^^J-V'aJ-Sxss^oca-K-^-rtiiro -V-f-7-.��� ���-- ^--���_ ESABLISHED 1892 SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1902 DAILY EDITION TEBMSABMGED LE ROI STRIKE HAS BEEN RAISED SETTLEMENT DOES NOT TAKE IN THE OTHER PROPERTIES IN THE ROSSLAND CAMP ROSSLAND, January 24.���The executive of the Rossland Miners' Union makes the following announcement today: "Negotiations that have been going on for the past week between John H. McKenzie, manager for the Le Roi Mine Company, and the executive board of the Rossland Miners' Union, were successfully completed this afternoon. "This only applies to the Le Roi mine. "Negotiations are being carried on *with the other mining companies of the camp which have been affected by the strike, but they are not yet completed. "Workingmen in outside camps are advised to keep away from Rossland for the present, as there are more union men at the present time than can secure employment, until a . settlement has been effected with the other mining companies. Executive committee, Rossland Miners' Union, No. 38, W. F. M. FRANK E. WOODSIDE. Secretary. Tydvil, South Wales, and it is rumored that it is their intention to form a mammoth combination with several large Arms. LONDON, January 24.���The Daily Chronicle publishes an editorial based on the Guest & Company and the Bet- tlefields combine, which is a warning against the dangers of introducing the trust system into Great Britain. The Chronicle contends that the success of American combines is not due to the intrinsic merits of the system, but to the capable and energetic management, and that Great Britain is pinning its faith to a system of monopoly without imitating the energy which has worked such wonders in the United States. BOERS ARE DISHEARTENED POWER MORE THAN TRADE Briton's Eastern Policy LONDON, January 24.���A. J. Balfour, the government leader, made a comprehensive denial in the house of commons today of stories of negotiations of peace with South Africa. He declared that since the negtiations between lord Kitchener and general Botha no proposals having in view the termination of the war has been received from any one profesing to have the authority of the Boer leaders to make proposals and that no discussions looking to peace were now proceeding. Replying in the house of commons today to questions regarding .the govern- ��� ment'3 eastern policy, lord Cranborne, under secretary for foreign affairs, said the occupation of a port on the Persian gulf by Russia or other foreign powers, would be inconsistent with the maintenance of the statu quo, which it was the policy of the government to maintain there. In regard to Manchuria, said lord Cranborne, it was the government's policy to maintain this statu quo in China, as determined by the treaty. Henry Norman, Liberal, tried in vain to draw out lord Cranborne, the under secretary for foreign affairs, suggesting that the Anglo-German secret agreement referred to the Persian gulf and German Ragdad railway schemes. The outcome of the questioning was that lord Cranborne made a general reply in which he said Great Britain's main policy in Asia, including Persl;1, was to maintain the statu quo. Assurances ^had^been-exchanged-between^the^Brits. ish and Russian governments' with re- ferrence to the maintenance of the Persian integrity. His lordship saw no reasons why they could not simultaneously maintain British trade and good would not be bought at the expense of any right possessed by Great Britain. While anxious for the maintenance of the integrity of Persia, the government was far more anxious to maintain the balance of power, and it was quite impossible for the government to abandon its rightful position in Persia. This was specially true as regards the Persian gulf and the provinces bordering on India. Day'_ Happenings in Greenwood GREENWOOD, January 24.���[Special to The Tribune.]���H. P. Large, who has a stationery and news, business at Midway, met with an accident yesterday. Whilst out riding his horse fell, breaking the rider's leg between knee and ankle. C. Scott, Galloway, joint owner with Robert Wood of the unsold portion of the Greenwod townsite, returned today after a visit of several weeks to the Coast cities. W. G. Gaunce, secretary of the Greenwood board of trade, also came un today's train after a visit to his family in Seattle. The local St. Andrew's society is holding an at home tonight at which there is a numerous attendance. The big crusher for the B. C. Company's Mother Lode mine has arrived and preparations for getting it in running order are being pushed so as to make it available for crushing a larger output. By this time next month the second furnace will be completed at the company's smelter. Warning Aeainst Trusts LONDON, January 24.���Guest, Keene & Company of Dowla island, Cardiff, who recently absorbed the Cyfarthfa iron works and colliers, have, it is announced today, completed arrangements to acquire the business of the Nettfolds, big screw wire manufacturers of Birmingham. The consideration is said to be about $2,000,000. Guest & Company have already acquired the big steel Works of Crawshay Brothers at Merthyr Realize Struggle is Hopeless LONDON, January 24.���The London correspondent of the Times at Pretoria says: Nearly every clay produces evidence of demoralization of the Boers in the Transvaal. A petition bearing the signatures of many prominent prisoners captured recently by the British has been issued, imploring Botha to "end quickly the terrible war." Commandant Trichard has also written Botha, telling him he must come quickly and talk with his (Trichards) commando, as the men are very much dissatisfied, threaten to surrender, and will no longer listen to their immediate commander. Prisoners now falling into the hands of the British invariably seem relieved rather than otherwise at being captured. But it must not be inferred from this that wholesale surrender of the Boers are necessarily imminent. The only alternative is to continue the paring- down process uninterruptedly. The great difficulty being met with by the British forces in these operations is want of horses. What is required apart from spare horses is large columns, only half the men being employed at night. It is impossible to require the men to stand more than three night marches weekly. longer in burning than 600 pounds of first quality steam coal. The invention, it is predicted, is destined to solve the fuel problem for the whole world, inasmuch as the product may be manufactured 1,100 miles from an oil-producing locality for about ?2 a ton. Near an oil field it can be made for one-fifth of that price approximately. For factories and manufacturing establishments it is proposed to have a plant at or near the furnace doors. Dirt will be hauled, treated in a few moments, and the fireman shovels his fuel under the boilers. With a draught on can be produced a heat the like of which has never been secured from coal or, with all the draugh closed, one may have the glowing fire not unlike of anthracite coal in a baseburner. For household use it is proposed to subject lumps in moulds to a pressure of 1,600 pounds. Two Chicago-Omaha railroads will on February 1 begin using Hoffman's fuel fpr a, thorough test in the locomotives. On this date alsa the immense packing house plants of Armour, Cud- ahy & Swift at South Omaha will test the invention. TO OPEN ALASKA BIG RAILWAY SCHEMES ARE PROJECTED ONE COMPANY SLEKING A Bid LAND SCHEME IN AID OF ITS VENTURE FIGHTING THE BIG MERGER LOBERRY AND HIS RECORD Played the Game Before VANCOUVER, January 24���John Laberry recently carried on a large butcher business and slaughter house here. He was a man of engaging manners, and his pious life won him the respect and trust of those with whom he. came in contact. His wife- was also a-very amiable woman, and her musical gifts made her a welcome guest in many homes. One morning Mr. Laberry was missing and the sheriff took possession of his business. He is said to have absconded with $50,000. The banks were interested and he was hastily followed up. The searching party, however, arrived in California only to find that he had taken passage on a trans- Pacific steamer for Australia. The local press at that time stated that Laberry had cruelly left his wife without means of support. In this connection the following article clipped from the Los Angeles Times will be read "with interest: SANTA ANA, January 11.���Word has been received here that Rev. John Laberry, a resident of Fairview about 12 years ago, has absconded from Vancouver, B. C, taking between $40,000 and $50,000 of his employer's funds. For =the-past-few-^years, it_ now transpires. Laberry had been manager of a large" meat company in Vancouver. Laberry's memory in this country is not fragrant. During boom times, when the town of Fairview was started, he and his buxom little wife "blew in," and soon ingratiated themselves into the esteem of the citizens of the new place. Laberry preached on Sunday, and during the week he operated a email butcher shop, and did odd jobs for the Fairview Development Company. Mrs. Laberry sang like a nightingale in the .little church choir on Sundays, and on the side, kept a boarding house. Finally both suddenly disappeared, and then it became known that the Henderson Bros, and C. H. Stanley, for whom Laberry had been doing business, was short several thousand dollars. An effort was made to locate the festive couple, but they could not be found, and the money consequently was never recovered. When residents of this country they claimed to be natives of England. Application for an Injunction MINNEAPOLIS, January 24.���The attorneys of Milton L. Bouden and Sophia Bart Chapman filed a petition for an injunction against the Great Northen railway and its directors to prevent tne. transfer of its stocks to the Northern Securities company. Bouden holds 400 and Mrs. Chapman 100 shares of the Great Northern stock. The attorneys are the same as those who in ���. behalf of Peter Power of New" York, are seeking in the United States district court to have the retirement of the Northern Pacific stock declared illegal. The bill of complaint sets up the well known fact as to the attempted merger of the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington.systems, and claims that by this action the Great Northern directors have rendered the charter of the road subject to forfeiture at the suit of; the state of Minnesota and the license of operation in the other states traversed subject' to revocation, and further, that several such suits.are imminent whereby the company will lose valuable rights and- privileges unless the directors are permanently enjoined from carrying out- the merger. Judgment is demanded on 11 points: That the merger is fraudulent and contrary to the laws of. this state, that the Northern. Securities Company is a,.coi)>i: spiracy, that���th- Great'"North'ijrnr directors and agents*be enjoined, during the pendency of the suit, and permanently thereafter from registering any transfers of stock to the Northern Securities Company; from recognizinz or. according any privileges to that company or from receiving any votes in its meet-, ings; that the defendant directors be enjoined from holding any office in or participating in the affairs of the Northern Securities Company or from paying any dividends on- stock held by that company. The defendants have 20 days in which to answer. ��� A Substitute for Coal OMAHA, January 24.���E. J. Hoffman, a Chicago and Northwestern railroad engineer, who retired from his vocation because of ill-health, has invented a fuel that he asserts is composed of clay to the extent of ninety per cent. He says that one day while at work in the shop, there was accidentally revealed to him a peculiar action of certain chemicals and gasoline. Eagerly he followed up the clue with numberless experiments, until finally he is enabled to give to the world a fuel, he declares, cheaper and better than coal. The fuel burns in a stove, grate or furnace readily; it creates no smoke, no cinders, and burns to white ashes; twenty-five pounds of the fuel producing only a quantity of ashes that may be held in the palm of the hand. In the combustion the fire literally consumes its own ashes, and a ton of fuel will go further than two tons of the best coal, producing five times the amount of heat that coal creates. One pound of the strange mixture will suffice to keep the kitchen range going for an hour. A recent test of Hoffman's clay coal in the furnace of a large boiler developed the fact that 250 pounds of it ere- ���� carlorias have been sold to the Norweg- ���i ^ on _ ������. _- ������.������-, i i -j. i 'an authorities and that negotiations are ated 30 per cent more steam and lasted | proceeding with Russians and Danes. Was a Hired Murderer CHEYENNE, Wyoming, January 24. ���Tom Horn, the scout, Indian fighter and stock detectiveL who was arrested 10 days ago, charged with the murder of William E. Nickell, son of an Iron Mountain ranchman, who was killed last July near his father's place, was ^iveh"arpreliminary=hearing-today-and= held for trial in the district court without bonds on the charge of murder in the first degree. The testimony of the prosecution was of the most sensational character, deputy United States marshal Lafors, deputy sheriff Snow and Mr. Onhuaus testifying that they heard Horn confess in conversation at the former's office a week ago. Horn told him, the witness said, how the crimes were committed, the amount of money he received for the jobs, etc. Would Aocept a Pension INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana January 24. ���Friends of Mrs'. Benjamin Harrison, widow of ex-president Harrison, have had their attention called to statements to the effect that she has asked those in charge of the movement to grant her a pension not to present the bill to congress. This is incorrect, as stated by them. They say Mrs. Harrison has at no time made any objection to the presentation of such a bill, and still believes the matter can with propriety be presented to congress, inasmuch as the surviving widows of other ex-presidents have been recipients of the same official recognition by congress. Dawson is Out Off VANCOUVER, January 24.���It is not likely that the Dawson wire will be put up before July next. It was wrecked in three places between Quesnel and Fraser lake, this side of Hazelton, and between Hazelton and Glenora. It is reported that the men appointed to keep the line in repair have declared that the breaks are so extensive and the weather so bad that they will be compelled to wait till summer. The gang sent out to repair the Fort Simpson wire have returned reporting that repairs are impossible until next July. Canadian Goal in Europe LONDON, January 24.���The Stockholm correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that owing to the high price of British coal the administration of the Swedish railroads has decided to experiment with Canadian coal. A trial shipment has arrived at Goth- en-erg, and It is understood that a couple SEATTLE, Washington, January 24.���The Alaska,. Copper River and Yukon Railway Company has been incorporated under the laws of..Washington to build a railroad from Prince "William Sound in Alaska through the Copper and Tanana river country to a point .ton. the JTukon river near Eagle; Th�� company proposes in addition to operate a steamshi*.* nne from Seattle to Prince William* Sound, to build and maintain a smelter and refinery in Alaska and to carry on general mining transactions. The corporation is capitalized at $25,- 000,000, the entire amount of which, it is. claimed has been subscribed by eastern and. foreign capital. ?.**_he estimated cost of the railway is estimated at *U0,OUO,iM'. Tne in- corporators are -j AD. Bannister, Alfred Biles and '_. J_, I'arker. There is also a scheme on foot by which it is proposed to ;deveioo Alaska in the same manner.as the Northwestern States���by a subsidized railroad.' The Trans-AlasKan Railroad Company proposes to build a line from ,Cook Inlet to St. Michael, and asks that the government donate a right of way JSU0 feet wide for the entire distance and 10 square miles of land'for each mile of railroad built. Senator Teller of Colorado and representative Sibiey of Pennsylvania have introduced in the-two houses a-bill with this intent. . i.��� . , The measure sets forth that the corporation, which is. brganizd- in the. state, of Washington, shall be aided in its construc- ion worK by the grant of every alternate section of land.-desigriated by odd numbers for ten sections .in* width on each side of the road; also.a right, of way 100 feet in width on. each side of the center line of said road,"between (Cook's Inlet to a point on Behring Straits,-" the route to conform' to survey.filed with, the'department of the' interior last-September.-In case any grants are already occupied by settlers, other sections shall be designated. ��� In order;. that'the-.-land acquired shall be of value, the United.* States is forbidden to sell lands in the district at less than double the minimum price-of public lands when sold. - - ������ ������ ���-���. ������- -���-. ... It is further provided that the-road shall be completed within'ten years, and the first, twenty, miles in one .'year. Upon the completion of each. t-jventy mile section the government shall-transfer to the company 200 sections' (square i miles) of- land. The stipulation-is that the road shall remain a "public highway for the use of the government of the United .States'Vfor -ten years after, completion, arid', that mails shall be, - carried.a t_r��Ttestc> he -agreed op. with-the' postmaster-general...,- ; ; *v-;--.^��� .-,.-.��� - J. J. Frey, president, of the company, has ; supplied for the information* of congress a long statement. He points out that the 309,529,600 acres in Alaska; for which the government paid-less than two cents an acre, have; never.been developed, and that the railroad will open up immense wealth to the [mited States;-:He-quotes liberally from the report of governor John G. Brady of Alaska, issued last October. Following are some of the extracts employed: It is dawning upon many that Alaska is -susceptible^ of very great, agricultural possibilities. * ��� ��� * Many of' J,he citizens of- Skagway were cultivating gardens successfully, and they were justy proud wheii they entertain a skeptical friend and regale him'wltha boiled dinner, assuring him that the flowers which adorn the table-and room and the potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips, turnips and cabbages which fill the dishes ready to be served, were all grown in their own jrarden. These fascinating culinary facts are followed by- explanation of the fishing and mining possibilities of Alaska. Then the governor points out the need of railroads and predicts that the trans-Pacific steamships will eventually call at Alaskan ports.. Mr. Frey quotes a report made .in 1900. by the. two government geologists: ^This"C-ok-"_nlet--*:uskokwim-route-is,_a'*: yet, only a proposed route, but according to captain Jarvis, J. E. Spurr, F. Barnum, and other pioneers who are most familiar with the country it seems without doubt destined to become immediately the favorite overland route for Nome, St. Michael and the lower Yukon regions. This route leaves the western shore of Cook's Inlet just north of Kamlshak bay and a little northwest of Augustine island, in. approximately 59 degrees K0 minutes north latitude. It leads westward from lliamma lake to Kalamakof, on the Kuskokwlm, and northwestward to Holy Cross mission and An- vik, up Anvik river and over Anvik portage to Norton Sound; thence to Nome as before. By this routo the distance from the coast lit Cook's Inlet to St. Michael and the head of Norton Sound i.s approximately 400 miles, with the country for the most part of easy, gentle slope and no barriers. Ktaml, about 100 miles south of where the route would leave the coast, Is open to vessels all winter. The same, so far ns is known, Is true of the Kamlshak region. If this Is correct, for smoothness of country, shortness, directness and dispatch, as an overland route the Cook's Inlet and Kuskokwlm route cannot be equalled. In conclusion Mr. Frey mints out that the purchase price of Alaska Is returned every year by the fishing Industry and by the Capo Nome revenues, and argues that "some extraordinary effort should be mado to develop and open to settlement this far- off possession." "It Is to this condition of affairs," he says, "that the Trans-Alaskan Railway Company respectfully call your attention and asks- that a grant of land be made to aid in the construction of its road from Cook's Inlet to Behring Strait. The company does not ask for any minerals or mineral rights; nor does it expect any immediate returns from the lands.- Tt will take years to bring to the knowledge of th3 people in the United States that in Alaska can be had homesteads from which can be gathered the necessaries of life." passenger and freight lines. The party include J. W. Pirle", chairman of the Harland and Wolff Ship Building Company and director of the Leland and White Star lines, Henry Wilding of Richardson, Spence and Company, English agents of the" international Navigation Company, who succeeded J. R. Ellerman as chairman of the Leland line, and J. 13, Ismay and W. S. Graves, directors of the White Star line. . Mr. Ismay, when seen at quarantine said: "The same rumors were current one year ago, but there is nothing in these reports. My visit here is to study the Celtic and fit her for a trip to the Mediterranean. I can give no other statement at this time." TESTIMONY OF BOTH SIDES Powderly Favore Extension WASHINGTON, January 24���Former sec- retary of state, John W. Foster, appeared before tho senate committee on immigration and spoke in opposition to the Chinese exclusion bills which have been introduced in congress. His remarks were directed more particularly to the Mitchell, or Pacific coast bill, which, he said, was a plain violation of our treaty with China. Mr. Foster said that our government had four times asked China to modify existing treaties in the interests of American citizens and that in every instance China had acceded to our request. He then submitted for the consideration, of the committee three propositions. The-first was that any law passed by ���congress which'continues the exclusion of Chinese laborers beyond 1904 would be not only without international authority, but would be-in violation of treaty stipulations. He 'said that during the negotiations resulting in the treaty of 1894 the United States sought to have the exclusion of Chl- nese'extended to 20 years and that the Chinese government refused to make it for more than ten years. He also insisted that when-the treaty of 1S94 came.to an end the Burlirigame treaty of 1808 would be revived and. come into force, which treaty stipulated for the free and unrestricted immigration of Chinese of all classes into the United States. The treaty,' he said, had only-been suspended as to immigration, not abrogated. . , His-second proposition was that the exclusion laws should not be made applicable ���to our insular possessions," and said the Hawaiian Islands presented the exact state of affairs which was contemplated by the American negotiators for the exclusion treaty, in which they gave the assurance that to such a condition of affairs the exclusion law would not apply, when all the interests of the island;asked for Chinese immigration and . the, local authorities agreed that it-would not in any way affect white labor. '.- Mr. Foster's third proposition was that the existing exclusion .laws and the'legislation proposed are in clear disregard of the treaty of--1894, which guaranteed to all Chinese in the United States the most favored nation treatment and the privileges of treaties with other, nations, guaranteeing to them .the same treatment as to the protection of their persons and property as that enjoyed by native citizens; Mr. Foster read; from the remarks of minister Wu before the committee on foreign relations during the last session In" which he spoke of the Indignities and humiliations alleged ,to have been suffered-by some of his peopleat .thc-hands of bur im- ' mii-ration officers. Major general 0.: O. Howard-said he endorsed all that Mr. Foster had said. He had come in contact with the Chinese on the Pacific coast and characterized the un-, due diligence of Chinese inspectors in the performance of their duties " as among the iniquities of the present execution of the exclusion law." Mr. Powderly spoke of the matter referred to by Mr. Foster and said that he thought It grew out of an anonymous communication. The case, he said, had been Investigated and found without a scintilla of truth." Mr. Powderly brought-to the com- .mittee room in charge of. a deputy United States marshal two, alleged Chinese merchants, who,''he said/were samples of the "merchants" minister Wu had referred to. Through an interpreter the prisoners, Dee Sang and Chang Ling, admitted that they had entered the United Statos in 1897 on forged certificates, alleging that they were merchants and' that they knew of the deception. Asked what disposition was to be made of them, Mr. Powderly said they would be given a fair hearing, but that they would ultimately be deported. The interpreter, Charles ICee, a treasury official, described methods pursued by a Chinese company of Chicago in manufac- turins fraudulent certificates. Mr. Richardson Campbell, a Chinese in- spector.-said^that-injiis^opinion there^were 10,000 Chinese in the United States who" wore admitted on false certificates. Mr, Foster contended that there were only 93,000 Chinese in the United States, but ;Mr. Campbell stated that the department's Information gave the number of Chinese in this country as 300,000. The committee will further discuss the subject next Monday. portant duties, should deliberately violate the statute law of the land, and in some cases agree with oach other to do so; that it should bo thought necessary by them ot destroy vouchers and so manipulate bookkeeping as to obliterate evidence of the transactions; that hundreds of thousands of dollars should he paid in unlawful rebates to a few great packing houses; that tho business of railroad transportation should to such an extent be conducted in open disregard of law must be surprising and offensive to all right minded persons. "Equally startling at least is the fact that the owners of these packing houses, men whose names are known throughout the commercial world, should be seemingly be eager to augment their gains with the enormous amounts of these rebates which they receive in plain defiance of a federal statute." That there were palliating circumstances under which railroad officials act the commission Is not unmindful, and the opinion is expressed that the existing laws should be so amended that every manager who desires to observe them can do so without risk of sacrificing their property. The application of the. remedy, the report says. I is fraught with dangers to the public, ana I it should be applied unless the public is fully orotectad. CHEAP jIELTIM EVERETT SMELTER MAKES ANOTHER CUT GIVING THE SLOGAN A BATE OP $11 ON ORES CARRYING 20 PER OBNT LEAD SLAIN IN HIS BATHHOUSE End of St. Louis Millonaire ST. LOUIS, January 24.���A Dean Cooper, several times a millionaire, and one of the best known business men in St. Louis, was found this morning dying on a cot in the Vista Turkish bath house, his head crushed in by a blow from a heavy hammer. He expired without giving utterance to any word that might throw light on the identity of the slayers, and the police find themselves confronted with the most complete mystery they ever have had to deal with. A negro attendant, known as a faithful servant of Cooper, and his constant companion, except for a few brief minutes when he was struck down, is the only person the detectives have from whom to extract tho story of what passed behind the walls of the big bathing house resort, and he tells a tale of pretty women and well dressed men, of a ragged messenger boy and a mysterious note, of ribald jest, noisy merriment, all to the accompaniment of much liquor. Then the place lapsed back to the silence of tlie dead of night and he came upon his master breathing his last. The bath house was the property of the millionaire and the frequenters assert that ho was his own best customer, and that most of tliose who came there did so to join him in his peculiar form of pleasure. Cooper left his residence at 8 o'clock on Wednesday evening, his wife and"son understanding that he was going to the Vis-: . ta, though he told them nothing of his plans for the night. From the moment he closed the house door on himself the police have:nothing to show of his movements, except the word of the negro servant, William Strother. Rossland'. Race Meeting ROSSLAND, January 24.���The Rossland Turf Club has decided to hang up $1500 for a meeting on May 24th. The card Includes five events for running horses and one trot and pace. The mile run will be termed the Rossland Derby, and will have a $100 purse attached. Entries for this event will bo opened In March, and horses are to bo nominated on May 1st. The event for harness horses will also have a $100 purse attached, with the proviso that the winner must finish In 2:30 or better to take the money. A civic demonstration will probably be held as well. The Rumored Shipping Trust NEW YORK, January 24��� Tho White Star steamer Celtic arrived today from Liverpool and Queenstown. Among her passengers were a number of English shipping men whose mission, it is rumored, was to form a combine of trans-Atlantic Will Attack Colon NEW YORK, January 21.���A cipher dispatch received today by Dr. J. Rcstopo, agent of the Colombian liberal junta here, announced that general Frederlco Barrera was at ' Paralso awaiting reinforcements for the Nombre do Dlos, Code and Boens del Toro, and that as soon as these arrived Colon was to be attacked. A detail of troops forming part of general Sorigo Perez' army was reported at Emperudos, on the line of the Panama railroad, and at Matachin. A liberal force under general Victoriano Lorenzo was expected to affect a junction with tho Perez detachment. Panama, it wus said, would not be attneked at present, but efforts.would be made to prevent supplies reaching it. In another dispatch received by the liberals today generals Colodomlro Castillo and Jose Maria Castllla acknowledged receipt of 500,000 cartridges for Mauser, Remington and Manlicher ritles, sent more than a. fortnight ago. The brothers Castillo also announced that they had Invaded the Bolivar province and held troops on the Mug- dalpna river at Plato, Pivijar and Zambrit- 1-.0. Tho object of this expedition was to furnish the guerrilla troops with ammunition. According to this dispatch the conservatives in this region were reduced to the towns of Santa Marta and Clnnaga, the rest being in the undisputed possession ot the liberals. Low Persistently Violated WASHINGTON, January 2-1.���The report of the Inter-state commerce commission transmitted to congress renews the declaration made in previous reports that in its present condition the act to regulate commerce cannot be enforced. As to remedial legislation tho commission renews the statement, in. io In its previous annual report, that it " has little to suggest and nothing new to propose." The feature of tho report is the almost sensational statement ot the relations existing between the railroads and a comparatively few heavy shippers. Referring to tlie commissions recent investigations into the movement of packing house products and of grain nnd grain products, the report says: "The facts therein developed are ot such a character that no thoughtful person can contemplate them with Indifference; that the leading traffic officials of many of the most important railroad lines, men occupying high positions and charged with the most im- B evolutionists Defeated PANAMA, January 24.���A report has reached here that the forces under the Colombian general Castro had an agreement with the troops under revolution-; ary leader general Herrera, in.,.,,the, neighborhood of Agua Dulce, in the vicinity of Las.Tablas on the Azuro peninsular, southwest of 'Panama, in which the revolutionary" forces were defeated; Confirmation of this report is awaited' The meeting of .the government troops and the revolutionists near Agua Dulce will explain the delay in the expected revolutionary attack upon Panama. i PARIS, January 24.���The government of Columbia has offered to purchase a number of absolete French gun- ' boats! The negotiations have thus far had no results. ��� Canada's Trade Growing OTTAWA, . January 24. ��� Canada's fame as a producing country is spreading. Among the trade inquiries received at the department of trade and commerce, is one from a firm in Naples. It asks to be placed in touch with Canadian exporters of produce desiring representation in Italy. A correspondent in the Midlands, England, requests to be furnished with the names of Cana- -dian-_-breeders__of_-heayy^Jioi^es^i^Bn-^ quiry is made for exporters of cider from Canada. What is required is sound new stock to be shipped from February to the end of March each season, casks to contain about forty gallons each. Suicide at Northport NORTHPORT, January 21.���[Special to Tho Tribune.]���Miss Jennie M. Barlow, who has been a prominent figure in society here and in Anaconda, Montana, for tho past ten years, committed suicide this afternoon at the residence of her uncle, Robert Morrill, on Silver Crown avenue. She took strychnine. Mr. Morrill found her soon after she took the poison, and went at. once for a doctor, who reached the scene too late to save her life. Her action was probably caused by melancholy, resulting from ill health. SANDON, January 24.���[Special to The Tribune.J���There was an important change In the smelter situation here this week. D. Johnson, of the Everett smelter, has made contracts with the American Boy and Last Chance, properties on a basis of-$11'for freight and treatment on ore going 20 per cent lead or less. For ore running over 20 per cent, 20 cents a unit will be charged for each per cent up to 40, making the rate for that class of ore "$15 per ton. All ore going over 40 per cent will get the $15 rate. A zinc penalty of 50. cents a: unit will be charged on everything over, 8 per cent. The settlement Is on tha London market quotations, less shipment deductions. Ten per cent of the price wiir.be held out for 90 days to protect the smelters from fluctuation. The American Boy and Last Chance are already shipping on the new basis, and several other properties are ex-' pected to drop into line in a few days. An announcement from the Trail smelter is awaited with great interest by, the mine owners. No settlements havei yet been received from the Trail-for. ore shipped since the first, and inq-uiries have only elicited a reply that the rate for freight and treatment has ,not yet been settled for the year. This clash in rates is welcome news to the Slocan. IS THE TIME OPPORTUNE Smith's Peculiar Tactics PORTLAND, January 24.���Al Neil, of San Francisco, won on a foul from Billy Smith of Portland in the tenth round of what was to have been a 20- round contest last night. In the ninth, the gong saved Smith from a lcnt-ck out. When they came up for the tenth round Smith immediately fell on Neil, backed him against the ropes and then kicked him with his knee and bit him on the shoulder. The referee stopped the fight and declared Neil the winner. Effecting Another Saving NORTHPORT, January 21.-Oscar Szon- tagh, manager of the Northport Smelting & Refining Company, has eliminated another process in Xho treatment of his ores. His last improvement has been the discontinuance o_f the matte, crusher. It affects a considerable saving. The matte Is run onto corrugated steel plates, which have been coated with fire clay to prevent the adhesion of the metal, in cooling on the plates the matte contracts and cracks into pieces smaller than those which came from the crusher. Dixon Knocked Out BALTIMORE, January 24.���George Dixon, the veteran colored pugilist, went down and out under a rain of body blows delivered by Eddy Lenny, at the Eureka Athletic club tonight. To Introduce Protection LONDON, January 24.���Great Britain; would hit Germany hard if it should find it necessary to. impose countervailing' duties on sugar.' At the present time,, however, during the heat of the Anglo- German controversy, when the nation is irritated over the mouthings of chan- ; cellpr Von Buelow _nd the savage 'attacks of the German press against everything British, the change of policy; will come with peculiar significance. If England protects Her sugar manufacturers' she'will 'deliver a'-���'terrible blow to one of Germany's pet industries. For some years Germany has been fathering the beet sugar manufacturers. She has given them bounties with no unsparing hand, and as a consequence they have flooded the English market with sugar which has been sold at ai price less than the cost of manufacture, owing to the bounty largesses. Thia cheap German sugar well-nigh killed the home-made sugar trade,; and'not only did it close up the English industries, but it dealt such a severe blow to ���England's West Indian manufacturers of cane sugar that the planters were reduced to the verge of bankruptcy. The West Indian sugar growers called oa the home government to protect them against the Germans, but have hitherto met with no helping hand. They have been so angry at the negative treatment "accorded^them=-that���they--have-=mor.e^==| than once threatened to annex the British West Indies to the United States. If England takes this action it will resuscitate the West Indian and her own languishing sugar industries, and at the same time deliver a most opportune rebuff to German industry, which' can ill-afford to lose a good market at this time of commercial depression. If England departs from free trade in this line, it is the thin end of the wedge, and protection will surely follow in other directions as well. Tha Manchester school long insisted that the reduction of the profits of the manufacturer meant the benefit of the consumer, the great buying public of England. But when it comes to breaking down industries altogether some ot the benefit of the consumer who depends upon the industries appears, and if England does not soon protect many of her industries the consumers will soon be wiped out of existence alto- !*;ether. j Will be Free Soon LONDON, January 24.���The artist correspondent of tho Graphic, who has been following the case of Miss Stone, the captive American missionary, telegraphs from Salonica that the captives are now in-Bui-. garia, eight hours' distant from the frontier. The correspondent says that M. Gar- giulo, the dragoman of the American legation at Constantinople, who is negotiating for Miss Stone's release, Is convinced that owing to the strictness of the Turkish cordon, nobody can clandestinely cross tha frontier. He has therefore begged the American legation at Constantinople to. a'sK the porte to instruct Ibram Pasha to relax his vigilance so as to induce the brigand3 to bring the captives over the frontier. The correspondent concludes with saying it la probable that Miss Stone and Mme. Tsilka will bo free within a few days. A Big Bill Against the Government TOLEDO, Ohio. January 21.���Abner McKinley, brother of the late president, ha3 asked the United circuit court for a fee of ?t"000, the services claimed to have been rendered in the case of Joshua Harmon et al against the Detroit ��t Lima Railroad Company. He makes affidavit that on September '23rd, 1S9S, he was appointed as associate counsel for the receiver of the road, and with judge John l-I. Boyle was given, orders to act as such until further order of the court. For his work he says he haa received no pay, and he wants part of thflj proceeds of the road's sale. _ .-*--. ���-*'��.���'�� _ _ . ... ��"*o THE NELSON TBIBUNE: SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1902. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to M HUDSON'S BAY INCORPORATKD 1670 ooiM-ip^iisrsr DAINTIES IN FINE GROCERIES DAINTIES IN IMPORTED SWEETS FAINTIES IN FINEST BISCUITS DAINTIES IN WINES AND LIQUORS DAINTIES IN CIGARS DAINTIES IN EVERYTHING TO EAT AND DRINK THE BUDSOFS BAT COMPANY BAKER STEEET, NELSON, B. 0. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to DELICATE TINTS The newest, "thing" in correspondence papers is DIMITT This paper is unlike any other. Linen like in appearance, yet not rough; neither is its surface smooth. It has a delightful writing surface, on which any pen may be used. It is made in all the popular shapes and sizes with envelopes to match. 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A statement was issued by the secretary of the Rossland Miners' Union last evening to the effect that satisfactory arrangements had been arrived at between the union and the management of the Le Roi mine, as a result of whicli the strike at the Le Roi had been lifted. In his statement the secretary of the Rossland union does not go into the details of the settlement, contenting himself with saying that the arrangement arrived at is satisfactory to the union. The strike is still on at the other big Rossland properties and union men are warned against flocking to the camp as there are plenty of union men available for all the places likely to be immediately opened up by the Le Roi settlement. The Tribune is in receipt of a letter __.signed=__Anti---I_umbugli���in-���which-=the writer enters a protest against the action of the ladies who have in hand the conversazione and ball to provide funds for the public library. If "Anti-Humbug" chooses to sign his name to hit communication The Tribune will give him a chance to convince its readers that those who patronize the library should pay for their privilege, otherwise his communication on "what we appreciate we pay for" will go into the limbo of forgotten things. Prohibitionists are up against it on the referendum dodge of the Ontario legislature. If they could poll the sixty per cent vote in its favor, which is the task set for them by the Ross government, they would no longer require either the active or passive support of the Ross or an other government. When prohibitionists can poll sixty per cent of the electors there will not be sufli- cien opposition to them in the legisla ture with which to wad a gun. Canadian manufacturers will never shine as purveyors to the army of his majesty when every consignment shipped requires the certificate of a board of enquiry to satisfy the authorities that they were not gold-bricked. Australian Verson of It There is a story to the effect that some men belonging to the Strathcona Horse strung up four Boers to trees and shot them full of holes. The story has never been fully told nor properly authenticated, and although we heard it several months ago, we have so far been unable to meet with a Strathcona trooper who of his own knowledge could say that it really happened. The story as we heard it was to the effect that a body of Strathconas were passing a Boer farmhouse which displayed a white flag, and they turned in to secure water. They found several women there, who said the men were all from home, but as the troopers were mounting to depart they were fired on from the house, a couple of them killed, and several wounded. The Canadians swooped around the house, broke in the doors, and overpowered five Boers, four of whom they strung up on trees along the road, while the fifth was driven along the road and sent to the Boer camp to report the occurrence. This was the story���a swift retribution in the fury of the moment for a treacherous abuse" of the white flag. But an Australian, who <- signs himself "J," writing in the Sydney Bulletin of his experience in the convalescent camp at Pretoria, tells of his talks with a Canadian, and among other things he questioned him about "the hanging of those Boers out Greyling- stad way," and he reports the Canadian as telling the story thus: "I rather guess I was in that, stranger," he said. "It was like this. Some of our outfit went up to a farm to sample the chickens. There was a white flag up to the ridgepole, and they nacherly guessed it was all right; but, damn me, stranger, if there wasn't a mob of Boers in the corral near by, and they let drive, and knocked over a sergeant and another, and the rest got away. Waal, next day some of the squadron went out on patrol, and a few slipped off and made for this farm, and grabbed four Boers. They gave in, and help up a white flag when they saw there was no getting away, thinkin', mebbe, that nothing more than a few months free board at St. Helena would happen to them. But they were mis- | taken there. We took 'em right out =to=one'o'^them"arrangementsHhey4iang meat one, and strung 'em up right, away, and pumped 'em full of bullets with our shooters." "Your officer," I enquired, casually, "was he there, too?" "Waal, stranger, he was an' he wasn't. When he missed us in the morning, he nacherly guessed where to find us, and he came there right away, just in time to see us put the ropes around their necks. 'Stop right here,' says he, 'and bring those men along to camp.' We 'lowed we couldn't do it. Told him to keep his head shut, 'cause there was plenty more rope, and the meat fixin' would bear mor'n foui men ���it would carry an extra one easy." "And were the four Boers you hung the same who shot your men?" "Waal, stranger, I couldn't rightly say that. But they was Boers, anyway." This puts the incident���if there really was such an incident���in an altogether different light. A swift and indignant retribution for abusing the white flag is one thing, while the story, as related in the Sydney Bulletin, is quite another thing. If the Australian version is incorrect, somebody who knows the facts ought to state them.���Toronto Star. from five to seven and one half million dollars, American money. Secretary. Root explained the enormous power which the religious orders had long exercised in the Philippines. They were represented at Madrid, and the archbishop was quite as powerful as the governor general of the islands. The orders had largely supplanted the native priests. As a result of the great political power of the orders, the friars became the medium of communication between the local parishes and the cen-; tral government. They held large tracts of the best land, amounting to about 400,000 acres, at the time of the American occupation. The people rented the lands, and thus a landlord and tenant system was now in operation. This caused intense hatred, and Mr. Root said the feeling of the tenant classes was not equalled in bitterness by anything in Ireland. Aguinaldo had taken advantages of this intense feeling of the tenants against the friar landlords, and the movement had become very popular. The secretary said that about the most important thing to be done at this time was to dispose of the friar question, as it was felt that when landed proprietor- hip was brought to an end most of the agitation would be disposed of. The friars had been driven from the land in many cases, he said, and if they returned the people would kill them. Appeals had been made to the war department to collect the rents due, but the secretary said this could not be done without the use of troops. Mr. Root said that no religious question was involved, as it was simply a condition that existed and was fully recognized. The friars themselves were so fully alive to the conditions that they would doubtless be ready to dispose of their lands. At all events, Mr. Root, said, they were a part of an organization, and he apprehended that the disposition of the lands would be determined by higher church authorithies than the friars themselves. to 9\ 9\ Special Low Prices on all Dress G-oods, Silks, Underwear, Ready-to-Wear Suits, Skirts, etc. A few Silk Blouses at cut prices. Some Special Bargains in Remnants from every Department. Carpets, Curtains, Portieres, Table Covers at cost. Your choice of our leading Jackets, regular $12, $15 and $20, at $5. White and Grey Blankets at reduced prices. to 9\ 9\ 9} I ae BAK.B STKEET V^'aBj fl_ ________ __ __ ___;���___?��� _r--"''����' ��*��� NELSON, B.C. 4> to to to m ���*0'*m0'00'00^��-00-1S'-*0- 0**-*0'00-*0-00*-���0. r' AN ANCIENT SWISS VILLAGE 600 Year3 Behind the Tiinea MORE DUNSMUIR LITIGATION WILL BUY OUT THE FRIARS To Tax: the People's Bread NEW YORK, January 24.���The uneasiness in the sugar trade caused by the expectation ot an increased sugar duty, Is growing as the date of the budget speech approaches, cables the Tribune's London correspondent. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach has promised not to increase the duty on coal and this undertaking is regarded a.s foreshadowing an additional tax on sugar and perhaps tea. During the last few weeks imports of sugar have enormously increased, and the demand for storage room is fireater than the supply. There Is not so much nervousness in the tea trude, but it is freely stated that the tax on tea will be raised from 1 to 6 per cent per ix*und. The chancellor is being urged to revive the old registration duty on corn, which Mr. Gladstone abolished many years ago. If this duly had been in operation last year, it would have yielded ��3,658,000. Secretary Boot's Suggestion Before the house committee on insular affairs seretary Root turned the friar land question in the Philippines inside out. He said these land holdings constituted one of the chief causes of discontent among the people, they were the hotbeds of insurrection, and had furnished Aguinaldo his chief appeal to popular prejudice. The secretary said the religious orders so fully recognized the bad condition of affairs that they were disposed to sell out, and he urged that the government should take advantage of the opportunity to remove the chief causes of discontent in the islands. He did not believe condemnation proceedings would be necessary, as there were indications that a fair price could be agreed upon. A rough estimate of the value of the lands, he said, was Will Involve a Large Sum NEW YORK, January 21.���Edna Wallace Hopper is about to enter suit against Hon. James Dunsmuir, premier of British Columbia, and the brother of her stepfather, Alexander Dunsmuir, now deceased, to set aside her stepfather's will. If she succeeds in this she will secure all of her mother's interests in the Dunsmuir estate, which, under the laws of California���of which the late Alexander Dunsmuir was a citizen���amounts to one-half. In this case the share in the estate is variously estimated as worth from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000, comprising, as it does, rights in the mines and coal fields of Vancouver island, and a large share in the ownership of the island railroad and associated steamship lines. Mrs. Hopper will ask.for the setting -aside^of^the^will^on^the^ground^that Hon. James Dunsmuir, the provincial premier, used undue influence on Alexander Dunsmuir to procure the making of a will unfair to Mrs. Dunsmuir and her heirs, and that he unfairly influenced Mrs. Dunsmuir, also, to waive her rights to contest the will in question. The suit is set aside the will is to be brought in Victoria, the suit to set aside the agreement of Mrs. Wallace-Duns- muir to waive her rights to contest the will, will bo tried in California. The papers whicli judge Coyne has prepared for Mrs. Hopper and which are now on thoir way from San I'Vancisco to Victoria by a messenger charged with the duty of serving them on Mr. Duns- allege Alexander Dunsmuir was suffering from cerebral meningitis when' he signed the will in his brother's favor, and died within thirty days thereafter. Mrs. Hopper also says that her mother, Mrs. Wallace-Dunsmuir, came under the influence of James Dunsmuir at the time when she was hovering between life and death in this city late in 1899, and accepted $25,000 in lieu of her rights to contest. Four months later she died at the Imperial hotel. Between the time' of the signing of the agreement and her death, according . to Mrs. Hopper, Mrs. Dunsmuir began proceedings to have the agreement re- seined. It will be remembered that Mrs. Hopper's recent absence from her duties at a theatre in this city gave rise to the report that she had been hurt in an automobile accident at Yonkers. At that time she was on her way from New York to San Francisco to attend to certain business with regard to the suit against her millionaire connec- By arriving in San Francisco un- Terbinen, a district in the heart of Switzerland, is GOO years behind the times. The inhabitants are ignorant of tho discovery of America, or Europe's'chirty years' war, or of steam or electricity. They never heard - of Napoleon. They never .tasted tea, coffee or sugar. They have no movable furniture and thoy lead a nomadic life, with every man his own artisan, and his own producer of everything he needs. .Tcrblnen is situated in the canton of Wallis. Tho town of Visp, distant a six hour's ride on the buck of a mule, is the nearest place of communication with eivil- ziation. South of Visp there is no railroad nor even a road, only this mule path to Terbinen. Ttruinen is $2500 feet higher that Visp, it is an eight days' ride by mule to traverse its limits, and it contains twenty hamlets, widen either have not been put on the maps at all, or if they have, they have been wron���iy named. The population of the district all told numbers WI people. They know that they are part of a country named Switzerland, but they havo never seen any more of it than they inhabit, and don't waiit lo. They won't even build a road to Visp. What would he the use? They haven't any wagons. In religion they are Catholics, and while they recognize implicitly the authority of the pope, they couldn't tell whether his place of abode Is on earth or heaven. Tile origin ot* these strange people is lost. The speak a corruption of one of the Swiss dialects, but there .are indications they they were originally an ancient Roman colony. Their elaborate system of" waterworks is tho best evidence on which this theory is bused. Their name, too, it is thought, is a corruption of the .Latin "Terminus," frontier. The Terbiners live in houses of Larch- wood, which is said to be so durable that it lasts for thousands of years. Some of the dwellings are very ancient if the inscriptions above the doorways are to be relied upon. Ono of those bears the date of "A. D. nil." There are also several buildings which are pointed out as heathen houses, and these are supposed to be' the remains of the old Roman colony. All the furniture inside the houses is stationary, stoves, tables, benches, and beds being built in against the walls. There are no. locks on the doors for in Tcrblnen _jtheft-i8^unkr.own._Nobody-wants=anj-niprc= than ths ordinary necessities of life, and -. theso everybody can-get. There isn't a physician or druggist, not a saloon nor an ounce of tobacco in the i'lace. The houses have a ground lloor, which is divided into a kitchen and a second room, the latter, used as a general bedroom und sitlingroom for the family. Beneath the ground .door is a place called the "saal," (hall), used for storing provisions or cloth- 1ns. Bread, choose, butter and milk, dried meat and potatoes are. the chief articles of diet; potatoes were introduced only IIvn years ago. Tho bread baking tnices place twice a year in the community oven, which ouch hamlet maintains. The bread gels so hard that It has to be cut in chunks with it sword. All of tho clothing is made by the women, who spin the cloth from the wool, hemp and (lax that I.s raised In the district. The clothes aro cut In a style that prevailed in, Germany in tlio middle uses. The villagers move about from tho highlands to tlio valleys according to tho sen- son of the year and as their crops need attention. They tako their cooking utensils along and keep house In huts wherever thoy stoi>. in January and February they slay In the village. March and early April finds them, men, women and children descended to tho valleys to'attend to their vineyards ond waterways. From April 15th to May 15th they are on the hillsides planting potatoes and vegetables.. By early May they ;go back to the villages to work in the nearby fields. The first of June finds them in the vineyards again. In the middle of July tho wife or a grown up daughter takes the cattle to the heights to graze for two months, September-.is: spent by the other members of the family in garnering the winter crops, and by the end of the month the cattle are brought back to tha meadows. On October 12th there Is another exodus from the village to the vineyards, und from October 25th to tlio beginning of November the Alps aro revisited with the cattle. This combination will be opposed by t Tobacco company of Kngland and the A the .- American companies. In the deal there will exist a more harmonious woiking understanding. These companies control the market for imported cigars in Groat Britain, which is enormous and are in a position to fear but little if any threatened invasion of this market by any other combination. Borgheese Art on the Market LONDON, January 23.���Lady Stanley, wife of sir Henry Stanley, asserts that she has high authority for assorting that the Italian legal difficulties havo been overcome and that negotiations are. well advanced for tho transfer of the entire Borgheese gallery to the United Stales. She implores the civilized world to join in averting such a catastrophe. The Borgheeso gallery, the estimated value of which i.s if.l.UuU.CUO, is regarded as being- one of tlio linest private collection of paintings in tlio world. Among the best known works are Corrcggie's Daimo and Raphael's Entombment. The statuary in the collection is not regarded as of much importance, but the modern sculptures include several masterpieces, such of Canova's Venus Victrix. Ireland and Its Troubles LONDON, January 21.���The Times' correspondent at Dublin reports that the progress of a. revised plan of campaign In tho west of Ireland has not been appreciably checked by the recent prosecution of certain members of parliament and other agitators. Speaking after the sale of goods of a tenant for. refusing to pay rent in Roscommon, John O'Donnell, Al. P.. over whose head two convictions for bringing about an illegal assembly are hanging, said that notwithstanding all the government's efforts, a Are had been started hi tho north and west of Ireland which would make such a conflagration which would burn " all landlords to blazes." co:iycjp^_isr!Z- OFFICE: BAKER STREET V/EST, NELSOfJ, B. C. TELEPHONE HO. 219, P. 0. BOX 688. MARBLE, BUILDING STONE, BRiOf^ AND LIWjE ..... The Mansfield Manufacturing Company- have the above mentioned building materials for sale at reasonable prices. Special quotations to builders and contractors for large orders. . _ ' ��� Ten Years Leisure to Repent SAN FRANCISCO, January 21���Prank Rawkowsky, until recenuy a soldier in the United States army, has been brought hero from Columbia, Washington, and taken to the military prison at Alcatratz island where he will serve n sentence of ten years for threatening the life of president Roosevelt. He claims he was drunk when lie made the threat. GRGERS Vi MAIL ATTENDED TO PROMPTLY Canada's New Bank TORONTO, January 23.���It is stated that the Soyerign Bank of- Canada will open, its doors for business about-March ���31st. infield J CO_MI_E:>.A.2sr",_Z' OFFICE: BAKER STREET WEST, NEISOfi, B. C. TELEPHONE NO. 219. P. 0. BOX 688. KfEP OUR GOODS TO LOOK AT W�� SELL AND r|E-BUY DHtEGTOBT ASSAYBRS' SUPPLIES. W. F. TEETZEL, & CO.���COKNEK OV Baker and Josephine Streets, Nelson, wholesale dealers in assayers' supplies. Agents for Denver Fire Clay Company. TOTICES^QF^MEETires: ___FRATBRNAL SOCIETIES. tion. expectedly Mrs. Hopper secured possession of a large number of papers and books which woul:l otherwise, she believes, have been secreted from her. Mrs. Hopper, while in the west, made a settlement out of court with all the heirs under her mother's will, and thus got rid of all rivalry for the possession of the $350,000 left her by her mother. She will come on to Victoria shortly to personally press her claims, and it is hinted may not in this be without assistance even from certain members of premier Dunsmuir's family. BiK TobaccoTrust NEW YORK, January 21.���The American tobacco combine's designs upon the British market and the trade in the United States, has received a surprise in the closing of a deal which has been negotiated by George P. Butler, a well known Amorlcaji tobacco man, cables the London correspondent of the Herald. As a result of this deal, the position of tlie Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland, which comprises -jome thirteen big firms and which will bo iloalod early in February, is probably strengthened. Mr. Butler when asked what would be the effect of the new combination, replied. "It means closer relations between the Universal Tobacco Company of America, Imperial Tobacco Company of England, Henry Clay-Bock Company, the Havana company, Tjitnitcd, and tho Havana Commercial Company. You will find our stock complete with the most up-to-date FURNITURE CARPETS HIGH ART PICTURES LINOLEUMS AT LOWEST PPES ^ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES. KOOTENAY ELECTKIC SUl'Pb- * Construction Company���Wholesale dealers ln telephones, annunciators, bells, batteries, electric lixtures and appliances. Houston Block, Nelson. FRSHJ1ND_SALT J-��EATj3.____ P. BURNS & CO., BAKER STREET, Nelson, wholesale dealers In Crush and cured meats. Cold storage. KOOTENAY TENT NO. 7, K. O. T. M.��� Regular meetings flrst and third Thursdays of each month. Visitinsr Sir Knights are cordially invited to attend. Dr. VV. Rose, K. !<..; A. VV. Purdy, Com.; G. A. Brown, P. C. N-LSON LODGE, NO. 23, A. F. & A. M., meets second Wednesday in each month. Sojourning brethren invited. GROCR1ES. KOOTENAY SUPPLY COMPANY, LIM- ited, Vernon Street, Nelson, wholesale grocers. JOHN CHOLD1TCH & CO. ��� FRONT Street, Nelson, wholesale grocers. A. MACDONALD & CO.-CORNER OF Front and Hall Streets, Nelson, wholesale grocers and jobbers In blankets, gloves, mitts, boots, rubbers, mackinaws, and miners' sundries. NELSON AERIE, NO. 22, F. O. E.��� Meets second and fourth Wednesday ot each month at Fraternity Hall. Georgo Bartlett, president; J. V. Morrison, secretary. NEL-SON rtOVAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. 12a, G. R. C���Meets third Wednesday. Sojourning companions invited. George Johnstone, 'A.; Thomas J. Sims, S. E. JTRADES^AND LABOR UNIONS. J. Y. GRIFFIN & O'.���FRONT' STREET, Nelson, wholesale dealers in cured meats.-butter and eggs. provisions, LIQUORS AND DRY GOODS. Don't miss seeing our fine line of Xmas goods. Early buyers have first choice. TUJt-NER, BEETON & CO.-CORNER Vernon and Josephine Streets, Nelson, wholesale dealers in liquors, cigars, and dry goods. Agents for Pabst Brewing Company of Milwaukee and Calgary Brewing Company of Calgary. MINERS' UNION, NO 96, W. F. of M.��� Meets in Miners' Union Hall, northwest corner of Baker and Stanley Streets, every Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. Visiting members welcome. J. R. McPherson, president; James Wilks, secretary. Union scale of wages for Nelson district per shift: Machine men $3.50, hammersmen $3.25," muckers, carmen, shovelers, and other underground laborers $3. BARBERS' UNION, NO. 196, OF THE International Journeymen Barbers' Union of America, meets lirst and third Mondays or each-month in Miners'* Union Hall at S'.HO sharp. Visiting members invited; Ell Sutcliffe, president; E. DeMers, secretary- treasurer; J. C. Gardiner, recording secretary.- BUSINESS DIBE0T0BY. A. C. EWART, ARCHITECT���ROOM 3, Aberdeen Block, Baker Street, Nelson. DRAYAGE. LAUNDRY "WORKERS' - UNION ��� Meets at Miners' Union Hall on fourth Monday in every month at 7:30 o'clock p. m. B. Pape, president; A. w. McFee, secretary. FURNITURE, PIANOS, SAFES, ETC., moved carefully at reasonable rates. Apply J. T. Wilson, Phone 270, Prosser's Second Hand Store, Ward Street. FURNITURE. D. J. ROBERTSON & CO., FURNITURE dealers, undertakers, and embalmers. Day 'phone No. 292, night 'phone No. 207. Next new postofllce building, Vernon Street, Nelson. CARPENTERS' UNION MEETS WED- nesday evening of each week at 7 o'clock. In Miners' Union Hall. John Burns, sr., president, William Raynard, ^secretary. PAINTERS' UNION MEETS THE FIRST and third Fridays in each month at Miners' Union Hall at 7:30 sharp. Walter R. Kee, president; Henry Bennett, secretary. COOKS' AND WAITERS' UNION, NO. Ill, W. L. U., meets at Miners' Union Hall second and last Tuesdays in each month at S:30 p. m. sharp. A. B. Sloan, president; J. P. Forrestell, secretary; H. M. Fortier, financial secretary. PLASTERERS' UNION MEETS EVERY Monday evening in the Elliot Block, at 8 o'clock. J. D. Moyer, president; William Vice, secretary, P. O. Box 161. THE NELSON TRtBirNE: SATURDAY iioRNINGi, JANUARY 23, 1902 BANK OF MONTBEAl CAPITAL, all paid up.._$12,00_,000.00 REST 7.000.000.00 UNDIVIDED PROFITS 8:6 531.61 Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal ...President Hon. George A. Drummond Vice-President B. 8. Clovaton ....��� General Manager NELSON BRANCH Corner Bakor and Kootenay Streets. A. H. BUCHANAN, Manager. Branches In London (England) New York, Chicago, and all the prlnolpal oltilea ln Canada. THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE WITH WHICH 18 AMALGAMATED THE BANK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. HEAD OFFICE: TORONTO. . . . S8.000.000 - - - $2,000,000 ACCRECATE RESOURCES OVER $65,000,000. Paid-up Capital, Reserve Fund, Hon. Geo. A. Cox, President. B. E. Walker, General Manager Bay and soil Sterling Exchange and Cable Transfers. Grant Commercial and Travelers' Credits, fc-allable ln any part of the world. Drafts Issued, Collections Made, Eta. Savings Bank Branch CURRENT RATE OP INTEREST PAID. REBELLIOUS BRIDES SOLD Bucks Ed joy Shrew Taming Seventy bnxora squaws of the Comanche Indian tribe were sold at auction at Darlington, Oklahoma, on Christmas day, in accordance with the ancient wedding custom among the tribe. And now the seventy are in despair, while the owners are gloating over the acquisition of such conditions to their households. Some of the squaws had already been married and carried papooses upon their backs, but this was not considered in the mind of the Indian who auctioned them off. The pleadings of the squaws to allow their own husbands (who belonged to other tribes) to buy them in availed nothing; their tears were but to sear their own hearts, for an Indian's decision once made cannot be changed for love or money. A few weeks ago the chief of the Comanches declared there was a surplus of Indian girls unwed. So he called the medicine men in secret session and. behold! a decision was soon reached that ' there was to be a wedding festival. And all the bucks rejoiceed at the news, for they imagine it great sport to bid against each other for the hand of a handsome scuaw. Hence it was a strange mixture of sentiment that invaded the Comanche reservation on Christmas day. Gloom fell like a black thunder-bird over the little band of seventy women, while near at hand as ninny bucks made merry in the medicine dances. They were each filled with the ambition to outbid a neighbor. The wedding festival did not pass off: owithout its trouble and interference, for a number of revengeful Kiowas, hearing of the ceremonies, invaded the sacred circle and commenced to bid before the Comanches knew of their presence. And several cowboys worked off a plan to carry off three of the prettiest of the women. Among the latter was a clauglv; ter of ex-chief Parker. She was justly considered the belle of the whole tribe. Christmas morning dawned bright and rather warm. The large agency building used as a pen for the captives was invaded at sun-up by Ute Arrow, the auctioneer. To his astonishment he found three of the most handsome and long-wished for squaws gone from the stockade. Scouts were at once sent in pursuit, but they returned at 9 o'clock footsore and unsuccessful. They wished to take part in the bidding and would not give chase longer for fear of missing an opportunity. The young women left were taken to the camping ground, fed a light breakfast, made to retire to a large tepee and each take a turn at her toilet so she would sell for a fancy price, and then they were let out and stood in a bunch. , Ute Arrow walked among them picking out the insubordinate ones first. Humming Bird, a bright and vivacious young squaw, was the flrst victim, so chosen because she had attempted upon several occasions to lead a riot among the captives and escape. Her long "^black���hair^hung_4n_tw.o^shiny^_raid��L over brown-skinned and bared shoulders. The dress she wore was covered with elk teeth, being loaned for the occasion by her parents who robbed her form of it immediately after the sale. Her. two black eyes were filled with tears as Ute Arrow began in a loud voice to extol her charms and accomplishments. Her brown sirtn flushed for the shame of it all. In this thick guttural voice Ute Arrow proclaimed her servile duties; how well she could cook, how quickly she could harness a team or cinch a saddle girth, her physical endurance at the plow, or her capacity to extort money from creditors of her liege lord. (She was a collector for her uncle, ex-chief Parker, and gathered in his rentals.) Fifty ponies was the flrst bid. A young Comanche brave noticed for his daring was the bidder. His life-Ion-: enemy at once became a rival in the bidding and .the girl was run up to eighty ponies and sold to. the first bidder. He at once took possession of her and a medicine man, Saucy Chief, married them according to the Comanche forms. Others of the seventy were_ put up and sold, quite as quickly at the first. But Humming Bird being a spirited young woman, made a desired addition to the household of any redskin and she ��of course brought the highest price. After the bidding had been in progress several hours four Kiowa warriors invaded the camp by stealth and commenced to bid, talking in the Comanche tongue. One of them, Buffalo Tails, was awarded a young woman whom he had been courting for some time, by out bidding all others in the sum of fifty- three ponies. But when his nationality was discovered the bid was annulled and he was promptly run out of camp. The three young women who were stolen by cowboys have not been captured yet, and it is probable they have gone out of the reservation into Northern Texas. This is the last of the wedding festivals of the Comanches, and the leaders of the event chose Christmas day because they thought it would add the glamour of romance to the occasion. Comanches are very sentimental and daring. When two rivals for the same girl bid against each other one may be sure the girl will go for twice or perhaps thrice her real value. In Comanche London Office, 60 Lombard Street, B. O. New York office, 16 Exchange Place. and 68 Branches In Canada and the United Slates. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT: Interest allowed on deposits. Present rate three per cent. GRANGE V. HOLT, Manager Nelson Branch villages the value is about thirty-five ponies for a stout, healthy and willing squaw. The more beautiful and more unwilling to be sacrificed, naturally the higher will run the bidding, as a Comanche brave enjoys nothing better than the taming of a wife. After all of the seventy brides had been sold, the squaws, closely guarded by their husbands, engaged in several medicine dances, and the affair ended with a big feast late Christmas night. There are but few girls among the Comanches now of marriageable age, and it is quite probable that no more such wedding festivals will be held while the tribe exists. There are but 300 members of the tribe, most of whom were women unmarried. The reason for this is that no marriage has been allowed for six or seven years, owing to an alleged curse left upon all women of the Comanches by a dying squaw named Lightning Arrow, a sister of Ute Arrow, who conducted the sale of brides. This squaw claimed that there was a conspiracy to ruin her life, and she traced it to a certain family of unmarried girls. When she was dying she called her relatives about her and said that the next wedding of a Comanche woman and man would mean the death of the whole tribe by fire. This alleged curse was lately removed by the medicine council. A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE Died Poor in Chicago As a true soldier of fortune as the world has ever known died in Chicago on the last day of the year 1901. He was colonel Thomas Munster Munstery, the champion swordsman of two continents, whose early life was spent in remarkable adventure, punctuated with conflicts and love affairs and hairbreadth escapes from death. He was 85 years of age when he died, penniless and dependent, for his support on friends. For half a century he has made it his business to teach the theatrical profession the art of fencing. The elder Davenport, Forrest and Junius Brutus Booth were among his pupils. Since 1870, as a swordsman, he had met the champions of all nations and never once been defeated. Colenel Munstery at,one time during his devious career was engaged in the cigar business in Philadelphia. He was born in Baltimore, but not of American parents. The blood of the Hohenzol- lerns flowed in his veins. His maternal grandmother was a Swedish beauty, "who became the morgantic wife of Frederick William of Prussia. His father was a Dane of rank, banished from court for engaging in a duel, and made governor of the island of Santa Cruz in West Indian waters. He left there in 1812 for the United States, where his son was born. When the boy was four years old his parents went back to Denmark and separated. There was a contest over the pos- ession of the boy, in which the mother _was__successful^ The old man wa_~wont"to-relate-how- he remembered being spirited away when a child of 6 years and confined in a dungeon, where he was fed on bread sprinkled with sugar when he was good. After this he remembered living with his mother in a handsome house in Copenhagen. When he was 12 years old he started on his career of marvelous adventure. He went to sea in the Danish navy, and in Rio Janeiro had a quarrel with a negro whom he stabbed, this being the first blood shed by him. After three yf ars on. the sea he returned home. At tlie age of 18 ho became a pupil of Dr. Ninge, in Stockholm, where he learned the art of fencing and became noted for preternatural feats with the rapier. After that he figured as the principal in twenty-three duels, and as the principal or second in fifty-three. At the age of 22 the young man went to St. Petersburg and became sword- master to grand duke Cohstantine, and commanding officer of the bodyguard. Here he defeated champion after champion of other European nations and made a brilliant reputation. His downfall came when with a young nobleman whose intimate friend he was, became mixed up in an affair with a woman of the court, whose husband was a high official. He was exiled from Russia, and went to Berlin, where he expected his Hohenzollern blood would help him to recognition and position. Instead, he was seized at the royal command by German soldiers and cast into prison to remain for months. On his release, which was affected through friends of his mother, he was led across the frontier and ordered, on penalty of death, never to return to Germany. . . _ In 1874 Munstery had drifted to Copenhagen. There a quarrel over a woman led to a duel. He disarmed his adversary, who afterwards treacherously picked up the sword and gave him a wound that, sent him to a hospital for five months. When he had been dis- carged as convelescent he was sitting one night in a restaurant idly finguring a glass of beer and planning to start again on his travels the next day. As he sat. thus lost in thought his adversary suddenly appeared. Another duel followed, which Munstery fought with his left hand, his right being incap- IMPERIAL BANK 0_a" 0-__.__T-A.ID-A. Capital (paid up) Rest . $2,600,000 ��� $1,850,000 HEAD OFFICE. TORONTO, ONTARIO. Branohes in Northwest Territories, Provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec H. 8. HOWLAND President. D. R. WILKJE Qeneral Manager. E. HAY Inspector, NELSON BRANCH, BURNS BLOCK. A general banking business transacted. Savings Department,���Deposits received and interest allowed. Drafts sold, available in all part of Canada, United States and Europe. Special attention given to coll ns. d. M. LAY, Manager. acitated. He came off victorious, and departed for Hamburg. There he passed ten years in poverty, living from hand to mouth. One day he read in a newspaper of the Texan war for independence and the resulting trouble between the United States and Mexico. . He came'to the United States and inlisted and fought at Tadasco. He was wounded and sent to a hospital. When he got out he went into the cigar business in Philadelphia. He went to Nicaragua in 1849 and fought in a revolution there in progress. He took part in a war in the United States of Colombia. In 1858 in Copenhagen he saved the life of the Spanish charge d'affairs, through whose influence he became military instructor to the government ot Madrid, and was sent to Cuba to give lessons to the soldiers there. Later he was transferred to Havana, where love affairs and duels engaged his attention for a year or so. Then he took part in a revolution in Honduras, and got mixed up in several other South American conflicts, in which he narrowly escaped with his life. He went to Mexico and fought under the banner of the Liberals in a revolution against the government. Securing $400,000 in spoils of gold and diamonds, including the diadem of an archbishop, he started for the Atlantic coast, but was plundered of his treasure before he reached the United States. It was in the city of Mexico, in 1868, that Munstery fought his last duel, his opponent being Ramon Valdez, a colonel in the Mexican army. Of course the Mexican was worsted. Thereafter the famous swordsman had passed most of his time in San Francisco and later in Chicago, giving fencing lessons. railwaysIf the world Extensive Building Last Year During 11)01 thei*- were put down in the United States 5057 miles of new railroads, this estimate being that of the statistical bureau of the treasury. The Increase is greater than has been recorded for any year since 1S90, and brings the Ltrackage ot this country up. to 199,378 miles, exclusive of the large and rapidly growing mileage of-urban lines operated by electricity. The railway mileage cf the whole world is estimated at 4S4.34S miles; that of the United States, therefore, constitutes more than three-fifths of the total. Roughly speaking this may be taken as a measure oL* the productive energy of the American people as compared with the entire population of the clobe. Ot the total mil *age now open to traffic North America nas 226,057 miles, Europe 16S.605, Asia 35.5S0, Sduth America, i!8,3.��4, Africa 15,800, and Australia 15,282. Mexico, whicli in 1873 had but. one railway 2G4 miles long, from Vera Cruz to the capital city, now has a network of 91103 miles, while the Canadian systems now cover 17,657 miles of track���which goes to show the advantage o�� having a restless and enterprising nation for a neighbor. Of course the Canadian and Mexican governments are entitled to credit for their encouragement o�� railway construction, but it Is a fair presump- iton that but for the proximity of the United States and the marvelous expansion of American industry and commerce the greater part of the steam roads in the adjoining countries would not have been huilt. , , "~Of~the'"hal��^milll_n-'miles-ot-railroadsian: the world about one-third are owned by the governments of the countries in which they are located. Nine-tenths o�� the German roads are owned by the federal government or by the various states "comprised in the empire. Two-thirds of the Russian roads were built and arc owned and operated by the government, as are nearly one- half o�� those o�� Austria-Hungary. Nearly all the Italian roads ure government property, but are operated by companies underleases. The republic of France, In accordance with the franchises under,- which the roads within its borders were constructed, will become the proprietor of nearly all of thorn by the middle f �� the coming century. \ large proportion of the railroad mileage in operation In India (25,035 miles) Is publio property, while practically all the railroads in Australasia are owned by the various colonies. Anyone may draw any morul he pleases from those facts. There I.s one consideration of weighty Import, however, in tills connection. It is significant that In the United States, where transportation facilities have been furnished by the.adventure of private capital, the people have greater and cheaper facilities than- are afforded in other countries. These are, after all, the main considerations. Government ownership is expensive and may bo made a means of extortionate tribute. On the other hand, there are some advantages. On the German ran- roads, for instance, discriminative rates are I absolutely prohibited.���Philadelphia Rec- l ord. Died at 108 Tears PHILADELPHIA, January 24. ��� Mrs. Ruth Carney; aged 108 years, died at the Union Home for old ladles here today. She was reputed to be the oldest woman in Pennsylvania. She was born in Wales, but passed the greater part of her life in this country. A STBAIGHTrOEWABD PLATFOEM. "We believe ln giving every person ono dollar's worth for every one hundred cents. We believe tho price should be marked on each article In plain figures. We believe in charging for each article the price marked. We believe In selling goods to children at the same price we sell their parents. We believe in exchanging unsuitable or unsatisfactory purchases for other goods. We believe in representing goods to be just what they are. We believe we can glvo you just as good satisfaction and just as good value as any other jeweler. If you will favor us with a share of your patronage wo will use our best endeavors to deserve your confidence. In our repairing department we guarantee all our work and agree to repair free of charge any work which proves unsatisfactory. If Brown sold so it's right. January 14th, 1902. ����00. . 0. 00 00 0, 0, - * to **9*********************-************-*i lS-O-BBTABLTBHBD IN NHL80N-1902 PER CENT to to to to to 9\ 9\ to to to hv - ft ft ft $ Before stock taking this month a 1 REDUCTION OF lO * will be given on every dollar. ft But come early and you shall have our prompt attention. * charge this month. As I employ the best watchmakers and jewelers, all our work ? is guaranteed. Both mail and express orders shall have our prompt attention * ft ft ft Jacob Dover, "The Jeweler." % % Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Engraving free of ttj Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi *********.************.******.************************************.*** ** to 9\ to to to to to to to to ffl PROVINCIAL BOARD OF HEALTH. Regulations for dealing with the outbreak of smallpox at the town of Fernie, East Kootenay. Approved by his honor the lieutenant-governor in council the 17th day o�� January, 1902. HEALTH ACT. On account of the outbreak of smallpox in the town of Kernie it is hereby proclaimed: 1. That the town is In a state of quarantine until further notice.- 2. That no person shall be allowed to leave the town on any circumstances whatsoever. 3. That all meetings in churches, lodges, and schools and other public gatherings are hereby prohibited. 4. That no person shall under any circumstances hold any conversation whatsoever with any person quarantined, and no person under quarantine shall attempt to break same or communicate with any outsider. 5. Any hotel-keeper, lodging-house keep- eror householder suspecting, knowing, or having good reason to believe that any person residing upon or frequenting his premises is ill or suffering from a rash of any description, shall at once notify the medical health officer, giving the name ahd occupation of, and other particulars necessary to properly identify, such person. 6. Any person having a rash on his body shall notify the medical health officer on the flrst appearance of same. 7. Under authority of the "Health Act," it is hereby declared that all and every person not having a certificate of recent successful vaccination dated within one year, and further not being able to give proof of same to the satisfaction of the medical health officer, shall at once be vaccinated. 8. After a period of seven days from this date any person refusing to present to any public officer, who may demand It, proof of vaccination, shall be liable to the prescribed penalties under the "Health Act." Penalties under the "Health Act:" Any person who violates any of the provisions of this proclamation is liable to a fine of $100 and to six (6) months* imprisonment. Dated at Victoria this 16th day of January, A. D. 1902. CHARLES J. FAGAN, Secretary of Provincial Board of Health. By command J. D. PRENTICE, Acting Provincial Secretary. TAX NOTICE. Notice is hereby given, in accordance with the statutes, that provincial revenue tax, and all assessed taxes and income tax, assessed and levied under the Assessment Act and amendments, are now due and payable for the year 1902. All taxes due and collectable for the Nelson Assessment District are now due and payable at my office, situate at the court house, Ward street, Nelson. This notice, in terms of law, is equivalent to a personal demand by me upon all persons liable for taxes. HARRY WRIGHT, Assessor and Collector, Nelson Postoffice. Dated at Nelson, 13th January, 1902. PROVINCIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE. His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor in Council has been pleased to make the following appointment: Frank W; Hardy of Ymlr, Esquire, to perform the duties of a deputy mining recorder, at Ymir, for tho Nelson mining division, during the absence upon leave of Mr. A. B. Buckworth, J.P. ��� NOTIOE. Notico is hereby given that I Intend to apply at the next sitting of the board of license commissioners for tho City of Nelson, to bo held after tho expiration of thirty days from tho date hereof, for a transfer of the retail liquor license now held by mo for tho "Grand Hotel," sltuato on Vernon street ln tho'Clty of Nelson, on tho east half of lot 4, block 2, sub-division of lot 93, group 1, West Kootenay district, to John Biomberg of the City of Nelson. GUS NELSON. Witness: A. BENSON. Dated this second day of January, 1902. NOTICE. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. In the matter of the Winding Up Act, Chapter 129 of tha revised statutes of Canada and amending acta, and in the matter of the Athabasca Gold Mine, Limited. Notice is hereby given that the honorable the chief justice has fixed Friday the 17th day of January, 1902, at the hour of 11 o'clock ln the forenoon at the Law Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, as the time and place for the appointment of an official liquidator of tha above named company. J. J. CAMBRIDGE, District Registrar. 0ESTIH0ATE OF IMPBOYEMENTS' Notice: Ray of Hope mineral claim, sltuato in the Nelson mining division of West Kootenay district, located on Duhamel (Six-mile) creek. Tako notice that I, Charles W. Busk, freo miners' certificate No. 50,823, aa. agent for W. J. Goepel, free miners' certiflcato No." 50,500 John Paterson, free miners' certiflcato No. 50,727, and self, intend sixty days from the data hereof to apply to tho mining recorder for a certiflcato of improvements for tho purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the abova claim. And further tako notice that action under Section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certiflcato of improvements. CHARLES W. BUSK. Dated this second day of January, A. D. 1902. ti+it^cfa*^^ CLASSIFIED ADS. ARTICLES FOR SALE. SEWING MACHINES OF ALL KINDS for sale or rent at th�� Old Curiosity Shop. TO LET.���FOUR ROOM COTTAGE ON Park street, opposite hospital. Rent, Including water, $12 per month. Apply E. Kilby, next door to Rossland Hotel, Vernon street. LODGERS. FOR RO-__ AND TABLE BOARD. AP- ply third house west of Ward on Victoria street. COMFORTABLY FURNISHED ROOMS to rent on Silica street, between Ward and Kootenay streets. Apply L. Peters. EMPLOYMENT AGENCY. CANADIAN EMPLOYMENT AGENCY- WANTED help of all kinds; men for railroad construction. Large warehouse for storage. Prosser's Second - Hand Store, Ward street, Nelson. SEWING MACHINES FOR, SALE._ SEWING MACHINES FOR SALE OR rent. Sold on installments. Old machines, taken in exchange. Repairs kept for all makes of machines. Singer Manufacturing Company, Baker Street, Nelson. PUPILS WANTED. ; WANTED PUPILS ON PIANO OR OR- gan by Mrs. Starmer Smith. Apply residence, or P. O. Box 137. GIRL WANTED. WANTED���A WOMAN OR GIRL TO help with housework and baby. Good wages. Apply to John Hutcheson, Cranbrook, B. C. HENRY G. JOLY DE LOTBINIERE. CANADA. PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. Edward VII., by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom o�� Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the seas, King, defender of the faith, etc., etc., etc. To Our Faithful the Members elected to serve in the Legislative Assemly of our Province of British Columbia, at Our City of Victoria,��� Greeting. A PROCLAMATION. D. M. Eberts, Attorney General. Whereas wo aro desirous and resolved as soon as_may be, to meet Our people of Our Province of British Coiumbiarand-to^have their advice In Our Legislature: Now, Know Ye, that for divers causes and considerations, and taking into consideration the ease and convenience of our loving subjects, We have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Executive Council, to hereby convoke, and by these presents .enjoin you, and each of you, that on Thursday the twentieth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and two, you meet Us in Our said Legislature or Parliament of Our said Province, at Our City of Victoria, FOR THE DISPATCH OF BUSINESS, to treat, do, act and conclude upon thoso things which in Our Legislature of the Provinco of British Columbia, by tho Common Council of Our said Province may, by tho favor of God, be ordained. In testimony whereof, we have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of Our said Province to be hereunto affixed: Witness, the Honourable Sir Henri Gustavo Joly do Lotblnlere, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant Governor of Our said Province of British Columbia, at Our Government House, in Our City of Victoria, In Our said Province, this 9th day of January, ln tho year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and ln tho lirst year of Our Reign. By Command. J. D. PRENTICE, Acting Provincial Secretary. PROVINCIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE. His Honour the Lieutenant-governor in Council has been pleased to make the following appointments: Sth January, 1902. William Edwin Newcombe, of Trout Lake, Esquire. M.D., CM., to be resident physician at the said place. John M. Holland, of the City of Grand Forks, Esquire, to be a notary public in and for the province of British Columbia. 9th January, 1902. Frederick Fraser, of tho City of Revelstoke, Esquire, to be��� Stipendiary magistrate, Government Airont, Assistant C'o.i.aiissioncr of Lands and Works, Collector of Revenue Tax, District Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, and Registrar under tho. "Marriage Act," for the Revelstoko Division of West Kootenay, Gold Commissioner for tho Revelstoke, Illcclllewaet, Lardeau and Trout Lako Mining Divisions, Clerk of tho Peaco for the County of ���Kootenay, District Registrar of the Revelstoke registry of the Supreme Court, and Collector of Votes for the Revelstoke riding of tho West Kootenay District, vice Mr. W. J. Goepel. P. Burns & Go. Hkad O-Picb at NELSON, B. 0. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Meats Markets at Nelson, Rossland, Trail, Kaalo, Ymir, Sandon, Silverton, New Denver, Revelstoke, Ferguson Grand Forks, Greenwood, Cascade' Oifcy, Mid way, and Vancouver. .'..,,-���... West Kootenay Butcher ��o. ALL KINDS OF _> FRESH AND SALTED MEATS WHOLESALE AND RKTAIL FISH AND POULTRY IN SEASON K. W. 0 BLOCK WAED STREET E. C. TRAVES, Manager TREMONT HOUSE 321 TO S313BAKKR STREET, NELSON AMERICAN4 AND EUROPEAN PLANS MEALS 25 GENTS Rooms Lighted by Electricity and Heated Dy Steam 26 Cents to $1 IMPERIAL BBEWM COMPANY EMERSON & REISTERER. BREWERS OF THE BEST LAGER BEER STEAM BEER AND PORTER When you want the Best, ask for IMPERIAL BEER. SLOCAN JUNCTION HOTEL 1. H. Mc-IANUS, Mar*_.ger. QUEEN'S HOTEL BAKBR BTRBJBT. NELSON, Lighted by Electricity and Heated with Hot Air. ����-���;�� comfortable bedrooms aad first-- claaa dlnlnr room. Bample room* for com* merclal mas. RATES 82 PER DAY N|rs. E. G. Clarke, Prop. ������Bfctaof-the^Koyal-Hoteirealgary"��� l-ladden House Baker and Ward Streets, Nelson, Bar stocked with best brands ot wlnea, liquors, aad clear*. Beer on draught Large comfortable rtoma. First claw tabla board. CHEAP FUEL. Reduction In price of coke: Per Ton. Coko at gas works Jfi.aO Coke delivered 7.50 Cash must .accompany all orders, or %1 extra will be charged. '' NELSON COKE & GAS COMPANY, Ltd. DRUG STORE EARLY CLOSING ON AND APTEE JANUAEY 1st, : The public Is notified that on and after January 1st our places of business will close at 9 o'clock every night except Saturday and the day preceding a public holiday. Sunday hours 10 to 12 a. m., 2:30 to 4:30 p. m., 6:30 to 8:30 p. m. CANADA BOOK & DRUG CO., Ltd., "W. F. TEETZEL & CO., J. H. VANSTONE. W Hi Hi Hi iU Hi V- tii *. OF COURSE VOU WANT THK BK8T- THEN GO TO ARTHUR QBE in Tremont Block. He will suit vou. Large ntock of imported season's goods. ^**** ****************** r^ NEWLIM & CO. AUCTIONEERS, VALUERS, ETC. Kootenay Street, uoxt door to Oddfellows' Hall P. O. Bor 633 NELSON, B.C. The only hotel in Nelson that haa roi malned under one management since ISM, Tbe bed-room* are veil furnished and lighted by electricity. The bar Is always atocxea Dy the best domestic and Imported liquors aad cigars, THOMAS MADDEN, Proprietor. HOTEL ROSSLAND. Third door from Grand Central Hotel on Vernon street Best dollar a day] bouse in town. House and furniture newt and first class ln every respect, Lighted by gas. Room and board $5 to |I pes week. No Chinese employed here. J. V. O'LAUGHLIN, ProprHstor. Bartlett House Formerly Clarke Hotel. The Best $1 per Day House in Nelson, None bub white help employed. The bar tha best. G. W. BARTLETT, Proprietor R. REISTERER & CO. BBXWKB8 AND BOTTLKBS OV FINE LAGER BEER, ALE AND PORTER Prompt and regular delivery to the trad* BRBWBRY AT NELSON OYSTER COCKTAILS AT THB MANHATTAN, OYSTER COCKTAILS AT THH MANHATTAN, The Manhattan JOSEPHINE STREET ALL THE BE8T BRAND8 LIQUOR8 AND CIGARS. THE NELSON TRIBUNE, SATURDAY MORNING JANUARY 25, 1902 Ir i? <, t\'<. If If; I* Oi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi ft ft ft \M Hi >�������� Hi Hi tf tf 5_ tf tf tf i THERE ARE A FEW LINES SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS WHICH WE AfiE OFFERING AT VERY LOW PRICES. English, French and American Perfumes. Hand Mirrors Ladies' Traveling Oases Ladies' Dressing Oases Gents' Traveling Oases Ladies' Purses and Card Oases. Gents' Purses and Wallets Chatelaine Bags Perfume Atomizers Hair Brushes of all kinds W. F. TEETZEL & CO. % *** *** ���*** ************ *** *************************** ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft * Lawrence Hardware Co. IMPOBTEBS AND DEALEES IS . Shelf and Heavy Hardware AGENTS FOE-Orescent, Oanton, and Jessop's Steel, Bennett's Gutta Percla Puse, Jen-kef*' Ore Oars Hamilton Powder Company's Blasting Powder ��� __ _ _ -. and Dynamite [\ fi I SOU K Ii Eailroad, Mill, Mining and Bnilders' Snpplies X1 yxPU-llf _uri \J. RAILWAY TIME TABLE CANADIAN PACIFIC SYSTEM LKAVK 5 a. m. Duily. LEAVE 6:10 p. in Duily 6:40 p. in, Duily 8 a. in. 8 a.m. LEAVE 10 a. m. CHOW'S NKST RAILWAY Kuskonook, Creston, Movie, Cranbrook, "Marysville, rort Steele, Klko, Pernio, IMiehol, liluirmorc, Frank, Alaclcod, Lcthbridgo, Winnipeg, and all Eastern points. 1 p. ni. Daily, COLUMWA & KOOTKNAY 1'All, WAY Kobson, Nakusp, Arrowhead, Uovolsloko, ami all points oast and west, on CIM". main line, Robson, Trail and Rossland. Robson, Cascade, Grand Forks, Phasnix, Greenwood and "Midway. (Daily except Sunday) Robson, Trail and Rossland. (Daily except Sunday) 10:10 p.m. Daily 10:10 p.m. Daily 10:10 p.m. 11:35 a.m. SLOCAN RIVER RAILW'Y Slocan City, Silverton, New Donver. Three Forks, Sandon (Daily oxcept Sunday) ARRIVE 3-AO p. m. LEAVE i p.m. i p.m. KOOTKNAY LAKE STEAMBOATS Balfour, PilotBay, Ainsworth Kaslo and all Way Landings. (Daily oxcept Sunday) Lardo and all points on the Lardo & Trout Lake Branch. (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.) 11 a. ni. 11 a.m selected rinks will practically livo on tho ice until tho time of the bonspiel, which will take place early in tho month of February. TELEPHONE 39. P. O. BOX 527. Nelson Saw & Planing Mills CHARLES HILLYER, President. XJII_CIT__l_-��- HARRY HOUSTON, Secretary. Hare just received 3,000,0 feet of lc of timber of any dimensions or lengths, doors, and mouldings in Kootenay. us from Idaho, and we are prepared to cut the largest bill Estimates given at) any time. The largest stock of sash GREAT NORTHERN SYSTEM. LEAVE Dopot 9:10 a.m Mount'in 10:30 a.m. Daily. LKAVK Kaslo 7 a.m. Nelson 6:00 p. in. Daily NELSON & FORT SHEP- _*AltD Ii AIL WAY Ymir, Salmo, Erlo, Waneta, Northport, Rossland, Colvillc and Spokano. ���Making through connections at Spokano to the south, east and west. KOOTENAY LAKE STEAMBOATS Balfour, PilotBay, Ainsworth Kaslo and all Way Landings. ARRIVE Depot. 0:4a p.m. Mount'in 5:59 p. iu. Daily ARRIVE Kaslo 3:?0 p, ni. Nelson 10:30 a.m. Daily COAST LUMBER OF ALL KINDS ON HAND OFFICB ANI> YARDS! CORNER HALL AND FRONT 8TRBET8. WE MUST REALIZE On our large stock and we intend making this to do month BARGAIN MONTH From January 6th to January 31st we will allow 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT on all cash purchases Leather Couches, $60 00, cash price.. .$48.00 Leather Chairs, $50.00, cash price.... 40.00 Sideboard, $60.00, cash price......... $55.00, cash price......... $40.00, cash price, 48.00 44.00 32.00 Rattan Goods. Bed Room Suites. Parlor Suites and all kinds of House Furniture reduced prices. Carpets will be sold at very low prices. First come, first served. at J. G. BUNYAN & CO. dies' commutes was held yesterday at the regi-Jeiice of iVtrs. Kerr on Victoria street in anticipation of the same. P. H. Ahem of Seattle, superintendent of the Pinkerton detective force for that district, was in the city yesterday. The meeting- of the school board announced to be held last evening, was adjourned until this evening at-8 o'clock in Dr. Arthur's oflice. TJlO services of ' the Congregational church \yil) be talcon oyer by Rev Mr. Reia of Phoenix, who is exchanging pulpits with Kev William Munroe. Owing to tlie "storm yesterday the telegraph lines were disconnected alonsr almost all the branch lines iii the Kootenays, and for the greater part of the day communication with outside joints was impossible. The installation of the newly elected officers of the Nelson Encampment of the I. O. O. F., No. 7, took place last evening in Fraternity hall, at the close, of which refreshments were served and a social time was spent. At the close of the choir practice in tho Methodist church last evening O. L. Lennox was made the recipient of a handsome conductor's baton by the members. The baton was presented by Airs. W. \V. Beer and wa.s accompanied by an address which was read by Mrs. George Bell. Mr. Lennox mado a suitable reply. Chinese After Damages Legal proceedings have been taken against James Blakely and his brother by Wong Bark Koy and live other Chinamen residing on the Mines road for willful damage and destruction to their property, it appears that early in the year 1900 Wong and the other livo of his countrymen purchased for the some of $300 a house and lot, known as lot IS on the city tramway company. Blakely also claims to have purchased from the Tramway Company. Immediately after acquiring possession Blakely ordered the Chinamen off the premises, giving them two weeks to move their belongings. A compromise was subsequently effected whereby Blakely became the purchaser of the house for the sum of $-10. The boys then removed to the adjoining lot, No. 19, and built an addition to the House of another Chinairmn, and had just completed their apartments when, they allege, Blakely intimated--to them that he had purchased lot No. 19' also, and again ordered them off the place. Subsequently they allege that a brother of the accused appeared on the scene and tore down their house, smashed their, furniture and threw their provisions and effects around the premises. On advice the "Chinamen went to the offices of the tramway cbmpanv and were given to understand that lot No. 19 had not been sold and that it was not the property of the man who claimed it. Inside of two days the China.rn.en scraped up enough money to l*u>' the lot, and appeared at the company's office to make the initial payment, but wore informed that Mr. Blakely had. purchased the lot, although he had made no' deposit. Seeing that they were thus at the mercy of their oppressor they on the advise of friends submitted the matter to a solicitor, 'who advised them to make out a bill of damages, which they did and are now suing Mr. Blakely for $90. Since the .matter has been further investigated it transpires ���that house No, 2 is not on lot No. 19, but is on Mill street. ??*****���***���**���***���***���*���*���************���*���**���*���*���**���*$�� A COMPLETE LINE OF Front Doors Inside Doors Screen Doors Windows Inside Finish local aad ooasb. Flooring looal and coast. Newel Posts Stair Rail Mouldings Shingles Rough and Dressed Lumber of all kinds IT WHAT -Off WANT IB HOT IK STOCK WE WI_L "-4KB IT FOB TOD CALL AND GffiT PRICK- J. L Sayward - ffALt UIO _A*T_ STREETS, CTBLBOW OFFICE AND POCKET DIARIES FOR 1902 Canada Drug & Book Co. KOOTENAY COFFEE CO. ************************ Coffee Boasters Dea,er8 ln Tea and Coffee ************************ We are offering at) lowest) prices the best grades o Ceylon, India, China and Japan Teas. Oar Best-, Mocha and Java Coffee, per pound �� 48 Mocha and Java Blend, 3 pounds 1 00 Choice Blend Coffee, i pounds 1 00 Special Elend Coffoe, 6 pounds 1 00 Rio Blend Coffee, 6 pounds 1 00 Special Blend Ceylon Tea, per pound SO A TRIAL ORDEB SOLICITED. KOOTENAY COFFEE GO. Telephone 177. P. 0. Box 182. WEST BAKER STREET, NELSON. CITY AND DISTRICT. Dr. Quinlan is on the svek list and was received into the general hospital yesterday. The Nelson hockey club are negotiating with the Grand Forks team for a hockey match in this city within the next few days. The wholesalers and the C. P. It. hockey team will try conclusions at the skatiii- rink this evening. The services at the Presbyterian church will be, conducted tomorrow by Rev. Dr. Robinson of Rossland, when lie will declare the pulpit vacant, the first preliminary to the congregation calling another minister. Hugh Glencroff, a Rossland woodman, was ouf _bpi4t four miles, from Rossland yesterday loading up wood, when a log came down the Kill and struck him, fracturing his thigh in two places and otherwise injuring him. M. A. Clark, principal of the Nelson high school, will address the Socialistic League on Sunday afts'rnoon next, giving an his- Qtrieal view of Socialism. The meeting will be held in Miners' Union hall and will commence at 3 o'clock. perature gave the plumbers lots of work owing to the bursting 01 water pipes. It was reported that one of the city firms had seventy orders for repairs to water pipes during working hours. The services at the Methodist church tomorrow will be conducted by the pastor. At the morning service the choir will render an anthem "The Lord i.s My Shepherd." Also a quartette. In the evening, anthem, "How Long Wilt Thou Forget me, Oh, Lord," by Mrs. Thurman and choir, and a soIo.^I^Heard^the^Volce^ofc-Jesus-say,-^ (Bonari Mr. Lennox. There was one bill of sale recorded at the mining recorder's office yesterday,, on the Delaware mining claim from James A. McDonald of Rossland to John A. Finch and A. B. Campbell of Spokane. There was onlv one location, by Michael Keeley, of the Riverside mining claim at the mouth of Falls creek, on tli-3 north side of Kootenay river. A regular Manitoba blizzard prevailed during the early hours of yesterday. The thermometer dropped down around zero, and tho wind was boisterous. The boom of logs at the Nel-on Saw & Planing Mill was broken by .the storm and the logs drifted down the stream. The bulk of them were secured at the cfl.v wharf, but a number of them went down as far ns the C. P. R. wharf, and'1 were beached on tho lake front. The physicians of. Nelson are taking stops to secure representation on the provincial medical board, -the election for which takes place on March 20th. The doctors of Nelson are sending out ballots to their fellows ln the several towns of the interior with a view to deciding upon one to represent them, an assurance having been received from the Coast that whoever is chosen by them will be given a place on the board. The result of the balloting will be made known on February 10th. The Baptist mission at Bogustown held their Christmas entertainment last evening. It had been arranged to be held at the proper season, but owing to an outbreak of sickness among the families it had to be postponed until the above date. An interesting program was lendered and the usual distribution of presents to the little folks formed one of the chief features of the occasion. Tho Rev. J. B. Morgan addressed tho children, and R. Robertson, the superintendent of the Sunday school, I* resided. Argument on the Mandamus The adjourned ��� argument was heard yesterday in the rule nisi granted, in relation to the "Tiar-cla-flUS proceedings taken to compel the Issuance of a writ to fill the vacancy in Victoria's representation in the legislature. Gordon Hunter,. IC. C, fpr the applicant, observed that if Mr. ���Helmcken had not been denied . the opportunity of inspecting the warrant, he' would have noticed the absence of a seal and the application would not have been made. In answer to an inquiry why the writ had not been issued, the only reason given wa�� that insiruc- had not been received from* the lieutenant goverriop in council."The warrant having been produced in court and not disclosing a seal, there was no. alternative but to drop proceedings, if the'technical-objection taken were insisted upon. In view of the circumstances, the-applicant should not be mulcted in costs. Mr. Hunter also pointed out that the inspection of the papers on file in the New "Westminster election would reveal that the speaker's warrant, had issued without a seal, but despite that the election was proceeded with, and held, showing that the government were relying on a mere technicality:. , ��� ������-.--. Tho deputy, attorney general in reply said it was no technicality," "and-that it was something that went to the right to issue the writ. With regard to Mr. Hunter's statement that the government had issued a writ for. the Westminster: election on a warrant .without a seal, the Westminster election might possibly be void for the omission.'He did not-wish Mr. Helmcken to suffer costs.' The court' discharged the rule without costs.���The Colonist. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to & CO ESTABLISHED 1892 &- -�������� �����' Portland Cement Fire Brick Fire Clay Sheet Iron T Rails Ore Cars Blowers Exhausters Pumps Graniteware 'Tinware HARDWARE AND IRON MERCHANTS HEATING STOVES COOKING STOVES AND RANGES -* NELSON, B.C. STORES AT KASLO, B.C. SANDON, B. C. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to ^:^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^��^^^^$^^^^^^g$S^:^S^ to to To Save Money m to to to to Buy shoes now. Enormous reductions made this month to clear out the odds to Jj( and ends. All felt goods below cost. See our special bargains on -Side Tables 2} to Manitoba^, Arctics, Cardigans and Leggings at Cost. One Hundred pairs of to J$ Mens' Fine Shoes regular $4, $5, and $6. all Genuine Goodyear Welts. Your to choice.for $3. to to to to L. A. GODBOLT, Prop. oyal Shoe Store THOS. LILLIE, Manager to to to to to to to J* :-'-$-*:'_5--_5:'*3'-^^:*_3^^ 'imTS' 0f-0*.0*.0**~l-00i-0*.0*.0#'00'-0if.0*.00.0*'0*'f0t.0*-00,-0*-.00.00.00.00.00^'00-^09'00.00.i��.SI.i^T^?^^^ ~t. "J J5 ���^���* Flour Mill Gutted BUDA PEST, Hungary, January 24.���The Concord flour mill was gutted by fire. Tlie loss is estimated at three million crowns. Why Pastor Morgan Resigned At the meeting of the congregation of the Baptist church on Thusrday. evening last the matter of receiving the resignation of the Rev. J. B. Morgan was the chief matter discussed. It appears that the resignation was first rendered on December 2nd to the executive of the church. Mr. Morgan's reason for. taking the step was bo- cause it was -apparent that the numerical strength of the congregation was insufficient to maintain a minister with a family. The executive, instead of accepting the resignation, made application to the Home Mission Board for assistance. The application was refused, which resulted in the resignation again being offered to the church board and action taken upon it, with the provision that the pastorate should terminate should terminate at the end of three months. Two days after the resignation was placed the second time, a call was offered to Mr. Morgan from the Rossland congregation, in consequence of which the -special=mocting^of^-Thiirsday^was=ealled^ Having been relieved of the charge Mr. Morgan yesterday accepted. the invitation to Rossland, and will commence his pastorate at that place on the first Sunday in February. The farewell services will be held on Sunday next, and Mr. Morgan will proceel to Rossland next week. His family will remain in Nelson for the next few weeks until the pastorate now in course of renovation i.s ready for occupancy. AT THE HOTELS. HUME���J. W. Pannell, Hammond, Indiana; A. G. McKonnoy, Toronto; E. D. Dan- kiss, Spokane; F. H, Whyte, Toronto; N. Ford and H. B. XX Ford, Spokane: T. Stephens,. Vancouver; W. F. Agnew .Grand Forks; John Dronzote, London. QUEEN'S-C. Band and wife, Kaslo; Miss G. M. Purdy, Lumsden, Assinaboine; R. F. Bragg, Strathcona; R. D. McNaught, Silverton; Rev. A. '13. Roberts, New Denver; Rev. George Kinney, Phoenix; A. R. Douglas, Vancouver. MADDEN���John Roach and A. Wallace, New Denver; David Murphy, Ashcroft. PHAIR���Thomas Hilliard, Rossland. TREMONT���Trilby Charlwood, Kaslo. BARTLETT���John Mollett^ Ymir. When at Erie, B. C, stop at the Mersey hotel. Mrs. M. Collins, proprietress. The big schooner of beer or half-and'- half, 10 cents. Always fresh and cool. Club Hotel. E. J. Curran. laugliteping Sale For the next thirty clays I will gice a great slaughtering sale on all lines in stock consisting of boy's and men's clothing, furnishings, hats and caps, and hoots and shoes. In order to make room for spring stock I must slaughter some of my present stock and also to give my many customers the benefit thereof. Now is the chance to partake of some of the best bargains ever offered in the Kootenays. The sale is genuine, the stock new and the prices away down. Call, get prices, examine goods and be convinced that I am offering the greatest bargains ever offered in Nelson.. 217 and 219 Baker Street J. A. GILKER THE BIG LIMITED K. W. C. BLOCK NELSON Percy Chapman, manager of the A. Macdonald Company, left yesterday morning on the Spokane train for Vancouver in connection with the branch or their business which is being established at that place. Elaborate preparations aro being made for the holding of the provincial Grand Lodge of tlie L. O. L in this citv on the 20th of next month. A meeting of the la- A largely attended meeting of the curling club was held last evening in tho board of trade rooms to complete arrangements for the Winnipeg bonspiel. A list of ten names was submitted to the meeting from which to select a couple of rinks. Six curlers were to be selected, as J. G. Wilson of this city and James Waugh of Kaslo have already arranged to attend the bonspiel at their own expense. Tho following names were submitted: John Rae, o. Ji. Fox. F. A. Tamblyn. J. H. AVallace, A. Walloy, A. Carrie, J. Pinkham, G. McLaughlin, judge Forin and Richardson, The latter withdrew beforo tho balloting was started nnd the first six were selected to fill the rinks to be sent. It was then decided to ballot for skips from the list of thoso composing the rinks, with the result that Messrs. J. Rae and J. G. Wilson wero elected. The com- Iio.sitioii of the rinks will be left to the skips to arrange, and the application for rhe entry of the two rinks will be forwarded at once to the secretary of the Manitoba Curling Association. In the meantime the Rich Strike at the Fern A rich strike Is reported from the Fern mine, which is under lease and bond to P. J. Nichols of this city. A sample of the rock of the new discovery Is on exhibition at Vanstono's drug store. It is said to assay $140 in all values, of which $12S represents tho gold and the balance ln silver and copper. The strike is said to have been made in following up a seam, although sufficient time has' not elapsed to detcr- mino the extent of the new ore body, but there is said to be, three feet of it. The assay given represents a sample taken from sixty sacks of the ore broken down in tlie firing of the first machine hole driven into the ore body, In which case it should be fairly representative of the ore body at that .point. Will be Tried for Murder CAPE TOWN, January 24.���Commandant Kritzinger, captured recently at Hanover road while trying to rescue wounded burghers under fire from the block house lino, is charged with four murders, in addition to train wrecking and cruelty to prisoners. It is claimed that he is really a Cape rebel, and therefore deserves the fate of commandant Lotter, who was hanged last October. The Paris Rapel printed a dispatch from Durban, Natal, stating that general Louis Botha, the Boer commander- in-chief, was holding live British ofHcefs and had notified lord Kitchener that if Kritzinger was sentenced to death they would be shot. Schooner BEER-OR-HAL;F-AND-HAl_F- BISCUITS CHRISTIE'S CREAM SODAS. CHRISTIE'S WATER ICE WAFERS Also all kinds of Sweet Biscuits fresh from the factory. BLUE RIBBON TEA. Houston Block Nelson, B C. J. A. IRVING & CO. THE ONLY GOOD BEER IN NELSON Club HEAL-JS-AK AND Corner Silica and Stanley Sts. E. J. CURRAN, Proprietor. Porto Rico Lumber Co. (LIMITED) Americans to Operate Chinese Traffic NEW YORK, January 24.��� It is likely that American capital will build, equip and operate the flrst electric railroad in China, lt ha.3 been learned that prominent banking houses of this cily; interested in tho local traction companies, were preparing to invade Shanghai, that city having asked for propositions to build and operate a 23 mile railroad "there. Treaty Signed WASHINGTON, January 2!.���The treaty of cession of the Danish West Indies from Denmark to the United States was signed at the state department today by secretary Hay and Constantino _.n-n,. the Danish minister. The treaty will be submitted to tlie senate for ratilication immediately. Rough and Dressed Lumber Shingles Mouldings A-1 White Pine Lim-bor Always in We carry a complete stock of Coast Flooring, Ceiling, Inside Finish, Turned Work, Sash and Doors. Special order work will receive prompt attention. Porto Rico Lumber Go.Ltd. CORNER OK HENDRYX AND VBRNON S-KKHTH INSURANCE BROKERS Agents for Trout Lake Addition (Bogustown) Fairview Addition, Acreage property adjoining the park And J. & J. Taylor sates. These safes can be bought from ub oi two year's time without inteiest Ward Bros. 833 West Baker Street, Nelson. NOTICE To the Public and Union Men: Tho Trades and Labor Council of the City of Nelson have declared all hotels, restaurants and saloons employing Chinese in or around the premises unfair to organized labor. The following do not employ Chinese in such capacity: VICTORIA HOTKL CLARIC13 -IOTI-Tj TREMONT HOTEL, MADDEN HOTEL SHERBROOKE HOTEL GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL LAKE VIEW HOTEL ROSSLAND HOTEL GRAND HOTEL K LOND11CI3 HOTEL JOHN SPEAR MANHATTAN SALOON BODEGA SALOON GLCJE POT SALOON CLUB HOTEL IMPERIAL RESTAURANT KOOTENAY HOTEL IMPERIAL SALOON WAVERLEY HOTEL ATHABASCA SALOON NOTIOE OF MEETING The annual meeting of the Cooks' and AVaiters' Union, No. 1-11, Western Labor Union, will be hold Sunday, January 26th, at S o'clock sharp, for the purpose of elect- ins officers for the ensuing: term. All members are requested to attend. I-I. M. X^ORTIEll, Finance Secretary. A. B. SLOAN, President. NOTIOE. Your patronage ond inlluenco respectfully solicited for Brown Brothers as the leading jewelers of Nelson. STENOGRAPHER. ��� A YOUNG LADY stenographer, three years' experience, wishes position. Good references. Apply, stating salary, to 700 Seventh Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. GOAL FOR. DOMESTIC OR STEAM USE General Agency, Telephone 266. W. P. TIERNEY BAKER STREET, NELSON. TKMSl'lIONB 115 ORDER YOUR Telephone 35 COAL FROM NELSON FREIGHTING AND TRANSFER CO- ANTHRACITE A.ND ROSLYN ALWAYS ON HAND Ofllco: Baker Street, WEST TRANSFER GO. N. T. MACLEOD, Manager. Teaming and Transfer Work of all kinds. Agents for Hard and Soft Coal. Imperial Oil Company. Washington Brick, Lime & Manufacturing Company. General commercial agents and brokers. All coal and wood strictly cash on delivery. OFFICE 184 BAKER STREET TELEPHONE! 147. Private Tuition Students prepared for departmental an<$ other examinations. Commercial work a specialty. I. C. SLATER, Fourth door above City Hall', .