tribune Satvirday Morning, [December 13, 1902 PURE PEOPLE WANT THE LAWS STRICTLY ENFORCED AGAINST TWO SOCIAL EVILS PROPERTY OWNERS TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AGAINST THEMSELVES Twenty pure gentlemen, including live gentlemen who draw salaries for preaching purity, met in Nelson on Thursday and reso.ved themselves into a body that will hereafter attempt to purify the body politic and keep it pure. One of the live who draw salaries for preaching purity was eloquent, but not wise. He eloquently pleaded that the newly formed Society of Purity should join forces with the society that is being formed to protect the property interests of the West Kootenay Power -& Light Company from the avarice and rapacity, of the Corporation of the City of Nelson. This proposition was deemed unwise by another pure gentleman whose income is derived for protecting people who get into 'trouble through violating .the very laws the society intends to rigidly enforce. Both these pure gentlemen are politicians, and both are working to gain the same end, that is, the complete overthrow of the' element , in* Nelson who has made Nelson the third city in the province in commercial importance and the lirst in respect to municipal -vne/fchip of public utilities. The one hopes to gain that end through his church, if he can only get the support .��� of the other churches; and the other churches have, apparently, fallen into the trap, and are willing to be catspaws of the eloquent preacher-politician. The other hopes to gain political preferment through a coalition of the personally pure people and the property-owning people who love private croporations in which they have no financial interest and hate the municipal corporation in which they have a financial interest. Pure motives and kindly feelings, no doubt, inspire the preacher-politician; but no one will readily believe that his learned and wise coadjutor has other motives than personal advancement. This is a free country, however, and its people have an inalienable right to their opinions; arid7as tlie personally pure people have no end of opinions, they should hayeVthe privilege of airing them; occasionally. .."-7 7 ; . Thirteen (an-'-unlucky number) prominent property owners also:'-met in? Nelson on Thursday. The object of their meeting was to protect property owners from injuring themselves. The thirteen believe themselves to be the self-conscious'guardians of the property interests of the other, eighf.7,hundred, property owners of Nelson. But their first act was a; trifle inconsistent with their professions. Instead of resolving to protect the interests of the 813 property owners of Nelson, they resolved to protect the property interests of the West Kootenay Power & Light Company, Limited, of x.ossland, a corporation that does not own property in Nelson. But- tuen consistency is a jewel, and none of the thirteen are class ed as jewels. The eight hundred property owners who were not at the meeting will probably pay little heed to the actions of the thirteen property owners who were, and who are so willing to protect them from themselves. This is a free country, however, and there is no law to prevent thirteen estimable, although more or less bumptious, property owners from being foolish, and remaining perpetually foolish. A CERTIFICATE OF CHARACTER. Not long since, a reverend gentleman named Shearer from the East paid British Columbia a short visit, and on ��� his return home he called our people bad names. Rev. Dr. Peter Wright, pastor of St. Paul's Presbyterian church at Nelson, took up the cudgels in behalf of the people of the province, and among other things said: "It is a mistake to suppose that the typical western' town of Canada is a sink of iniquity, where life and property are in danger, and where a family must be reared amid deadly perils, i There is no town or city in the east whose streets are more free from drunken men or where less profanity, is heard, or that might be travelled with greater impunity even by unprotected women at any hour of the day or of the night, than are the streets of Nelson and of many, other Kootenay or Boundary towns." The above is a pretty good certificate of character. If there is no drunkenness, little profanity, and women can walk the streets unprotected day or night, Nelson cannot be a disorderly sink of iniquity, and cannot be a city grdatly in need of either a Society to i Propagate Purity or one to Protect Pro perty. Interests. CAPACITY OF SMELTER TO BE :;*:.: DOUBLED. . Paul Johnson, manager of the Greenwood smelter, is'in Nelson.- He says the .smelter "of "which he is manager is treating froni 750 to 800 tons of-'ore a day;! and that he expects the capacity of the -smelter to be doubled before long. Mr. Johnson is not a pessimist. He says that his company will be mining and smelting ore at a cost of $2 a ton before* the year 1903 is at an end, -anti'that -by.- doing so they-will "be in a position to treat custom ore at a very low rate. At present they are getting 150 tons a day from the Snowshoe mine. Mr. Johnson leaves for home this morning. COAST POLITICAL NEWS., VICTORIA, December 12.���(Special to The Tribune.)���Matters political are quiet in Victoria. Reports from North Nanaimo indicate that Mclnnes will be elected by a very large majorty. In North Victoria, it Is believed Robertson (government) will also be returned by a good majority, the opponents of the government conceding him a close run. No new date has been lixed as yet for West Yale. paid in eastern Canada,, In the large yards foremen wil "receive 25 cents an hour, and others 21 cents. In the smaller yards tho rates will be 23 and 19 cents. Roug-hly estimated the Increases will aggregate a quarter of a million dollars. RAILWAY CONTRACT LET. The. Great Northern has let a contract-to build the V. V. & E. road from Curlew, Washington, to Midway, British Columbia. The contract was awarded to Siems & Shields of St. Paul,, and will be carried out by Stewart & Welch of Spokane, contractors who have just finished a hundred miles of work for the C. P. R. at Moosomin, in the Northwest Territories; Work will be coni- I menced at Curlew within a few weeks. The letting of this contract by the Great Northern has also revived the report that the C. P. R. has every preparation made to begin construction between Midway and Spence's Bridge. There is likely to be lively times in railway circles in*British Columbia during the next two or three years. ������'"*"���***��� "- 7 "::"'" '���.������������ ST. PAUL'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NELSON AND ITS PASTOR, REV. DR. PETER WRIGHT. LOOKING AFTER A SHIPMENT. W. R. Will/of New Denver, one of the owners of the Capella mine, is in Nelson looking after a 30-toti shipment of ore from the mine. The Capella is within two miles of New Denver. Mr. Will says he and his partner can work the mine themselves and make good wages, which-is better than grumbling over hard times anld the low price' of silver. THE NEW WAGE SCHEDULE In a recent telegraphic despatch from Montreal the anouncemont wa.s contained that the C. P. R. had decided to increase the wages of all trainmen east of Fort ���William to the extent of about 15 per cent. The details "of the new schedule have Just bee'n received, and .are as follows: Pasesnger conductors north of Lake Superior will receive. ?1-*J a month instead of $108. . On lines east of the lake the increase is from $100 a month to $110 and $115. Passenger conductors on branch lines wil] be paid $90 instead of $80 a month. Through freight"' conductors who were paid $2.75 pw hundred miles will- recelvo $2.90. . Through freight brakesmen urev increased eight cents per hundred miles, making the rate $1.95. The increase on way freight trains Is about ten per-cent all round. , Baggagemen receive an eight per cent advance. Their" wages will range from $53 to $70 a month. '��� Yardmen's wages are advanced about fifteen per:; cent, making then the best WHAT IS DONE IN OTHER PLACES. The City of Lindsay, Ontario, has an electric light plant of the same capacity as the one that the City of Nelson proposes to install, and the conditions there, as to distance between plant and city, is much the' same as here. At Lindsay, no one is employed, at the substation, and three men do the work at the power station. The city employs a superintedent and one lineman in addition to the three men at the power-station���five men in all. The salaries of five men at Nelson should not exceed ?500 a month and $200 would be a liberal allowance, for oil, ,-waste, fuel, carbons, and miscellaneous expenses. Taxes, water fees, and insurance would prob- -ably aggregate another $200 a month. So that $900 a month;'or $10,800 a year, would not be an unfair estimate of the cost of operating and maintaining a - well-equipped power "plant at Nelson bedsides maintaining an efficient service In the city. Interest and sinking fund re- qurements for the $76,000 already invested and the $150,000 to be invested would take $18,730 more. This added to the cost of operation and maintenance would total $29,530, or say $30,000. -The present earnings of the plant amount to $24,000 a year, therefore the city's* busi- % ness would have to be increased $6,000' a year in order to make both ends meet. The loan by-laws passed in 1898, 1899, and 1901 require a tax to be levied on real estate for that amount to meet the interest and sinking fund charges on the money that has been borrowed and used for the electric light system. So the expected deficit of $6,000 is already, proyided for. But there will be no deficit, as the earnings of the plant will aggregate more than $30,000 a year, and If they do, the city will be making just as much in the way of net profits as it is under existing conditions. The* gross profits today are put at $12,000 a year, but when the $6,000 that is raised by.taxation of real estate to meet interest and sinking-fund charges is deducted, the net profits are cut down to $6,000. Vote for the bylaw. CUBAN TREATY EFFECTED. Havana, Dec. 12.���A definite treaty of commercial reciprocity between Cuba and the United States was signed late last night by general Bliss and secretaries Zaldo and Montes. It only lackB the signatures of. secretary Hay and Senor Quesada, and the approval of. the United States and' Cuban senates to make it operative. - Good Reasons For Voting for the Electric Loan By=Law On Wednesday of next week the property owners of Nelson will'vote on the electric light loan by-law, the merits 'and demerits of whicli have been discussed in the press and on the streets and even within the sacred precincts of houses of worship. Many of the argu- -ments^used=_against^the^by^law^_appear_ to be extremely absurd to those who favor its passage; and, no doubt, many of the statements made by those who favor the by-law appear equally absurd to those who oppose it. The Tribune favors the passage of the by-law for the followin<_ reasons: 1. The city has invested $76,000 in order to carry on the business of selling electric light, and having once engaged in the business, it should carry it on to the satisfaction of its customers. 2. In order to give its present customers satisfactory light and supply new customers, a further estimated expenditure of $150,000 must be made. 3. If this further estimated expenditure is made, the city will then be in an entirely independent position, and will not. be dependent, as it is now, on a power company for a portion of the power used. 4. The city will then also be in a position to supply power to industrial establishments, and thereby encourage them to locate at Nelson. 5. As during the past five years, the profits made will go into the city treasury, and not into the pockets of the shareholders of any power company. 6. The estimates of cost made by the city engineer have not been disputed by any one who has the reputation of being either an electrical expert or hydraulic engineer, 7. One of the ablest hydraulic engineers on the Pacific coast, Byron C. Riblet, selected the site on which it is proposed to build the power station, and his estimate of cost agrees with that made by the city engineer. S. The revenue derived from the present plant is approximately $2,000 a month, and it is not unfair to assume . that this 'will be increased as soon as the city is in a position to supply all who ask for electrc light and all who wisli to use electric power. 9. The present revenue is derived from rates that are the lowest charged in any city in the province. The rates for large business houses average about 75 cents a month for each 16 c. p. lamp used, and half that rate for each 16 c. p. lamp used in dwelling houses. THESE RATES CAN BE LOWERED AT ANY TilvVi7:, if it is shown that lowering the rates does not impair the security on which the $150,000 is borrowed. 10. The security on which the $150,- 000 is to be borrowed is not the real estate of property owners, but, instead, is the revenue derived from the sale of electric light and power. Therefore real estate taxes will not be increased, but piLobabl y^may^bejowered.. 11. Not a dollar of the money need be spent until the city has secured a site for a power station and has accepted plans and specifications for the plant, notwithstanding all assertions to the contrary. : 12. The cost of operating and maintaining the proposed plant will be little more than the cost of operating and maintaining the present plant, that is, $900 a month, and the city will save what it now pays the power company for power. 13. With the proposed plant in successful operation, Nelson can be the best lighted town in Canada. 14. Of the proposed outlay, fully $90- 000 will be spent for labor and material right here in Nelson, 15. Its construction will certainly not depreciate property values in Nelson, but, on the contrary, will enhance the value of real estate. 16. The opposition to the by-law is centered in the management of the West Kootenay Power & Light Company, a corporation that has endeavored for five years to gain an entrance into Nelson. Were the West Kootenay Power & Light Company non-existent, there would be little opposition to the bylaw. 17. It is therefore a struggle between a corporation in which the people of Nelson are-the shareholders.and one in which half a dozen eastern Canadians are mainly interested, and surely the people of Nelson should have sufficient PUBLIC-SPIRIT AND PRIDE to stand by their own corporation in a fight like the one that is now on. 18. The question at issue is not one of personal pique or politics; instead, it is one involving a great economic principle���that, of municipal ownership of public utilities. 19. If those who oppose the by-law are doing so in the hope of obtaining better terms for power from the power company, would the city not be more likely to obtain such better terms were it in a position to go ahead with the construction of the proposed plant? 20. To obtain a good bargain you must be in a position to bargain. The city is not in such a position today, and never will be so long as it is dependent on the power company for a portion of the power required to carry on its electric lighting business. 21. In addition to the proposed power plant, the city will always have its present plant as a reserve plant, and it is good for 200 effective horse-power the year round. __22._A yote_FOR_the By-Law:ls_a vote FOR "Nelson.. COURT CALENDAR. The regular sitting of the supremo court at Nelson will commence on Monday morning' at 11 a. m., before Mr. justice Martin, when the following calendar of causes will be disposed of, namely: 1. Lever vs. McArthur���Damages for personal injuries. 2. Knight vs. Desjardins���Foreclosure of mortgage. 3. Hoskins vs. Lo Roi No. 2.���Damages for personal injuries. 4. Thurston vs. Weyl���An interest in mineral claims, etc. 5. George vs. Wallace���For specific performance of agreements. 0. Robinson vs. Fishhui-n���For money loaned. 7. McLeod vs. Waterman���To set aside tax sale deed. E. Mobbs of Gorrard was In Nelson yesterday. He reports the people nf that place making an effort to get a postoffice established there. Angus and John W. Stewart, sons of William Stewart of Drumbeg, Slither-, landshire, Scotland, were in Nelson this week. Both aro railway builders. The City of Kaslo has money in hand, and is offering to redeem $2,000 of its outstanding debentures. It is also lowering its water rates. Kaslo has been a well- managed town notwithstanding its trials and bad luck. W. A. Galliher, M.P., leaves for Ottawa tomorrow night. Me goes to the capital to interview minister of finance Fielding on the question of increasing the tariff duties on lead and lead manufactures, and is sanguine of succeeding in his mission. G. AV. B. Heathcote Is now manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce hi Nelson, succeeding: Grange V. Holt, who has been in Seattle for several months and now lias heen made manager of the bank's branch in Seattle. Mr. Heathcote is comparatively a young man, and has been with the bank at Nelson for ten years, filling all positions from teller up to manager. Tt is now in order for his friends to address him as ".Mr. Malinger." Useful -Gifts Why not combine usefulness with your Christmas generosity. There is nothing more useful, appropriate or acceptable a.s a Christinas present than Footwear. Largest assortment or plain and fancy Slippers In the city, at popular prices. American Shoe Store There will be no changes in the bank other than that Mr. Ward, the teller, will leave the bank altogether, having decided to quit banking to engage In stock raising in Alberta, he and an associate having bought the1 Alexander ranch near Calgary. Wlijje��� greaterLPffQl'tg. _?.t_'l!.spl_!:y_18_l-_L0__g__ AUCTION SALE FURNITURE One roll-top Mahogany desk and bookcase combined. One Mahogany marble-top bureau. Three upholstered easy chairs. One handsome chiffonier. White enameled brass finished iron bedstead. Centre Tables. Carpets, and Linoleums. I_lc, Etc.. Flo. The house in which this furniture was used is too small to display it to advantage al an auction sale, it was therefore removed to our auction rooms in the Hume building'. Vernon street. Goods on view this (Saturday) morning. The sale will take place at 2,:!0 o'clock in tlio afternoon. Terms cash. Our regular auction sale of general merchandise will be held this evening. 0. A. Waterman & Co. AI.'CTIO.VEKUS "for the-holiday trauc^iiave been" made-in Nelson, yet the displays made this year- are better than the average and prices were never as low. ��� Dan Johnson, who wa.s for over a year employed at the Second Relief mine, near Erie, passed through Nelson this week, eni-otite to the Paradise mine, near Windermere, In East Kootenay, where he has secured a job. The Imperial Bank has opened a branch at Cranbrook. with F. J. Marsh, formerly of Vancouver and Golden, as manager, and a .��u\ Robinson from Brandon as accountant. The Imperial has faith in j the country. I James Sproat of Nelson, who served | his apprenticeship as an electrician with | the Nelson Electric Light Company, Limited, and Its successor, the City of Nelson, has charge of a, shift at the Cascade Power Company's plant at Cascade, on Kettle river. The delegation that will accompany AV. A. Galliher, M.P-. to Ottawa to present the lead question to the government will be made up of W. H. Aldridge of Trail, S. S. Taylor of Nelson, G. O. Buchanan of Kaslo, George Alexander of Kaslo, James Cronin of Moyie, George AV. Hughes of Sandon, and Byron X. AVhile of Spokane. The order of Eagles have elected Dr. W. O. Rose president, William Irvine vice-president, D. C. Wilson, chaplain, J. V. Morrison secretary. Gus Erickson treasurer, Seigel Boyd conductor, J. G. Simpson inner guard, Joseph Blackburn outer guard. Thomas Sproat and William Gosnell trustees. In October. IRfll. E. 13. Phair opened the Phair hotel In Nelson for businoss. The first names on the register were the following: E. R. Athcrton, J. I-I. Matheson, C. H. Ink. and John Houston, all of Nolson and R. AY". Gallop of Balfour. Since then lord Aberdeen and lord Minto. both governors-general of Canada, have been sheltered under the roof of the Phair. In the eleven years he has catered to the traveling public, E. E. Phair has never for an Instant forgotten that he was the equal of any of the. people hp wan providing with food and shelter. More: During nil these eleven years he never showed one of his guests the location of the bar-room. The Phair was a first-class hotel, and E. E. Phair's many friends wish, now that he has sold his interest In the property, that he will soon again be the landlord of a first-class hotel. -���Nelson'-s^btisiness���men���have���the���repu���= tation of doing well everything they undertake, and the ������undertaking" department of D. J. Robertson's & Go's is well-equipped to carry out orders. Mrs. liebdon, and her daughter Middleton and son Bernard, have loft Nelson for Spokane, where they will make their home. Mr. Hebden has bought an Interest In a plumbing firm, and his friends here wish him success. Miss lleliden was a leader In musical circles In Nelson, and will be an acquisition to the same circles In Spokane. E. Hiekling. who has been n resident of Nelson for six years and one of the oldest 'cmiMoycijs at 'tin* *.w'" transferred its field of activity to Canada. It is in reality the construction company of the Atlantic, Quebec ic Western railway company, incorporated by charter of the Quebec legislature in 1901. 0 The object of the company is to build a railway from the port of Gaspe basin to a point, on the Intercolonial, between lake Metapedia and Causapscal, to render communication between Europe, Quebec, Montreal. New York, Chicago, and Boston, many hours shorter than It i.s at. present. The intention of the company is to secure at Gaspe basin steamers capable of meeting the ocean steamers, and transferring the mails and passengers to their railway at that point. Tno distance between Gaspe basin anu Que- ' bee by water is 411 miles, whereas by- rail from Gaspe basin over the proposed route it would be 37G miles, and could be covered in twelve and a half hours. When the proposeu line to Edmundston is constructed and connections for New York and Boston are obtained, it will mean a gain of nearly two days to New York, at the speed of steamers at present in vogue to Canadian ports. The new line to reach the Intercolonial will be from 135 to 140 miles in legth. It will traverse a thickly wooded ��� valley, where there is great possibility for the development of the pulp industry, while the mountains near by give every in.uication of mineral riches. The port of Gaspe basin, which will be the eastern terminus of the road, is a large, commodious and open port Avhich can be entered ten months in the - year, and which with a little effort could be kept open all the year round. It is situated 2,--. miles from Liverpool, via Belle isle, and 2,389 miles via the cape Race route, as compared with 2,480 miles to Halifax and 2.800 miles to Quebec, with 400 miles of river to reach' the latter city. AN ADAPTED FOOD for infants is a scientifically- prepared cow's milk���just tho right percentage of fats and proteids. For forty-five years Borden's Eagle Brand Condensed Milk has boon the leading infant food of th<} world. l"se it in tea and roffee. Kj The Nelson Tribune Kstablished 1S17. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. capital m paid up) ���������;���-;;;;;;;;;"!&$& UNDIVIDED PROFITS 165,856.00 HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G. C, M. G , I resident. Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice-President. E. S. Clouston, General Manager. A. H. BUCHANAN, Manager. NELSON BRANCH, Corner Baker and Kootenay Stro_lK ,��..........���������������������������*9........09. ������������������������������������������������������������a I Imperial Bank of Canada I O-^^IT-A-T... (Authorized) __"�����* 9&��-* 292 9 9 e " HEAD OFFCB, TORONTO, ONTARIO.���Branches in the Northwest Territories, Provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. T. R. MERRITT, President. D. B. WILKIE, Vlce-Pres. and Gen. Man. E. HAY. Assistant Gen. Managrer. W. MOFFAT, Chief Inspector. NELSON BRANCH���A general banking business tranasted. Savings Department���Deposits received and interest allowed. Drafts sold, available in all parts of Canada, United States and Europe. Special attention given to collection* J. M. LAY, Manager. is an extremely pious and virtuous element in Nelson who want the existing order changed. They want all the Uiavs of the land enforced. The Tribune does not often give this element advice; but it advises its members to Keep the ten commandments themselves before tliey begin making their neighbors toe Ihe chalk-mark. The political doings ot" colonel Prior and his election committee read a good deal like tlio doings of the small boys described by Mark Twain in "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn." During (lie year 1!)01 mine machinery valued at $1,535,225 was imported into Canada free ol" duly, and for the lirst nine months of this year tlie free imports amounted to ?!)0i,2U7. This would indicate that the free list, as far as mining machinery is concerned, must be a fair- sized one, and probably it is everywhere in Canada except at Rossland. ���.......���.������.���������������������������.���������.o������������*��������*���*���*************** 9 9 i o o ��� ��� e 9 ��� ��� e�� I Canadian Bank of Conferee ��� ��� With Which is Amalgamated The Bank of British Columbia Paid Up Capital $8,000,000 Reserve Fund...' ' $2,000,000 Ag-greg-ate Resources Over ....$65,000,000 HON. GEO. A. COX, Head Office, President. - Toronto- B. E. WALKER, General Manager. NELSON BRANCH. Saving's Bank Department���Deposits received and interest allowed. Pres ent rate 3 per cent. GRANGE V. HOLT, Manag*er. TRAINS. AND STEAMERS Leave and Arrive at Nelson as Below. CANADIAN PACIFIC SYSTEM LEAVE 5:00 a. in. Daily. CROW'S NEST RAILWAY arrive Kuskonook, Creston, Moyie, Cranbrook, Marysville,���.Fort)- Steele, Elko. Fernie. Michel .Slab-more, Frank, Macleod, Lethbridge, Winnipeg, and all Eastern points. LEAVK 8 a.m. 8 a.m. 6:40 p. m. Daily 6:40 p. m. Daily Robson, Rossland, Cascade, Grand Forks, Phoenix, Greenwood and Midway. (Daily except Sunday) Robson, Nakusp, Arrowhead, Revolstoke, and all points east and west on C.P.R. main line. Robson. Trail and Rossland. leave: 15 ajxu LEAVE i p. m. i p. m. COLUMBIA & KOOTENAY RAILWAY Robson. Trail and Rossland. tt0:35 a.m. (Daily oxcept Sunday) 5:00 p. m. Daily. 9:35 p.m. 9:35 p.m. Dafly 9:35 p.m. Dafly SLOCAN RIVER RAILWY arrive Slocan City, Silverton ew3:40 p.m. Denver. Three Forks, Sam.on (Daily exoept Sunday) KOOTENAY LAKE STEAMBOATS Balfour, Pilot Bay, Ainsworth Kaslo and all War Landings. (Daily except Sunday) ��� (Lardo and all points on the ���Lardo & Trout Lako Branoh. (On Mon. Wed. and Fri.) From Lardo and Trout Lake (On Tua. Thur. and Sat) ARRIVK 11:00 a. in. 11 a.m. GEBAT^NORTHBRN^SYSTEBSr LEAVE Depot 7:'H) a.m Mount'ii. 7:50 aj ai. Daily. NELSON & FORT SHEP- arrive PARD RAILWAY Ymlr, Salmo, Erie, Waneta, Mount'ia Northport, Rossland, ColvllI��7:l- p.in. id and Spokane. Depot. ��������� Making through oonnecMttn* 8 p. in. at Spokano to tbo south, Daily oast and -went LKAVB Nol_on 6-.00 a. m. Kaalo 8:35 p. m, Daily LI* AVE Daily 6:00 a. in | 1:00 p.m | KOOTENAY LAKE STEAMBOATS Balfour, PilotBay, Ainsworth Kaslo and all Way Landings. KASLO & SLOCAN RAILWAY' Kuh'o Sandon ARRIVE KhhIo 3:10 a. rn. .Vol Hon 7:15 p. m. Dally ARRIVE Dally 3:15 p.m. 11:25 a ni. THE NELSON TRIBUNE Founded In 1882, average the value-at $6 a ton, or $3,000,- 000 as the total value. The Rossland mines will ship 350,000 tons, of the average value of $1.2 a ton, or a total of $4,200,000'. The Slocan mines will ship 30,000 tons, of tlie avsrage value of $60 a ton, or $l,S00,0O0. The mines in Nelson district will ship and treat 500,000 tons ,of the average value of $8 a ton, or $400,000 in all. The mines of Bast Kootenay will.ship an aggregate of 5,000 tons of clean ore and concentrates of the average value of $50 a ton, or $250,000. The mines in the Lardeau and Trout Lake diestricts will ship a tonnage that will aggregate $100,000 in value. The mines around Camp McKinney will ship another $100,000 in value. And $2,000,000 would be a high estimate for Cariboo, Lillooet, Cassiar, and Vancouver Island. These figures total $10,050,000.. The coal mines will produce 1,500,000 tons of coal, worth $4 a ton, or $6,000,000. The total value of the mineral production of British Columbia for the year 1902 will be in the neighborhood of $16,000,000, or about the same as last year, notwithstanding the fall in the price of copper, lead, and silver. The government should keep within bounds in its statements, allowing irresponsible individuals and newspapers to do the "booming act." But, 'thenr-the=ministers^at"Victoria=are=no_ responsible for any satem.nts they may make in sutXi times at, these. They are fishing for votes, and a five-dollar nugget washed out of a pan of dirt appears to them as big as a $5,000 gold bar from an assay office, more especially if the nugget was found in a diggings up in Cariboo. A recent number ol" the St. Paul Pioneer-Press contained an article on a system of projected railways in Manitoba that would have its outlet into the United States at Emerson. C. E. Hamilton, at one time prominent in Winnipeg, is the chief promoter, and it is believed the Great Northern is behind the scheme. pound, amounts to $100,000, or a total of $841,750 as the loss in the fall of prices of the metals, which is 2 per cent on the total capitalization of the mines from which ore was shipped. Those who favor the passage of the electric light loan by-law do so openly and aboveboard. Tliey do not seek to present their views through the press over assumed names. Men who are unwilling to discuss public questions in the press over their own names would not hesitate to stick a knife in the back of an opponent if the opportunity presented itself. R. F. Green, M.P.P., of Kaslo is being slated for the active part he is taking in organizing the Opposition forces. Mr. Green is a great admirer of the leader of the Opposition, and he'is proving his friendship by doing his utmost to land that leader in the place now occupied, by colonel Prior. Surely steadfast friendship is a commendable trait in these days of political deceit and dirty intrigue. The Victoria Times reprints the speech, made at Rossland before the local Liberal Association by Smith Curtis, M.P. P., on the lead question, along with Mr.- Curtis's picture. The Times is very close to Mr. Curtis, and it is said senator Templeman is grooming Curtis for the, constituency that is to be carved out of the western half of the present constituency of Yale-Cariboo, as that part of the' constituency is short on available Liberal timber. The Opposition prate about "principle." Their "principle" seems to revolve around, self. McBride welcomed .Martin's support when that support was needed to keep McBride in office, but once Martin demanded payment for the support of himself and his friends, then McBride resigned his office on "principle." McBride, in opposition, welcomed Haw- thornthwaite's support when he imagined that support would overthrow the Dunsmuir government, but when Hawthornthwaite asked payment for his support in the way of Opposition support for the Socialist candidate in North Nanaimo, the support is refused on "principle." The McBrideites are long on "principle," but short on principles. VANCOUVER, December 9.���With the year drawing to a close mining men are beginning to total up British Columbia's mineral production during 1902. and he is a pessimist indeed who docs not concede an advance of 25 per cent over 1901. The product ion that your was officially given as $20.0S(*,7S0. so that the lowest estimate for this year is $25.- 000,000. But tho latest figures from tlie Boundary, the Slocan, Rossland, Atlin, Cariboo and Vancouver island justify one in predicting that tne annual report of the department of mines will show the figures to be nearer $27,500,000 than $25,000,000, while next year may see the $30,000,000 mark passed, lt will thus be seen that British Columbia, even with the copper, lead and silver markets working against it, is twice a i.iomlil'e, for he would be a bold man indeed who would place the Yukon's output this year at over $15,000,000. That there is every reason to be optimistic concerning this year's production is evident from the first public speech delivered by the minister of mines since he became premier. Colonel Prior stated at the banquet of the Victoria pioneers that he was emphatically of the opinion that the mining industry was on a good basis. Great progress is being made in the Boundary. Said he: "The Rossland mines are today shipping more ore than ever before in their history; from the Slocan 100,000 tons of zinc ore will be shipped next year into the United States; the Atlin . district il most prosperous, and I am happy to say that a new era of prosperity is setting in in Cariboo." The premier, dealing particularly with the latter district, pointed out how on Lightning creek, famous the world over for the millions it has produced, old man Montgomery, SO years of age, is cleaning up $100 slugs, and had in the past few months obtained 140 ounces of coarse gold. On the Point claim, in the same district, they are getting 56 ounces to the pan, and the other day took out 150 ounces. He regretted to say that want of water had prevented the Consolidated Cariboo, the largest hydraulic mine in the world, doing well this season, but the outlook for next year was good. '-...,���.-. ���The figures so far available for the Boundary and Rossland show the great strides forward that have been made in those ,regions. The Boundary leads the rest of the province in ore production, it having" given 457,598 tons to date, with the prospect of reaching the half million ere the year closes. The production there last year was 386,675 tons, so there will" be a betterment of at least 100,000 tons in 1902.. In Rossland there lias already been an increase over 1901 of 38,327 tons, and ..before December 31st 20,000 tons should be added, which would make the total output of that famous camp nearly 340,000 tons, compared with 280,000 tons, in round figures, in 1901." ANNOUNCEMENT f BORDEN CONDENSED J1ILK COMPANY (Originators of Condensed Milk���Establish ed 1837.) Proprietors of the Celebrated PEERLESS BRAND EAGLE BRAND ae-Wk of Borden's Condens^ m&&L Hi-1*- w_wJ*�� ��� '��bt| m-I*)-*'-1*-".! projectionaS-" "'soarrhesi-jnalure. /_/>������*" 73c** EVAPORATED CREAM CONDENSED MILK SOLD BY ALL GROCERS AND BY Editorial and Business Office Room 9, Madden Bloclc The Nelson Tribune is served by carrier to subscribers ln Nelson or sent by mall to any address in Canada or the United States, for one dollar a year; price to Great Britain, postage paid, $1.50. No subscription taken for less than a year. JOHN HOUSTON, Editor. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1902. British Columbia will be no more benefited by over-estimating the value of its mineral production than it has ' been by the over-promotion and the over-capitalization of mining companies. Colonel Prior, who is minister of mines as well as premier, should muzzle the men in his department who are making manifestly absurd estimates of the mineral production of the province for the year 1002. The mines of the Boundary camps will ship during the year 500,000 tons of ore, and it is safe to Nelson is not only to have a Citizens' League, whose object is to enforce the laws, but it is to have a Property Owner's Protective League. The first-named is made up of men who imagine they are good, a good deal better than their neighbors. The last-named is made up of men who believe that the West Kootenay Power & Light Company is a good angel, whose property interests are paramount as against those of the City of Nelson. It takes all kinds of people to make an up-to-date town, and Nelson lias a few of all kinds; but, luckily, it has enough of one kind���a kind that mind their own business���to keep all the other kinds pretty well under control, and it is a good thing for Nelson that it, has. lt is generally admitted that Nelson is an orderly town, one of the most orderly towns in Canada. It has been free from police scandals, and no charges of official corruption have ever been investigated in the courts. The town is not without tho grafting element, but that element has never been able to get full control of the machinery of government. There is in Nelson a Western element, who do not believe in the restraint of the East. It is an element that is not without its faults, but its faults are the mere imperfections of our civilization. Whatever this element may be, tliey are not hypocrites. They make no mere outward pretence of virtue and pk-ly. But there According to Edmund B. Kirby and A. C. Gait and Smith Curtis, M.P.P., all of Rossland, the mining industry is simply paralyized because of the imposition of the 2 per cent tax' on the output of our metal mines, a tax that yielded less than $100,000 during the year ending December 31st, /1901. The total value of the product of the metal mines in that year was $15,070,382, the tax was therefore less than three-fourths of one per cent on the value of the output. The value of the lumber cut. for the same year is placed at $1,090,000, on which tne province collected a royalty of $111,078, which is 61/. per cent on the value of Ihe output. Is it not about time for the men who are engaged in mining to stop talking about the unfair taxes that are imposed on the metal mines? OVER-ESTIMATING THE OUTPUT. The following, bearing a Vancouver date, is being circulated by the Associated Press. It is an over-estimate, as the value of the mineral output of British Columbia for the year 1902 will not be greater than 1%.l, if as great. This is not because the total tonnage mined and smelted has not increased, for it has; but because of the fall in the price of the metals. The average prices for 1901 were: Silver, 59 cents an ounce; copper 16.12 cents a pound in New York, and lead ��12 Cs. 8d. a ton in London. The average prices for 1902 have been as follows: Silver, 52 cents an ounce; copper, 11.55 cents a pound in New York; and lead ��11 a ton in London. The loss in copper, reckoning the difference in price at 4^ cents a pound, amounts to $573,750; silver, reckoning the difference in price at 7 cents, amounts to $1GS,000; and lead, reckoning the difference in price at 1-3 of a cent a (OBJECTS TO MR. I'HRBY'S paper. A member ot the Canadian Mining Institute, writing to the Canadian Mining- Review from Vancouver, . under date of November loth, objects to the statements made by Edmund B. Kirby in'the paper, .entitled, "The Influence of Government Upon Mining," which he read at a session of the Institute held at Nelson last September. The Vancouver man scores Mr. Kirby and the disaffected Rossland element, and from this time on he will not be considered in the same class as Mr. Kirby and Mr. Gait and Smith Curtis, M. P.P. The following is what the Vancouver man says: "If such a misleading and utterly unreliable paper as Mr. Kirby's is published as one of the papers of the Institute, the really valuable papers which have so far been received will lose interest for readers who desire to obtain facts, and are not looking for political fictions to the very serious detriment of the Institute. The criticism in your October number mentions 'increasing paralysis' of the industry in this province; and no further notice is taken of that utterly untrue statement. The facts are that the preceding year saw=an^increase=-of"=C()pper-gold'"sineltlng" facilities alone of something like 1,000 tons daily, all of which is fully employed. An increased copper production equal, to 17 per cent. An increased gold production from lode mining alone equal to 20 per cent. An increased silver production equal to 25 per cent. Lead alone showing a decreased production of 25 1-2 per cent, due entirely to United States politics, and not as Mr. Kirby states to Canadian tactics in the smallest degree. If this largo increase in the earnings of the mining industry denotes an 'Increasing paralysis,' please allow the 'paralysis* to continue indefinitely. The only serious troubles in connection with the mining industry, outside tho lead district, in tlie provinco of British Columbia, are (or wero, having disappeared there also at this lime) confined tn Rossland mining district, and wore caused by over-capitalization, booming, and especially by attempting unfair treatment of the miners in the endeavor to make dividends for the over-capitalized Rossland mines, undertaken by a few men of whom Edmund B. Kirby was certainly ono. It is most unfair and against the interests of all legitimate mining in the mining province of this Dominion that such statements should be made at all,- and worse if they are allowed under any circumstances to appear as being the views of the Canadian Mining Institute members, who wore represented at that meeting by a small number drawn from the disaffected districts in large majority. If the paper is allowed to appear It should have a rider attached as "being the views of the Rossland camp alone and utterly repudiated by the rest of British Columbia.- " A. MACDONALD NELSON���-- WHOLESAL The "BORDEN BRANDS" represent the highest possible standard. Leaders for over 40 years. RETAIL BY T. S. McPherson, Morrison & Caldwell, J. A. Irving, T. J. Scanlan. . .*���_&-- .__>. y&.. ,�����_ '(f.-* 7*j.�� '.ir^St A FISH STORY. D. Mackay of Nelson, a conductor on the Canadian Pacific railway, relates one of his fishing experiences in the December number of Field and Stream. Mr. Mackay's story is as follows: "Hearing that Kettle river and Boundary creek furnished fair fishing, I determined on one of my runs to tako along an outfit and' kill part of the time the train crew laid over at Midway in fishing. I did not take along a landing not, as from what I had heard the trout were small, or, in other words, ordinary brook trout; but I was much surprised to learn from an old-timer at Midway that hr> hnd seen 2-pounders taken from Boundary creek, and that an old log-jam, a mile and a half up the creek, one big fellow made his home much to the annoyance of the smaller fish and the anglers who from time to time tried to allure him from his lair beneath the high rock-bluff and the moss-covered logs on the shady side of the stream. I therefore found myself up against the real thing with a 6-ounce bamboo rod and no landing net and a bluff to fish over twelve feet high. I thought it better not to try; so I fished for an hour on the stream below, landing a few =sniall���troutr^ah^*^ettin"g���tired-af=isucfi" sport, being used to fishing on the Kootenay river, where the average trout weighs two pounds, and furnishes royal sport to the angler. "Just as I was getting tired and thinking of leaving for the hotel, I met another fisherman with a string of small trout, who told me that he tried for an hour to capture the big fellow at the jam, but that it was no go. I determined to have a try, even if 1 lost my whole outfit, and made a change in my Hies, and attached a most seductive yellow hackle No. 7 to the end, a queen of the waters In the center, and a royal coachman on the top. Just as it was getting quite dark, 1 crept to the edge of the bluff and dropped the bunch very lightly on the swirl, above the haunt ot* tho champion. It had no more than touched the water, than with a mighty rush my bold hero seized the yellow hackle, and very fortunately for me started for the long strip of smooth water below. 1 saw then how lucky I was to have brought my best silk line along as it was a long one. Holding him as well as possible until I climbed around some small saplings, I mado my .way to a point where I could work, and the battle royal began. Up stream again he went, trying to get to his old haunt, which point if readied would be good-bye, Mr. Trout; but with the force of.the current I was able to hold him from going very far up, and I gradually worked my way farther down stream to a more favorable battle ground, where the banks were more sloping, and where it was absolutely necessary for me to finish the fight, as I had no landing- net, and where, just twenty minutes after the fight began, I landed his majesty. He lipped the scales at just two pounds���not a very large trout, but large enough to give me as much as I wanted under the circumstances.' "In the fishing ground at Slocan Junction, a 5-pounder can be landed in less time and with greater ease; and before closing J will say that we have more sport to the square mile right here in Kootenay at Nelson and along the branch lines of the Canadian Pacific than can be found anywhere else in North America. "We have big game in abundance, and it is the home of the grizzly bear and mountain lion, while trout and other fish are numerous." Importer of Own Make Pipes Peterson's Patent Pipes B. B. B. Celebrated Pipes Loewe Pipes Wills Tobacco Player's Tobacco Turklsh Cigarettes ���., . . ���>��_���! Monopoi cigarette. Wholesale arid Retail Egyptian Cigarettes J. It. C. and Q. B, Lambert and Butler =-=/MLlii'and3=o--lmported-and-domestIc-clgar3 The H. J. PHAIR, Propr. Wholesale arid IJet '%��Z. Tobacconist 11 '. 4 -k Having established a BRANCH FACTORY IN CANADA, are now pre- ^ pared to supply customers through the trade with their brands��� ���*_& Telephone 184 Baker-Street, NELSON.B.C. PELIGNITE ^e Wrongest and Best Explosive iq-the Market Manufactured by the HAMILTON POWDER COMPANY GEO. C. TUNSTALL, Jit... District Mgr., Nelson, B.C. MamifHotiircis of High Crade Fxplosives, Sporting:, Mining* ar-d Blasting Powder Queen's Note BAKER STREET. NELSON. Lighted by Elecrlcity and Heated with Elecrlcity and Hot Air. Large and comfortable bedrooms and first class dining- room. Sample rooms for commercial men. RATES J2 PER DAY Mrs. E. G. Clarke, - Proprietress MADDEN HOU BAKER AND WARD STREETS, NELSON, B. C. TREMONT HOUSE European and American Plan. Meals 2.5 eta. Rooms from 25 etc. to $1. Only White Help Employed, -MALONE & TREGILLUS, Centrally Located. Electric Lighted. HEADQUARTERS AND OLD FOR TOURISTS TIMERS, THOMAS MADDEN, Proprietor. Raker St., Nelson. Proprietors. REISTERER & OO. BARTLETT HOUSE Josephine Street, Nelson. The best il per day house ln Nelson. None but white help employed. The bar the best. G- W- Bartlett - - Proprietor - OI*1 LAGER BEER AMD PORTER Put up in Packages to suit tho Trade Brewery and Office on Latimer Nelson, B. C. Street, The Nelson Tribune THE NAMES OF PROPERTY OWNERS WHO CAN VOTE ON THE ELECTRIC LIGHT BY-LAW On Wednesday next (the 17th instant), assessed owners of real estate will vote on the electric light by-law. If three-fifths or those votins vote FOR the by-law It will he curried. The names given below are <>f persons who will be entitled to vote. It a name is on the lists of both, wards, then Hint person is entitled to vote in both wards. The voting place In tho East ward will be at the old eity hall: and in the West ward, the ollice of T. M. Ward on linker street. EAST WARD LIST. W. D. Asmwortli, J. L. Anderson, Mrs. P. E. Ahlln. George Adamson, H. H. Avery, II. Amos, Robert Armstrong, Stephen Allen, E. C. Arthur, Irene Arnold, J. 13. Annable, J. A. Armstrong. Raffaelle Ami- cone, P. 13. Ahlln, Mrs. M. E. Allen. C. J. Archibald. \V. \V. Beer, G. Prank Beer, II. A. Barton, E .C. Boeckli, John Biomberg, P. S. Barnard C. Briggs, Geo. W. Bartlett, Evangeline Booth, C. 1-1. Brown, G. O. Buchanan, J. 1-1. Bowes, P. J. Bradley, W. AV. Bradley, E. G. Beer, Wm. Burpee, Angus Billings, Nettie E. H. Beer, Hurley A. Bishop, Hamilton Byers, J. -Banner-nan, Annie M. Beer, Mary Beer, R. Bax- fiulale, R. M. Bird, S. M. Brydges, Isabel Bard, Mrs. A. Bruce, Harry Bird, John Bannister, J. B. Bliss, W. H. Bullock- Webster, Arthur Booth, Chas. Berry, V. Hvde.Baker, Henry Bruce, A. R. Barrow, Daisy Barrow, R. N. Bealey, C. W. Busk. R. McLeod Cameron, J. J. Campbell, H. S. C'harrington, Margaret Clifton, John Choi- ditch, A. E. Coxhead, Jonas Coxhead, Abhle P. Col well, T. Couch, E. P. Crawford. A. Collin. C. D. J. Christie. Alex (.':'. rr*c. D. A. Campbell. E. L. Campbell, it. Corllett, Mary 11. Croskell, Wilfrid Cookson. Leo Craig, W. Croger, Archibald Coats, Flora Crossott, Mary H. Campbell. David M. Carley, Percy Criddle, James Ceilings, AV. \V. Craig, Henry Colbeck, Edward Clark, W. I-f. Craig, L. H. Cho- (iiiette. Geo. Cowan, Annie Clark, Annette AV. Cummins, P. S. Clements, Arthur Cho- citiette. �� Jacob Dover, Thomas J. Duncan.* Mrs. Ray Dover, Prances E. Day, Mrs. XI. Dawson, Mrs. C. J. Davidson, T. H. Donald, Jerry Damars, Earl of Dysart. Mrs. Kate Darough, M. Downey, R. AV. Drew, Hon. Justice Drake, J. Donaldson, T. C. Duncan, Mrs. C. IL- Duncan. R. J. Elliott, John Elliot, Mike Egati, Mrs. Hilda M. Evans, H. J. Evans, Ella M. Eskrigge, A. D. Emory, Gus Erickson, A. C. Ewart, A. E. Eskrigge, Wm. Ebbs. H. B. Firman, Kenneth Forbes, P. McL. Forin, J. A. Forin, Edward Ferguson, L' W. Ferland, A. Ferland, Frank Fletcher, Mrs. John Fraser, F. L. Franklin, A. Fleury, Mary S. Ford, J. H. Falconer. J. A. Gilker, Jacob Green, J. P. Green, JVC. Green, P. C. Graham, Mrs. Mary E." Graham, Jesse Graham, I-I. G. Goodeve Robert Gordon, Mrs. Jessie Gilbert, Mrs. Susan Gagnon, AV. G. Gillett, F. P. Gutolius, J. J. Gurney, P. C. Gamble, A. ��� Q. Gamble, C. E. Grizzelle, J. Gillett, Mrs. Marion E. Gamble, Mrs. AV. G. Gillett, L. Gobey, Carmen Gisi. J. Fred Hume, Thos. ..Howell, G. A. B. all, A. E. Hodgins, Miss E. A. Harris, John Houston, Mrs. Thomas Hyland, G. A. Hunter, Mrs. J. AV. Holmes, R. J. Hamilton, Mrs. G. Holbrook, Arthur Hiekling, AV. R. Hull, Bertha Houghton, Rose M. Hodgins, Wm. Hardy, R. Helme, John A. Honeyman, J. E. Honeyman, Elsie Ho- b'art, W. J. Hatch, Mrs. A. P. Hepburn, John Hepburn, J. R. Hull, Joseph Harwood, J. AV. Holmes. J. A. Irving, Fred Irwin, Catherine Irvine, J. G. Irving. F. C. Innes. W. A. Jowett, John AV. Jameson, Thos. Jeffers, Annie Johnson, H. D. Jackson, Mrs. C. L. Jameson, John Jameson, Chas. Jiszkowicz, John Johnson, James Johnston, A. Jeffs. J. A. Kirkpatriek, Alice Kempling, L. H. Kribs, J. A. Knauf, G. S. Kellaway, John Knudson, Ernest Kilby, Lilian Keating, l-I. O. Keefer, Margaret Kerr. Louis Levesoue, T. H. Lewis. A. G. Lambert, R. S. Lennie, F. B. Lys, A. _Loehead,-Poter_Lamont,_ F._AV,_ .L*tln_*,__C, IT. Leicester, Edward Langdon, G. L. Lennox, G. Lindsay, A. Lapointe, Maria Lapointe, Joseph Labolle, Libbie C. Lester, M. J. AAr. P. Lafranee, J. Little, J. M. Ludwig. Mary Mallette, AV. If. Morrison, T. P. CIVIC GOVERNMENT, Toronto Globe: "The defects of the existing system of city government are patent enough���what the remedy should bo will occasion differences of opinion. Most successful experiments in municipal government were carried on In Brooklyn under the administration of the present mayor of New York. Mr. Seth Low, twenty years ago. Brooklyn had been most unsatisfactorily governed, and the election of Mr. Low wns tho conseriuenee of an curliest effort on the part of the citizens to <*l'i,< ct a radical change. Previous to mayor Low's election the cily had been given over to a number of boards. Tho now chief magistrate convinced himself that the main part of the city's ills were to bo laid at the door of the weak, vacillating, irresponsible administration afforded by these boards. By recent legislation at Albany virtually autocratic powers had been conferred on tho mayor, and taking advantage of them Mr. Low substituted for the boards heads of departments. To this change the improvement in administration whicli followed was largely credited. It was made manifest that the division of power among three members (,of a board and the consequent division of responsibility had been most detrimental to the public service. Brooklyn during that period of its history came to be regarded as the best governed city on the continent. We may be told that it did not maintain this proud position, and it may further be said that the government or other cities which adopted the Brooklyn policy still leaves much to be desired. Even if this is admitted to be true, it would not bo condemnatory to the principle of concentrating executive authority by putting strong men at the head of each civic department. The efficiency of this arrangement in the United States was marred by a fortuitous weakness. The spoils system has taken such hold of public life there that even in the cities the municipal officials are subject to the lottery of the ballot-boxes. Even when there is no party change an official is apt to be replaced when it is considered that he has .ttahon, Ross Mahon, Thomas Madden, C. E. Miller, airs. A. T. Mara, John J. Malone, Eric Mastberg, C. S. Moore, Thos. A. Mills, Jennie Manners, J. H. Mathe- seon, J. H. Murray, Albion Mlnty, F. C. Morrison, T. E. Marshall, S. L. Moore, Wm. Martyn, Chris Morrison, A. Manson, John Munro, Geo, Matheson, Elizabeth Morice. A. J. Marks, G. E. C. Martin, T. L. Marquis, Lydla Malone, Alfrtyl Manuel, Mary Jane Moffat, J. P. Manhart, Carmen Maglio, Alex Matheson, A. , AV. Munro, George Motion, D.T. Mowat, John Matheson, Susan E. Marks. AV. C. McLean, S. McAdam. Sam McDonald, R. M. McLeod, J. A. McDonald, May McCourt,- Florence McKinnon, P. M. McLeod, Mrs. E. M. McCandlish, David McBeath, Mrs. John McLeod, John McLeod, M. McKay, A. McCuaig, Robert McGregor, Jas. McDonald, R. J. McCandlish, P. L. McDonald, H. B. Mclntyre, AVm. McDougal, Mary McPhee, A. L. McCulloch, Duncan McArthur, Dan McKay, Mary E. Macdonald, AV.* A. Macdonald, Jennie M. McFarland. Chas. McLaughlin, Etta B. McDermid, E. B. McDermid, J. K. McDermid, C. F. Hardy. D. McCreath, A. McCulloch, Hector - McKenzie, Norman T. Macleod, G. C. McLaren, \V. E. McCandlish, Jr.', John D.| McLeod, James McPhee, Geo, R. McFarland, Alex McKenzie. L. P. Nelson, A. Nagerson, J. I-I. Nolan, Soren Nelson, Paul Nipou, Bertha A. Nor- cross, R. A. Newton, A. AV. Nagle, John Nunn. J. B. Olds, Clarence Ogilvie, P. J. O'Reilly, Mary O'Laughlin, James O'Shea. J. Patterson, Levi Pogue, E. Palmqulst, Mrs. AAr. S. Pearcy, Leo Peel, AV. S. Pearcy, J, Pollock, G. S. C. Patterson, J. E. Poupore, Thos. P. Patterson, H. AV. F. Pollok, Fred Pabst, J. L. Porter, A. AV. Peek, C. H. Pollen. W. Rutherford, T. I-I. Roberts, Root. Robertson, Maud L. Renwick, Robert A. Renwick, AV. N. Rolfe, Albert Randall, John Rowell, J. J. Rosengran, G. L. Robinson, Mary Jane Roberts, Mary E. Rara- melmeyer, J. F. R. Rowley,' Julius Reis- terer, F. S. Roberts, Robert Robinson, Mrs. H. J. Riblet, John Regaii, AV. O. Rose, Annie Ranger. Harry Shernn, AV. R. Seatle, Harold Selous, Mollie Smith, John Svoboda, John Laing Stocks, H. J. Scott, Florence Scroggs, Mary Smith, F. Steiner, Michael Scully, Wm. Simpson, A. AV. Smallwell. AVilliam Shackleton, George Stead, Captain R. Sanderson, Leonard Scott, AV. N. Shaw, P. H. Smith, Angus G. Shaw, P. AV. Swannell; Mary Scanlan, James Sproat, Lelia E. Smith, Annie Smyth, J. C. Schermer'horn, E. G. Smyth. Frank Simpson, Nina Smith. Mrs. Margaret Smith, J. A. ' Smith, Emily O. Stewart, Albert B. Sloan, Frank Seaman, J. C. Shook, Mrs. Emma Smith, S. P. Shaw, Mrs Mary Steele. J. A. Turner, AV. F. Teetzel, August Thomas, AV. A. Thurman, A. Tregillus, Mrs. Thos. Todd, G. AV. Taylor, G. J. Thorpe, Annie Turner, Ida Thurman, S. S. Taylor, A\V A. Turner, J. Templelon, VV. P. Tierney, E. C. Traves, Mrs, Mary A. Traves, D. AV. Taylor, Mrs. A. M. Tamblyn. H. B. Thomson, Joseph Thompson, J. A. Tuzo, 0"ven G. Evan Thomas, Scott Thompson, Phillip N. Thompson, Joseph Thompson. H. M. Vincent. . T. M. AVard, J. H. AVallaee, Charles AV. AVest, John AA'ilson, -Agnes AVest, Harry Wright, Mrs. Jennie Wright, Annie AVeidert, Elizabeth AVilkinson, AAr. J. AVilson, Stephen AVhite, F. C. AVinkler, Clifford AVade, J. G. AVilson, C. A. AA'aterman, Mrs. E.' A. AVallaee, Mrs. E. AVickham, Mrs. J. D. AValley, J. H.Wilkinson, Cecil AA'ard, E. P. AArhalley, Jacob AVhiller, J. F. Weir, Bruce AVhite, C. AV. AVhitmore, L. AVhite, AVilliam AA'ilson, AV. E. AVasson, Robert AAllson, AVilliam AValdie. Josiah Young, AVm. John Young. A. Zettler. WEST AVARD LIST. E. R. Atherton, E. H. Applewhaite, Isabel Arthur, Stephen Allen, J. E. Annable, Andrew Anderson, James Allan, Mrs. AV. Applewhaite. F. S. Barnard, Mrs. G. M. Burnett, G. P. Beer, AV. AV. Beer, J. Stevenson Brown, A. H. Buchanan, J. H. Bowes, R. J. Bca- __iy-Ss_J3ealey,=T.^H._Boyd,=A.^,R.=Bari>ow,- Arthur Booth, Mary Booth, John Burns Ralph Bradford, Alfred Bunker, H. E. Beasley, H. A. Barton, S. M. Brydges, Henry Bird, Mary Booth, C. S. M. Brown, Joe Bradshaw, R. M. Bird, Vlttorlo Bol- etti, C. W. Busk, Thos. Bennett, Godfrey Birtseh, S. Y. Brockman, l-I. Burnett, W. G. Brown, John Bell, Chas. Begg, John Begg, A. Benson, J. C. Biandy, P. Burns, Mrs. Mabel Bird, R. A. Bainbridge, S. Blakey. A. H. Clements, E. C. Cameron, R. McLeod Cameron,, W. P. Clark, Ed. Curran, Archibald Currle, Florence Crlkmay, Mrs. Agnes Curtis, II. C. Cummins, Henry Colbeck. F. C. Chandler, Robert Corlett, H. E. Croasdaile, J. J. Campbell, C. D. J. Christie, Archibald Coates, Ella Croasdaile, Mrs. W. E. Coles, R. Chambers, E. A. Crease. Douglas D. Dick, Robert Day, Edith Dewar, Richard AV. Day, Alex Dow, Miss N. Delmage, Mrs. L. A. Davys, E. A. Dig- by, Frunces E. Day, M. DesBrisay, T. J. Duncan, H .L. Dawes, James Duck, Mary Rose Driscoll, Mrs. J'. M. Douglas, Frank Deacon, Mrs. C. li. Duncan. John Elliot, Eliza English, AV. H. Elson, R. S. Embree. F. J. Finucane, J. Fulton, Frank Fletcher, Mrs. j J. B. Fox, J. 1-1. Falconer, Mrs. Prank Fletcher, Sam S. Fowler, Mrs. J. H. Falconer, E. Frost. A. Fleck, Ellen Pawcett, E. J. Flatt.' AV. J. Goepel, AV. Godsall, C. AV. Green, Annie Giffin, Mrs. A. M. Gamble, Tom Graham, John Ayton Gibson, Chas. Gras- er, J. AV. Gallagher. Bernard Hebden, A. E. Hodgins, John Hlrsch, Laura Hawkey, G. AV. B. Heathcote, Ernest Harrop, G. C. Hodge, John Houston, AV. H. Houston, AA'. R. Hull, Rose Hodgins, John Hamilton, John Hardy, Grange V. Holt, Geo. A. Hunter, T. Henderson, J. R. Hull, Caroline L. Horton, A. J. Hipperson, R. G. Harvey, Patrick Henry, John Hampson, G. AVm. Hall, Julia AV. .Henslniw, O. N. Hanson, A. Hebden, Henry Heffner, P. E. Hebden, Arthur Hiekling, J. Fred Hume. F. C. Innes, AVm. Irvine, Chas. II. Ink, F. C. Ingram. . Andrew Johnson, Sol Johns, H. J. Jordan, Miss C. McN. Jones, John Jackman, J, AV, Johnson, Mary L.r Johnston, Mrs. S. Johns, J. Julsrude. AV. H. Kirby, J. A. Kirkpatriek, Betty Kinahan, Constance F. Kelly, Mrs. Matt Kelly, D. J. Kurtz. James Lawrence, Mrs. J. M. Lay, Abraham Leckie. * J. A. Mara, Ernest Mansfield, Mrs. AV. B. Muir, Mrs. Margaret Madden, Thomas Madden, Sam L. Moore, A. AV. Munroe, AV. J. Murphy,' Pat Murray, Thos. Murray, Chas. Magnesson, D. M. Macdonald, A. L. McCulloch, Frank McLeod, Alec McDonald, A. L. McKillop, David McKay, AV. C. McLean, Duncan McDonald, W. A. Macdonald, R. M. Macdonald, D. C. McMorris, Mrs. G. McNab, Mrs. 3. J. McKay, AV. C. McBretnay, David McBeath, Frank McFarland, Geo, McFarland, I-I. E. Macdonell, Mrs. G. Macdonald, ArchN bald McDonell, Eliza McAlman, J. McKinnon, S. A. McKee, J. McAstocker, Angus McDougall, F. A. McQuaig, Edward McGregor. I-I. G. Neelands, Geo. Nunn, Mrs. H. G. Neelands, Miss N. Nelson, G. A. Neve. R. A. Newton, J. I-I- Nickerson, A. Nagerson. Edward O'SulIivon, Mrs. Addie M. Oakes, E. Osier. E. E. Phair, Lawrence Peters, Melville S. Parry, R. A. Peebles, G. Patterson, l-I. AV." P. Pollock, Andrew Park, H. P. Pexton, Jessie Patterson, Jessie Plews, Mary E. Peters, AA'illiam Park. W. N. Rolfe, AV. G. Robinson, Robert Robertson, Martha Robinson, Mrs. Rason, Mrs. E. J. Ritchie, J. Ringrose, A. K. Renwick, Barbara Robertson, H. H. Ross, S. O. Richards, ��� T. H. . Roberts, Mrs. E. C. Richards, Alec Richardson, John Richardson, J. C. Reilly, John A. Robinson, "Wm. Rjic-hardeon, A. tf. R. Robinson, AVilliam Robinson, B. N. Riblet, John Roche, E. C. Richards. Harold Selous, Herbert Steeper, Ella E. Sims. T. J. Scanlan, Peter Schonfeld, j. A. ,Sherling, Gilbert Stanlay, E. Jane] Stanley, Je: R. Stewart, Joe Sturgeon, Mary A. Sturgeon, G. H. H. Symonds, Rebecca Stead, M. J. Scott, E. T. IT. Simp- kins, A. R. Sherwood, Violet E. Stillitoe, J. K. Strachan, J. P. Swedberg, G. M. Sorelle, Norman D. Stewart, J. Laing Stocks, Thos. Symes, Emma Steel, Robert Sanderson, Sarah Smith. E. C. Traves, R. G. Tatlow, AVm. Towe, AV. P. Tierney, Saul Thompson, P. N. Thompson, J. A. Turner, O. G. E. Thomas, -D^R���Taylor.���- '������-^^���. -,--���-���--- C. J. AVilson, T. M. AVard, AA'. J. AVilson.' Edith M. AVhalley, AVm. AVilson, John Watson, Mrs. M. AAratson, AV. IT. AVatkins, I.'). R. Woak.es, E. P. AVhalley, A. T. AAral- ley, C. L. AVernor, Peter Wilson. P. E. Wilson, Chas, Whittet, Thomas Weeks. been lukc-warri from a party standpoint, or that ho has had "enough." This, of course, introduces the very condition that is most fatal to fidelity and far-reaching responsibility on* the part of officials. A nccessarp prerequisite is that tliey should fe-il that good conduct, zeal for the public Interest, and capability will bo rewarded by continuance in oflice. If the official knows that fidelity and ability aro no guarantee against decapitation, he is not at .all unlikely to take his measures accordingly. His self-interest Is not enlisted on the side of good and* economical administration. "The weakness, wastefulness and clumsiness whicli characterized Brooklyn civic government under the boards is reproduced iu Toronto under our system of practically dividing the executive power between committees and officials. One has only to hear an intricate subject discussed before a committee to realize how almost inevitable it is that lame and impotent conclusions should be arrived at. It is very difficult to believe that much light is thrown on matters by these rambling and inconsequent debates. The committee generally has the report of an official before it. He is presumably an expert, and has given or ought to have given the matter careful consideration. But if there Is some interest pulling the wires in another direction, ten to one half the committee has been canvassed against the official's report. Officials are not infallible. Mistakes will be made in ail businesses. Errors will slip into the management even of the most ably conducted private corporations. Municipal corporations and their officials will not be free from them, but there is more likelihood of correct decisions from an able and experienced official, who knows that he must bear the fullest responsibility Por his' acts, than under the present system, where we are never sure who is responsible for the things that are done. "We think, then, that reform should move in the direction of confining the aldermen's attention to legislative work almost wholly, and that the officials should be charged with full responsibility for all executive work. If after that, an official allowed himself to be worried or coerced by aldermanic pressuro, the citizens would at least not be driven from pillar to post endeavoring to find out who was responsible for mismanagement. Tho proposition to form the chief officials into a board, we presume, means no more than this, namely, that in every considerable work and in every recommendation forwarded to tlie board of control or to council there are considerations which no one oincer could dispose of. In recommending a public Improvem-nt, for exr ample, there might be engineering, legal, land damage, and sanitary questions to be settled. The most convenient way of getting them promptly settled would be by an actual meeting of tho officials concerned. This would promote expedition and would not impair efficiency or responsibility. The engineer would be wholly responsible for his part of the recommendation, the solicitor for his advice on the legal aspects of it, and so on. Such a board would strengthen officials in the right direction and there is but little reason to fear that it would create an objectionable bureaucracy. The people and their representatives would always,have a remedy for that." SEATTLE'S CORRUPTION. There are rumors that even the bench is contaminated by the awful corruption of the town. The Seattle Times printed a letter in its editorial columns the other night, written, so the Times says, by a prominent gambler, in which the open allegation is made that a judge on the bench,' a certain prominent lawyer acting as go- between, has levied tribute upon gamblers. This open allegation of judicial corruption is merely the crystalization of rumors that have been afloat for weeks. The Seattle Times, citing the example of St. Louis, and the results there attained, is calling for a grand jury. Colonel Blethen. the editor of the Times, believes that the vicious elements are so bitter toward each other that they can bo induced to give testimony that will land several men in tho penitentiary. ln closing, one more brief exemplification must bo given of the moral turpitude of the town. When it was told, the other day, that money-paying- slot machines must come out, u prominent saloon man remarked: "Oh, well, let Captain (naming a member of the police force) come down and take out his machine." An investigation of this rumor draws out tho fact, or at least the belief, that a prominent polico oilicial Is financially interested In tho company which put tho slot machines in Seattle and that he not only derives his share of the profits but "whacks up" with another polico official a certain sum every month paid fur polico protection of the machines. lie catches them "coining nnd going." In another story will be recorded another phaso of Seattle's corruption���a story of corporate control of councils' and officials. Space forbids it hero. The Bight. Time to Invest op Speculate In Heal Estate Is When Sellers Are Hard Up or Priees Abnormally Low The undersigned has been authorized to offer for sale AV. I-I. Brandon's addition to Slocan City. The addition contains SO acres, a part of which has been platted.; Of the lots platted, 131 remain unsold. Of the unplatted portion (50 to GO acres) 40 acres are suitable for gardening or' orcharding, being the finest land in Slocan valley and can be easily cleared and irrigated. The. addition has a water-works system of its own. The big sawmill that has been bonitsed by Slocan City will be erected on -land immediately adjacent to Brandon's addition. Included are five buildings, which now rent for $500 a year. Selling price,'- $7,000. Terms, $3,500 cash and the balance on. time.-,- I also have instructions to offer for sale the following pieces of real estate in Nel-, 'son: "VERNON STREET���Inside Lot, 50x120 feet, north frontage, between Josephine and Hall streets, unimproved. Price $1,260 cash. BAKER STREETr-Inside Lot, 50x120 feet, south frontage, between Josephine and Hall streets, unimproved. Price, $5,000 or will put lot against permanent improvements to cost $5,000. SILICA STREET���Inside Lot, 50x120 feet, north frontage, between Hall and Hendryx streets. Improvements, 5-rooni cottage, with all conveniences. Price, $2,500. For further - particulars, address or apply to JOHN HOUSTON, Room 9, Madden Block, Nelson, B.C. Sealed Tenders addressed to the undersigned, and endorsed "Tender for Heating Drill Sheds, Kamloops and Nelson," will bo received at this oflice until Tuesday, 30th December, inclusively, for a hot air heating apparatus at each of the aforesaid drill sheds. Plans and specifications can bo seen and form ot tender obtained on application to AVm. Henderson, Clerk of Works, Victoria, II. C: Robert Mackay, Kamloops,- li.C'.i James Allan Macdonald, Nelson, B.C.; and at tlio Depart moiil of Public Works, Ottawa. A separate tender is required for each building. Persons tendering are notified that tenders will not lie considered unless made on the form supplied, and signed with their actual signatures. Each tender must be accompanied by an accepted cheque on a chartered bank madu payable to the order of the Honorable the Minister of Public AVorks, equal to ton per cent (10 p.c.) of the amount of tho tender, which will be forfeited if the party decline to enter into a contract when called upon to do so, or if lie fall to complete, tho work coiitraclvd for. If the tender be not accepted the die [lie will be returned. Tho department does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any l-nd.-r. By order. FRED GELINAS. Secretary. Department of Public AVorks, Ottawa, 25th November, 11102. Newspapers inserting this advertisement without authority from the Department will not be paid for it. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that I intend lo apply at the next sitting of tho Board Bf Licensing Commissioners for tho City of Nelson to be held after the expiration of thirty days from the date hereof for n transfer of tho retail liquor license now held by me for the Imperial Hotel, now and formerly known as the Silver Kine Hotel, situate on the south side of Baker street in the City of Nelson on Lot:* 7 and S, Block 10, sub-division of Lot 95, AVest Kootenay District, to A. Kleln- xchmidl of tho said City of Kelson. Dated this 22nd day of November. 1902. JOS. HARWOOD. Witness: Win. rail*. "^jyE are now in a position to use the public fairly well. Iron Beds are our specialty and Rugs our leaders. Our Undertaking Department is now ful'y equipped and can always be relied upon to work, when called to do so. This branch is under tha supervision of our Mr. Clark. 1D. J. ROBERTSON & CO. Baker Street, NeUon Furniture Dealers Funeral Directors Phone Nos. 292, 142, 157 I D. J. ROBERTSON & CO. *****************************************+*+******************4+***************. [ Nelson Saw and Planing Mills, Limited. t Lumber, Lath, Sash, Doors, Mouldings, and all kinds of | Factory Work. t KILN-DRIED LUMBER FOR THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY TRADE A SPECIALTY. * ��� 1 COAST FLOORING AND CEILING KEPT IN STOCK t t . .: c ;;���.; t | . Office and Mills at Foot of Hall Street, NELSON, B.C. | X+**+*+*+++ ********* ******** * *+***+*+*+*+**************** *** * *******f Oe- ei?niu��r, 1902. S. F\ TUCK. Sheriff of South Kootenny. SHERIFF'S SALE. Province of British Columbia, Nelson in West Kootenay���To-wit: By virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias issued out of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, at the suit of E. Ferguson & Co., Plaintiffs, and to mo directed against the goods and chattels of. Davison & Walmsloy, Defendants; I have seized and taken In execution all the right, title and interest of the said defendant, William Walmsloy, in eight thousand three hundred and thirty-three (S.333) shares more or less, of the stock of the Similkameen Valley Coal Company, Limited; to recover the sum of five hundred and fifty-five dollars and seventy-two cents ($555.72) and also interest on five hundred and fifty- two dollars and twenty-two cents ($552.22) ai five per centum per annum from the 9th day ot December, 1902, until payment, besides sheriff's poundage, officer's fees, and all other legal incidental expenses; all of which I will expose for sale or sufficient thereof to satisfy said judgment debt and costsat my office, next to the j Court House in the City of Nelson, B.C., on Monday the 22nd day of December, 1902,' at tlie hour of twelve o'clock noon. NOTE���Intending purchasers will satisfy themselves as to Interest and title of the said defendant, William Walmsloy. Dated at Nelson, B.C., llth December, 1902. S. P. TUCK. Sliariff of South Kootenay. | Santa Clause | Congratulates I Himself tf tf tf tf m so % tf tf tf tf tf tf tf tf tf tf tf tf tf tf tf m Over Our Furniture. It saves much trouble over the annual worry of Christmas Gifts. One can eure'y find among the hundreds of handsome pieces of furniture here something that wil suit everyone whom )�� they wish to remember. Select! onr ^\ made now will ba kept until Christ- ^(i maa and delivered to any address, fl. Carload of finest Iron and Brass Beds W just received. Fine line of Pictures 9J to-seleet-fromr^ -'" '-- ���_5- McArthur & Co. 1 m Furniture Dealers �� ���S_L:_C;__j'_l;SL*__ji-i. -i��i ._^-.__ :_&:__. A'.__-_&___'_-_'_&__**__?- P. BURNS <$��� CO. 2____2___si��S-! Meat Merchants Head Oflice and Cold Storage Plant at Nelson. Branch Markets at Kaslo, Ymir, Sandon, Silverton, Revelstoke, New Denver, Cascade, Trail, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Midway, Phoenix, Rossland, Slocan City, Moyie, Cranbrooke, Fernie and Macleod. Nelson Branch Market, Burns Block, Baker Street. Orders by mail to any Branch will receive prompt and careful attention. West Kootenay Butcher Co. Fresh and Salted Meats Fish and Ponlirj in Season Orders by "Mail receive Careful and 1'rompt Attentiun E. C. TRAVKS, Minaji-er, K.-W--C. Blk.. "N'oiflOQ STARKEY & GO., WHOLESALE PHOVfSiONS, PRODUCE AKD FRUITS. [ R. A. Rogers & Co , Lid , Winnipeg. REPRESENTING J f|. K. Fairbank Co., - Montreal. (SimcoB Canning Co,, - - Simcoe. Office and Warehouse- Josephine Street, NELSON, B. C. 4 The Nelson Tribime I 1 The J. H. Ashdown Hardware Go. LIMITED ' ' IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Portland Cement, T-Rails, Ore Cars, Sheet Steel, Crescent, Canton and Jessop's Drill Steel. Tinware and Graniteware. Stoves and Ranges. BAKER ST. NELSON B.C. ��������� ��������� ��� ��� ��� ��� ������ ������ ������ ������ ����� ��� ��� ��� ��� ��� ��� ��� ��� ������ ������ ������ ��� ��� 9.9.9���...���9.....999....��..������.9.������������*������************ ................9.9.9 ���������*<>������.������ ���*.**���*������ ********** Facts and Philosophy From Jacob Dover The Jeweler i My stock of watches and diamonds is ' enormous. I have the resources, talents j and experience for supplying- these goods in a manner that admits of neither loss nor dissatisfaction to our customers. I ] buy largely because I sell largely. Large ', buying makes low selling possible and eceonomy in expenses makes it still more possible while still preserving a high standard of quality at the same time. My holiday stock is ready and it was never better in my recollection. Here are some specialties. ���Diamonds and all kinds of precious stones. Ladies" rings, brooches and bracelets, watches, links, lockets and neck chains. - Manicure and toilet sets to suit everybody. , Sterling silver novelties of all kinds, Sterling hollow ware. My stock is complete and I want you all to call and inspect it. Engraving not exceeding three letters will be done free of charge. Mail and express orders have our prompt atention. JACOB DOVER, Nelson, B.C. The Jeweler .9.........������999.9999999.............������...���.���������������.9. ��� ������ ��� 0 ��� ���' ��� ��� '������ ��� ������ ��� ��� ��� ��� ���'��� ��� ��� ��� ��������� ��� ��������� CANADIAN-MADE GLOVES AMERICAN-MADE GLOVES BRITISH-MA DE GLOVES FRENCH-MADE GLOVES *���������*.������...............................���������.���������.���������������9*** *���������*������������999 .....99999.*.9.9.9.���������������������.9.������������������������*****2* Il A FEW TIPS ON TEA If ** TWENTY-FICE CENTS will buy ONE POUND of pure, clean, fine J J ��� ��� flavored CEYLON-INDIAN TEA .-..'" . ' ��� ��� ��� *> TWENTY CENTS will buy ONE POUND Standard BREAKFAST .m ������ BLACK TEA. Purchasers of ten pounds or more, will receive one pound ����� extra, for each ten pounds purchased. Equal to an allowance of TEN PER CENT DISCOUNT, on jthese ex-. -#-#���ti'umeiy-Idw^pricesr"^ ~ Z*. Prices on our regular lines of CHOICE TEA, 30c, ��� ��� COc per pound for Black, Green and Blended. ��� ��� 35c, -10c, '15c, 50c and ��� 0 ��� 0 ��� 0 00 Kootenay Coffee Co. Telephone 177 P. O. Box 1S2 00 ���0 s: 00 00 :: 00 00 00 00 00 00 000 00 000000000000000 00 000 0 00 00000000000 00 00 00 00 000 00 00 00 MORLEY h CO. Wholesale and Retail Booksellers Stationers And Artists' Materials Engineering and Mining Books Typewriters Mimeographs Photographic Supplies Musical Instruments Morley & Co., Nelson, B.C. THE TOWN AND DISTRICT ��� James F. AVardner was in St. Paul on the 1st. *#**-&-#-##-*#-*&--#&-#-#**-#*^-#--#-* *# -*#-���#-#-#-���&--#-#&*#���#*# *#*#^ *#*#*#*# **? .' THE MILK OF THE COW is richer in proteids, fats and salts than the human milk, hence it must be adapted to infant feeding. Borden's Eagle Brand Condensed Milk is the,- prefect-oil of a cow's milk for infants. Forty-five years experience has made it tlie leading infant food of the world. 5 Per Cent Cold Bonds A^Cood Investment For Prudeqt People . The economical" Buyers-admit that five per cent gold bonds are not in it in values when compared with the saving made by purchasing goods from the undersigned. Another shipment of Silver Spoon Tea received. Morrison & Caldwell GROCERS Phone 134 Tremont Block, Baker St ** Tf ���* _2k Tr ���* ���# FRED IRVINE & as Specialties Most suitable and useful for Xmas presents. We are showing In our new premises one of the finest stocks of ladies' wear ever displayed in this city at extremely low prices. LADIES' DEPARTMENT Ladies Silk Cashmere and French Flannel Shirt and Blouse AVnists ��� a very large assortment of up-to-date and natty styles. LADIES* KID GLOVES. A very pretty and natty lot of Ladles* ccived, special for Xmas trade. Ladles and Children's Lawn, Linen and Silk Handkerchief;-. Ladies' Black and Colored Silk Skirls. Ladies' and Children's Fur Boas, Ties, Ruffs. Muffs and Seal Jackets. Ladies" Trimmed and Pattern Hats���a new lot to select from. GENT'S DEPARTMENT. Men's Smoking Jackets, Dressing Gowns, Bath Robes, and Travelling Rugs. Men's Silk Umbrellas���a fine asortment to select from. Men's Ties, Scarfs, Silk Wraps, Mufflers, Kid Olives, Mitts and Fancy Half Hose, and Underwear. DOLL AND TOY DEPARTMENT. AVe havo got a small stock of Dolls, Toys, Books and Games which we are' offering at prices to clear as we aro dropping these lines, so offer them all at Bargain Prices. AVe invite the public to call and inspect our new premises and stock as we are now showing complete ranges in every department and you will llnd a very large stock to select from, with which to make good suitable Xmas presents. JL- *** J��- __'����� __���- __'* ��� _li _��'* _>'4_. _?!' _a!' _>'* _S'L_ _?'*_. _3_L _5_L _S> _S_L _S'< _S_L __* �����'* -**'�� _����' _S'�� __���* _�����'* ���*�� __'* *���>'�� >M V. __. _s'J _*���'< -������__ _5_L _3'��_ _3'i_. _3___ -%-*Jj**7(**;'^ *"^'*:*7p7p'*^7p7p7p '*^7p-%-^*7f!;-*5Sf*-7ir-t ���%*%-*%���%**%-?!*? **%-*^-?p'^?p^'**'?fWV*-ArV*v*VW'*-->'VVV''-'*',-W WE are receiving fresh goods f every day and Our Prices | DO NOT CHANGE. We I sell cheaper an d better goods f than can be procured elsewhere | You should deal witjj us, we can f save money for you��r TRY US. J. A* KIRKPATRICK ��^0,, LIMITED. ������Cs-vv-*'*'--*'**'**''*s-*'^^ _*' CHRIST Walnuts, Almonds, London layer Filberts, , Figs PHONE 161 J. A. IRVING & CO. Houston Block, flel.on Grocers and Provisions Dealers Brydges, Blakemore & Cameron, L'd REAL ESTATE AND QENERAL AGENTS JOSEPHINE ST. NELSON, B. G. k I I IB UdUlBluL tr.��� Bii;i: ito it/ Ht ito ito ito ito ito m m m m m m w C. B. IVJATrHEW, Proprietor 2-t__* gCL, gL* f= Zmmmw ^___*____ ' -y: *��� C- st ���sr-v-j^: m m *\ m w m m (0 Tobaccos Cigars Pipes PIPER HEIDSEICK IMPORTED G. B. D. PIPES BORT JACK HENRY CLAY G. B. D. SPECIALS, IN CASES. NATURAL LEAF BOCKY J. R. C. GUARANTEED ROSE LEAF, FINE CUT CAROLINA B. B. B. PACE'S TWIST MANUEL GARCIA ��� L. & Co. WILLS', PLAYERS', LONGFELLOWS FRENCH BRIAR OGDEN'S : FRANKLINS PETERSON'S STUDENTS' MIXTURE LA B1LIDADS MEERSCHAUM CRAVEN'S MIXTURE ACTIVIDAD VIENNA MEERSCHAUM LONE JACK .. 7 LACADENA COLORING CLAYS PURE PERIQUE FLOR DE ISABELLAS AND A FULL LINE OF AMBER LATIKA PERFECTOS MOUNTS, CIGAR AND CIGAR PIONEER BRAND ' FLO RDE ISABELLAS ETTE. HOLDERS. CAVENDISH GLASGOW 1 PARMETELLOES LA CONSTANCIA GRAND XMAS PRIZE DRAWING NOW ON. BULL DURHAM ' AND A FULL LINE OF DOMESTIC CIGARS. WE SELL TO THE TRADE. i* \t> i* \t/ ' ��_��� ��?��� *��;��� "5T- ��T- ST- ^T- ����� ��T- "����� *����� **& *��?��� *��?��� v+> "st?. ��?��� ��r-'^��-'ff,';-i;'K-^-^:*<����> ������..��.....��.*...*9.0��6.99. STOP THAT COUGH! Don't let it hans on! Don't do it! It's terribly hard on your throat. Besides, there's no use in letting: It run. It's a tax on your strength, and pulls you down. Take a hint���our Compound Syrup of White Pine and Tar will stop coughing- If anything- will. There may be a few complicated cases, which it will not cure, but in such, we refund your money. Price, 25c. and 50c. *t ifr Ml ' -(*)�� ib Our stock of Perfumery is the largest in.Western Canada, and includes all w. iii the latest odors by the best manufacturers. There is nothin_; more suitable m Hi for a Christmas Present han a bottle of good Perfume. . fl* ** * * The prices range from 40c to 75c an ounce, and in Fancy Bottles and j{{ f __Boxes...from__$1..0,0^toJ_j5.0(L.a-.bottIe.-^ ��� ' ���"|** % In Perfume Atomizers our prices are now "from $1.00 to $2.00 each. " In Sachet Powders we have all the most popular odors, reduced to 40c an ' ounce. '/ Our stock of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Brushes, Toilet Articles, Purses, etc. j is still most complete, and from 25 to 50 per cent caii be saved by buying from i us. .. | f e*e**����*��.**_������9a*��**a��^ Canada Drug & Bcok Oompany, Limited NELSON. 9 9 9 a 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 . 9 9 9 9 9 9 * * 9 9 9 9 9 9 . ............. o*->e>ee_e too ��* TEETZEL & CO Corner Baker and JosephineStreets, NELSON. Corner Columbian Avenue and Oueen Street, ROSSLAND. Don't Worry But replace that unsatisfactory suit with one of GEE'S Stylish cut, well-made, comfortabla suits. You will find Gee in the Tremont Block; Baker street, Nelson. HARRY H. WARD m** Insurance MINES AND REAL ESTATE TELEPHONJ! 117. Work Called for ami Returned. Boot and Shoe Repairing IN CONXECTION' WITH The American Shoe Store All Work _ H. LAWRENCE Dons in Thorough GALT COAL AND WOOD OF ALL KINDS Terms Spot Cash W. P. TIERNEY, Tolophone 265 Baker Street, Baker Stree Nelson, B. C. SEWIM MACHINES AND PIANOS FOR RENT AND FOR SALE Old Curiosity Shop, Josephine St., Nelson * 'horough and Workmanlike Manner. OBOSSER'S SECOND HAND S STORE AND CHINA HALL, COMBINED Is the place to "rubber" before sending: back Bast for anything-. We buy, sell, or rent, or store anything: from a safety pin to a beef trust. Western Canadian Employment Agency ln connection. Baker street, west, next door to C. P. It- Ticket Offlce. P. O. Box 588. Phone 261A. j