"7ae86ac4-f533-4414-8f93-a7550bba24b6"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "[The Keremeos Chronicle]"@en . "2016-01-19"@en . "1908-07-24"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/kerechro/items/1.0310015/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " Keremeos Trumpet\nVol.\nKEREMEOS,-B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1 a. m., arriving in\nKeremeos at noon.\nsV. K. \\ i-i.nv, Proprietor.\nChurch Services.\nI'msHYTKRIAN Divine service alternate\nSundays, Keremeos Town Hall ll a.m.,\nSchool House 7.,10 p. m. Kev. A. II. Cameron, Pastor.\nAxcl.lt AN Services as announei'd from\ntime lo time.\nsi xnsv School and Btau Cum.\nIn Tossn Hall each Sunday at 10 a.m.\nMrs. J. K. Shasv, Superintendent.\nTrains.\n\'. V. ek. K. train arrises daily, exeepl\nSunday, at 10.30 a.m.\nLeaves dails, exeepl Sunday, al 3 p.m.\nBest in the Province.\nD. P. Jelly was in Nelson a short\ntime on Tuesday. Speaking of his\nvisit the Daily Nesvs says :\n\"I). F. Jelly, rancher of Keremeos, was in the city yesterday on a\nbrief visit relative to the disposal of\nthe produce of his valley through\ntbe Kootenay Fruit Growers' Association. Mr. Jelly has new potatoes from I '_. to 2 cents a pound at\nKeremeos. Ho has tomatoes just\nripening and also apples. Tha\nKeremeos has an earlier season\nthan Kootenay and Mr. Jelly is doing his best to take advantage of\nthe situation,\n\"Speaking of the Keremeos Mr.\nJelly was enthusiastic He had\nonly heen there two years hut was\nmore than satisfied with the pros-'\npact! of the country. Ihe Keremeos valley svas sage brush, about 20\nmiles long hy an average width of a\nmile and a half. In other words\nthere was available about 18,000\nacres of land which, Mr. Jelly claimed, was the most easily cleared and\nthe moat highly productive of any\nin a highly fertile province.\n\"The land could be cleared for\n$f> an acre and plowed for another\n$4. It had to he irrigated hut the\nwater supply was plentiful. Besides\nthe Similkameen river running\nthrough the valley there were also\nthe Keremeos and Ashnola creeks.\n\"The land would grow anything\nhut was especially good for grape*\nand for peaches. There svere growing the Black Hamburg and Tokay\nvarieties, two of the hest varieties\nknown to grape growers.\n\"There were several old ranchers\nin the valley, one of them, Prank\nRichter, having been there for 45\nyears. He had, indeed, made his\nmoney in cattle but had grown an\norchard which was highly productive. A lew years ago W. II. Armstrong of Vancouver, acting with\nhis brothers located in Winnipeg,\nhad taken up 1,600 acres, and putting water on the land, had proceeded lo subdiv ide it in 10 acre lots\nselling at $200 an acre. Nearly all\nthis land had been sold and there\nwere from forty lo fifty families already settled. Now the valley is\nawaiting the subdivision of other\nfarms.\n\"The only matter troubling Unpeople of Keremeos is the building\nofthe railway throvgh lo the coast.\nThe line had been completed as far\nas Keremeos and trains had heen\nrunning for lhe past year. The line\nhad been graded 20 miles further,\nas lar as Hedley. BoforU the Hope\nmountains were reached another 30\nmiles would have to he graded beyond Hedley.\n\"Hut there was through connec\ntion with Nelson via Marcus, yet\nnow was the time, maintained Mr.\nJelly, to come into the valley. Land\nwas far cheaper today than it would\nhe at other times. The interests of\nthe valley, its season being earlier\nthan that of Nelson, were not inimical to this district. On the con-\ntrarv the one country was eomple-\nmental to the other and that was\nthe reason why he was trying to establish business relations which\nwould he of mutual benefit to both\nplaces.\"\nLOCAL NOTES.\nHarry Bulger, of the Hope country, is visiting at Mr. Harcelo's\nJas. McAdani of Somas is buying\nhorses in the vicinity of Keremeos.\nArchdeacon Beer will conduct\nservices in the hall next Sunday\nmorning and evening.\nConstable Kwart, win has been\nsin a trip to the coast with a string\nof horses, has returned.\nNorman Morrison, for some time\nclerk ofthe commissariat office here,\nhas left and gone to lledlev. His\nsuccessor is Gilbert Mowat, who\ncomes from \\i. 1 camp.\nJohn Thompson Went bv special\nto Penticton on Wednesday on his\nwav lo Vancouver. Mr. 'Thompson will return in the winter to\nereet suitable buildings oa his fruit\nlot.\nRichard Cawston, a former well\nknown resident of this district, and\nnow of Stratford, Ont.. is out a visit\nto his brother George,of Keremeos,\nand other friends in lhe town and\nvicinity.\nA quantity of fruit trees ordered\nlast year by II. Walker have arrived, but it is not likely lhat delivery\nwill be accepted. They are now\nWOt even good for liresvood. The\nC.P.R. Carried these trees lo Vernon and Penticton, where they remained for weeks. Why the rail-\nssas shipped dead Wood in a refrigerator car to Keremeos is beyond\nthe comprehenaion of the printer's\ndevil.\nDot ing his recent trip to the coast\nConstable Swan found on the Hope\ntrail, near the summit, two line docs\nthat had been shot, apparently from\nmere wantonness, and lelt tii rot.\nStrong suspicion points to a man\nwho had been in thai vicinity a\nshort time before, and it may bees en vet that he will be convicted\nand subjected IO the heavy penalties\nthat the law very properly pros ides\nlor such a deed.\nA charge was laid before Magistrate Coleman a few days ago by\nPrank Surprise against Mac Mc-\nAuley of rustling some of his cattle,\nbut owing to Mr. Coleman being\nsuddenly called away, the heating\nwas postponed to next Monday.\nMac says the charge is absurd; that\nhe was after an obstreperous steer\nand employed the common device\nof hunching him with a few quiet\ncattle who were near by in order to\ncoax him on the way ; that this was\nin a public place and on a common\nrange, and being a long established\ncustom in the cattle country, should\nnot he objected to.\nA new lead of coal was struck\nlast week by the Diamond Vale Co.\non the prospect some little distance\neast of lhe main workings in the\nj Nicola valley.\nWe understand that the two\nacres purchased by the committee\nfrom the Keremeos Land Co. for a\ncemetery is noss surveyed, and parties wishing to secure Iota may do\nso by applying to Mr. Stoe.s.\nJames Ross, a wealthy land-owner of North Yakima, Wash., who\nhas resided in lhe United States for\nsears, was deported from Seattle\nfor refusing to pay his head tax at\nBlaine when re-entering I'. S. territory after a short visit to Vancouver. He paid the tax later, and\nnow expresses his intention of selling out his large interests in Vaki-\nma and removing to Canada without delay.\nThe Okanagan exhibition will he\nheld in Vernon September 16, 17\nand 18. The association is giving\nlarger prizes than ever before. $2,-\n(>00 iii the exhibition classes and\n$1,750 for races. Several valuable\ncups have also been donated. A\nnew exhibition building, new poultry houses and a new machinery\nbuilding base been erected and the\ndirectors intend making this the\nmost successful fair ever held in the\nvalley. A good programme of\nIpOfta has been arranged including\nlacrosse, baseball and football\nmatches.\nConstable Spronle of lleillev svas\nin town yesterday on his ssas lo\nKamloopi with a prisoner, a half*\nbreed named Jininis Jainicson, under sentence i'l six months' imprisonment for being drunk Bod disorderly. Jimmy is an old offender and\nwas once befon sent up for four\nyears, but was released on parole\nalter seising a short lime. This\ntime be got on a rampage ami\naiming other things put up a fierce\nAghi before the constable, aariated\nby Nigel Kwart, effected his arrest.\nIt was necessary to bat him over\nthe head with a gun, ami to lie him\ndown with ropea after handcuffs had\nfailed lo secure him. During the\nstruggle, too, he gave Mr. Barail a\nnasts bite in the arm. LOCAL NOTES.\nPeach harvest is on. It is a peach.\nJ. R. Greenfield, post office inspector, was in town last week. He\nwent west and returned by stage on\nTuesday.\nMr. Keeler has engaged a cook\nin his restaurant, a Chink who has\nfor some time been employed on the\nLowe ranch.\nMiss Loudon, of Loomis, after a\nvisit of a week with her sister, Mrs.\nF. Richter, went south by V. V. &\nE. on Monday.\nThe stork visited the home of\nMr. and Mrs. C. L. C. Cummings\non Saturday. Miss Baby Cummings is doing well.\nEzra Mills is building a 16x20\nft. addition to his residence on\nEighth Avenue. D. J. Innis is\nalso building a kitchen to his house.\nOne of the army of tramps, in the\nabsence of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Armstrong at Summerland, took possession of their house, used their\nsupplies, etc. A few days in the\ncooler would suit such tramps.\nChas. Rennie of Calgary is in\ntown for a short time helping Mr.\nArmstrong of the Keremeos Commercial Co. at the big store. Also\nhe is taking advantage ofthe opportunity to leatn something of the Similkameen and to look after the\nfruit lot at the lower end of the\ntown owned by his uncle, S. Sylvester of Calgary, and at present in\ncharge of Celestial gardeners.\nH. B. Stanton of Molson was in\ntown on Tuesday on business in\nconnection with his supply of materials for the new church. In the\nabsence of two members of the\nchurch building committee, there\nwas no definite settlement of the\nmatters in dispute, but a temporary\narrangement was made by which\nthe balance of the material for the\nchurch must be delivered here on\nJuly 25th.\nMessrs. Willy and Clark, of New-\nHampshire, McMillan of Seattle,\nand forties of Hedley, with a four-\nhorse special, drove from Keremeos\nby way of Olalla to the Apex mineral claim in the vicinity of the\nNickel Plata early this week. After\ninspecting the buildings, development work, ore, etc., thev returned\nto Keremeos. It was a strenuous\nday's work. This week Ihe work\non three miles of a branch road\nfrom the present freight road to the\nApex will be laid out, and iu a\nshort time work at the mine will be\non the docket.\nSaturday's Vancouver Province\nsays : Mr. L. W. Shatford, M. L.\nA. for the Similkameen, is down\nfrom the upper country and will\nvisit Victoria after a day's stay at\nthe Hotel Vancouver. Mr. Shatford reports that the small fruit in\nlhe Okanagan this season yielded\nthe biggest crop ever recorded and\nthat there is every likelihood that\nthe production of peaches and apples\nwill also prove phenomenal. He-\nstates that growers who shipped to\nthe prairie provinces made sub-\n1 stantial profits. Mr. Shatford anticipates that a large portion of\npeach, apple and plum crop will be\nmarketed in Vancouver, in view of\nthe satisfaction afforded by last\nyear's shipments.\nOne of our local fishermen had a\nsorrowful experience a few days ago\nin plying his gentle art in the waters of the Similkameen. Selecting\na likely looking spot, he took up\nhis station there just as the sun was\ndipping behind the mountains, cast\nhis line, and soon had a pull that\nnearly yanked him into the current.\nThere were no whitefish except\nWhite & Mackay's special, and no\nbass except Bass' stout, but\nthe trout\u00E2\u0080\u0094well, the trout whose\nacquaintance he made might easily\nbe mistaken for young whales.\nAfter a severe struggle he landed\nthree, and hauled them up on a\nsandbank, there to flop their lives\naway while he rested from his labors. As darkness was stealing\no'er the landscape he rose to gather\nup his spoils, but what was his\nconsternation to find that they had\nvanished. Jerry was not at hand\nto smell them out, and searching in\nthe dark proved in vain. A searching party armed with bollseye lanterns was also unsuccessful, but at\ndawn the following morning part of\nthe spoil was found where it had\nstruggled to, some distance from\nthe spot where it was first placed.\nThe largest one of the fish, however, had escaped. Its weight can\nonly be roughly estimated, but\nsome notion of its size may be had\nfrom the fact that when it was pulled out the river instantly fell four\ninches.\nJust received, a nice fresh consignment of Armour's choicest hams\nand bacon.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Keremeos Commercial\nCompany.\nAccident at Camp McKinney.\n(llouiul.it \ Times,]\nDuncan A. Cameron, brother of\nHugh Cameron, and one of the pioneers of Camp McKinney, suffered a\nvery serious accident on Tuesday\nnight, and was brought on Wed-\nneeday to the Sisters' Hospital here.\nMr. Cameron fell from a ladder\nleading to a loft, fracturing his leg\nabose the ankle. The break is a\nbad one, the hone being badly broken and the ligaments torn. The\npatient is in charge of Dr. Oppen-\nheinier, and the bone is being set\ntoday. Hugh Cameron and Ed.\nHattOfl, who made the long trip\ndown from camp McKinney with\nthe injured man, left yesterday afternoon for Camp McKinney. Both\nHugh Cameron and his brother\nwere among the first men in the\nCamp McKinney country and are\nwidely known over the district.\n\"Royal Household\" Hour, Ogil-\nvie's best brand, for sale at right\nprices.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Keremeos Commercial\nCompany.\n8imilkameen Land Diatrict.\nDISTRICT OF YALE.\n'TAKE NOTICE that John M. Yocnu, of Ks*\u00C2\u00BB\n* meos, B.C., occupation rancher, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land : Commencing at a post planted about\n66 feet south of the south-west corner of D. Innis's\nranch, thence north 20 chains, thence west 20 chains,\nthence south 20 chains, thence east to point of commencement, and containing -10 acres, more or less.\nTh . land applied for is known as the graveyard flat,\nand adjoins Lot No. 2821 on the west.\nJohn M. Yocnu.\nJuly 11, 1908. 2J\nSimilkameen Land Diatrict.\nDISTRICT OF YALE.\nTake notice that I, Percy Marks, of\nKeremeos, hotel keeper, intend to apply\nfor permission to purchase the following\ndescribed lands: Eighty acres. Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner of lot 2993, thenee south 40\nchains, thence east 20 chains,thence north\n40 chains, thenee west 20 chains to point\nof commencement.\nPercy Marks,\nI\u00C2\u00BBocHtt*r.\nDated June 17th, 1908. 20\nNotice of Forfeiture.\nTo R. B. Stack and any person or persons to whom\nhe may have transferred anv interest in the\n\"Black Diamond\" mineral claim, situated in\nOlalla Camp, in the Osoyoos Division of Yale\nDistrict.\nY^OU are hereby required to Uke notice that I\n* have expended for assessment and for recording\ncertificate of work on the above named claim $102.50,\nbeing the expenditure necessary to enable me to\nhold said claim, and you are hereby required to\ncontribute your share or proportion of such expenditure, together with all costs of advertising. If you\nfail or refuse to contribute such amount, including\nadvertising, within ninety (90) days of first publication of this notice in the Keremeos Tri'MPHT, your\ninterest will become vested in me, your co-owner,\nunder the provisions of the \"Mineral Act and\nAmending Acts.\"\nDated Iliis Uth day of May 1908.\n20 L. M. Lvon.\nNotice of Forfeiture.\nTo Charles Richtkr and any person or persons to\nwhom he may have transferred hia one-third interest in the \"Eldorado\" mineral claim, situated\nin the Olalla Camp, in the Osoyoos Division of\nYale District.\n\\"Ol' are hereby required to take notice that 1\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 have expended for assessment and for recording\ncertificate of work on the above named claim $102.50,\nbeing the expenditure necessary to enable me to hold\nsaid claim, and you are hereby required to contribute\nyour share or proportion of such expenditure, which\n..mount to date is seventy-three dollars ($73.00] together with all costs of advertising. If vou fail or\nrefuse to contribute such amount, including advertising, within ninety (90) days of first publication of\nthis notice in the Keremeos TairMPHT, your interest\nwill become vested in me, your co-owner, under the\nprovisions of the \"Mineral Act and Amending Acts.\"\nDated this 14th day of May. 1908.\n20 I M. Lyon.\nAlkazar Hotel\nKeremeos, B. C.\nPERCY MARKS - - PROPRIETOR.\nB.C.\nLivery, Feed & Sale Stables\nKEREMEOS and HEDLEY, B. C.\nComfortable\nand\nCommodious\nStabling\nfor Teams\nGood Rigs\nCareful Drivers\nDraying\nof all kinds\nPrompt attention to all customers.\nLand-seekers and Tourists invited to give us a trial.\nD. J. INNIS,\nProprietor.\nWhen in\nKeremeos\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2top at the\nCentral Hotel\nGet our prices for flour, rolled\noats, brm, shorts, etc. We buy in\ncarload lots and our customers fWt\nthe bnilt Keremeos Commercial\nCompany.\nSpecial attention to\nCommercial Men,\nTourists\naiul I.and-sookcrs.\nHeadquarters for all\nSlam- Routes.\nI.iverv Stable\nin connection.\nGood table.\nLar^c, airy and\ncomfortable rooms.\nVn\n'bus lo and from\nall trains.\nTweddle & Reith,\nProprietors. Not Clever Enough.\nA despatch from Grand Forks\nsays : A clever swindler has been\nbrought to justice. The man is W.\nS. Carter who for a while resided\nin this city. For some time past\nCarter has been working his game\nin the States, but the officers of the\npostal department, getting onto\nsomeone using the mails for fraudulent purposes, he thought it best to\ncome over to this side of the line.\nIt appears that Carter would come\ninto a town, and getting acqainted\nwith some young man who had\nparents who were well to do in the\neast, would write to them telling\nthem that their son was sick and in\nneed of money to defray medical\nexpenses. His last victim was a\nlady of Cherryvale, Kan., whom, it\nis stated, he had done out of a considerable sum of money. McKeen-\nan has been at work on the case for\nsome time and by means of decoy\nletters, Carter was lured over to\nDanville, Wash., a few miles south\nof this city, where he was promptly\ncollared by deputy United States\nmar-hai VVray, who was assisted by\npostoffice inspector VVilmer, on the\ncharge of using the United States\nmails to defraud. Carter had nothing to say.\nA Costly Bungle.\ngrowing. At the end of that year\nthe floor of the barn had risen three\nfeet above the ground. A year ago\nlast spring the barn was on stilts 9\nfeet high, so the farmer put in another floor and converted it into a\ntwo-story building. At the beginning of the present year the new\nfloor was seven inches above the\nground, and the farmer looks forward to the time when a third\nand possibly a fourth- storey may\nbe added to his very remarkable\nbarn.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Saturday Sunset.\nThe majority report of the Quebec bri.lge committee was adopted\nby 103 to 52.\nThe majority report declares that\nthe company fully complied with\nthe terms of its agreement of llX)3,\nwhen the government decided to\nguarantee the bonds of the oompany.\nThe-report concludes that when the\nbank of Montreal paid the sum of\n$3,773,223, being the amount of\nthe claims outstanding against the\ncompany on April 30 last, in connection with the advances made on\nthe guaranteed bond, issue, an undivided lien was given on the substructure of the bridge and the approaches, Including a large amount\nof delivered material, amounting in\nall to over $.1,000,000.\nThe minority report declares that\nthe company was incompetent and\nUtterly unfitted for the work. It\nalso says that it was the dutv ofthe\ngovernment to have taken over the\nproperty and completed Ihe enterprise, but, instead, it guaranteed\nthe company's bonds up to $<>, lor \u00C2\u00BBiv nwnllis,\nin a.lvatH'f.\nAdu-rtisin^ kati-s. Legal notices, l.V per lino\nfirst ins. rtutn. l\ni tallied bv the provincial government,\nl'nited States shocked because its ^ fa \:w\. 0, 0n0elive police con-\nopponent has come under lhe dotn- trol in rural communities. The\ninalion Of I dictator, and apparent- rural Constabulary iu Ontario are\nly sercnclv unconscious ot its own probably as good men as those of\ncondition. The thoroughness with fa organised forces ir, the more\nwhich lhe panics have become \"im- ,,d\,niccd provinces, but thev are\nperiali/ed,\" so to spe.k. would seem rendered almost helpless by being\nto indicate lhe operation ol some localized, with no organized system\nnatural law in political development ,,\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 tracing aiul pursuing escaped\nThe same Ic.idcucv is apparent in criminals, so thai a disgracefully\nCanadian politics, Ihe present I'niii- [gey, proportion of outrageous\nBuy your Machine Oils at the Keremeos Hardware\nBrit- and save money.\nBuy a \" New Century\" Washing Machine and\nsave mother.\nXX\n\"Flintkote\" Roofing,\nthe most easily and quickly laid, most durable, and altogether the most desirable roofing material to he had.\nThe price is low for the value.\nA full line of \"fbOtllX\" Paints and Oils none hetter.\nE. M. CROOKER.\nFirst-Class Harness.\nEasiest of Saddles.\nc.\nV. PROSSER\nier wielding an .tulhoritv much more\nabsolute than was lh.il ot anv ot his\npredecessors. It is likely, though,\nthat in a community of such high\naver, ge intelligence as Canada,\nsuch a state of affairs is only temporary, and is due rather lo personalities than tO general conditions,\n0\nJames. J. Hill, chairman of the\nGreal Northern railway, is of the\ncrimes go unpunished. A case oc-\n. iii -red near Mount Forest a few\ndays ago, where a hobo attacked a\nfarmer's wife aud beat her, perhaps\nfatally, with a club. The hired man\na man of the right stamp pursued the villain into the woods and\nattempted to arrest him, bul got\nthe worst ol the encounter; and the\nchances are he will never be captured. That a premier of Whitney's\nDusters\nBrushes\nCurrycombs\nvigor and ability should not have\nopinion that lhe only solution ol the ^ ^ ^ K\u00E2\u0080\u009E1(;.N|.,m,i|1}, l|tK.slioil\nfinancial problem that confronts the j 0| ;l provincial police before this is\nrailroads is an increase in freight i a matter of surprise.\nBits\nSpurs\nWhips\nHarnessmaker and Shoemaker.\nLargest Stock in the Valley. Everything In the Harness Lin*. Keremeos Property is\na Good\na\nSafe Investment.\n3-ACRE LOTS\nReady for\nPlanting\n$300\nPer Acre\n8 and 10 Acre\nLots\n$200\nPer Aero\n1-3 Cash,\nBalance in\n3 Payments at\n7 per cent.\nShut in by the mountains and only to be\nreached by stage, the Valley was not known. Now the Railway is completed to Keremeos and they are busy grading on\nto the Coast. When completed this will place the Valley\nwithin 185 miles of Vancouver.\nPrices of\nTOWN LOTS :\nWe have laid out a Town Site at Kere-\nmeob, and the surrounding land in 3, 5 and 10 acre plots. A\nCOMPLETE SYSTEM OF IRRIGATION is under construction and is expected to be completed this fall.\n7th & 8th Ave.:\n$250.00 each\nNow is the time to come and get a piece\nof this property while it is going at the present price, for\nwhen the water is running on the ground it will double in\nvalue.\nHome-seekers or excursionists from the\nEast have a choice of routes to Keremeos. The Great Northern Railway, which taps the Prairie Provinces at numerous\npoints, furnishes a quick, comfortable and convenient means\nof reaching the Similkameen at rates the same as to corresponding points on the C.P.R Or excursionists may come as\nfar as Midway over the Crow's Nest branch ofthe C.P.R. and\nthe remaining 90 miles over the Great Northern.\n5th Ave.\n$200.00 each\n4th Ave.:\n$100.00 each\nm\nHalf cash,\nBalance in\none year at\n7 per cent\nFOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY TO\nKeremeos Land Co., Ltd.\nJ. J. ARMSTRONG, Manager.\n_ KEREMEOS. B.C.\nK\t Local and General.\nThe American Federation of Labor\nhas decided to support Hrvan.\nThe Census Bureau estimates the\npopulation of Canada on March 31st\nlast at 6,863,500.\nIs your property insured against\nfire ? If not it should be. Policies\nin a good safe company can be\nsecured at this office.\nWe are preparing, for wide distribution abroad, advertising matter\ndescriptive of the Similkameen\u00E2\u0080\u0094its\nideal climate, wonderful mineral\nwealth, and rich fruit lands. If\nyour property is for sale, list it at\nthis office.\nSince the Dominion government\nhas passed a law to prohibit the\nopium traffic, the Chinese opium-\ndealers at the coast ask for six\nmonths in which to dispose of their\nstocks, representing also that some\nof those addicted to the drug are\nsure to die if their supply is cut off\ntoo suddenly. The government refuses to grant them more than three\nmonths.\nThe report of the Commons committee on agriculture, states that\nwheat may be successfully raised\n900 miles north of the international\nboundary and 500 miles north of\nKdmonton. The evidence presented to the committee showed the\ntotal tobacco production of Canada\nwas 4,000,000 pounds out of a total\nof over 15,000,000 consumed. It\nis claimed the whole of this could be\nproduced in Canada under improved conditions of culture.\nWriting to Ihe Globe from Vancouver, John Stinson in the course\nof a letter, a column and a half\nlon^, sets forth the claim of British\nColumbia for \"better terms\" in\nwhat he truly describes as a \"manner entirely different from anything\nofthe kind ever before suggested.\"\nIn brief, Mr. Stinson suggests that\nthe Dominion government take over\nthe northern half of the province\nand open it up. We rather think\nour fellow-citizen has a great deal\nof propaganda work to do if he\nwishes to bring many British Columbians to see the wisdom of reducing the sise of the province.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nWorld.\nK. T. Lowery, ofthe Greenwood\nLedge, was a visitor at Ihe Pioneer\nsanctum yesterday. The colonel is\nan advocate of the great healthful\nvalues in fresh air and exercise and\nfinds first quality of both in a stroll\nup to Phoenix. No newspaperman\nin Canada today has a more interesting journalistic career than the\neditor of the Ledge. He has already owned and edited 22 newspapers at different times in various\ntowns and is now seriously contemplating the starting of his 23rd.\nAlthough the name for his latest\nventure was not suggested, \"Ski-\ndoo\" might not be inappropriate.\nIt will take the place of Lowery \s\nClaim, which was excluded from the |\nmails on two occasions.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Phoenix\nPioneer.\nENTIRELY NEW\nAND FIRST-CLASS\nFAMILY HOTEL.\nHeadquarters in the Lower Similkameen\nfor Commercial Travelers and\nMining Men.\nHOTEL KEREMEOS\nOPPOSITE G. N. R. STATION.\nGEO. KIRBY,\nMANAGER.\nKeremeos, B.C.\nThe Mineral Output\nOttawa, July 21.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A summary of\nthe report covering the mines branch\nfor the first year of its incorporation\nunder the reorganization carried\ninto effect in May, 1907, has just\nbeen issued by Hon. W. Templeman, minister of the department.\nThe report covers the results of investigations made by officials of the\ndepartment into the mineral deposits and processes in every part of\nthe dominion.\nOfficials of the department were\nsent to each of the provinces with a\nview of gathering full statistics and\ninformation regarding the mining\nand metallurgical industries of Canada.\nB. B. Cairnes, in his report of the\nYukon territory states that although\nthe days of the individual placer\nmines are practically over, at least\non the older creeks, the country is\nby no means worked out, and continued large gold production may\nbe gotten for many years to come.\nG. S. LAWRENCE\nc. a. Mcdonald\nBEAUTIFUL VALLEY LAND CO.\nOpportunity\nof a\nLifetime !\nP. BROMLEY,\nGENERAL\nBLACKSMITH.\nHorse-shoeing a Specialty\nKEREMEOS, B.C.\nOnce in a lifetime\u00E2\u0080\u0094sometimes more than once\u00E2\u0080\u0094Opportunity knocks at nearly every man's door, and if he is wise\nhe loses not an instant in opening the door, for Opportunity\nnever lingers and never returns with the same gift. What\nshe is offering to-day in the Similkameen is an ideal home\neasily secured. We are her agents.\nCOME EARLY\nAnd buy to the best advantage. We will be pleased to\nfurnish you with full particulars, description, and general\ninformation on application.\nBeautiful Valley Land Go.\nKEREMEOS, B.C. KEREMEOS MEAT MARKET\nChoice Fresh Meats,\nCured Meats, Fish, Poultry,etc.\nFREE DELIVERY\nSpecial contract rates to camps.\nOrders for Cured Meats, Fish and Poultry promptly\nand satisfactorily filled.\nHIGHEST PRICK PAID FOR HIDES.\nGEO. CAWSTON.\nCOLEMAN & CO.\nDruggists and Stationers\nKEREMEOS CENTRE.\nAt the Trumpet Office\nevery kind of\nJOB PRINTING\nLumber & Builders' Supplies\nIn dealing in Building Limber and all kinds of Building Material we\nliave tbe advantage of getting our supplies direct from tbe mills, and\ncan therefore retail at most favorable prices.\nRough\nand\nDressed\nLumber\nDIMENSION LCMBFR OF ALL KINDS.\nexecuted.\nLocal and General.\nThe B. C. topper Co., of Greenwood is now shipping a carload of\ncopper a day.\nSir Charles Fitzpatrick, Chief\nJustice of Canada, is to be made a\nPrivy Councilor at the next distribution of the King's birthday honors.\nVancouver's total debt is about\n$8,(>00,000. As the charter limit is\nabout $'),400,000, her official squanderers will not be able to sink her\nvery much deeper.\nNearly 50,000 acres of magnificent land under water, dozens of\nfamilies driven from their homes,\nand hundreds of head of stock roaming the mountains, is the result ot\nthis year's Hood at Santas Prairie in\nthe lower Frazer valley.\nUnknown parties made a crude\nattempt to wreck an Orangemen's\nexcursion running from Portage la\nPrairie to Shoal Lake, Man. Pieces\nof two-inch plank were laid on the\ntrack in the yards, but Ihe wood being soft, the engine splintered them.\nAn investigation is proceeding.\nDanUJfC by hail storms last week\nOfl Camas and Xez Perce prairies in\nthe vicinity of Grangeville and\naround Stites, Idaho, will aggregate more than _i100,000. According to reports from a half-dozen\nsections near Grangeville, probably\n400,000 bushels of wheat were leveled. Chickens, ducks, geese and\nmn hogs were killed by hailstones.\nAnother storm swept across the\nprairie country above Stites, leveling grain and heating fruit from the\ntrees. The path of the storm 3\nmiles in width and 25 miles in\nlength comprised the richest section of Camas prairie.\nThe Dominion government has\nis done promptly and properly. voK>d \u00E2\u0096\u00A0uWdies to \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 line of railway\n: from Carmi to Penticton, 50 miles,\n.md a line of railway from Nicola to\n Penticton, 100 miles. This simply\nmeans that the building of the Midway and VeriKMI railway to Penticton and then to Nicola, as desired\nby the promoters of the road, has\nreceived the consent and assistance\nof lhe Dominion government. The\nlegislation necessary to this change\nhas been desired by the promoters\nof the road for some lime, and the\ngranting of it looks well for the\nMidway & Vernon, ll also looks\nas if the intention is to make it a\npari, finally, of the C.P.R. extension through from Midway to the\ncoast, the C. P. R. having built already as far as N'icola. Greenwood\nTimes.\nIn lhe Upper Country they are\nplanning to turn lhe clock back an\nhour. The movement was suggested by a proposal in the OM\nCountry, where it is planned to give\nmore time for daylight recreation to\nthe workmen. In British Columbia, the idea has been promoted by\nNelson, where the clock is now the\nsame as in Vancouver, though the\ntime is in reality nearly an hour\nahead. The Nelson Bond of Trade\nand various other organization*\nhave endorsed lhe movement. Mayor Taylor has promised the assistance of the City Council in putting\nthe matter through. The underlying idea is lhat an unused morning\nhour shall thus he transferred to the\nevening'.\nThe Grand Forks Fire.\nKstimates of cost cheerfully furnished to intending builders.\nContracts for all kinds of buildings in town and country promptly\nJOHN KNUDSON,\nContractor and Builder,\nKEREMEOS.\nFurther particulars as to the fire\nthat destroyed the business centre\nof Grand Forks show that the loss\ntotals about $.100,000. The city,\nhowever, is reviving wonderfully.\nNear!} all the business places burned out, including the two banks,\nhave found new quarters and reopened.\nThe fire broke out In the old\nUnion hotel on Riverside avenue,\nin which was stored old mattresses\nand such articles. Such inflammable material, placed as it was in\nthe midst of a number of old buildings, soon gave the fire such hold\nthat it was well beyond control before Constable Dinsmore, who first\nsaw it and turned in the alarm,\ncould get the Brat stream to play on\nit. To make mailers still more\ndifficult for Chief Savage, the fuses\nblew out three times at the substation and for a space of about 20\nminutes no pumping could he done,\nthe fire boys having to cut off their\nlines of hose in order to retain any\npressure in those they left. When\nall was working well there was,\nwith the assistance of the fire engine, a pressure ot 140 lbs and nine\nstreams playing.\nAs to the \"Vale\", seven streams\nwere brought to bear on it at the\noutset, but the windows being open\nand the lace curtains taking lire the\nvv hole interior was soon ablaze. The\ntravelers managed tO get out with\ntheir grips, but the boarders were\nlucky who got away with more than\ntheir night clothes. On three different occassions the White House\nand the Black Hawk livery stable,\nacross the river from the Vale,\ncaught fire and were sav ed hv\nme.ins of the Granby hose which\nwas sent ioWIW by the smelter\npeople. But for this assistance\nthese places would also have heen\ngulled, for it was quite impossible\nfor the city fire team to get near\nthe bridge. We m.iv lure state\nthai but through the assistance rendered by the Granby, the bridge\nconnecting the two portions of the\ncity would have been destroyed,\nand for the same reason thai the\nlire hoys could not ),ret near enough\nto throw water on it when it ignited.\nOne fatality only has heen repotted, N. Baraby, of Mayo, Wash., a\ntraveller who had brought in a ear-\nload of wood, and was returning\nmil day, was staying at the Vehal\nla hotel, and failed lo get out. Another person who was staying in a\ncabin at the back of the Vale has\nnot been located and it is generally\nthought thai he has escaped. LOCAL NOTES,\nI\nMrs. McDonald of Olalla called\nOO friends here on Tuesday.\nIt hardly requires a microscope\nto see the fruit growing at Keremeos these days.\nRev. Mr. Cameron will hold divine service at Fairvievv on Sunday,\nJuly 2(>, at 7.50 p. m.\nFruit jars, all sizes\u00E2\u0080\u0094we have added A. Osborne's stock and are overstocked going cheap. Keremeos\nCommercial\" Co.\nCharlie Armstrong is the gun club\n\"it\" this week. The score now\nstands : Prossei 3, Crooker 2,\nThomas 1, Armstrong t.\nHughes K: Milhurn are building\nconcrete walls for a cellar 14x26 ft.\nand the additional foundation 20x\n50 ft. for J. J. Armstrong's house\non lot 1. This bungalow will be\none ofthe most attractive residences in Keremeos.\nMessrs. Crooker & Meausette, of\nthe Keremeos Hardware Co., have\nrearranged their business and separated the two branches. It will be\ncarried on as heretofore, hut Mr.\nCrooker will devote himself wholly\nto the hardware part, Mr. Meausette taking over the tinsmithing.\nA most important convention will\nbe held at Vernon, Aug. 10-16, when\nquestions of marked interest to\nfruit growers will be presented by\nmen of world-wide reputation. The\ndemand of fruit growers in regard\nto irrigation laws will receive careful consideration, and the action of\nthe convention will no doubt have a\nbearing on future laws. It is time\nfor our Exchange to have all the information at hand bearing on this\nmost important meeting.\nSeveral private thermometers in\nKeremeos have registered a few degrees more than 100 in the shade\nthis week. Instruments in a lattice-work enclosure such as the\nmeteorological office requires would\nof course indicate a little less. The\nweather is so dry and breezy, however, that the heat is not productive\nof much discomfort. We hope lo\nget a meteorological office here soon\naudio have a series pf reliable records of weather conditions, which\nwill be of value to orchardists and\nof interest to all.\nAlthough there are only a few\nladies ofthe Presbyterian church in\nKeremeos, the ladies of Other\nchurches. Working in peace and harmony, have organized the Church\nAid Society of Keremeos. The\nfirst meeting was held on Tuesday\nafternoon in Mrs. Kceler's dining\nroom, when the following officers\nwere elected : President, Mrs. K.\nM. Crooker; Secretary Treasurer,\nMrs. (i. ti. Keeler. The Aid will\nmeet on the first Wednesday in\nevery month at 3 p. m. The next\nmeeting will be held on August 5th\nat the home of Mrs. Crooker. The\nfirst object of the Aid will be to help\ndefray the expense of furnishing the\nnew church.\nIrrigation in the West.\nA recent Government blue-book\ngives some very interesting information in reference to the progress of\nirrigation in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Five years ago there were\nin these provinces 169 irrigation\nditches, having a combined length\nof 469 miles, and capable of irrigating some 614,000 acres. Now there-\nare 272 of these ditches or canals,\nhaving a total length of l)22 miles,\nand capable of irrigating 5,055,008\nacres. Of these Alberta has 167\nditches, capable of irrigating 2,998-\n521 acres, and Saskatchewan has\n105, with an irrigation capacity of\n34,688 acres. It is claimed that\nthe great C.P.R. irrigation scheme\neast of Calgary vv ill, when completed, be the largest individual enterprise on this continent. It has a\nlength, east and west, of 150 miles,\nand an average width, north and\nsouth, of 40 miles. It has been\nfound, however, that irrigation is\nnot always a necessity, even in the\ndry belts, but the irrigation insures\na profitable crop even in the divest\nyears. There is little doubt that\nthese irrigation schemes are doing\nmuch to assist in the development\nof some of the finest agricultural\nsections in Canada.\nEastern Townships Bank.\nESTABLISHED 1859.\nHead Ok-ick,\nCapital and Reserve,\nSlIKRBROOKE, QUEBEC.\n$5,000,000.00\nTRANSACTS A GENFRAI. BANKING BUSINESS.\nSavings Bank Department.\nDeposits of $1.00 and upwards received, subject to no delay in withdrawal of all or any portion.\nKeremeos Branch.\nJ. A. R. ROME, Manager.\nTinsmithing.\nAll kinds of Sheet Metal Work in\nTin, Copper, Sheet Iron, etc.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094o\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nBavsntovomNa a Specialty.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094o\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nEstimates furnished on application.\nLeave orders at\nKeremeos Hardware Store.\nH. B. Meausette,\nKeremeos, B.O.\nFrank Richter & Co.\nDealers in General Merchandise.\nWe have the most complete stock in Keremeos, and are able to supply your wants at bed-rock prices.\nDry Goods,\nGroceries,\nHardware,\nHarness,\nSaddles,\nMiners' Supplies\nAND\nCoppley, Noyes & Randall's Clothing,\nThe Leading Brand of Clothing in Canada.\nytW* It is less than a month since we received our last car of\nl**~- Five Roses FlOUr, and we will have another car on\nl*T~ order due to arrive about the first of July. This speaks\ntm- for itself. Five Roses leads all others.\nJEWELLER\nx\nWhen in IVnliclon you are\ninvited to call aud see our\nstock, ll is first-class and\nup to dale in every line.\nWatches, Chains, Breeches, I'ins, Clocks,\nEnyaa*\u00C2\u00ABnenl Km^s, Wedding Kinns,\nDiamonds, Uraeelels, till Glass,\nMriTsi liauin I'ipes, Silverware,\nSterling Silver Toilet Seis,\naiul llener.il Jewelry.\nOptical Work bv lhe latest appli-\naners known to Ihe profession.\nWateh-niaking, Jewelry Work ami Repairing a specialty.\nI solicit your patronage.\nModel Livery, Feed and Sale Stables.\nKEREMEOS, B.C.\nHARRIS\nThe JEWELER\nPenticton.\nRegistrar of Marriage Licenses.\nHay and Grain Store in connection. Seed Wheat and Harley for sale.\nJ. F. ROYER, Proprietor.\nKEREMEOS SUPPLY STORE\nAGENTS FOR THE\nCELEBRATED\nCAMPBELL CLOTHING.\nWorkmanship ami fit guaranteed.\nSpring samples just arrived.\nSee us before placing your order for a Spring Suit."@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Keremeos (B.C.)"@en . 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