"d5db69ef-a453-441e-9de4-ee0a351fe1f7"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2015-12-01"@en . "1899-11-17"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nwminer/items/1.0211658/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " Weekly Edition No. 419.\nNelson, British Columbia, Friday, November 17, 1899.\nTenth Year\nARMORED TRAINS\nSEEM OF NO USE\nOver One Hundred Men Killed, Wounded\nor Missing.\nREPOET OF KRUGER'S DEATH UNTRUE\nLieutenant Winston Churchill Distinguishes Himself-\nTale of Another British Victory at Ladysmith\nBrought by a Missionary.\nEstcourt, Natal, Wednesday, Nov.\n15.\u00E2\u0080\u0094An armored train having on hoard\na half company of the Dnrhan voluu\nteer' and a halt company of the Dunlin Fusileers, steamed to Chievelev\nearly this morning. On its return it\nwas shelled hy the artillery of the\nBoers. Two trucks in front of the en-\ngini left the rails and toppled over.\nWhile the train was thus helpless, the\nDurhans and Dublins fuced the Boers\nin skiiuiishiug order, and the Boers\npoured shot aud shell into the crippled train. The .lertiiled wagous were\nwith great difficulty removed and the\nline was cleared. The engine and tender steamed hack during this juncture.\nJ.ient. Winston Churchill of the\nFourth Hussars, newspaper correspondent of the London Morning Post aud\nNew York World,displayed much courage. It is feared the Duhlins aud Dur\ntans fared I tidly. A tied Cross party\nhas tone out.\nengine has many bullet marks and its\ndome cover is smashed as also its automatic exhanst pipe and 25 ton jack\nscrew. The tender is also pitted with\nbullet murks,\nIt is rumored that Lieutenant Win-\nstjn Churchill is a prisoner.\nLondon, Nov. 1(5. \u00E2\u0080\u0094Specinl dispa.ches\nfrom Estcourt estimate the wounded\nand missing of the armored train contingent nt from 1(10 to 150. The missing include Captain Haldane. It is\nhoped tlint some escaped over the veldt\nand will return to Estcourt in a few\ndays.\nEstcourt, Natal, Nov. 15.\u00E2\u0080\u0094At (i\no'clock this morning the Red Cross\ntrain retnrnod, and reported that o\"\nmeeting the Boer pntr-,1 it was bailed\nand asked what was wanted. It was replied that the train had come to relieve\nthe killed and wounded, The Boers\nnaked Ur Bristow to make his request\nin writing and he complied. Aftei\nwaiting for two hours another Boer\ncame and informed Dr. Bnatow that\nas General Joubert was far away, uo\nanswer to the leqnest could be furnished until tomorrow morning. The Boers\nsnid that if Dr. Bristow would then\nreturn with a white Bag he could count\nupon a reply from General Joubert.\nDr. Bristow inquired if there were\nmany wounded. The Boer replied that\nhe bad heard there were about seven,\nbut declined tu give any information\nabout Chuichill.\nHorse opened a brisk fire at a medium ranee, killing several. One mbd\nof the Imperial Light Horse wns\nwounded.\nThe West Yorkshire regiment, the\n\"Prince of Wales Own,\" commanded\nby Colonel Kitchener, brother ot Lord\nKitchener, of Khartoum, hns arrived\nat Estcourt from Durban. The troopB\nthere \"sleep in their boots\" nnd the\nutmost vigilance is maintained, aud it\nis rumored that some important movement is imminent.\nEstcourt, Nov. 1(1.\u00E2\u0080\u009410 a.in.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 A mis\nsionary, a native, but a reliable maD,\nwho arrived here yesterday from\nLadysmith, reports that a big right\ntook place tbere on Friday, Nov. 10.\nHe says volunteers went oct iu the\nearly morning and drew rhe enemy\nfrom their positions, where the regular\ntroops under Sir George White, outmanoeuvred,by jnt flanking the Boers,\nadministering a crushing defeat, and\ninflicting great loss.\nMore than 200 Kaffirs, the missionary says, were employe 1 by the Boers\nin burying their dead and two trains,\neach drawn by two engines carried\naway the wounded.\nDuiban. Nov. Hi,\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Natal Mercury, describing the engagement,savs:\n\"The enemy apparently opened fire\nwith a maxim and two nine pounders,\ngetting the range accurately. The\nlire wus so severe that the telegraph\nwires and poles were destroyed. Their\nguns weie on a kopje covered with\nbrush wood, aud the sharp shooters\nwere hidden behind boulders The\nDublins und volunteers fighting an\nunequal battle, drove the enemy back,\nbefore the fierceness of the rifle and big\ngun fire wus too much for iho brave\nlittle party, which was weakened nt\nthe outset by tho overturning of the\ntrucks, hurting several Lieutenant\nChurchill's bravery and coolness was\nmagnificent. Encouraged by him,all\nworked like heroes in clearing the lino\nto eniible the engine to pass.\"\nDurban, Nov. 1(1.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Natal Advertiser has a dispatch from Estcourt\nwhioh says:\n\"Wheu part of the armored tram wns\noverturned hy the Boers tearing up ihe\nrails, the British alighted and exchanged volley?, with the Boen. The\nengine driver, when the rails were replaced, seeing the situation hopeless,\nsteamed back to Est*_onrt with a few of\nthe Dublins and 15 of the Durbuus including Captain Wjlie, who was\nwounded, on the tender. The fate of\nthe remainder of the Durbansand Dublins aud Lieutenant Churchill is unknown. ''\nEstconrt, Nov. 16.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Seven of the Dor-\nbans have just come in, making 23\nmissing. Only 15 of tba Duhlins \"nave\nreturned. The naval seven pounder\nwhich was in front of the trnck hnd\nfired three shots wbeu it was shattered by the Boer artillery. The armored\nLoudon, Nov. 17.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Misfortune steadfastly pursues tbe employment of armored trains. The misfortunes of which\ngive the Boers the first and latest victories. On th's last occasion the British seemed to have walked into a deliberate trap, with the re\u00C2\u00ABnlt, according\nto the British accounts, that 90 are\neither killed, wonnded or missing. Of\nthese the Fusileers claim 50 anil the\nDurban Infantry 40 It is believed that\na few escaped aud that the others are\nprisoners, Munv of the wounded were\ntin.ught back on the locomotive and\ntender of the armored train Captain\nHaldane of the Gordon Highlanders,\nwas attached to tbe Fusileers, and\nl other officers were with them. Tbe\n: list of casualties is awaited with ereat\nj anxiety. In time of trouble Lieutenant Winston Churchill has proved bim-\nI self more a soldier than a correspond\n|cnr, arifi his gallantry is highly praise.:\non nil sidKs The minor of the death\nof General Joubert i6 discredited. It is\nunderstood that the War Office has\nnews tbat he is still directing affairs.\nIr is also rumored from Fiurerrnaritz-\nburg that the Boer losses at Ladysmith\non Thursday were heavy, and included\nGeneral Lucas Meyer, who wns either\nkilled or wounded. The report as lo\nGeneral Joubert probably arose from\nthe fact that his wife has left the Brer\ncamp at Ladysmith for the Free Slate.\nAccording to the Pietermaritzburg\ncorrespondent of The London Outlook\nrumors are current in the Natal capital\nthat the Boers contemp'ate a retreat.\nIt is not policy,however, to attach importance to such reports which are\nspread w 1th a view of luring General\nWhite, if possible to abandon his defensive attitude. Similar rumors aie\ncurrent regarding tho Boers nt Mllfe-\nking aud aro spread industriously by\nnative spies.\nSpecial dispatches from Lorenzo\nMarquez, say that iho Transvaal Government is exercising a severe censorship orer all war news, and will nut\nallow newspapers to leave the country.\nOne correspondent savs the Boers are\nhurrying new commands to Ladysmith\nnnd are declaring that the place must\nfall speedily iu order to liberate their\nforces so that these may go to meet\nGeueral Buller's advance.\nThe latest dispatches from Estconrt\nregarding the armored train engagement say the train was capsized by an\nexplosion, presumably of dynamite\nThe engine returned to Estconrt with\ntwo dead Fusileers and the following\nwonnded banging on : Captain Wylie,\nthree uon-commissioued officers and\nnine privates, all volunteers Another\nEstcourt corresoondeut says:\n\"A Boer contingent of :Jo0 men came\nsouth of Frere on Wednesday, and two j\ncompanies of mounted troops, Imperial\nLight Horse and Natal Carbineers, en- '\ngaged tbem eight miles from Estcourt. !\nthe Boers occupied a strong position in\na kopje. The Carbineers worked\naround on their right and drove them\nback, whereupon the Imperial Light I\nLondon, Nov. 10.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Times pub\nlishes the following dispatch from\nPietermaritzburg, dated Wednesday,\nNov. 15.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Estcourt is short of artillery. The garrison may retire to the\nMooi River, southward tonight in case\na strong force of Boers should advance The enemy's intention is to\nkeep back the British relieving force. \"\nAccording to a special dispatch from\nLorenzo Marquez, General Lucas Meyer\nhas gone to Pretoria, for his health.\nMorev.iver, a difference of opinion exists among the eoinuiauders. The\nBoers military counsel wants the anuy\nmoved elsewhere but General Joubert\ninsists that Ladysmith mnst fall first.\nThe postal authorities at Dnrhan open\nnud inspect all letters from Delagos\nBay. \t\nLoudon, Nov. 1(1 \u00E2\u0080\u0094The Capetown\ncorrespondent of The Standard says he\nhas heard from an old resident who has\njust left the Orange Free State that the\nwar is very unpopular there, and thnt\nnpiirt from the Government itself, the\nattitude of the people, who consider\nthemselves bound to England, is very\nhalf-hearted, thnt disaffc tion and\ndisobedience is spreading in the ranks\nor the Free State troops, and tbat the\nBurghers would welcome any pretext\nro return to their homes.\nof Canada, and it is feared that even a\nmoderate proposition looking toward a\ncompromise could not be framed that\nwould receive the approval of both\nparties.\nThis is, however, believed to be true\nouly of the present time. The recent\nextraordinary developments of tbe Cape\nNome gold fields ut the expense of the\npopulation of Klondike may possibly\nmake the question easier of adjustment\nin the futnre by diminishing tho value\nof the issnes betweeu rhe two countries. Once the Klondike is relegated\nto its former condition, aud tho incentive to icacli it from the sea is removed, it is felt that there will be a diminishing desire on tlie part of Canada\nto claim a sea port.\nIN THE FRENCH CHAMBER.\nDurban, Nov. 13.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Pretoria\nVolkstcm announces that Blake, the\nAmerican colonel of the Irish-Boer brigade, and Vaiideu, the commander of\nthe Johannesburg police, have been\nwounded.\nLorenzo Marquez, Nov. 16.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A local\nnewspaper reports that Ladysmith was\nsubjected to a very heavy bombardment all day Tuesday and that at midnight all the cannon on the hills surrounding the town opened tire simultaneously pouring in shells from all\npoints. Several buildings were set\nafire and could lie distinctly seen from\nthe hills, the paper asserted.\nLondon, Nov. 111.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A dispatch from\nPietermaritzburg, says a letter has\nbeen received there from Mr. Lloyd,\ncommissioner of agriculture, usserting\nthat all was well on tho 9th, that the\nboiubnrdmeiit continued, but without\ndamage, and that the residents occupied caves during the day time.\n(This presumably refers to Lady-\nsiuitb.\u00E2\u0080\u0094ED )\nLoudon, Nov. Hi.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The transport-\nMohawk, having the 12th Lancers on\nhoard has arrived at Capetown. The\ntransport Armenian With three batteries of artillery has reached Durban.\nNEGOTIATIONS ARE PUT OFF\nAmerican Government Waiting Till\nKlondike is Worked Out.\nWashington, D. O., Nov. 10.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Th\u00C2\u00AB\nindications are decidedly against a reopening in the immediate future of negotiations looking to a permanent adjustment of the Alaskan boundary\nquestion. It can be stated positively\nthat there have been absolutely no exchanges on this subject between the\ntwo Governments since the return to\nthis country of tho British Ambassador, Lord Pauncefote. The modus\nviveudi which was adopted to define\ntemporarily the respective rights of\nthe two poits is working satisfactorily\nand there is said to bo no reason just\nnow for pressing forward toward a solution of the permanent boundary issue. The Federal administration has\nabout convinced itself that there is little chance of securing the approval of\nthe Senate to any permanent treaty defining the boundary line which at tbe\nsame time would secure the adhesion\nThe Premier Attacked For Showing\nFavor to Socialists.\nParis, Nov. 16.\u00E2\u0080\u0094In th? debate in the\nchamber today after a speech from M.\nMotte, Republican, who created a great\nuproar among the left by attaoking\nsocialism, the Premier, M. Waldeok-\nRonsseau, said the situation must be\ncleared up before discussing party programmes. \"At the present moment he\nadded, duty dictates concord and union\nnulling all divisions, in the work of defence and solidarity.\" The remark\ncaused applause from the left. The\nmost urgent matter before the chamber, he added, was that anti-Ropubli-\ncan peril. The Government, the Premier pointed out, asked to be judged on\nits acts, and projects before tbe oh amber. He denounced the machinations\nof the enemies of the Republic, and\njustified the trial of the conspiracy\ncases by the High Court on the gronnd\nthat everything was preparing for ad\ninsurrection and said:\n\"We did not think we-ought to\nwait until the coup d'etat was accomplished. In fact, the chamber will do\nus that justice (leftist npplanse). Tho\nGovernnient will respect concord, hut\nwill never confuse the state nnd recognize with the clergy certain religious\norders which are increasing i\"i ;iower\nand becoming more and more menacing. ''\nThese remarks were greeted with renewed leftist cheers and rightist pro\ntests. The Premier concluded with\nsaying the Government's programme\nwas ' inspired by the wish to constitute a society strong enough to ensure\nresppct for the opinion of every one\nand to impose respect for Republican\ninstitutions. Our programme will be\nto servo as a rallying flag for all Republicans.\"\nFoinier Premier Meline snid he required neither reaction nor revolution.\naud condemned the policy of the Government in giving socialists access to\npower. He then asserted that the High\nCourt trial shonld have been sent before the ordinary courts, which drew\nforth violent leftist protests.\nThe speaker also said he opposed Ihe\nprogramme of the Government and tbe\ntreatment of General Negrier. and said\nhe wanted a conciliatory and not au\naggressive policy, as the country needed international peace iu order to turn\nits attention to foreign matters. Centralist applause followed tins remark,\nSeveral orders of the day were then\npresented and M. Waldeck-Rousseau\naccepted a motiou reading that the\n\"Chamber, approving tbe acts of the\nGovernnient in defence of the Republic proceeds to the order of the day. \"\nThis was adopted by a vote of 340 to\n215. The vote was rocehed with\nloud leftist shouts of \"Vive la Repub-\nlique.\" The chnmbei then adjourned.\nAUUINALDO HARD PRESSED.\nHe uud His Government Making Desperate Efforts to Escape.\nManila, Nov. 16.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Aguinaldo and his\nGovernment are said to be making\ndesperate efforts to escape to Biiyom-\nbong. All Information lure is that he\nis still in the lower country. Lieutenant Johnston, with a troop of thirty\ncavalry captured yesterday nt San Nicolas, 12 barrels containing the wardrobe of Aguinaldo's wife, some personal effects, the rectuds of tbe secretary of war and uineh commissary and\nmedical supplies.\nSennra Aguiualdo probably escaped\nover the divide.|but the Secretary of\nWar is thought to be inside the lines.\nThomas W. Hayes, a civilian and\nCalvin S. Davis, of the ltlth Infantry\nwho were, held prisoners by the insurgents have been rescued.\nUNIFORM GRADES OF LUMBER.\nOttawa. Out., Nov. 16.\u00E2\u0080\u0094There is n\nmove on foot among the mill owners\nnnd lumber dealers to establish an uniform standard grade iu lumber, iu the\nfuture, with tbe view of putting all\ndealers on equal footing.\nBOERS BEATEN\nAT WEKING\nThat Border Town Is Now Safe From All\nAttacks.\nTHEY COULD NOT STAND COLD STEEL\nDaring and Effective Sortie Under Oaptain FitzClarence,\nThe Grand Attack Repulsed\u00E2\u0080\u0094White's\nReinforcements Arriving-\nCapetown, Nov. 15.\u00E2\u0080\u0094An undated |\ndispatch from Mafeking received by\na runner via Magalapye, Wednesday,\nNov. 8, says that today all is quiet,\nbut we bave been bombarded pretty\nheavily all the week. On Friday\nnight Oaptain Fitz Clarence nnd Lieutenant Swinburu, with \"D\" squadron\nof the Protectorate regiment made a\nmiiguificeut bayonet charge npon the\nBoers entrenchments driving them\nfrom their position and bavonetting a.\nnumber of Boers, who lost heavily.\nThe charge was most gallant and determined. The party could not hold\ntlio trenches and lost six meu killed,\ntwo prisoners and nine wounded in\ntheir retirement. We expect a general\nattatk tomorrow. The bombardment\nhas beet most ineffectual. Every one\nremains under shell proof cover. So\nfar the shells have only wounded one\nman. The enemy i.* using one 94-\nponnder howitzer and six other guns\nfrom seven to 14-pounners. The town\nis most cheerful, and determined to re.\nsist nil attacks to the utmost.\nOnly 55 of \"D\" squadron weie engaged in the attack, though they weie\nassisted by the flanking fire of tin-\n(runs of the Cape Police. Tho Boers\nmade a desperate attempt to drive bad\nthe British and their entrenchment'\nopened a terrific nre in every direction, |\nIhe flash of rifles lighting up tho en- |\ntire position. A hail of bullets ratt'ett I\non the roofs of the houses.\nUpon completing a circuit of the\nBoer front and the line of trenches,\nthe British withdrew iu independent i\nlines of retreat covered uv the flank j\nfire from the Cape Police.\nThe Boers continued to tire vollevs at j\nintervals during rhe night. The Boer !\nloss is estimated at one hundred killerl\nand wonnded. The Boer commander'\ninformed an officer iu charge of a flag\nof truce that he estimated the attnek- [\ning squadron nt 1,000 and, he added, j\nhe was not aware that the British\nforoes at Mafeking were so large.\nThe Boers were observed from Mafe- [\nking burying the dead all day long.\nACCOUNT OF THE FIGHT.\nLondon, Nov. 10. \u00E2\u0080\u0094A dispatcn to The\nDaily Mail from Mafekiug, sent by\nway of Magalapye, because the runners\nscut southward weie unable to traverse\nthe Boer lines gives an interesting account of the fighting during the last\nweek in October. The corresponded\nsays:\n\"After the failure to rush tho town,\nGeneral Cronje had recourse to the\ntactics employed during Ihe siege of\nPotoherstroom in 1888, making an nd-\nvanco to the town by a succession of\ntrenches in echelon. Such a move had\nbeen anticipated by us for su.no time\nand for that reason there hnve been\nsent ont parties to worry the Boers\nincessantly bj night attacks. These\ntactics the enemy disliked, hut he contented himself with a daily shelling\nfire, which exposed him to lit'le personal risk. Then Colonel Badeu-Powell played bis trump card by sending\nout FitzClnrence's parly to worry tho\noccupants of tbo trenches. The little\nforce stole out silently in the dark-\nnesB. Not a shot wns tirod, and tinmen fixed bayonets, creeping rather\nthan walking along the veldt,and gradually approached the chief Boer position, near the race course. Then us\nthey closed iu, there was a shrill\nscreech, it was FitzClnrence's signal\nfor the onslaught. A ringing British\ncheer, which tho listeners back in\nonmp caught up, Alien the daiing\nparty dashed Into the trenches. There\nwas a tearful ntruggle, the attaoking\nforce catching aud buyout ttiug the\nBoers nnder the tnrpaulins where they\ncrouched, crying for mercy. At least\nfifty bayonets got to work and the\nhavoc they wrought was terrible.\nFor just a moment there w;.s no systematic return fire ; but then a perfect\nstorm of bullets poured in from the\ntrenches to the rear. Again Fitz\nClarence's whistle sounded. It was\n\"Ceasefire and scatter homeward.\"\nTh) British forces 'battered silently,\ncrossing back under the furious fire iu\nthe daikness to the appointed rendezvous, where the roll wus called. Colonel Baden Powell met and congratulated Captain Fitz Clarence and his\ntiicn upon their splendid work, saying\nthat ii wns a heavy price lo pay, but\nthat the liners had to be stopped making riilt* trenches within range of the\ntown. The members of the parly aro\nnow the envy and pride of the garri-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .\"i. Eves the Boer Commatioer\nBotha, expressed his admiration of tbe\nattank, nnd aided that ho would tako\nMi felling ere long, for he meant to do\nne thiug or the other.\nSunday passed quietly, tho volunteer\nand iln.ving iu the Women's laager.\nAll Sin.day night the Boers ponrod\nii rifle fire Into the town. It was set\n-icing nft*-r diuii. r ou Sundav evening,\n,iien (.ol* nel Baieii-Powell hoisted a\nred lamp on tbe Cominanage which\nwns the signal of Captain FitzClar-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0iice's night attack, Thu rnso answered splendidly. Tne moment the light\nappeared the Boers opened fire and\nihcir fusilade lasted the whole night\nthrough.\n\"There bad beeu a tremenduous\nwaste of ammunition, Indeed it is estimated that 80,000 rounds of hall cartridges were wasted on the occasion of\nthe night attack ou the Boer trenches.\nDouble rations have been served out to\nthe men, who are under shelter, so as\ntoa be on the safe side if fhe Boers\nshnuld sweep the town by a long range\nrifle fire. The garrison is banging on\nfinely. Colonel Baden-Powell hns tho\nfullest confidence iu everybody, and\nespeolally iu the matter of implicit\nobedience to tho order to bold tho firo\nuntil th Boers get to closo range.\n\"The shelling continued all Sunday\nat intervals. About 1 o'clock in the\nafternoon, General Cmuio sent in u\n(lag of truce, giving Mafeking u last\nohanoe to surrender at the nth hour.\nWhile the Hag was receiving attention,\nthe heavy bombardment continued.'\nThe dispatch then describes General\nCrnnic's great attack of Mojday, the\ndetails of which have already been\ncabled from Colonel Badon-PuwcH's\nollicial despatches.\n\"The end came,\" says the cone*\nspondent, \"after five hourB fighting,\nThe enemy retired, being heavily beaten for ull time so far ns Mafeking Is\nconcerned. It wus the hotli-t day oi\nthe siege. The firing wns terrific, the\nlioers evidently recognizing that tho\nway into Mafeking, if any, was by a\nkopje which was gallantly defended by\nColonel Walford'i'men. The garrison\nis jubilant while the Poers have been\nhurled back in disorder to their laager,\nund will have to content themselves\nwith a long range bombardment unless\nthey are strongly reinforced. The enemy lost heavily.\n\"Five hours after the fighting litre\nhad been rolled back, two wagons went\nslowly aioug their position, picking\nup th*' dead and wonnded. Tbe kopje\nresembled a shambles aftei the fight.\nAll the meu wire killed by bullets or\nshells. The look out tower was shot\nto pieces, while even Ihe saddles of the\nhorses wire fearfully battered. Tho\nwhole place was simply smashed up by\nthe cone ntrated lire uf seven guns and\na thousand rifles.''\n. NELSON WEEKLY MINER, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17, 1899\nNelson Daily Miner\nNELSON MlNKR Phintinq & PUBLISHING Co.,\nD. J BEATON, Editor and Manager,\nwill venture on the offensive. Not the- British subject. \" Citizen Tarte may\nSUBSCRIPTION RaTKB,\nD Hy per month by c&n'er $ I 00\nper huif year 5 00\npor yerr 10 00\nper year by mall GOO\nper year foreign 1000\nleast cause of satisfaction with the recent engagements will be the fact that\nthe General is nobly redeeming himself. He was mado the subject \"of\nranch sharp criticism for the mishap\nto the Dublin Fusileers and the Glou-\ncostershires, and he was manly enough\nto take the blame before it was attributed to him ; but it is not clear yet\nthat the blundering was all his, and in\nany case those who have some knowl-1 would gladly see her meet disaster in\nNelson Wkeriy. Minhr.\nWeekly, pe naif year 9 125\np^rrear 2 00\npor year, foreign 250\nSubscription\u00C2\u00BBiuvariably in advance)\nelson Min sr Printing & PubllshlngCo\nNELBON. B. C.\nTelephone No. 144.\nSIGNS OF DISTRESS.\nnurse whatever prejudices he chooses,\nbut Minister Tarte is expected to be a\nBritish subject before all else aud to\nproclaim the fact from the housetops\nif necessary. No one would tronhle\nCitizen Tarte, but all are obliged to\ntake note of Minister Tarte. He is the\ndominant nhnracter ot tho Government.\nTho Premiei is but putty in his\nhands. France hates England, and\nUnder an entirely new condition of\nthings, brought about by forces aud\ninfluences for which the mine owners\nare in uo way responsible, a new\nscale of wages became necessary, and\nbecause the miners will accept nothing less than the old wage under the\nold conditions a writer in a local paper\nsiys they have been locked out and\nthis supposed situation is made the\nsubject of a long article. It is ono of\nthe most extraordinary contributions\nthat have yet appeared, the writer\nbegging with amazing assuranoa every\nquestion that has been matter for dispute. It is worth while to notice some\nof his statements, if only to show how\nfar it is possible to carry unreason.\nIt is said that hundreds of miners\nare forced to leave the country and seek\nemployment elsewnere, because of the\nshameful conduct of the mine cwners\nin refusing to offer more than three\ndollars for eight hours' work. Why\nforced? Is the minor starving who\ngetB eighteen dollars a week? In nine\ncases out of ten he has no one to provide for but himself. If he cannot live\non eighteen dollars a week, and make\na conif irtable provision for the rainy\nday besides, there is something seriously wrong with him. The man who\nruns away from eighteen dollars a\nweek is not suffering for the want of\nwork, aud the attempt to hold him up\nas an object of compassion is a very\nsilly one. Another statement is to the\neffect that the miners are not tho best\njudges aB to their physical endurnuoe,\nand it was on tbis account their day's\nwork was regulated for them. Poor,\ninnocent miners. They never know\nwhen they are tired, aud out of pity\nfor them those two wise and experienced laborers, Mr.Bnmj nnd Mr. Cotton,\ndecide for them how many hours a day\nthey can work without endangering\ntheir health. Tbey are expected to\nshnt their eyes and open their mouths,\nand take whatever is givon to them by\ntho politicians in Victoria, who kuow\nmoie about mining than the miners\nthemselves. One is in some doubt\nwhether to call this simplicity or imbecility.\nWe nre told the Government were ]ns-\ntified in stepping in to make eight\nhours the regulation day, because iu\ndoing so they were only putting themselves in line with the British Government. We can all be charitablo enough\nto hope that this statement is made in\nignorance. The British Governnient\nbavo never interfered to crente trouble\nbetween the employed and their employers, nor have they taken from the\nQueen's subjects the liberty to sell\ntheir labor as they please, on pain ot\nHue and imprisonment. The history\nof the British Parliament ami nation\nwill be seaiched iu vain for any not or\nprinciple or polioy which will serve\nas precedent or example for the legislation that has unsettled the mining\nindustry of the Province, and provoked\nangry contention and conflict where\nbefore was harmony.\nThese are only a few of the long\nstring of gems that is made to serve as\nadornment to a cartoon so coarse tbat\nevery person of right feeling in the\nCity must reguid it with disgust, and\nso absurd nnd inappropriate as to excite\ngeneral ridicule. We should hope that\nsoli-respecting inineis themselves\nwould be tho first and loudest to express their disapproval, for a cause\nthat is made to depend ou the suppoit\nof such nrguuii uis and pictorial illus\ntrillions is certain to invite suspicion.\nedge of his career felt assured that he\nwould make opportunities, if at all possible, to wipe out whatever stain there\nmight be. He did much to this end\nlast W2ek, and now that it is demonstrated the Boer forces are not as formidable as feared there is every probability he will do more before the campaign is much older.\nTho only possible anxiety now is as\nto provisions and ammunition, and\nwith respect to these the information\nis assuring, As fus as known rhere in\nuo scacrily of either. The Boer\nstrength iu Nnliil was estimated at 18,-\n000 to 1)5,000; it is doubtful if General\nJoubert can have more than \u00C2\u00A30,000 at\npresent to engage iu the investment of\nf.ndysuiith. General White hns nearly,\nif not quite, ball that number, including the thousand or so bluejackets. His\nartillery strength is considerable.\nThere nre thirty-four lo-pouuder field\nguns, three li-pouuders from the Powerful, two quick-firers captured from\nthe Boers, aud eight seven or niue-\npouuder muzzle-loaders belonging to\nthe Natal militia. It is presumed that\nLadysmith is a defensible position,\notherwise it would not have been occupied. On even terms oue Britisher\nis as good as two Boers ; with a good\ndefensible position to aid them, there\nis no fear of General White's 10,000\nbeing more than a match for all the\nforce General Joubert can bring\nagainst them.\nBefore many divys there will ho a diversion in the south, and once the Nutal division is free to mnve on rhe\noffensive the Boers will begin to discover that th,) situation is growing uncomfortably warm for them. One of\nthe best nuthorities in England puts\nthe entire Boer forceB under rather\nthan over 45,001). Against these in a\nshort time will be 48,000 British, to\nwhich aro to be added 10,000 from Natal, 7,000 from Cape Colony, and 3,000\nCanadians and Australasians. General\nBuller will only have to distribute\nthese accoiding to.hittplan of campaign\nto convince the Boers that their game\nis up. It may not be well to be too\nhopeful on the strength of the successes of last week, but it is by no\nmeans improbable that tho\u00C2\u00B0e who predicted a short an/1 decisive campaign\nmay be right after all.\nNO MORE ANXIETY.\nWith a plentiful supply of provisions\nand ammunition, there need be no further apprehension ns to the fate of\nGeneral White's command, The immense sigh of relief that has gone np\nall over the Empire, on receipt of intelligence of tbe last engagements\naround Ladysmith, testifies to the\npainful anxiety over the situation\nthere, notwithstanding the many expressions of confidence that the troops\nwould be able to hold their own. That\nconfidence on the part of the better\ninformed wonld seem to have been\nwell placed. Tbe besieged General who\noan sally out and infliot such punishment aB tbe Boers received last Thursday and Friday cannot bo said to be\nbard pressed. Indeed, be is almost iu\na position to beoome tbe uggressor,\nalthough it is not likely so cautious a\nman as General WBite will be iu u\nhurry to take that character. Another\nsortie or two, with further severe punishment, will be reiiuired before he\nthe Transvaal; Mr. Tarte is French.\nWhen it was proposed to send a Canadian contingent, not in response to a\ncall\" but to show our \"sympathy\nand our resolution to be one with the\nMother Country in tier time oi trial,\"\nMr. Tarte's French asserted itself and\nhe endeavored to defeat out purpose.\nHe played upon the weak Premier,\nand induced him to raise objections\nand to suggest difficulties that would\nmake it impossible to furnish tho aid\nintended. A Minister of such influence aud power, who is French before he\nis British, may some day shame us. He\nwould have shamed ns on this occasion if the violence of tho pnblic in-\ndignutiou had not frightened the Premier into action.\nTHE FRENCH TARTE.\nUnless to gain some notoriety for\nhimself, we do not know wby Mr. J.\nCastell Hopkins should have engaged\nin a correspondence with Mr. Turte\non the question of the Canadian contingent. A study of the letters fails\nto disclose any useful purrose that\n.has been served by it. And it can\nhardly be said to have beon necessary\niu order to keep Mr. Tarte in the public mind. His course in opposing the\ndispatch of a Canadian battalion is\nnot likely to be forgotten for ninny a\nday, and jnst at present it is keeping\nthe Government organs in a condition\nof mind bordering on distraction.\nThey dure not denounce Mr. Tnrte, a\npolitical soldier of fortune who could\ndestroy Sir Wilfrid Laurier in Quebec,\nand they writhe with pain and shame\nin excusing him.\nIt has afforded our French Minister\nan opportunity to reduce bis opposition\nto a ground that h not so apt to *;xc,ite\npublio indignation ns the broader oue\nof his natural sympathies. \"What I\nobject to,\" he savs, \"is that we are\ncalled upon to raise troops and to pay\nmoney without having any rigbt whatever of representation in Imperial\ncouncils,\" A sentence from a recent\nspeech of Lord Rosobery's is sufTieicnt\nanswer to this. Speaking at Bath and\nreferring to tho assistance oi the Colonies as evidence that the contest was\nwith a world-wide Empire,ho corrected\nhimself nud said: \"No, not their\nassistance, for, thank God, we\ncan do without that: but to\nshow their sympathy and their\nresolution to ho one with the Mother\nCountry in the hour of trial.\" Canada\nwas not culled upon to lake part. To\nbe called upon implies authority tu\nenforce obedience. There was no pretension of that kind on the one side\nnor fear of it on the other, ns Mr.\nTarte knows. What Canada did was\nnot under comuulsion, but voluntarily\nand through feelings of loyalty und\ndevotion.\nIt was a free-will offering, and Mr.\nTarte did all he conld to prevent its\nbeing made. He did it because he wns\nuot in sympathy with the sentiment\nthnt inspired it. Ho could not be.\nOver in Paris a few months ago he\nspoke of Fiance as \"his countrj.\"\nWhen chided for flying the French flag\non a Canadiau Government vessel\nwhen employed on an official cruise,\nhe said : \"I shall go out of the Government when I have not the liberty\nto float the dear flag of France. \" Another recent remark of his was: '\"If\nTHE ALASKA BOUNDARY.\nNow that Lord Pnuncefote has returned to Washington, it is thought\nthe Alaskan Boundary matter will bo\ntaken up iu earnest aud a permanent\nagreement reached. Such is the expression of a recent dispatch from the\nUnited States capital. The question\nhns been pending for so long a time\nthat almost any settlement would be\nwelcomed. There will require to be\nvery substantial concessions from 0110\nside or tho other, however, before a\nsettlement of any kind can come within the region of possibility. At present the parties are so wide apart that\nthe case seems hopeless, The Washington authorities refuse to aribtrato the\nmain point in dispute, nnd to compromise on all the claims they set up\nwould involve the surrender of important material interests on the part of\nCanada, whatever character the compromise might take. For ninny rja-\nsojB an early settlement is desirable\nThe very iiaturo of the dispute renders\nit certain that as timo goes on the\ndifficulties will increase. This is one\nstrong reason for immediate aotion.\nThen the recent development in Yukon makes it highly important that\nCanada should learn as early as possible what arc her precise rights with\nrespect to coasting privileges. This is\na matter of especial interest to British Columbia, and if our Government\nhave any influence in relation to it\nthey should impresB upon tho Canadian Commissioners tho necessity that\nexists for some sort of 11 settlement ut\nonce.\nOn tho face of it the dispute would\nseem to he a very simple affair. An\nold treaty professes to define the boundary, but different meanings nre attached to the wording of it. There ought\nto be no difficulty here which two\nGovernments inclined to a fair and\nhonorable settlement could not overcome. They could first agree ou a tribunal of abritration, nad then decide\nto leave to it the interpretation of the\ntreaty, binding themselves to abide\nby its judgment whatever it might be.\nThe United States will not do this,\nhowever. It claims that there ure circumstances which put arbitration out\nof tho question. For example, one of\nthe Americnu Ooniniissioiinis, Mr.\nFoster, in a recent address maintained\nthat as far baok us the seventies tbe\nUnited Suites had occupied Ihe dispot\ned territory with its army; had established post offices and post routes, custom houses, and Government nnd mission schools; bad collected customs\nduty and patrolled the Lynn Canal;\nhad accepted tho allegiunco of the lull inns and had taken censuses, nud hnd\nexercised other rights of 80/ereignty,\nall without a single protest on the part\nof tbo British or Canadian Govern\nnients. In addition to all this, two\nconsidorable towns, Dyea ant! Skng-\nway, havo grown up within recent\nyears under the protection of the\nAmcrioan Hag. It must be admitted\nUnit these uro conditions which nre\nnot usually submitted to arbitration.\nIt is claimed, too, as evidence that\nGreat Britain accepted tlu American\nrendering of the treaty, that in 1839\nthe Hudson's Bay Oompauy leased the\nentire strip in dispute from Russin,\nwith the consent of both Governments,\nnnd that when the matter was made\nthe subject of ou investigation by a\nSpecial Committee of tho Commons\nin 18,i7 testimony in regard to nil\nthe facts was takeu, and a Canadian\nrepresentative present made no objection nor did ho dispute the fact of the\nlease.\nThis latter matter is probably susceptible of a satisfactory explanation, but\nwith regard to the others it may be\nstated that in every instance of what\nappeared to be occupation the Canadian authorities claim that a protest\nwas entered. These matters are mentioned as examples of the many points\nin dispute. They reduce the question\nto one of mere bargaining, und in such\ncases the Americans want everything\ntheir own way. II Lord Pauncefote\ncan prepare the ground for sue ;essful\nnegotiations he will score a brilliant\nDiscussing the probahle defeat of the\nGovernment, The Victoria Colonist\nsays: ''Some people say that Mr. Semlin is entitled to a dissolution. He is\nentitled to nothing nf the kind. It\nrests solely with the Lieutenant-Governor to say whether or not he shall\nhave a dissolution.\" There is no\ndoubt as to that; the Lieutenant-Governor is absolute in the matter, and\ncan give or refuse a dissolution. We\nhavo never heard that any oue disputed tbis. That is not to say, however,\nthat Mr. Semlin, iu the event of his\ndefeat, would not be entitled to ask\nfor 11 dissolution, which is quite another matter. We think he would, and\nthe opinion is based on the practice\nboth in Canada and Great Britain. It\nwas under the Premiership of Mi.\nTurner the last elections were held.\nThe Governor snid he did not carry\nthe Province,and Mr. Semlin was called upon to form a Government. It\nwas Mr. Semlin's privilege even then\nto ask for 11 dissolution, if h\u00C2\u00AB entertained any doubt of a working majority; but as he did not. he Ined his\nfortune without aud got through with\nthe first session. Shonld detent overtake him now ho could Jay to the\nLieiileiiant-Goavernor that he desired\na dissolution, believing that ho enjoyed the confidence of the country,aud if\nfaithful to the practice in all snch\nuses His Honor would be bound to\ngive it to him. The principle is that\na Premier is entitled to 0110 general\nelection. Of course the Lieutenant-\nGovernor has the power to refuse, but\nthat does not disprove the practice\nThe discussion may bo au unprofitable\none, but as the point has been raised it\nis just as well that there be a proper\nunderstanding of it,\nto declare myself a British subject\nwould prevent 1110 from being French, I success aa the crowning achievement\nthen I would refuse to call myself a of his diplomatic career.\nMany Canadians have no donbt been\nanxious to hear something of Mr.\nBlake. A few years ago he left Canada to help the Irish Nationalists in\nthe Imperial House of Commons to obtain Home Rnle. Some of those a-\ntionalists inolnding the leaders. h:*ve\nbeeu expressing much sympathy for the\nBoers, and railing at ihe Governnient\naud the nation generally for going to\nwar with tnem There was nover any\ndoubt of Mr. Blake s patriotism and\nloyalty while in Canada, and there\nwas amity to know whether in this\nTransvaal trouble he was sitting with\nhis Irish colleagues or remaining in.e\nto Queen and Empire. A recent cable\ndispatch relieves the suspense. He\n'ins takeu oooasl in at a publio meeting\nto speak out. Ho is as thoroughly British as ever he was. Association with\nthe Nationalists bus not ocrupted his\nloyalty, which is its fervent iu ibis\nTransvaal affair as ii wn\u00C2\u00AB or could\nbe iu a bi ut with Russia. This will\nbe gratifying to all Canadians, w bo\nare naturally prond of their distinguished countrymen, although his\nmore Intimate friends did not requite\nthis or any testimony to bis unswerving loyalty.\t\nAn Ottawa dispatch Bays that Dr.\nBorden is likely to retire from tbe\nGovernment, and tbat bis place \"as a\nNova Scotian\" will probably betaken\nby Mr. D. C Fraser. If Cabinet positions are to go by Provinces it is time\n1I1111 the cliiim of British Columbia was\nlieiug considered. At present it is the\nonly one not represented. The farthest\nEast, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces, have a most marked preponderance of Cabinet influence. Two important portfolios, Finance and Mili-\ntin, are held by Nova Scotia; New\nBrunswick has Hallways and Canals,\nund liitle Prime Edward Island, Marine nnd Fisheries. The big speudiug\nDepartment of Public Works is held by\nQuebec. The ouly portfolio of conse-\nqnence in the considerable portion of\nCanada west of Quebec is that of the\nInterior, bold by Manitoba, British\nColumbia Lns nothing, great or small.\nIf it had, tin re is at least the probability that this Piovince would re-\noi-ivu something approaching a fair\nshare of public expenditure, n share\nsiitiiewli.it in proportion to her contribution lo the public revenue.\nCanada lias risen to tho fifth place in\nthe ranks of gold-producing countries.\nThe amounts for J8BK nro given in a\nreport made bv the Director of the\nUnited States mint. Remarking on\nthese, The Nanaimo Herald says: \"If\nCanada had a mint cf her own the\namount sot down to her credit would\nundoubtedly bo much larger, as a very\nconsiderable proportion of the gold of\nYukon und British Columbia goes directly to tin. United Slates and is in-\ncluded in the gross output of that\ncountry.\" Possibly it would be an advantage to hnve a mint of our own,\nbut wo shall be depending on a broken\nreed if we rely on a representation of\ntbis kind to get it for us. Gold is\nsmuggled out of the Yukon to evude\nthe royalty, in what quantity can only\nbe conjectured, but it ia impossible\nto believe that it goes to swell the\nproduct of the United States. The\nmint authorities must of necessity\nknow where the gold comes from, and\nthey are surely not so dishonest as to\nput down to the credit of the United\nStates what is brought in from other\ncountries. Our own authorities should\nknow exactly what goes out cf Canada,\nalways, of course, excepting the quantity amuggled ; and the fact that we\narc thus cheated is less an argument\nfor a mint than for a reductiou of the\nroyalty. \t\nReferring to the immunity from interference in tbis Transvaal shindy, a\nwriter says tbat it is duo in the first\nplace to the existence of the United\nStates as a factor in the words's affairs,\nand, next, to the attitude of the German Emperor. These nre influences\nthat hnve not been withont substantial\neffect; hut the most potent of nil has\ndoubtless been the skillful diplomacy\nof Lord Salisbury, who, durinc the\npost half dozen years, has proved him\nselr' to bo 0110 of fhe ablest Foreign\nSecretaries in the history of the nation,\nIn the East and in the Far East he\nwas confronted with problems of the\nmost delicnt\" and dilli lult nature, and\nwas successful in all of them. His\ngrent ability is attested in the fact that\nBritain is having n free hand in the\nSoudan. If the United States is a fac\ntor in the world's affairs today, in\nstead of years heuoo, it is because Lord\nSalisbury, seeing advantage in it. to\ntha general peace and prosperity, hastened tho development by u policy skillfully planned and carried to 11 successful issuo with infinite lubor und patience. Tin bus played on strings reaching to every quarter of tho world, and\nin every case with tho ability of 11\nmaster.\nThe Sardinian, with the Canadian\ncontingent,should be as far us Iho Capo\nVerde Islands by tbis time, Another week should bring her within\nsight of the Cape. British transports\nnre arriving thiok and fast. Tho first,\nwhich was ordered to continue to Durban, should have reached that port not\nlater than Sunday. By the end of the\nweek reinforcements should be getting\nwithin hailing distance of Ladysmith,\nnud if all go woll until then the\nBoers will begin to renlise that Natal\nis getting too hot for them.\nWith good weather anil good luck\ngenerally, the Sardinian with the Canadian contingent onght to have covered a third of the distance to Cape Town\nby this time. By tho 24th she\nshould reach her destination. Our soldiers will be landed in plenty of time\nto be given an opportunity to smell\nBoer gunpowdar, and when tbey do\nCanadians will await with confidence\nthe intelligence that they bave undergone the ordeal with distinguished\noredit.\nTho Americans' latest ambuss doi\nto St. James's, Mr. Choato, has fallen\ncaptive to the British, like his predecessors. Less than 11 vear previous to\nhis appointment, Mr. Cboate had none\nbut bitter things to say of Great Britain ; now he is lo 'ked ttruis with\nthe whole British nil'ion and declaring that Americans aro proud of\ntheir relationship. Thus it happens\nto ull of thorn. An Ameriosn has only\nto go over to England, and study the\npeople there and see for himself Ihat\nthe United States is uot the only country in the world, to get his prejudices\nrnbbed off. As fast ns they go over\nthny cease to bo Americans only nnd\nexpand into Anglo-Saxons. Nearly\nhalf a century ago Oliver Wondell\nHolmes saiil that good Americans,\nwhen they died, went to Paris. Thut\nis changed now. In theso days good\nAmericans, when they die, go to London. \t\nIt is to be hoped that Mr. Cotton is\ngiving his best consideration to tbe\ndisturbed condition of the mining in\ndustry in Southern British Colnmbia,\nOutside of Rossland, production is nl-\nmost entiiel.i suspended. The siiun-\nlion is becoming more and mnro unsatisfactory. It is due to the interference of the Legislature, nud\nthe Legislature is expeoted to take\nthe earliest opportunity to repair\nthe injury as far as it can. it cannot\nby an Act restore tho harmony that\nwas so wantonly destroyed, but it\ncuu free labor of the restrictions put\nupon it hy the Eicht-Hour lnw nnd assure capital that it has rights which\nare dpserving of rispect. If it will\ndo these things, we can trust to time\nto restore the old harmony. Mr. Cotton is master of the Government, and\nthe Province is looking to him to tnke\naction in the matter.\nTho Miner strongly urged the Provincial Govornuicnt to mnke provision for a minciul display at tho Earl's\nCourt Exposition iu Loudon, which\nended with October lust. But no\namount of persuasion could move them.\nThe Exposition was a grent success,\ntho attendance rnnning up into the\nmillions. The Biitish Columbia R\nview, published ill London, thinks the\nProvince made a great mistiike in not\nbeing represented. Other Loudon journals that tako a special interest in\nCanada have expressed similar opinions. No donbt they are right; it was\na mistake, but quite in line with the\npolioy pursued by ihe present Govern\nment in respect to the mining indns\ntry. That policy is to injuro rather\nthan help its development, in which\nthey have managed tn succeed so far as\nto throw the whole business into confusion.\n\"We are going to niak.i history,\"\nsays Dngonut iu The Referee, Loudon,\n\"aim wo are going to lunke it pretty\nfast. Behind the battles and tho rumors of battles in South Africa lies a\ncompact entered into between Great\nBritain an a groat. European Power\nwhich will show tbe world somo startling developments ns soon as victory\nhas crowned the British arms nud\nmade the way clear for them.\" More\nrecent cables confirm the impression\nthnt there is something in tho wind.\nWhat is it that Great Britniu und\nGermany are up to? And with the\nUnited States with them, all the rest\nof tbe world combined could scaiocly\nfurnish a morning's decent entertainment. Isolated, eb?\n\"Onr loyalty is liberty,\" sings Mr.\nFrancis Hurl in a poem entitled \"Unfurl the Flag.\" We do not know who\nMr. Francis Hart is, but the sentiment of this last line of his peom does\ncredit to both his feeling and understanding. Freedom ia the key-note\nthroughout tho Queen's dominions, and\nit is bocanse we nre free and secure iu\nour freedom that we nre loyal.\n\"Free speech, free press, free faith,\nfree trade,\nIn all alike our lanl is free;\nIu freedom is our Queen obeyed,\nOur loyalty ia liberty I\nUnfurl the flag that .-.11 may see\nThe emblem of a people free.''\nWHY DO THEY DO IT?\nLocal Merchants Should Look Better\nAfter Their Own Interests.\nA practice 011 the purtof certain eastern wholesale merchants has been\nbronchi to thu notice of The Miner,\nwhidi militates strongly against the\ninterests of local business mon. All\ninstance ,1 ill siiflb e to explain what is\nmeant.\nYesterday a carload of grooeries,\nconsigned to a mining company wi*h\nheadquarters iu Nelson, arrived here.\nThe carload iu question was received\nfrom 11 wholesale grocery firm of Hamilton, Out . that has large customers\nhere among the local merchants, and,\nto make -nutters worse, the goods\nwore delivered at the same price as\nMould have been charged local business\nmen,\nIt is, The Miller understands, u well\nestablished principle of the trade Ihat\nwholesale 'inns shall not attempt to cut\nprices under their retail customers in\nthe recognized field of tho latter, and\nthe wholesale houses located here\nhave always followed this rule. The\npraotioe has not become general yot,\nso far as can be learned,and Nelson retailers should immediate]) take steps\nto boyi'ot the offenders the next time\ntheir travelers appear. It ssams impossible thnt the locul merchants can\nbe generally aware of this, or tbey\nwould not go on buviug from a firm\nguilty of such had faith.\nMAJOR LOGAN DEAD.\nWashington, Nov. 14.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A cable dispatch received at the War Department\nannounces that Major John A. Logan,\nThirty-third infantry, has boen killed\nin n fight 111 Luzon.\nI'SIIHS-IIIMI, < nuts.\n17! C GREEN, II. A., O. E\u00E2\u0080\u009E PROVINCIAL\n1? \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Liinil Surveyor. Surveys of mineral\ncluinis lands, etc. Agent for obtaining Crown\nGrunts. Office Turnor-Hocckh block Nelson,\nB. C. (9071\n11 it 1 in, in - of mritoii ,n\y.\nHEN HASSON ANl) MAUD S MINERAL\nCLAIMS.\nBrrr/ATB m thr Nelson Mining division of\nWkst KOOTENAY Disi hut.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Where l.o-\nOATEn:\u00E2\u0080\u0094On Ndiitii Four of Salmon\nRlVKIl.\n' HAKE NOTIOK Unit I Wlllli.ni A Bauer, act-\n1 inn tw agent for the Now Nnrl.h Fork Mining Company. Free Miner's Certificate No.\nU2i'T4l iotenil, sixty itays from the dato\nhereof, to apply to tho Mining Recorder\nforu Certitloato of Improvoino is, for tho purpose of obtaining a Orown Grant of the abovo\nolaims,\nAnd further take notine tbat aotion, under\nsection 17, must he onmruaiieed heforo tho is\nsuaneeofsuch Certlflo ite of Improvflments,\nWILLIAM A. HAf Kit. \".L.S.\nDated this nini li day of November, 1899.\nLAKH VIEW, ROYAL CITY AND MAYFLOWER Al INEKAL- CLAIMS.\nSituate in the Nelson Minimi Division of\nWist Kootenay Dibtriot, Where l.o-\ncATEui\u00E2\u0080\u0094At Beau ok Kokanee Cheek.\niTIAKB NOTICE that I. William A. Bauer,\n1 ae'lng .is agent for Knkance Mining\nCompany, Freo Minor's Ccriiil aio No. II 170118,\nIntend, ix ; day* trom tin- date hereof, to apply to i he Miuing Recorder for a Certificate ot\nImprovements, for tho purpose of obtaining a\nCrown Oram of tho above claims.\n\nd furthor take notioe that aotion, under\nsection 87, muse he aomn.enooa before tho issuance of such I'l'itiil'.'tite of [mprnvomenta.\nWILLIAM A. BAUER. P.L.8.\nlliiteil this ninth day of November. 1809.\nONTARIO MINERAL CLAIM.\nSituate in tiik Nelson Minino Division,\nWest Kootenay District\u00E2\u0080\u0094located on\nNortu Four Salmon River.\nrpAKE NOTICE that. I, William A. Bauer,\n1 noting ns agent for Ontario Q. and s.\nMining io., Fro*i Minor's Coi'Uflnate No. MI,.\nSOD, intend, sixly dnys from dale hereof, to\napply to the Mining Recorder for u Certificate of Improvemonts for the purposoof ob-\ntoinfng n Crown (1 rata of tlm above eluim.\nAmi further Like notico thut, action under\nsections; must lie lomiiioneed before the is-\nBUanoo of Buoh Certifloate of Improvements.\nW. A. HAUKIt, P. L. S.\nDated this nth November, isnu. nn nt\n\"LITTLE DUKE\" AND \"LITTLE FRACTION \" MINERAL CLAIMS.\nSitcatkin thk NBLSOI*' Minino Division of\nia est Kootknay District-Whkhk Located\u00E2\u0080\u0094 attiik Read oi'Kokankk Creek.\nriiAKE NOTICE that I, Archie Mainwaring-\nA Johnson, acting us agent for the Molly\nGibson Mining Company, Limited, Froo Minor's Certificate No. Blimo, Intend shty days\nfrom dato hereof, to upplv to tho Mining Recorder for Certificates of Improvements for tho\npurpose of obtaining Crown Uranta of tbo\nabove claims.\nAnd fun her tako notico that action, under\nsection ;i7, must be taken bofore tho rsauarcc of\nHiich C' rtttlcutc of Improvement, 419 9t\nDated this 7th day of November, 1899.\nARCHIE MAINWARINQ-JOHNSON.\nFREE GOLD AND WAVEKLY MINERAL\nCLAIMS.\nSituate in the Nelson Minino Division in\nthe District of Wkst Kootenay.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nWhere Located:\u00E2\u0080\u0094East of FoRTY-NrNE\nCheek, Ahout 5 Milks from Mouth.\nTAKE NOTIOE that I, F. C.Grecnof Nelson,\nacting as agent for John Folinsbeo, Free\nMiner's Certificate No. 4l,788A\u00C2\u00AB Intend, sixty\ndays from tho dato hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for Certificates ol Improvements,\nfor the purposo of obluining Crown C runts of\nthe above claims.\nAnd furihor take notice that action, under\nsection 37, must bo commenced beforo the issuance of such Certillcales of Improvements.\nDated this twenty-llrst day ot Ootobor. 1899.\nt dec tl F, C. GREEN, P, L. S.\na^JfL NELSON WEEKLY MINER, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1899\nLflPiAT, A NT) PFPSfYNf AT Subject to the approval of the rate-\n(From Thursday's Daily.)\nHon. .1. Fred' Hume came in last\nnight, and at once retired to his room.\nMr. C. L. Whelaii has returned from\nSpokane where n successful snrigcul\noperation wus performed on his nasal\ngland.\nThe adjourned session of the County\nCourt will probably be held on the\na\"th inst. There is a long list of cases\nto be heard.\nThreo car loads of fire brick nrrived\nyesterday from Chicago for- the gas\nworks\u00E2\u0080\u0094about 70 tons of biick in all.\nWork will at onco commenced to put\nthem in position. Supt. Morris esti\nmates that before Christmas the gas\nworks will be in full operation.\nIn a recent issue it was stated that\nHill llros., of Kosebory, had a contract\nfor supplying IIO.OUO feot of lumher to\ntho Wakefield mine. The item should\nhave read SlOU.lillll feet The lumber\nis about three quarters delivered, an I\nshipments are proceeding at the rule\nof 110,000 feet a week.\nJim Bonrke, nn old-time prospector,\nhas returned from a trip through the\nLardeau-Duncan country. Ho spent\nroost of his time in the Upper Duncan\ndistrict\u00E2\u0080\u0094a seotion with which he ie\nnot particularly impressed, so fnr as its\nmineral resources ure concerned. Jim\nsays there is more to be pioked up iu\nthu Nelson distriot.\nWork has been suspended by tho O.\nV. B. on their Lartleau Duncan branch.\nThe rood bed hns been prepared into\nDuncan Cily, but no ties or rails are\nbeing laid, On what is known as the\nJim Hill lin.) in the same district\nclearing is proceeding, and from Ar-\ngeiita to Dniicuu City everything is iu\nreadiness for truck-laying. There are\nseveral liiuv. rock cuts to be marie but\nevery riilliculty is being overcome.\nFrom Friday's Daily.\nMr. John A. Turner, Gold Commissioner, left yesterday afternoon on a\nshort trio lo Kaslo.\nTbe big plate glass window in Teet-\nzel'S drug store, which was broken\nwhen being put ill twelve months ago,\nwas yesterday replaced by u perfect\nsheet of glass, which is among the\nlargest iu the City.\nAid. Thompson's leave of absence\nhas expired, but it is not probable thnt\nany effort will lie made lo fill hia\nplace ou the Council hoard this year.\nThere is a general feeling ihat the unexpired friii of office is loo short to\njustify the expense of an election.\nTho south half of Lots. I, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2>. II, and\n4, Block,-II), in Addition \"A\" on Stanley street, were purchased yesterday\nby Messrs. Brydges, Fisher & Co.,\nfrom Mr. (' W. Busk, It is the intention of Ihe new owners immediately to\nerect t*n corteges on the propi rty, fitted vtith bath rooms and nil modern\nconveniences, Ihe deal was negotiated by Messrs. Procter & Dowsing.\nThe holiday season is approaching,\nnnd the alert business man isprepnring\nto lake advantage of it. Special an-\niiouucitneiits tbiougli tne advertising\ncolumns of the newspapers will soon bo\nplentiful. To innkf them from time\nto time is better than not to iinike\nthem at all, but the ibinding advertise,\nment that occupies space in keeping\nwith the announcement, is the one\ntbat tells best ill the end.\nConstable Kelly yesterday brought in\na woman named Rita to the Provincial\njail, who hud been committed by Mr.\nAugustus Carney, S. M., of Argentu,\nfor nu examination into her sanity.\nDoctors Hall anil Synionns examined\nber yesterday and came to the conclusion that, though somewhat disordered,\nshe wns not u fit subject for the\nasylum. It. is believed thut her tem-\nuornry derangement wm brought about\nby excessive drinking.\nIn yesterday's Miner it was stated\nthat considerable rock was being encountered iu the excavation lor the\nwater service on Josephine street.\nWhile blasting last forenoon, an extra\nheavy charge of powder nr a badly protected ground work, hnd the effeot nf\nproducing a shower rock that tlitl a lot\nof harm. Several windows were broken in the immediate vicinity, and\nsome of tbo boarding of tlio Clarke\nHouse was smashed in. Luckily no\none was seriously hurt.\nThe bear rliffloulty nt the Lust\nOhauce mine on Toad Mountain has\nbeen only partially got over. Tbe boar\nwhich bus beeu nposing at the end of\nthe 200-foot tunnel, is repoBing yet,\nbut his companion which bad got into\nthe habit of wandering round tlie camp\nbus come to nu untimely end. The\nmen were coming up the bill rhe other\nday lifter spenoing pay day in town,\ngot within lo feet of tbo bear, fired\nand niisserl. Yesterday they bad better\nsuccess as they despatched the marauder ufter pumping twenty shots into\nbim,\nHon. ,T, Fred Hume is back again in\nNelson for n brief stay, lie reports\nbusiness brisk at tho Coast cities, and\nsays that they do not hear much of the\nKigbt-Hour law down thero. Asked\nif he had heard about the introduction\nof Italian labor in the Slocan ho replied : \"Yes, I read about it iu one of\nyour papers, but it is not my fault\ntbat a clause was not inserted in the\nHill precluding Italians as well us Chinese from working in mines.\" Mr.\nHume said there was nothing new\niu the political situation.\nFrom Saturday's Dully,\nHugh McCiiuslnnd. formerly in the\nemploy of S. Noelanris, haB opened in\nthe boot nnd shoe business for himself\nin tho store adjoining the Bank of Ii.\nC. on Baker streot.\nC'Uy Clerk Strachan is engaged in preparing^ list of those liable to pay trader's licenses for the year, which will\nbe acted upon forthwith. As compared\nwith last year there is a big increase.\nThe Miner goes into all of tho best\nhouses in the City, and iB read by the\nclass who make the best shoppers. It\ngoes into all mining camps within\nreach. These are points the astute advertiser will bo careful uot to overlook.\nMr. H. S. H. Cavendish, who recently returned from Patagonia, after\na fruitless search for tbe mylodon, is\nnow on his way with Surgeon-Major\nBrown to British Columbia on a\nsporting expedition.\u00E2\u0080\u0094London B. C.\nReview.\nto vote a sum of money for the erection of a drill shed, if is said that\ntbe board will be asked by the Kootenay Rifles to submit a by-law to the\npeople asking for such n grant, and\ntbat it will he voted on at the same\ntime ae that about to be submitted for\nspecial privileges to the C. P. R. iu\nlieu of local concessions offered by that\ncompany.\nThe Kootenay Electrio Supply Construction Co., .yesterday reported to\nthe City that they have completed\ntheir contract for wiring,placing dyna\nmos in position, etc., and asking that\nthe work be inspected and taken over.\nCity Engineer McOulloch and Oity\nElectrician Bliss will inspect tbe work\nand report to the City Council at next\nmeeting. The impiovemeuts as carried out will cost some $7,000, and, it\nis hoped tbat the service will be perceptibly improvod.\nThe steel 14-inch pipe, to connect the\nCottouwood source of supply with the\nCity service, is now laid as fur as the\nMines Koutl, and will be in running\norder, it is expected, within a fortnight. When the work is completed\nit is calculated that the water supply\nwill he equal to that of n population\nof 16,000. The contract extends over\ntwo miles of pipe and will have cos! in\nthe neighborhood of $.16,000. It will\nbo money well spent if the supply is all\nthat is claimed for it.\nAssistant City Engineer Dill was up\nat tho cemetery yesterday laying out\nthe burial plots for the Church of Eng-\nlunri, Roman Catholic Ctiureh, Masonic\norder. Udd Fellows and Knights of\nPythias. When tho cemetery site was\ndeoided upon each of the above bodies\ndecitled upon taking up separate plots\nat the rafe of $loO per acre, bnt until\nyesterday the ground was uot laid out.\nThe plans will be submitted to the respective bodies for approval, and will\nultimately be fenced in.\nFrom Sunday's Daily.\nSettlors near Kover Creek arc complaining that a band of Colvllle Indians has located there, and is killing\noff the deer.\nA strikiup: proof of the growth of the\ncountry is afforded by the fact that'\nthe C.P.R. is hauling three times as\nmuch freight into West Kootenay us\nthey wero this time three ycais ago.\nThe O. P. R. freight, shed is a busy\nlooking spot these days. An unusually largo amount of freight is being\nhandled. Yesterday there were three\ncars of eggs to be dealt with ami one\ncar nf butter, in addition to the usual\nmiscellaneous freight.\nThe City wharf is in a very dangerous condition. The plunks are badly\nsmashed in iu several places, and after dark teamsters are afraid to drive\ntheir horses over it. A little judicious\nexpenditure just now might save a lot\nof trouble uud possibly expensive litigation.\nThe City Engineer is laying a sewer\nat the roar of Hoover street, between\nStanley and Ward street*. Ho looks\nas if ho would rather a contractor hud\nthe job iu baud. Gnuibo may, or may\nnot be a valuable commodity, but it\nci rtainly is proving a detriment to\nsewerage construction, and is being\nencountered in large quantity.\nThe right-of-way for the electric\nwires fiom Bouiiiiigton Palls is completed into town ready for the erection\nof the poles und the stringing of the\nwires. Tho poleB should ho all up by\nWednesday, and it is expected thut the\nwhole thing will be completed this\nweek. Six copper wires and two itelephone wires are being strung. These\nsix wires are capable of transmitting\nau extreme voltage of lb.',000 volts.\nMr. A. E. Jeffreys, a settler of\nForty-Nine Creek, who, as stated at\nthe time by The Minor, was brought\nto the Kootenay Lake General Hospital\nwith his left shoultler shot through\nhy u 45 III) rifle bullet, will be obliged\nto have his arm amputated. He has a\nwife and several children, and some\nof his friends are getting up u purse\nto help him, The Miner will be pleased\nto receive any contributions ou his\nbehalf.\nContractor McBcnth is expel inuring\na lot of trouble witli his sewot contract. Ho is ougaged in exeat mini; on\nBlock A, at the rear of Mill street from\nHendryx to Cedar street. Here he is\nencountering a perfect torrent of water, altogether tjo great for thu ordinary bailing process. In the hope of\ngetting over the difficulty he is having\nun independent tranoh dug above tlm\nline of the sewer, by whii li means h\u00C2\u00B0\nexpects to divert tbe stream.\nThe new school house ut the east end\nof the City is to be called the \"High\nSchool\" not because the higher\nbrunches of education will be taught\nthere, but because of its altitude\nSome suggest that the gravitation or\ntrolley system must be adopted to get\nthe children safely up and down. Others maintain that a toboggan \"slide\nwould afford the little ones amusement\nund healthful recreation, but all agree\nthat thu school houso is in tho wrong\nplace.\nHurry Jackson had a nairow escape\nof bis life in tho Athabasca mine on\nFriday night. He had just been promoted from mucker to miner and was\nworking in a otosscnt off iho main\ntunnel, A few minutes before the ao-\nI'ident occurred, night-boss Hudson\nwarned him to keep out of the cross\nout us Iho nick looked unsafe. However, soon after he went, to work witl\nhis pick aud a larce quantity of rock\nfell on him. At first it was thought\nhe was dangerously injured, but ho\nescaped with some sevore bruises and\ncuts\n(From Tuesday's Daily!\nThe lead stack nt the Hall Mines\nSmelter was blown in yesterday after\na temporal}- close down.\nThe West Kootenay Brick & Lime\nCo., yesterday shipped a carload of\nbrickB to Fornie for use t.t the cokiug\nbins.\nOwen Fit/.patrick is in custody on a\ncharge of stealing an overcoat from\nGeorgo Ray. Tbe case was called at\npolice court yesterday morning and\nwas enlarged until Wednesday.\nA grent effort is being made by the\ndifferent building contractors to get\ntheir work under roof before the winter season sets in. So eager are they\nin this respect, that on some of the\nbig buildings work was proceeded\nwith on Sunday.\nMr. Geo. A. Hunter has commenced\nwork on a $1,200 houso ou Carbonate\nstreet, between Jusephine and Hall\nBtreets. Tbe foundation for two\nbouses on Hall and Mill streets is also\nin progress.\nAs evtdeuce of the mildness of the\nweather in Nelson, it may be stated\nthat Mr. Frank Tamblyn, of the Nelsou\nWine Co., yesterday pioked in his\ngarden a hunch of sweet peas in full\nbloom. The stalks are still sound aud\nattained a height of close on nine feet.\nThe ore collection from the Nelson\ndivision exhibited at the recent Spokane Fair, has been returned, and is\nnow in the Board of Trade rooms.\nHero it will he made a permanent exhibition, and will be added to from\ntime to time until a thoroughly representative collection be secured.\nThe stone work of the fbuilding for\nthe Gas and Coke Works is being proceeded with, and the plant is being\ninstalled as it arrives though roost of\nit is still on tho way. All the lots on\nBaker streeet between Hall aud Stanley have been connected with the\nmain, except that on which Mr. T.\nMadrien's big brick block is being\nconstructed.\n(From Wednesday's Daily.)\nThe steamer Moyie has had her repairs completed and is now back at\nwork again. At present she is engaged\nin hauling barges.\nFreight coming into Welson ia rap-\ni idly increasing. The C. P. R. boats\n' are now hauoling 45 cars of freight\n! daily from Kooteuay Landing.\nThe telephone company complain\n| that owing to the stringing of wires\nj by the tramway and electric light companies', it is difficult to maintain a\nsarisfactory service.\nTbere will be a sitting of the supremo court iu Nelsou on December\n4 next. There is u lot of business to\nbo transacted, and it is expeoted that\ntho sitting will be a protracted one.\nMr. W. P. Tierney has received a\ntelegram from the Lethbndgu Coal\nOompany, of which he is the local\nagent, advising him that all the labor\ntroubles at the company's mines have\nheen Battled, and assuring him that\nhenceforth they will be able to supply\nMr. Tierney with all the coal he can\ndispose of.\nAid. Beer has returned from a visit\nto tlio coust. He has been away about\na month. The alderman says that Vancouver is going ahead at a grent rate,\nbut that Victoriu does uot seem to be\nprogressing us rapidly. Mr. Beer\nnoted with pleasure the improvements\nbeing marie in Nelsou even during his\nshort absence.\n\"I'm a brick lnyer now, said Ike\nHolden, yesterday to a few of his\nfriends who had knowu him as a barber, a blacksmith untl saloonkeeper,\nand several other things. \"Bricklayer?\" exclaimed the little party,\n\"Where are you laying bricks?\" 'I'm\nlaying them on the wagou from the\nbarge,\" said Ike, and the joke was on\nthe other fellows.\nThe Ladies Hospital Aid held a\nmeeting on Monduy in the lecture\nroom of the Presbyterian Church.\nBeyond routine business nnd the passing of some accounts, but little was\nnone save the election of Mesdames.\nMiller and W. W. Beer as a committee to make the necessary arrangements\nfor tho Smiley concert to be held\nshortly under their auspices. The net\nproceeds of the concert will be devoted\nto the furuisniug of u women's ward\niu tlie addition to thu hospital.\nA BIG WINDFALL.\nThe City is Given $8,2511 Worth of\nSower Pipe.\nTho Mayor yesterday recoived nn\nofficial order signed \"F. Carter-Cotton,\" calling upon Turner, Beutun &\nCo., to hand over to the city a consignment of sewer pipe which has beeu\nlying at tho Nelson i& Fort Sheppard\ndepot for the past three years. When\nMr.Clive Phillips Woolley was Provincial health officer, ho induced the\nGovernment of that day to vote an appropriation for the sewering of Nelson,\nit ii it a consignment of vitrified pipe\ncosting $11,2011 DO was sent on to Nelson This was in the winter of I8DB,\nIn April following the town was incorporated, lint nothing appears to\nhave been done as to the sewer pipe,\nwhich was consigned tu Turner, Bee\nton & Co. 'the linn sold some $786.06\nworth of the material, the greater portion of which was disuose.tl 6f to Ihe\ncitv and the balance remained at the\ndepot During his recent visit to\nVictoria Oity Clerk Strachan managed\nto ferret out all the information with\nreference to the consignment, He ascertained that the pipe had been duly\npaid for and forwarded to Nelson to be\nhere used; Ihnt tbe present Government laid no claim to it: that Turner,\nBeeton & Co. were meiely holding it\nin trust for Nelson and that all that\nwas needed was the necessary order to\nhave it lunitleri over. Mr. Strachan\npointad out to tho premier that bail the\ncity not been incorporated the Government would have . been put to the\nexpense of laying the pipe, which\nwould have been, a considerable item\nand that tho pipe having been purchased aud sent to Nelson to improve\nthe sanitary condition of tho plane it\nought to be used for the purpose for\nwhich it was intendotl.\nDuring Mr. Cotton's recent'visit to\nNelson he was waited upon by the\nMayor ou the same subject and as a result of Mr. Strachan's and his worship's efforts, tho order of yesterday\nwas written. It authorizes the council\nou behalf of the city, to take over the\nsewer pipe free of cost. Upon the production of the order Turner, Beeton &\nCo. issued the usual clearance ceitifl-\ncate and refunded the $786.95\u00E2\u0080\u0094cash\nreceived for pipe sold. This is a clear\ngain to the city of $3,253, and the\nmayor and city clerk are to be congratulated upon their Buccess in the\nmatter.\nIfE BEST STEEL WIRE ROPEJSi:\n;\u00E2\u0080\u009EV Haulage\nGalvanized The Dominion Wire Rope Co'y. Ltd. Montreal, Que coiilerv\nWire Ropes 835 STOCK CARRIED IN ROSSLAND, B.O., BY J. D SWORD AGENT. Wire Rope\nAT THE OITY LIMITS.\nBlocking the Koad to the Railway Station Causes Trouble.\nThe road to the Great Northern Railway station, which has been so long\nconsidered a pnblio thoroughfare, although in reality private property,\nwas on Monday closed to traffic by the\ntruuiway people, und a great deal of\ninconvenience was thus occasioned.\nSeveral local merchants had to send\ntheir goods back to Fivo Mile Point\nanl havo them bronght to town by\nwater. The closing of the thoroughfare in question practically cuts off'\ncommunication with the station honse\nand freight sheds of the Great Northern and debars heavy-laden wagons\nfrom getting boyond the city bonndary\nlimits-. Their only alternative is to\ndrive round by the Hume Addition and\ntun milk ranch, through a roadway,\nwhich, however well it may look on n\nmap, is not n teamsters' ideal, being\ncovered with stumps of trees and other\nobstructions. Yesterday the Brackman\n& Ker Milling Co., had a pressing order for live tons of feed, but were unable to fill it in consequence of the\nstate of the roads. A deputation of local merchants entered vigorous complaint to the management of the Great\nNorthern aud Nelson & Fort Sheppard,\nand as an outcome arrangements hnve\nbee'u made by the railway company tn\nciit n piece of now road so as to avoid\ntlie necessity for the presont circuit-\nions route. This work, it is hoped,\nwill be accomplished in the course of\na few days, and until then the business men of Nelson will have to suffer\nloss and inconvenience.\nRETURNS^FOR OCTOBER.\nNelson's Imports and Exports Continue\nto Swell.\nThe following are the official customs' house returns for the exports and\nimports from the port of Nelson during the month of October:\nIMPORTS,\nDutiable Koods (78,623 0(1\nFree noods 'js.ii'.'D 00\nTotal Imports $1117,254 00\nDuty collected $21,to:! (18\nUllier revenues llti 05\nTotal $21,71)8 7:i\nEXPORTS.\nThe Min.\nCoal, 21 Ions $ 1.1 00\nCoke. 710 tons 2,857 00\nOopper matte 61,00500\nGold bullion 27,500 00\nTotal $81,555 00\nmanufactures $1,010 00\nTotal $83,465 CO\nVertical\nsinking\nPUMPS\nFOR MINE DUTIES.\nWe can strong-\nly roco in in en d\ntnla l'u in p to\nthose requiring\nHi's type. The\nextreme conven*\nioi 100 uf tho (mini du packed\nform tinabloa it\nlo in; run ilily\npaoked ami taken up, The absence of project*\nIng ralv-8 gear,\netc., i* a valuable feature in\navaldinC break\nngc-. (I urii\nhoi si i ii g\n,. 1111 tl\nlowering in tho\nconfined Bpace\nwlioro t hose\npumps aro need,\nIt is fitted with\nconvenient suspending books\nand the packing\n4'r~\"\"'TL nri'iin cu 111 o n t\n\u00C2\u00A32\ v )l -IT! takes up the\nVm(^^J least, possible\nspurt;. Mining\nSuperintendants\nuinl those interested in Mining\nMachinery would consult thoir interest* by\nsending for catalogue and quotation bpfore*\nInstalling ti plant. We manufacture Pumping Machinery for every oonoelvabte duty.\nKoriy -- Toronto.\nCunllffo jM'h-it, Aki-.. RcfFlend.\nMaoKaj & Walkeu, Agts, Vancouver.\nLEWIS THOMSON,\nNotary Public, Accountant\nand Commission Agent.\n-MOYIE CITY, B.-C\n*JC PCUTC T>io t\u00C2\u00BB*t r\u00C2\u00BBiinUlii pen erer iol HUKKT IKOX, IIIMIIV TICKS, K.IK AMI Sllll.l HTKKL,\nItmKltS' SIIIII1IS, IVI It i; KOPBI T1AMM.A IHII-KS,\nDYNAMITE IISK AMI < 4I'M.\n... QUICKSILVER^\nWrite for Quotations.\nCulile Address, \"Dunn.\"\n('33)\nVANCOUVEB, IB. C\nGET YOUR MONEY'S WORTH\nHND SMOKB\n[ Three Grades: Mild, Medium Strong and Full Strength\nThree Sizes: 1j5's, 1Jg's and %'s.\nj HERMETICALLY SEALED TINS.\ntrtri/iTijTnrutrrAJUij\njuijuiJij-iri/innri ruinn n iiri-ruxrirvarrj-uu\nTADDY & CO.\nESTABLISHED ISO YEARS LOfldOrl, Eflg.\nORdI 1 Uraiid and\n*r lv til lltlv. Navy Cut Tobaccos.\nAccnts fob Canada i 0AMES TURNER & CO.. Hamilton. Ont.\ni\nny Changed.\nnameless, unwarranted army of footwear\nsold to whoever will buy them.\nThe 'Sinter Shoe\" Is made in twelve\nshapes, all leathers, colors, widths, sizes\nand styles. Every pair Goodyear Welted, name and price Stamped on the soles.\n$3.50, $4.50 AND C5S.r;0.\nThe \"Slater Shoe\" is closely watched during the process of manufacture. Every shoe\nundergoes a careful examination after leaving the hands of each operator.\nThe slightest flaw in tlie leather or work-\ntnauship-a stitch missed-a slip of the knife,\nouly discernible to an expert condemns the\nshoe that started toward the \" Slater \" goal\nto the ordinary, /\nThe ouAti\nLILLIE BROS Aberdeen Block.\nIRON\nNELSON\nNELSON, B. C,\nIron mill Brain Castlagl of Kvrry llmrrlp\nlion. Bepalni nnil .lobblnfc\n83B A SrECIALTV.\n*, JOHN McLATCHIE\nWORKS I\nDominion and\nProvincial^!\nLand Surveyor.\n469 nelson b c. NELSON WEEKLY MINER, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, \u00C2\u00AB899\nBLACK MI GRODP\nMr. Mansfield Secures the\nSlocan Oity Property.\nTO WORK ALL WINTER\nCabins to Be Built and Supplies Taken\nUp at Once Two More Claims in\nOanip Mansfield Bonded.\nerl at tlie Red Line mine, under the\ntor.imnuship of Jolin Ferraday.\nMessrs. Steve Young and George\nGeary, both formerly of Fort .Steele, bat\nnow \"of Peterborough, hnve struck it\nrich on Spring Creek, during the past\nmoDtli. Tluiy have located a group of\nolaims on tbe same lead as the famous\nParadise group, and have practically\nas large a showing.\nThe Government bas completed a\nwagon road from Atbalmer, live miles\nup Toby creek. The Peterborough\nTownsite Co., bave also completed\nthree wagon ronds, one up Toby, one\nnp Horse Thief Creek and one to the\nColumbia River from the town.\nThere will be an immense amount\nof freighting done doring the coming\nwiutei between Golden, Steele and\nPeterborough. All tho general stores\nintend getting in a large amonnt of\nsupplies in anticipation of the rush\nnext spring. Business is better now\nthan at any time during the past\nseason.\nTHE BOUNDARY COUNTRY.\nA Rich District That is Fast Filling Up.\nMr. Ernest Mansfield does not let\nthe grass grow under his foet. He has\nbonded or staked 1'.' claims in Oamp\nMansfield this summer, and has now\nItdded again to his holdings. When\nin Slounu City between two and three\nweeks ago he secured an option on the\nBlaok Hawk group,ot* Ten Mile Creek,\non behalf of his London principals.\nImmediately on reaching Nelson he\nforwarded bis report and yesterday\nevening received a cablegram iu reply\ninstructing him to take up the -prop-\nerty and push development work tbis\nwinter, The bond is for $7,000 with a\nsmall cash payment.\nThe Black Hawk is a galena proposition with excellent surface showings,\nand assays as high us -100 ounces in silver aud 00 per oent lead have been obtained from the ore. Tho development\nwork to date consists chiefly of a SO\nfoot tunnel driven on the strike of the\nvein. This tunnel will be continued\nauother 105 feet, while auother.one will\nprobably be started lower down at nn\nearly date. There are now three mohos\nof clean galena in the face of the tunnel, bosides concentrating ore. Mr.\nMansfield leaves for Slocan City in the\nmorning to build cabins, get in supplies and start work, which will be\ncontinued night and day throughout\nthe wintor. The vendors are Messrs.\nGraham and Ray.\nThe boviing of the Black Hawk will\nbe good news to Slocan Oity, being as\nit ia one more evidence of the great\nmineral wealth in tbe hills surrounding that charmingly situated town.\nLike many other places, Slooau City\nhas had its hard times, bat it seems\nnow to bo entering in earnest upon an\nindefinite era of deserved prosperity.\nMr. Mansfield expects to return to\nNelson early next week, and will then\nproceed to Camp Mansfield by way of\nKaslo to put a forco of men to work mi\nthe Tony and Glacier group in that\ncuinp. These claims were bonded at\ntho same time as the Black Hawk\ngroup, the consideration being 10,000.\nThe vendois of tbis group are Messrs.\nBradshaw nnd Clough, of Slormii City.\nTho Tony claim adjoins the Joker,und\nthe Glaoier the Bertha Fraction and\nGreen Lakes. When this force is put\nto work, Mr. Mansfield will have\nabout 25 men working ut bis own\ncamp.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nWindermere, B. C, Nov. 8. \u00E2\u0080\u0094(Special to Tho Miner.)--Tne Phoenix group\non Horse Thief Creek operated by R.\nS. Gallop, has discontinued work for\nthe season. It is understood that development work on a large soale will\nbe resumed in the oarly spring, or as\nsoon as the season will permit.\nMessrs Willurd and Stratford,of Atbalmer, B. O , have had the phenomenal returns of over 4800 per ton in\ngold, silver and copper from 25 pounds\nof ore which they sent to the North\nport smelter. The ore is from the Diamond group which the owners intend\ndeveloping this winter. Tho property\nis situated on the same lend as the\nParadise group on Spring Creek, now\nunder boud to the New British Columbia Syndicate, of London, Eng., for\n1150,000.\nRecent development work on the\nPretty Gill mine ou Bonlder Creek,\nowned by the New British Columbia\nSyndicate, of London, Eng., has proven very satislactory. The ore is richer\nthan ever.\nH. F. Oollett, of Starbird & Oollett,\ntownsite agents, at Windermere, will\nmake Peterborough his headquarters\nin the future and will devote his attention to mining exclusively.\nThe Peterborough Townsite Oo.,\nLtd., is installing a large sawmill in\norder to supply intending builders\nwith lnmber at a reasonable rate.\nThe Swansea mine will commence\nshipping in tbe very near future.\nH. R. Bruoe, O. E., representative\nof Messrs. Osier & Hammond, is tak\ning in a large amount, of supplies to\nthe Delphino miue, orr the north fork\nof Toby Creek. This property is being worked throughout the winter on\na large soalo under the foremanship of\nW. Beattie, formerly of the Reoo\nmine, Sandon, B. O.\nJames R. McLeod and Samnel Brewer intend working the Joan group at\nSkookumchnck, E. K., throughout\nthe winter.\nThe Red Line mines on McDonald\nOreek, a tributary of Horse Thief\nCreek will commence rawhiding as\nsoon as snow will permit. The ore\nwill be shipped from Peterborough in\nthe spring.\nR. S. Gallop, the well known pioneer of the camp, left for Montreal during the past week.\nBen Abel has bonded a half interest\niu the Black Jaok group situated in\nthe Kootenay River country, north\neast of Windermere.\nIt is understood that there is a deal\npending for the Bear group situnted\nou Bugaboo Creek, owned by Messrs.\nRobert McKeeman and Dan Steadlu-\nniar both of Windermere. McKeeman\nis now iu Spokane It is undoubtedly\nau immense proposition.\nA large foroe of men is being work-\nThe uprni.se from the main tnunel\nto tunnel No. 2, in the Athabasca\nmine, was finished yesterday. The enr-\nrent of good pure nir that passed\nthrough was a godsend and a relief to\neverybody in the mine. The raise\nwas made at \u00C2\u00AB distance in from the\nmouth of the main tunnel of 500 feet.\nThis will enable the work to progress\nrapidly now, with abundance of air.\nMr. S. Page, representing Montreal\ncapital, who has been in the Kootenays for some months past, has secured from Lefebvre Siffroie a group of\nclaims on Hull Croek, iu the Nelson\ndivision which give groat promise.\nIt is a copper proposition, and Mr.\nPage says his principals will work tbe\nproperty for all it is worth next spring.\nHe has also secured some good things\non Champion Oreek, on the Columbia\nriver, in Rossland division.\nOperations have been temporily suspended on tho Standard, above Oody,\nas the operators are making preparations for carrying out an extensive\nplan of systematic development. The\nsurface work-ins proven most satisfactory arid the assays are surprisingly\nrich. Cabins nre completed und trails\nin shape for a good winter's work.\n\u00C2\u00AB \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nAt a meeting of the American Roy\ntrustees a few days since it wus decided to build fiOO feet of trum in the\nspring of 1900 to connect the mine\nwith tho Noble Five tram and con\noeutrator, This will enable the American Boy to send down to the Noble\nFive works a large amount of concentrating ore which is on the dumps and\nin the stopos. This is expected to\nconcentrate about four into one at a\nlino shipping value. Recently the\nnumber four tunnel cut the oie body\n800 feet below the apex of tho vein\nnud the showing is said to bo four feet\nof concentrating ore \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Faystreak,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * *\nFollowing is the official statement of\nthe October run of the Athabasca 10-\nstamp mill: Number of days of run,\nSIO days lii hours. Amount of ore crushed, 867% tons; amount of crude ore\nshipped, .'.\",. Total amount treated,\n{lOO/ij tons.\nValue of bullion recovered... J**?.-100 1)2\nVnl of concentrates recovered. 1,1)05 77\nValue of crude ore 21)8 01\nMr. Hugh Sutherland came iu from\nthe Boundary Country on Wednesday\nnight, and reports that everything is\nlooking well in that district. Since\nthe trains commenced to run tbey were\nevery day crowded, and great quantities of machinery weie going in. The\nGreenwood smelter was going up, us\nwas also the smelter at Grand Forks.\nPhoenix is making wonderful progress, and many of her mines were\nready to ship as soon as railway facilities were provided. The Ironsides\ntowosite people put their lots on tbe\nmarket and everyone of tbem were\nbought up, and a similar icport was\nmade by the other townsite people so\nthat there was not now a lot there that\nhad not passed iuto second hnndi.\nThey bad commenced the incorporation\nof a waterworks company,which would\nbe a grent boon to the town. The railway company were running spurs into\nthe piiucipal mines, so tbat within a\nshort time there would be several\nmines on the shipping list. Columbia,\nMr. Sutboiland says, is auother of the\nuew towns that is going nhead. The\nbig hotel, recently burned there, is being rebuilt, and will soon be ready for\noccupation. There is considerable activity in the mines, but n gioat ninny\nmore men would be employed were it\nuot for the troubles occasioned by the\nEighl-Hour lnw. Mr. Sutherland had\nbeen iu Republic somo short time ago,\nand there the men were working ten\nhours a day and being paid $;l. SO and\nin some cases less. Mr. Sutherland\nexpects to leave tomorrow for the\nNorth Star, and will then go East.\nin these mines the men are demanding\n$.1.50 a day. Tbis labor trouble is unfortunate.\"\nMr. Robbing went on to explain that\ntbey did not object to pay $1150 a day\nwhen men were working in wet places,\nbut they felt that for ordinary work\nthey should not be called upon to pay\nmore than was paid in Rossland.\ntJDD TALKS WITH OLD TIMERS.\nMother Foster the Friend of thi'\neer and Prospc-t* r.\nPitn-\nNATURALIZATION OP ALIENS\nRequest That Affidavits Therefor Ee\nSworn L'efore J. P., or Recorder.\nTotal $9,0115 110\nThe total gross value per ton of tbe\noro treated is $20.81.\n* * *\nWork ou the Kylo Group on the first\nnorth fork of Lumen Creek is to be\nstarted np again with nil increased\nforce, and supplies for this purpose\nare being taken up.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00C2\u00BB \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nMETAL QUOTATIONS.\nNew Yurk, Nov. 10.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Bar silver.\n593.,: Mexicun dollars, 47^ ; silver certificates, 68,!:, to 591\u00C2\u00A3.\nLICENSER VICTUALLERS ASS'N.\nWholesale and Retail Cigar and Liquor\nMon Moet and Organize.\nA local Licensed Victualler's Association hus often been mooted in Nel\nson, but the ides took definite shape\nyesterday evening wheu those interest-'\ned met yesterday evening in Messrs.\nGalliher m\ndistinctly see two policemen; hen\nturn iu, and your oold turn- out.' Ni 1\nuntil 1889 did we bave 11 hiiim* amougsi\nus. Sne was a big hearted old soul\nthat was known throughout the wlinl*\ndistrict as Mother Poster, iM.ui.v a\npoor fellow she horsed ihioUili I\nhave often seen ber 111 the nepth ill\nwinter riding up to the Sitter Kins\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nuot side saddle either\u00E2\u0080\u0094or off towards\nYmir to attend tu some urgeut case.\nMother Foster afterward\" Ooeiied up 11\nlaundiy nud bathroom, where Hurry s\nbakery now stands 011 Baker street. It\nwas the ouly bath iu tho oounirj then,\nand it was kept pretty busy, for tin*\nboys wero not giveu to a plunge rn the\nlake. The laundry was a great Godsend to us, too, for when it comes to\na fellow w ishing his own shiit he is\nlikely to put off the job too long fo.\nhealth or comfort sake. Poorold Mother\nFoster died in 93, and every one foi\nmiles around atteuded tho funeral. We\nlose a good friend when we lost her\nL'bere was $70 subscribed in as many\nminutes to give the old woman a decent burial. Dr. LnBaii was in camp\nin tnose di.js.\n\"Were there many people here\nthen?'' was asked.\n\"Not in '8(1. There wero not mure\nthan twenty of us all told. But the\nnext year was Iho year of the Silver\nKing excitement, and quite a number\ncome in. Job Wilson came in with u\npack train of mules from the Sinn'lka-\nmeen country, It wus on mule buck\nThe Miner plant was packed in, Then\nwe had threo steamers pljing on the\nlake\u00E2\u0080\u0094the little Mndheii, with Capt.\nDnvis.atthe helm; the Galena, and the\nNelsou. There were nine or ten pen, le\ndrowned then, but in the early days\nwe used to think the Galena was the\nGrent Eastern of the Kootenay Lukes\nShe used to ply between here and Boll-\nuers' Ferry. The Muilhen wns a little\ncraft that used to carry a few pas'lingers or any little freight thnt was go\ning, and drop them any place along\nthe lake that wns Wanted, Wheu 1\nthink of those old craft and consider\nthe lino fleet of steamers now sailing\nthe waters I cannot help thinking that\nthore is 110 place In the country thin\nhas grown as rapidly as this old Nelson\nof ours.\"\nconnected with the firm of Robert.\nson. Lint..11 \u00C2\u00AB!fc Co.,wholesale iiiygoods,\nformerly William Stephen & Co., of\nwhich Gecrge Stephen, now Lo:d\nMount Stephen, was a member, dis-\n; Bolviug about two years ago, and the\nI business was continued by the deceas-\nI ed until about a year ago, when he retired and the business was wound np.\nMAARTKNS ON THE WAR.\nHe S-iy.*, Hie Peace Coufercu.ie Only\nTried 1^. Mitigate War's Evils.\nSt. Ferorbiirg, Nov 10. \u00E2\u0080\u0094M. de Maar-\nlens. Professor nf International Lnw at\nth University ill St. Fotershnrg. and\nwus a member of tho Russian\ndelegation t** tbe Peace Conference nt\nThe blague, has published a card in\n*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 litre! I \lessen_er in which he\nexpresses re-rol ,h*t the horrors of war\ns nlii I'lt'c appeared wi'hin two\nmouths after The Hague conference.\nHo declares, however, that the confer.\n, noi'M if .ft responsible fnr events in\n1 p Iran \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 - tho members had not\n.itt* 111 i* 11I 1*1 avert war bin hud devoted\nthemselves particularly to defining the\nlaws uinl tisanes of war, hoping thus\nto mitigate rather than a nlinh the evil\nwhich was never the object of the\nconference.\nA SOFT-HEARTED JURY.\nPhoenix, Ariz.. Nuv. 10. \u00E2\u0080\u0094Pesrl\nHurt the alleged woman bandit, who\nwas charged witl) holding up a ftago\nnear Florence wus acquitted last night.\nMiss Hurt addressed tbe jury in ber\nown defence and pleaded passionately\nfnr freedom thnt she might return to\nToledo, Ohio, to her fast-failing\nmother. Immediately after her acquittal, tho woman was re-arrested,\ncharged with interfering witb United\nStales mails and she will be tried\nagain.\nMAKE MONTREAL MORAL.\nMontreal, Nov. 18.\u00E2\u0080\u0094To u deputation\nof the liquor sellers today, who protested against the number of shoboensand\nother p'aces of ill repute in Montrnnl\nwhere liquor is illegally sold, Premier\nUarobund stated that the Quebec Gov-\n\"rumour would not be chocked by nny\nInfluence in its endeavors to rid Montreal of all places of immoral character.\nPRIZE FIGHT IN CANADA.\nToronto, Nov. 1(1.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tho nooessnry\narticles have bean signed between Joe\n(jodilard, of Australia, nud Jaok Mo-\nOormick, of Philadelphia, to meet miner the Crescent Athletic Club auspices\n.in Saturday, Nov. 25. The matoh is\nconsideied the biggest thing of the\nkind e7cr inntle in Canada.\nJUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE.\nKingston, Out, Nov. 10, \u00E2\u0080\u0094The coroner's jury in the case of the James\nshooting affray yesterday, have returned a verdict of \"justifiable homicide. \"\nThe magistral** and police authorities have in consequence released Fru-\nlick, who fired tbe fatal shot.\nHOSPITAL BOARD MEETING.\nThe question of installing n heating\napparatus in the addition to the Kootenay Lake General Hospital wns the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0most important matter before tho meeting of Iho board of trie Kootenay Lake\nGeneral Hospital yesterday afteruoon.\nSeveral bids were received and examined, and it was found that the apparatus intended would cost 50 per\ncent, more than had been anticipated\nSome suggestions were, however,\nbrought forward which promised to reduce the sura needed to within the limits of tho hospital's finances, nud\nMessrs. W. A. Jowett, E. C. Miller\nand F. W. Swiuiiiell were appointed a\noommlttee to look further into tbe\nday of eight-hours nud the hammermen j matter, and with power to net. The\n$8 a day, but they (tbo hammermen) jooiitnct will probably be let in tbe\nwant 11s lo give them $3.50\u00E2\u0080\u0094that is, I coursa of the next two or three days.\n60 cents a day more than they are paid ! Those proseut at tbe meeting includ-\nin Rossland. As I say, I would have led the President, Judge Fori 11; vice-\nfifty more meu nt work if I oould get 1 president, Mr W. A. Jowett; socre-\ntbem at the Rossland rate. The pow- tary, Mr. F. W. Swannell; treasurer,\ner drill men are paid $3.60, but there Mx W. W. Beer; Mesdames Robertson\nme very many mines in the Boundary and J. Laing Stocks, and Messrs. O.E.\nwhere steam power is not used, and Miller and E, A. Crease.\nFOSTER ON THE STUMP.\nBarrio, Ont., Nov. 10.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Hon.\nG. E. Foster addressed a large meeting\nof the North Simooo electors ou tbe\npolitical questions of tho day from the\nopposition standpoint, last night.\nWANT THEIR MONEY BACK.\nMontreal, Nov. 1(1\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Nicola\ncounty depositors in the defunct Ville\nMario Bunk consider that the Dominion Government should become responsible and redeem the amounts deposited in the bank. They have forwarded\na petition to this effect to the Government.\n1 A CENTENARIAN.\nMontreal, Nov. 16.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A, Prevoet,aged\n100, arrived here today from St. Amies\nde Bellevue, to spend the remainder\not his ays in the Grey nunnery He\nwas formerly employed by tha Hudson's Bay Oo. He rememberi dis-\nttn tly the American invasion of 1812\nand the buiHe of Waterloo.\nMISS IJUlJGEs DEAD.\nMontreal, No\u00C2\u00BB. 18.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Miss Susan\nDodges, since 1875 mathematical teacher iu the High School and since 1890,\nfirst assistant in charge of the High\nSohool for girls, is dead, from scarlet\nfever. She had boen ailing for many\nmonths.\nMANITOBA ELECTIONS.\nWinnipeg, Man. Nov. 1(1.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tbe writ\nfor the Manitoba Provincial elections\nwas issued today. The nominations\ntake place on the 30th of Novermber,\nand the polling on tbe 7th of December. Many eastern politicians are expected hero shortly to take part In tbe\nlight.\nKNAPP IN MONTREAL.\nMontreal, Nov. 10.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Knnpp, of roller\nboat fame, is m the city today, and\nexpressed confidence in the ultimate\nsuccess of his invention.\nBIG MERCHANT DEAD.\nMontreal, fJue., Nov. 10\u00E2\u0080\u0094Robert\nClinton, one of the most prominent dry\ngoods merchants in this city is dead.\nFor over a quarter of a cmtuiy he was immediate attention.\nREGULATIONS ALTERED.\nDetroit, Mich., Nov, 18\u00E2\u0080\u0094Washington authorities have modified tbe original ruling of tbo regulations regarding sealskins brought into the United\nStates by foreign tonrists, which now\npermits tourists to make affidavits\nfore notaries ut the port of arrival\nstead of tlie port of departure.\nbo-\nin-\nThe arc lights nt tho corner of Josephine and Baksr, and Stanley und\nBakor streets have bean inoperative for\na few weeks past. The trolley Hues\nof the tramway comunny prevent tho\nlnwering of the lamp to renew tbe carbon. The residents of tho district\ncomplain bitterly of tho inconvenience,\nnnd yesterday nn undertaking was\ngiven that the matter would receive\nt\u00C2\u00A3X*X\u00C2\u00A3X.\u00C2\u00A3.\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3.\u00C2\u00A3.mm\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3.\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3.j;mi. \u00C2\u00A3 \u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3AS\nSMOKE\nWILLS'S\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Mm\nJfavyCuJI\n1Q*H.0.WJ.W\nIstolxLondg\nTAKE NO OTHER.\nr777777777777777777777777777f77777f7777i>7777773'3,i'77rS\n4\n\\nJk-gL"@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Nelson (B.C.)"@en . "Nelson"@en . "Nelson_Weekly_Miner_1899-11-17"@en . "10.14288/1.0211658"@en . "English"@en . 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