resting without vision on the torches and shadows of the workmen beyond, controlled with thoughts of other things. They had not heard the dissenter. In strange lands, ns at sea-, the attention once arrested, the silence of the night communicates itself to men, and they become impressed or reverent. 'Hopkins saw this effect, and continued slowly: "No, that -was not all. J could stand that, but I've figured it out since that she played the number six million two hundred and .forty-one'thousand, eight hundred and seventy (0,2-11,870), separated so as to read the sixth month, tAventy-fourth day of the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy, or St. John's .Day. Thttt was too much, for in the laws of chance it could happen only once in one million six 'hundred and seventy-nine thousand times." As we turned in that night a light rain rain began falling. Hopkins said nothing, and the camp was thinking of him as Ave fell asleep. I have since learned that this was the normal season for summer rains in.the mountains on the border-line. The southern rain-clouds had drifted a little beyond their usual northern limit. The trestle was completed that night, and, in bhe early-morning, we were awakened by trains -bound eastward, groaning up the heavy grade. In bhe gray dawn, as we forded Oro Fino, Ave heard the swish of turbid water shipping our horses' flanks as it tumbled onward over tlie parching desert to be drunk up by the thirsty sand. harnessed, and with-tlmt heavy load ho promenaded the public 'square, to the great delight of the inhabitants. At about the same time there lived a Spaniard named Piedro who could break the strongest handcuffs that could be pub around his wrists. He folded hi.s arms on his chest and ten men pulling in different directions Avith ropes could not unfold them. Augustus II., elector of Saxony, was a man" of great strength. He could carry a man in his open hand. One night he quietly threw out of a window a monk who paraded his palace pretending to be a ghost. ' Destitution in San Francisco. The following from the Argonaut shows the destitution that prevails in San Francisco, and it is general in all the large cities in the Union: "For a number of weeks the unemployed of San Francisco have been given work at Golden Gate park at a dollar a day.. There can be no doubt as to the genuine destitution of these men. They are of all ages���from twenty to sixty. Among them can be seen young men who look like clerks or accountants, some of them with eye-glasses, wearing shiny cutaway coats and trousers whicli once were "fashionable." now shabby, baggy, and befringed. Wheeling barrows beside these unfortunate youths in their faded finery, will be seen old workingmen Avith bent backs, who never have done anything else but labor with their hard and horny hands. Yet all of them, clerks as well as laborers, tire more than willing���they are anxious���to work hard all day to earn a dollar. And many of them stay in line all night, waiting to get the ticket which gives them the right to work. The funds of the committee .having .the .work, in charge are running low. They are laying men off every day. They have made a new appeal to the citizens of San Francisco, and it is to be hoped that.it will receive a generous v��i)ly" ____________ A Man Who Does Not Feel Heat or Cold. Experiments Avere recently made by three reputable, physicians on the person of tt man''named Lartado, a native of Trinidad. This man seemingly is a wonder. ��� He appeal's to be utterly oblivious to the sensations of heat and cold, and, iu fact, experiences no feeling of pain even when undergoing treatment that would He 00TENAY HOTEL Situate on Vernon Street, Near Josephine. The Hotel Overlooks The Kootenay. Its Guests ean Obtain Splendid Views of Both the Mountains and River. Axel Johnson, Proprietor THE ROOMS AUK CONVEX-EN". AND COMFORTABLE. THE TABLE IS THE HKST IN THE MOUNTAINS. cause an ordinary 'man untold agony can run through his neck down to and grazing the trachea a piece of steel wire one-eight of an inch in diameter, to which a most .powerful galvanic battery Avas "attached and shifted from one current to another without any perceptible pain, but with considerable acceleration of pulse. He passed another huge steel Avire into his mouth anil through hi.s cheek, in all directions, anrl no blood flowed. Another large wire wtis passed through and through the large muscles of the calf of the leg with seemingly no pain and no bleeding from any place. Jn fact each of the openings made by the instrument closed 11j3 as bloodless anil as easily as if the man was constructed of India rubber. The man never flinched during tiny of the experiments, while the instruments were jabbed into him with no more consideration than if he hail been a watermelon. Building a Nickel-Steel Gun. The force at the Washington ordnance shops has nearly completed theassetnbling of the first nickel-steel gun I'or the navy, and the result is awaited with interest. The ordnance officers have been engaged sometime in the construction of n furnace for heating the tube of this gun, whicli is of oight-inch-caliber. The furnace will apply the heat to the gun in a horizontal instead of in a perpendicular position. The jacket, the piece of metal which fits over the base of the tube and gives it | greater strength, will be forced over the i tube, while the hitter is kept- beyond the expanding influences of the heat by the constant application of a stream of water. Tin; delay in assembling the gun. the forgiugs iif whicli hsive been ready lot- some time, has been caused by the difficulty in securing a pyrometer, a delicate instrument for registering the fearful heat of the furnace. This instrument has been received, and everything is ready for the assembling of the gun. HE NELSON Hotel Dining-Room Under the Management of JOHN F. GILL Illl^ IIICl Wil 11 illl till- r(!l|ltil'l!IIICIl|.S (if till! pIlll-IIIIX (Illll (jiH-nts nf llir linn-'-.-.vliii-li is Mow tlie ri-Mirl nf tin- h-iiil- inK HiiniiiK 11 ii -n of tin- roil nl ry. First-rlii-is nmiiiiKi'iiit'iit i- -nrc lo al 11 .i'-l voui' ittI ri11 ion nnil luitroniiKi'. Iii-.li:.--: SinKlr inriils, .VI collis: iiuy hoanl. s" ih.t wci-I*. Mrnl hunts: Itii-nkfaM, from li lo l|:.'J(l; lunch, V2 I"-'; ilimii-r, .1:110 lo S. Special Attention to Miners. THE BAR IS FIRST-CLASS. ILVER KING HOTEL John Johnson, Proprietor Extensive Improvements Now- Completed. All Rooms Refitted and Refurnished FINEST WINES, LIQUORS, AND CIGARS IN THE MARKET SOLD AT THE BAR. Special Attention to Miners. U00.MS FlItST-CLASS. KATES JIODKKATK. HE MADDEN HOUSE At Corner Baker and Ward Streets, NELSON, B. C. THOMAS MADDEN, Prop. THE THE MADDEN is Centrally Located, With a Frontage Towards Kootenay River and is Newly Furnished Throughout. TABLE is Supplied with Everything in the Market, the Kitchen Being Under the Immediate Supervision of a Caterer of Large Experience. THE BAR is .*-u;i'i'i.!i.-i> with tiik hkst Uranus ok all KINDS. OK WINKS. I.IQl'OItS, AND CIGAKS. Special Attention to Miners. HELELAND HOTEL Front Street, Near the Steamboat Landing1, KASLO, B. C. Devlin & McKay, Props. TIIK MKHT C.-UISINK. TIIK HKST HKDS. THK HKST OK KVKI'YTIIINO. he Tremont. East Baker St., Nelson. Is (inc of tin- lu\-t lintels in Timil Mountain ili-triol, mill is the liUH(l(|iiarli.'rs for |iiD.-.ji_t'tois anil worklnK niiiiL'iH. MALONE & TREGILLUS. PropF. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING. Tin- allium! inccliii^r of K'">ltMiu.v Lake (Ii-iiithI Mo--- pilnl Societ v, fur Iho election of iliri-t'tui's, will hi: lu'lil in tin- society'- (illli-i-. lion-ton hlnc|*. NcImhi. Hrili-li Col- iiinhiii. mi Tiii'-ilay, .March l.'llli, IS'J.'i. al - o'clock |i.in. Stihserihcrs anil holilers of (S-liiontli anil I'.'-iiionth ciTtill- calos uliiiic have votes. I-'IIANK KI.KTl'll Kit. Nelson, .laniiiii')' HIM. isyi. 1'resilient. iIiS��^ THE TRIBUNE: NELSON, & 0" SATURDAY, .MAROiT *! 189- THB WEEK'S ORB SHIPMENTS. Kor the week eiuliti_- .March ���.'ml. tin: over the Nelson & Fori Shoppanl railway 'Mountain Chief mine, .Slocan district,...'.. Idaho mine ������ " ore shipments were: ,120 tons .. Ml ii Total "Value (estimated at ��120 a ton).. .I.'lll tuns . ..SKMiSO LOCAL NEWS AND GOSSIP. ��� Will Hanks of Great Falls, Montana. was a passenger on Wednusdav's train. Mr. Hunks is a brother-in-law of O. If. Ink of Tiik Tumrxi:. The roof on the kitchen of the bouvding house at lhe Silver l-iny iiiinoi-aiiKlil llru on Thursday and was burned oil'. No further damage was iiiiin: on account of the great depth of snow. Slocan Prospector, l-'ebruary 2-lth: One of George Hughes' sleighs drawn hy four horses and loaded wilh ore, went over the precipice a mile west of the Fifteen-iuile hoti-e I his inoriiiiig. One of lhe linr-i--; was killed outright, and the others are so hadly crippled thai it Is thought it will lie necessary lo kill tliem. The driver escaped unhurt by jumping from the sleigh. The posttil authorities having refused to lnilLer the mail facilities I011111I from Nakusp, the citizens have taken il upon Ihciii-clver, lo make the desired improvements. A subscript ion list, has been circulated null a Millleicnt aniouul raised to secure two mail- ;t week between that place and New Denver. ''J-Ob" Kirlin, who is charged with having broken inlo It. K. Lemon's store at Three Forks and stealing a. rifle, with which hi: afterwards attempted 10 shoot. "lion" Crane, is now iu jail at NeUon awaiting trial. Fved Chilcott, the well-known traveling man of Winnipeg, came in on Saturday's train. It is expected that navigation will open on the lower Columbia iu about, iwo weeks, the water now being considerably higher than at this time last, year. The Le Roi -timing Company of Trail Creek have over (XX) tons of ore on the wharf at Trail, awaiting the opening of navigation 011 the Columbia river. Press Woodruff, Spokane's funny man, lectured to a small audience in the Firemen's hall on Wednesday night. Those who were there say it was well worth* hearing. Charles I_\vin, one of the owners of the Lizzie C, reports that properly looking well. He and his partners are engaged in extending the old tunnel thai was driven last summer. The engine of the Spokane train, while testing the track between this place and the .summit on Thursday night, was ditched near the latter point. An engine sent from Marcus look out the train on .Saturday morning. A grand comic tind musical entertainment will be given hy the firemen and hand boys on tho 17th of this month. It is intended to make it (he event of the season as this will be. the last of the winter concerts. Proceeds to be used for the fire hall. Invitation is extended to Kaslo lirenien and citizens. "Fred" Ritchie returned on Wednesday from a trip to the coast and exlenting as far cast, as J.ethbridge. He has been out in the interest of the Nelson Hydraulic Mining Company. Word was received here this week that the bond on the Josie mineral claim, situate iu Trail Creek district has been taken up. George Hughes, owner of the Mountain Chief mine, Slocan district, was iu town this week and reports that property looking better than ever. The outgoing train 011 Friday morning took out thirty passengers. Fresh halibut, 17 cents: fresh salmon. I;! cents-at ('. JvauH'man's. No one need go without Ferry's Mining Map now. as the price has been greatly reduced. Unmounted copies. 51; mounted styles, in proportion. Apply or write to U'albey & Co.. Kaslo: T. Abricl. Nakusp; or to the C. & K. S. N. Co.. Nelson. Navel oranges, 50 to 75 cents a dozen, at C. Kaufl'nian's. Apples. 3 and I pounds for '2ft cents, at C. Kautl'man's. Mainland cigars, corner Haker and Josephine streets. Meals 50 cents, rooms Sl. at Hotel Phair. Meals 50 cents, rooms -51, at Hotel Phair. Meals 50cents, rooms $1. at. Hotel Phair. THE ARMIES OF EUROPE. ; Strength' of the Great European Powers In Case of War. The military statistics of the European nations supply a suggestive object lesson iu: .relation to our present civilix-ition. The importance of the war footing of Europe cannot be overestimated. In case of a general war, the -principal belligerent nations of Europe, including Turkey, could hurl 14,991,000 men into the contest. The standing army alone of the greater European nations consist of ..274,000 men. Russia leads the list; her "peace footing" or standing army consists, of SOS,000 men. These soldiers are drawn from a population of 124,000,000. The enormous strength of this army may be shown by comparing it with the army of Rome during the palmy days of the empire. The permanent military force of Rome on sea and land was only 4:"i0,000. France conies next to Russia, the strength of the army being 000,000 men. This army is drawn from and charged upon a population of :>=ssv-_��__^Ti)iwiTarfr^rw-'_; the present avei*y,g��J expense of: armies. The statement which is sohietiiues made that the fortunes of war are decided be- hind the green baize doors of banker.**' private offices contain more truth than is at lirst apparent. War i.s now a luxury, and, like all luxuries, can only be enjoyed at great expense. The fact of the expense connected with modern war has made it unattainable to a bankrupt country, and undoubtedly tends to make even the great powers tliiiik twice before leaping. Anything avhich helps to discourage war and favors the settlement of difficulties by pacific means should be encouraged, so that increase in the production of war material may be regarded as a step in the right direction. MINING IN ALASKA. the Oil I being 30,000, (XX) and the the slai '70,000. Spain has an army uliiig arinv ol'l ir-.OOUnieii, drawn from a population of I7,"i()0.()()0. With the size of the country the s'v/.e, of the army gradually decreases until the pitiful hand fills of men are i cached who form the armies of Andorra. San .Marino, and Monaco. Switzerland isan exception, as the constitution of this tight little republic forbids the mmntenanceof a standing army. When the "war footing*' is considered, Germany leads with 4,000.000 men. Russia, which has the hirgeststanding army, takes a second place as regards the war force, as she can only muster 2,iW0,000 men. France, with _.r>0('),000 men. is not far behind. If the size of the war footing of France and Germany be compared witli the population, it will be seen that France, taking population for population, is a little ahead of Germany in preparing her whole available material for war. The war strength of Austria-!Itin- gary is 1,7HA,1)00 men: that of 1 taly.J.O.'iO.- (XK) men, while Spain comes next, with i,OHA,000 men, and (ireat Hritttiit follows with only 71-'!,000. Switzerland, in case of necessity, can furnish IS."-,000trained men. War is constantly becoming more expensive, and while the war cloud of Europe is settling down, the financiers of the great powers are looking with great apprehension at the cost of throwing armies into the field composed of millions')!' men. Emperor William will do well to increase his war fund locked in the Jiiliiisturm of Spaudau if 4,000,000 oi men are mobilized, ji..s 120,000,000 marks will not last long at Many Placer Claims That Would Pay if Season for Mining was Longer. Juneau City (Alaska) News says there lire indications of the greatest rush to the gold fields of the north that has yet been seen, aud gives the directions of a prospector for reaching the placers: "The distance from Juneau City fo Forty .Mile'camp is about 7:10 iniles. The trip is usually made in thirty (.lays. Front Dyea to the head of Lake liennett, across the portage, it is about thirty miles. The best time of the year .to start is in March before the ice and snow have begun to melt. The supplies can then be transported by hand sleigh I'roin Dyea to the liead of .Mud lake. The hikes are then frozen solid, and timber can be reached, where boat timber can be secured. We wonld advise all those going in to fit out" with supplies in Juneau. Take in as much ;ts can be done conveniently, as in the interior the trading posts make one pay dearly for all the necessaries of life. About $120 worth of grub will be sufficient. A boat thirty feet long and five feet wide will take one safely down the Yukon river. The voyage on the river to Forty Mile is usually made in ten days. ���:At White Horse rapids and at the canyon two miles beyond, the contents of the boat arc carried over the portage at each place for half a mile. The boa. i.s taken through the rapids empty, and by careful handling no difficulty is met with. The current of the river runs from three to four miles an hour. About a 100 miles down the river from the lakes Hootolin- qua river empties into the Yukon from the north. J3ars ou that river worked by a rocker have paid from $.1 to$12 per day. Salmon river is next, and its bars have paid as high as an ounce of gold dust to the man a day. Work can be pushed night and day on these bars from four to five months each season. Pelly river is next in order and has, so far, panned out equally as well as the other tributaries. To give you an example, as showing the restlessness of many of the prospectors, French Joe in 1SS7 was making two ounces of gold dust a day on one of these bars, and not sat'isfieu with these returns he moved on, saying he was going to find richer diggings. "Then conies Stewart river, having the best-paying bars of any of the rivers flowing from the north. The Day brothers of Juneau, made same fine clean-ups from there. Forty Mile river, -flowing from the south," has yielded more gold than all the ��� tributaries. In the season of J887 over .$.12.-5.000 in coarse gold was taken out by a few miners. Miller creek is one of the last discoveries, and last season most of the locators did very well. "The Yukon valley is low and rolling, resembling the.gold fields of California. The hills are mostly bare near the river, covered with a- wash of small gravel and sand. There is no heavy wash along the river. The ground is covered, back from the river, with moss and thick uuder- growth and is studded in places with birch .and Norway ..spruce.'- The formation of the bluffs is generally slate. In some places sagebrush and bunchgrassare found. "The season for mining lasts from May to October, and at Miller creek and among the higher gulches the working season is shorter. A person should take in a canvas hose and traps to hydraulic the dirt, the same as they do in California, and by bringing the' water' from an elevation, sluice out from .$30 to '.$40 per day. To make a success one should work a diggings for three or four seasons. "'John Dix. the discoverer or the famous gold ledge of Y'akobi island, arrived here by sailboat Tuesday night in company with Charles Johnson, George Hipe, aud Tom Duxbtiry. Mr. Dix had in his possession a number of rich gold nuggets which had the appearance of melted gold. Some of them were worth $20. The gold is crusted and pitted in a fine filigree work, making the finest specimens to be found in the territory. Mr. Dix stated that on account of the snow and cold weather he did not work on the ledge, but devoted his time to building a log cabin. lie took out a few nuggets from t Ik- decomposed quartz at odd times when he wasn't busy on the cabin. His returns from the San Francisco mint on the gold sent there indicate a fineness of .$10 to the ounce. The mint employees, finding the gold so pure, thought it wa.s gold amalgam incited down. .Mr. Dix will return to the island shortly, as he came to town for reading matter and provisions." see. Why, yes, f believe I did; but I couldn't make nothing out of it, so I didn't think 'twas worth while to send it up!" Small Feet Must be Well Shaped. In Europe it is supposed that the tiny foot is the hall-mark of race, if only it be aristocratically shaped. This latter condition is absolutely essential, and it is a finer stain]) of high-breeding to have a foot that is delicately formed and arched, even if it be somewhat long, than to have one that is short and flat. It is related that in olden times Cleopatra, was famous for her small foot, and, in more modern times, Ninon de I'Enclos and Mine, de Pompadour, whose two feet Louis the Fifteenth could hold in one hand, tire cited as remarkable for the beauty of their feet. To judge by Canova's statue, princess Horghese (Pauline Bonaparte) had a niar- velously beautiful foot. Mine, ''.'allien was wont to sit with her two naked feet adorned with rings, while the beautiful dueliesse do I.)ino could put her foot with her boot on into any other woman's chaus- sure. The present empress of Japan, by the way, whose extremities are oi' marvelous delicacy and bounty of shape, obtains all her boots, shoes, aud slippers from Paris. W. A. JOWETT (Notary Public) Victoria Street, Nelson, B.C. Mining and Real Estate Broker Commission and Insurance Agent i<_i-ki<:s���xtin(:: The Confederation l_Ce Association. The Pluunix Fire Insurance Company. The Dominion Huil jst-_v__<_:tts_p GROCERIES, HARDWARE, and . General ���Merchandise Snag-proof Gum Boots; Lumbermen's Rubbers and Overshoes; Hand-made Calfskin Boots; Grain and Kip Bluchers; Canvas and Tan Ox-goocls; Congress Imitation Lace and Lace Boots in Kangaroo and Cordovan. A long line in the latest styles. The RAILWAY CENTRE and SEAT OF GOVERNMENT of West Kootenay. _^ecWd"rai__wayin CHOICE BUILDING and RESIDENCE PROPERTY __.__. _3-_VX-__ ___LLCTW_--:D _?-OR GOOD _3T_riX__DI_-TGrS. For Member of the Legislative Assembly. Tliu iin(l(;rsiKiu;