"49b67618-12c1-4718-a6c6-cf08cfddd9d3"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2016-05-30"@en . "1898-03-05"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/silsil/items/1.0312931/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " ..*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ^*\u00C2\u00BBssi06irt*\u00C2\u00AB_v,--a;._i-'r-\u00C2\u00AB**\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.<_\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2%\nA\nTHE SILVEETOMAN.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 i\nVOLUME ONE.\n-. \" i; **\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-<-\u00C2\u00AB*-\u00C2\u00BB\nSILVERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY MARCH 5, 1898.\nNUMBER 36.\nFATALSNOWSUDE\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0' ' a*-'\ntfni. J. Lade Crashed to Death Beneath the Snow.\nKAliROW ESCAPE OP COMRADES.\nHarvry and Uouthwsrd Reaeuetl Wltlt\nSlight injuries\u00E2\u0080\u0094ISO Bilverton Friends\njoin the Funeral Procession.\nWilliam J. Lade, one of our well-\nknown and popular young men was\nkilled in the Ottawa snow elide last Sunday.\nShortly after 2 o'clock on Sunday,\nword was brought into town that a now\nilide hail followed ia the wake of tbe\nOttawa slido, and the party at work excavating the road at that point were\nburied. As soon as Angus McDonald,\nthe bearer of the news, hud aroused the\n(own, a numerous and excited crowd of\nabout \"5 men, provided with picks and\nshovels, started for the scene of the accident, on loot and in sleighs.\nWhen the slide occurred, the deceased\nand Bob Barley were at work on top of\nthe slide, and Tom Ardiel, J. A. Harvey\nand Andy Southward were at work in\nthe cut. A few rolling snow balls heralded the approach of the avalanche,\nand a warning shout was given by Tom\nArdiel. Everyone ran for safety, aud\nArdiel and Barley succeeded in clearing\nthe course of the slide. The victim of\ntho slide was buried immediately beneath tons of snow. Harvey was invisible and only the head and arm of\nAn ly Southward were above the moving\nmass. The alarm was at once given,\nand the men at work below the slide,\nbegan the ,wor_ of roscuo. Andy\nwag the first one to tie exhumed, and\nSoon afterwards Harvey was got out,\nneither of the men having received any\nappreciable injuries. By this time the\nre;-.Mirers from town had arrived with\ntools, and work wus at onco commenced\nto And the remaining body.\nIn spite of the determined work done\nbvanxious friends, the body of Wm.\nLade was not uncovered for two hours,\nbut it is doubtful if the rescue had taken\nplace immediately alter tlie accident, if\nany life would have been found in the\nbody.\nJudging from the position of tbe body,\nwhen found, it seems that Lade had\ntripped after jumping into tbe cut, ami\nbad been covered by the moss Jof\nenow befort be could recover him -.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ii\"\nThe remains were brought to town\nand lemained in the Thorburn house\nuntil alter tbe formal inquest bad been\nheld on Monday.\nThe funeral took place after the inquest, the body being taken to New\nDenver on ttie Slocan, and from there\nto the cemetery on the hill.\nAbout 150 Silverton friends accom'\npanied the remains to tbe cemetery, and\nptid their last respects to their comrade.\nThe funeral service was road by Rev. >\nMr. Powell. The pall bearers JMM Jack\nSmith, J. Anderson, H. Brady, C. Mo-\nNichols, A. Williamson and L. F. Holt/..\nThe deceased was only 19 years old,\nand came to British Columbia from\nNova Scotia only a littlo over a year ago.\nHe was interested with bin brothers in\nSomo valuable mining properties in tbe\nLardeau, and tbe coining year promised\nto be a bright ono for him.\nma IHO.IEST.\nThe formal enquiry into tho death of\nWm. ,1. Lade was held here by Coroner\nT'ioubo on Monday. The following weio\nempanelled as a jury: J. G. Furquier,\nforemai; R. O. Matheson, J. S. Mar-\n'arlaml John Pophum G. Thorburn and\n('. iVoKicholl, After viewing the body\ntliejinw adjourned to McKinnon's ball\nto lieA tbe evidence. Thos. Ardiel told\nhowJWlien at work, be had observed\nthe approach of the slide and .shouted a\nwarnMng. The slide was about 20 feel\nIron/tbe deceased when he callod. He\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2at!the deceased jump, but nevor saw\nliinfl again until he was uncovered from\ntliel slide; bo thought deceased must\nliawe slipped when ho jumped. He\nliiplped excavate Harvey and Southward.\nJilhn A Harvey, the next witness, cor-\nfolborated the evidence of Mr. Ardiel.\nA)b the jury desired no more witnesses,\ntjiey then withdrew ond rendored the\nfallowing verdict:\n\"Wo do upon our oaths, say that tho\nWilliam J. Lade, on tho 27th day of\nbruary, in the year aforesaid, while\n[\"king excavating the road through\n[Ottawa slide, was buried in a snow\nBe, and that his death was caused by\nlocation in the said slide.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Prings floods will soon be on us, and\npreparations should bo made for it.\nThere is some cause for alarm over the\nunprotected condition of the small crook\nflowing from the main stream through\nthe town. Piling should be driven in at\nthe source of this stream and all possible danger of its flooding Lake avenue\naverted. This should bo attended by\nthose directly interested at once. Old-\ntimers predict a greater rise in Four-\nMile, this year, than wo have had for\nsome years.\nHAVE~\u00C2\u00A5OU REGISTERED ?\nEvery man in West Kootenay eligible\nas a voter in the impending elections\nowes, as a duty to tbe people here, to\nsee that bis name appears on the new\nvoter's lists, and that his vote in cast in\nthe Interest oi good government. Many\nin Silverton and its neighborhood have\nthus far neglected to register themselves,\nand our voter's list does not represent\nall our voters. It is especially urgent\nat the present time, that all who may,\nshould register. The population of\nWest Kootenay is fully one-fifth of tlie\npopulation ot the entire Province, and\nour contributions to tbe Provincial treasury is practically one-third of the total\namount credited under the bead of each\ndistrict. In order that a proper redistribution of seats can be made, it is\nnecessary for the voter's lists to be made\nas complete as possible.\nEvery British male subject, of the\nfull age of 21 years, wbo has resided in\nthis Province one your and in this Electoral District for two months, is qualified as a voter. Registration blanks\ncan bo procured from Wm. Hunter, J.\nP.. and we hope everyone not yet registered will take advantage of this opportunity to enroll themselves at once.\nQUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.\nOur celebration of the 24th of May,\nnext, promises, by Ihe manner in which\ninterest is being aroused among our eiti-\n*ens and neighbors, to bo the bigcest\nkind of a success. The subscription\nlists are being generotiHlv signed, and\nenough funds are assured to guarantee a\nliberal list of prizes.\nThe Slocan City News, in a Bemi-\nhumorous article, bids us hurry and\ncomplete our preparation in the limited\ntime at our disposal. Judging by what\nwe have heard ol the proposed intentions of Rosebery, New Denver, the\nGlacier, ami the other strong rivals in\nthe field for Queen's Birthday honors,\nwe wt'ro wise iu our hii-te, Thero was\nmethod in our madness.\n('I\nJB WORK TO BE COMPLETED.\nt B. Alexander inlormed a Sii.Vkb-\n|in representative that the Towusito\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0will at once pu,t the crib-work at the\n\"l in condition to withstand tho ex-\nriso of Four-Mile creek. The\nlork is to bo complotod Imme-\n.and filled {with stone. The\nLATEST FROM THE FIDELITY.\nThe conflicting re*Hirt\u00C2\u00AB published in\nlate Issues of the Sh.vIbtonian legard-\ning the Fidelity contract, have caused\nsome misunderstanding among those interested, but wo are informed by A.\nWilliamson, that work has lieen sus-\npeuded for the present at tbe mine, aud\nthat tho contract held by B. Kneebone\nis broken. Mr. Williamson tells us that\nthey have a splendid showing in the\nface of tho drift, tbe pay streak being 14\ninches of steel galena. Tho pump has\nboen taken from the abaft, und it is not\nknown when work will be re-commenced.\nMr. Williamson laughed at the idea of\nthe Fidelity beingdug out.\nROSEBEKY SAMPLF.lt.\nWe are Informed by A. M, Beattie, of\nBosebery, that work on tho Boaebery\nSampling Works will be begun next\nweek. A representative of the company\nfor whom the sampler ia to be built, is\nnow iu Rosuhi-ry and looking over tho\nground. Ifr. Beattie further states that\nwithin 90 days: tho sampler will be in\noperation and that arrangements are\nalready made with Ihe railwaVl and\nmines to handle $100,000 woiili ol OW\neach month.\nMr. Beattie la ulao full of praise for\nthe properties on Wilson creek, and pre*\ndlctS a boom for that section of the\ncountry thin summer.\nWH18T CLUB.\nA meeting of Iho whist club was held\nSaturday uvening ot the residence of\nCon McKinnon and trump* were, hailed\nwith gleo. When the but card fell tho\nofficial recount annoanced that Mlsi\nDyker headed the score card. The next\nmeeting wili beheld in the near future\nand in tho meanwhile all the members\naro practicing hard.\nMINER'S UNION CONDOLE\nA meeting of tho Silvorton Miner's\nUnion was held in their ball last Monday evening. A resolution expressing\nthe sympathy of the union with the\nrelatives of their lato member, W. J.\nLade, was unanimously passed. Tho\nunion granted tho sum of foO\u00E2\u0080\u0094tht maxi-\nmlum amount\u00E2\u0080\u0094towards the funeral expenses of their late comrade\nUndo 8am -/ill go Into tho entomological production business\u00E2\u0080\u0094that II, making the Spanish Hv- \t\nFlvotons of ore were rawhided down\nto the lake shore fiom the Fidelity last\nWednesday. This will be shippoil immediately by 11, Kneebone.\nTBE LOCAL LAYOUT.\nA. M. Beattie, Rosebery, visited us on\nMonday.\nW. Hunter paid Slocan City a visit on\nTuesday.\nJ.I. Mcintosh oaid Nelson a visit on\nWednesday.\nLawrence Cook paid tho Alamo mino\na visit Monday,\nFred Liehscher mado Now Denver a\nvisit cm Tuesday.\nMrs. Barclay and Miss Barclay were\nin New Denver on Monday.\nJake Kirkpatrick was greeting his\nfriends in town last Sunday,\nWork was commenced on tho Wuke-\nfield yesterday with six men.\nG. B. Brown, Winnipeg, was register\"\ned at the Victoria ou Monday.\nThe Kaslo Board of Trade have received thetr charter from Ottawa.\nAn additional five men wore put at\nwork at the Emily Edith on Monday.\nA basket social was held in New Denver las.t night. The affair was a decided\nsuccess.\nGeo. Powell made the trip to tho JEn-\nterprise mine, Ten-Mile, tho fore part of\nthis week.\n__ Lulu Ilenning, the young daughter of\nErnest Ilenning. engineer ut the Ualena\nmines, ia seriously ill.\nE. Bammelmeyer took several kodak\nviews of the Ottawa slide before und\nafter the accident last Sunday.\nUnless tho weather should become\ncolder the freight teams of Harvey &\nAnderson will make no more trips to the\nmines.\nThe Rev. Mr. Booth will hold divine\nservice in tho Union church next. Thursday evening. You are invited to attend.\nm, (iriffin was forced to lay iff work\na few days at the Comstock this week.\nA si'nall piece of steel in his eye caused\nthe trouble.\nLeslie Hill, superintendent of the\nVancouver mines, waa in town yesterday He was down to hurry dp supplies\nfor the mine.\nJ. T. Kelly, of Three Fork-;, paid our\ntown a visit on Sunday. Mr. Kelly i.--\none of the partners of the Wm. Hunter\nCo., Limited.\nThe town of Canmore. N. W. T., was\ndestroyed by fire on February 2;). last.\nClara Ohrlstetisen. a ten-year-old girl\nmet with death iu tbe flames.\nE. Ormsby, at onetime bartender at\nthe Victoria hotel, has left for the Klondyke. He leaves behind him many\nsorrying creditors in Silverton.\nJ. C. Harris was in Silverton Thursday, nu'itating the signing oi the petition\nasking for appropriation for the Silver-\nton-Ncw Denver sleigh road.\nThe citizens of Four-Mile creek cordially invite tbe citizens of Carpenter\ncreek and tho other Slocan creeks to\nattend their celebration of the next\nOmen's Birthday.\nAlf. Wilds and Ed White were in the\ncity on Tuesday. They left for the head\nof the lake on Wednesday, Baying made\nthat place their headquarters for the\nfuture in place of Six-Mile.\nLonii Larson came down from the\nComstock mine on Monday, and left\ntown for a trip Fact. He expects to go\non a prospecting tour through tbe Mt.\nBaker country this summer.\nA portable sawmill will be taken up\nthe creek as soon as possible for the\nComstock mine. Lumber will bo prepared for their proposed concentrator as\nsoon as tbe mill is placed in position.\nA special funeral service for tlie late\nWin. .1. Lade will be held by tbe Rev,\nMr. Powell in the Union Church here\nnext Sunday at ,'l P.M. All the friends\nand comrades of the deceased are requested'to attend this service.\nTbe Mollio Hughes claim recently\npurchased bv New Denver parties for\n\u00C2\u00BB4,000, haa been bonded for sf40,00d.\nOnly a small amount of work bad to he\ndone to show up the value ot the property, The property i-- situated near the\nlike shore, ubout a mile north of \"New\nlK-nver.\nFred Smyth, late of tbe Slocan City\nNews, has pine to Spokane. The un-\npassable state of the road toMoyieCity\nprevented him reaching that place and\nlie and D. K. Venn- were forced to\nabandon the publication ot the Moyie\nCity Pioneer for some time.\nA shortago of cars on the C. P. It. [and\nthe blocked condition of ihe K. & S, road\nhave, virtually suspended shipping, for\ntlio time being, from Sandon. The\nRuth, Payne, Keen, Qoodenough and\nother mines have had to reduce their\nworking force as a consequence, but a\nfew days morn will see them resuming\nwork at full blast.\nThe new Postolllco building was\nopened to the public on Thursday, The\nresidentshaVS reasons to be proud of\nour new postofiQue, and thankful to Me-\nKitiiion \u00C2\u00ABCo., for providing it for us.\nLock boxes can be had for if I per quarter,\nami everyone should have one at that\nvery reasonable figure.\nThe muchly wished for change in the\nmail route from the south over the Nel-\nson-Slocan railroad, has been made,\nWe mustjbe tliankful,althoughJa.great dv-\nlay has been experienced In securing this\nchange A saving of over 24 hours is\nthis made in the time made by a letter\nfrom Nelson to Silverton,\nSidney Gillis visited cilverton on\nMonday last. Mr. Uillis is employed ut\nthe Wakefield mine, and had not been\ndown from that property sineii July\nl.ili, loitt, He wus surprised at the\ngrowth of Silverton since be was last\nhere. Mr, Gillis has been alone ut the\nmine since il shut down last, fall but. bis\nsolitary confinement did not appear to\nhave afiected his geniality.\nAs the bare spots creep through the\nsnow tho sporting ordor of the boys increases. Tom Clair, the genial proprietor of the Thistle, has announced his intention of meoting all comers in a quoit\nccntest, and Jim Bowes is suppling up\nhis good right arm, preparatory to putting the shot.\nJ. Robinson, who left here a couple of\nweeks ago for Seattle, with the intention of going to Skagwav, surprised his\nfriends on Tuesday night by returning\nto tbe city. He reports that large numbers are returning on every steamer\nfrom the north discouraged with the\noutlook lor getting through this wiuter.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Nelson Miner,\nWe regret very much to hear that\nPitta Bros, have decided to quit business, both in Silverton and Three Forks.\nThis \" ill consequently remove their popular Manager, ,1 I. Mcintosh, from\namongst us. Mr. Mcintosh is ono of\nthe pioneers of Silverton. and will be\ngreatly missed, should tie decide to leave\nBilverton. It U hoped that Jimmy may\nsecure a situatiou in Silverton.\nRalph Glllits brought In a fine specimen c( ore from his claim, the Hamilton, near the B.itchelor, Twelve-Mile,\non Monday, <>n the Batchelor group\ntwo ledges can ho traced, cross-cutting\neach other, and assays from each of\nthese !\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.!. 8 i how 7110 ounces silver and\nfrom 180 to M0 gold J. Courtland,\nrepresenting a strong English company,\nis looking over thu property for his company.\nAt a meeting nf the shareholders of\ntho Consolidated Alberui Co., held in\nVictoria on Monday the action of the\ndirectors in arrancing the sale of th\u00C2\u00AB\nminiig property of the company to the\nBritish Columbia & New Gold Fields\nCorporation, Ltd, was confirmed. Four-\nfifths of the BtocS waa represented at\nthe kneeling The purchase price us\nstated when the deal was made, is floO,-\n000, tbe last payment to be made liefore\nAprJl-8.\nIt was stated'in the Vancouver World\nof January 13th that toe sale of tbe\nWhitewater mine, in the Slocan district\nbad been officially denied. When wo\nsaw this statement, says the British\nColombia Review (I/mdon), which also\nreached us from another source, we at\nonce sent a representative to call on tbe\nsecretary of the l,oniii^le and Louis Page, a team of\nminers from Sonora. In 15 minutes\nwith two hammers on s drill they broko\nthe) world's record al 42 (aches, and\npenetrated to a depth ol 43 il-itt melius\nin solid granite.\na Letter prom her cousin.\nA young lady oi Deep Creek, received\nthe following affectionate letter from ber\ncousin, living in l'alotise county:\nDzAJN Kfz.\u00E2\u0080\u0094We is all well, ami\nmother's cot the his Terrix. Cruthen\nTom is got the Unpin Koff and Nistor\nAny has got a babee* and 1 hope these\nfew lines will find you the same, ltite\nsure. Yutiro uphoctioxntu Knifes,\nOtubi.in.\n:\u00E2\u0080\u00A2: :\u00E2\u0080\u00A2: :\u00E2\u0096\u00A0: Headquarters for.Mining art CoBmcraal Men.\nCONVENIENTLY LOCATED TO WHARF AND DEPOT.\nDomestic and Imported Wines, Liqnors and Cigars at tlie Bar.\nTHE CULINARY DEPARTMENT IS FIRST CLASS\nSILVERTON,\nR. 0\nHotel Victoria.\nJames Bo^xres .Prop\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2FINT.fiT APPOINTED HOTEL IN THE KOOTENAYS. EVERYTHING\nNEW, NEAT, AND CLEAN. CONVENIENTLY LOCATED TO\nBTEAMBOAT LANDING. FIRST-CLASS IN\nEVERY RESPECT.\nSI1VVERTON.\nB. C.\nLAKEYIEW HOTEL\nBONDED FOR 185,000.\nQreehwood. r>. C, Feb. 27.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The\nBrooklyn, one. of the earliest locations\nI In Greenwood oamp, has been bonded\n! by William McKensle, the well known\nrailroad Contractor of Toronto; hia son,\nB J, McKensle, and James E, Boss, oi\nSpokane, under a working bond of\n||25,0Q0, on which they have mudo u\ncash payment of 10 percent.\nSilverton\n{grrillS HOTEL IS NEW AND NEATLY FURNISHED,\nTHE BAB IS SUPPLIED WITH BEST BRANDS OF\nWINES, LIQUORS AND OICARS.\nSC_i. _L\u00C2\u00A3. SlELOTxrles. .Prop.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB\nSILVERTON\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*-***:*-\u00C2\u00BB_DRXJG STOKEe\n COD LIVER OIL EMULSIONS\t\nQUIIVCI^ OOUGH CURE\nperfumes we best. - - - orlgsand stationery.\nTrail blazer cigars.\nEL O. 3^at-b-eso:cL, prop- ARTILLERY IS BEING MOUNTED.\nA Hnndred TeleKrni\u00C2\u00BBblc Dlapntches\nSent Within Tweni-r-Four Honrs-\nOfflclals Claim W \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00AB-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'' rNilto-r-\nitm Out a Prevlon\" Plan.\nNew York, Feb. 22.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Nearly 100 telc-\ngraph'ie dispatches were sent from Governor's islond, the army headquarters, to\nvarious points of fortification along the\nseaboard from Kaslport, Me., to Calves-\ntun, Tex., says the World. All of these fortifications in which guns aud mortars\nhave been mounted are under the control\nof General Merritt, commander of the department of the eant.\nGeneral Merritt spent very little of the\nday at the island, his staff attending to\nthe usual amount of telegraphic, correspondence. During his absence, Colonel\nlimber, adjutant general of the department of the east, was in charge. The colonel refused to discuss the reasons of the\nactivity along the seaboard, except to say\nthat everything now being done was merely the execution of a coast defense program outlined several months ago.\nH was learned from other sources that\norders had been received on the island on\nFriday night to send from Fort Wads-\nworth to Sandy Hook 20 men to clean the\nbig guns in the fortifications there and to\ntransfer considerable quantities of ammunition. The same orders broughnnstruc-\ntions to send 40 men from Fort Schuyler\nto Willet's Point to clean the guns there\nand to overhaul the ammunition. Fort\nHancock, at Sandy Hook, is also still in\nthe hands of the army engineers and ordnance bureau.\nThe engineers are constructing the ap-\nplneements for the guns and mortars yet\nto come, and when they complete the work\nthe ordnance bureau will have to set the\nguns and carriages and test them before\nIhe fort can be regularly transferred to\nGeneral Merritt'g command. This work\nwill not be finished until late in the spring\nand tlie quarters for the artillery will not\nbe finished under the present program until October. Not. until then will Fort Hancock be an official reality.\nTwo days ago .the artillery expert stationed at Governor's Island, the man recognized by army men as the most skillful\nartilleryman in the country, returned from\na tour of inspection of the fortifications\nfrom Boston to Charleston. The last place\nhe visited was 'F\"ort Caswell, near Cape\nHatteras. On his way back to Governor's\nIsland he stopped at Washington and conferred with Secretary of War Alger. At\nFort Caswell he found three high-calibre\nguns in splendid shape which he did not\nknow had been set up. He visited tlie Bos-\nten forts, tbe fortifications at Dutch and\nGull Isla-ds, at the entrance to Long\nIsland Sound, Forts Hamilton, Wads-\nworth, Hancock and Slocum, the fortifications nn the Delaware Hay coast, and at\nother places down the coast.\nReferring to General Miles' recent order\nto General Merritt, commanding the de-\npertinent of the east, to immediately detail men and officers to all const defense\npoints where modern guns are mounted, it\nwas said at the war department today\nthat, while tlie order wns issued as re*>ort-\ned, it was nothing more than following\nout the plan of the war department, formulated several years ago, when the present system of coast defense was inaugurated. Tho order calls for at least 20 men\nand the neccssnry officers to take charge\nof each of such defense emplacements as\nhave lioen completed and turned over to\nthe war department.\nSULTAN OF SOKOTO PROTESTS.\nLAWLESSNESS AT SKAGUAY.\ni Governor Brady Urges Immediate\nAction by the Government.\nWashington, Feb. 21\u00E2\u0080\u0094 The following letter received by Secretary Bliss from Governor Brady of Alaska, has been discussed\nat a cabinet meeting:\n\"Tlie neWB from Skaguay by the steamboat now in port is serious. The United\nStates deputy marshal has been shot\ndead in the discharge of his duty. Another man was killed at the suinc time\nand at the same place. Recently the\nsteamers have been carrying great lists\nof passengers. Many of these are gamblers, thugs and lewd women from the\nworst quarters of the cities of the coast.\nThey have taken in the situation at\nSkaguay nnd Dyea and appear to have\ncombined to carry things with a high\nhand. The best people at these place*\nnicipal form of government. The United\nStates marshal is powerless because he\ncan appoint only a few deputies and when\nthey undertake to act they are signaled\nout as targets by this ruffian element.\nOne of this class was tried in the United\nStates district court last December for\nthe killing of United States Deputy Marshal Wattin in January, 1897, and was acquitted by the jury in the face of positive\ntestimony. In fact these influences seem\nto be joined hand in hand and will surely\ngo unpunished until the government takes\naction\" and provides the necessary force\nat Skaguay, Dyea and other points.\n\"Congress should grant immediate relief so that both naval and military officers can act when required by the civil\nauthorities. The United States marsha,\nshould ha\e a patrol vessel at his command with necessary accommodations for\ndeputies and a proper attendant. I do\nnot see how he can perform his duty as\nexecutive officer of the court until he has\nbucIi means of locomotion entirely at his\nown command.\n\"At the present time a large and important mining property is held by a\nnumber of miners at Bcrner's Bay. This\nproperty wm recently placed in the hands\nof a receiver by tlie court but the receiver\nhas not come into possession up to this\ntime. In this instance there is much to\nbe said of the miners' action and their\nself-control, but it, is of such a nature\nthat violence may be the result. The\nmarshal has no means of reaching that\npoint with a sufficient force to carry out\nthe instructions of the court. Judge\nJohnson leaves by this boat to settle this\naffair amicably if possible.\n\"Two weeks ago or a little more a gang\nif men commanded Captain Patterson of\nthe steamship Al-Ki to discharge the\nnatives who were handling freight on the\nwharf. They attacked the natives and\nbeat them cruelly in the face of the deputy marshal. The captain was obliged to\ncompromise with them by paying them\n50 cents per hour for work on the wharf,\nbut he insisted that the natives should\nwork on the vessel.\n\"I am sorry to report thnt the court\nhouse at Juneau has been burned to the\nground.\n\"So far the winter has been remarkable\nfor mildness and this tends to bring the\ncrowds sooner than they were expected.\"\nThe letter was dated February 3.\nMOB AFTER THE MURDERERS.\nNed Aiken nnd Son Flee From Ven-\nKennc* In Arkanana.\nMAINE EXPLOSION INQUIRY.\nTlie United Stoles Anthorltlea Will\nMake tbe Initial Inveatia-atlou-\nHeqnest Reapectfnlly Deellned-\n< upturn Slaabee Will Direct the\nOperatlona.\nRATES ARE CUT IN TWO.\nt n.-udlnii Pacific Bxplodea * Bomb\nA in on ii Amevlcan Roada.\nTroop* Advancing In tbe Territory\nClaimed by England.\nAkassa, Niger Coast Protectorate, West\nCoast of Africa, Feb. 21.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Intelligence haf\narrived here that two French expeditions\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0are advancing toward Sokoto, capital of\nthe sultanate of Sokoto river, in the extreme north of the Hareau states, and\nthat six French officers with a force of\n200 men have arrived at Argungu (Ar-\ngunhi) and Tagga. The former town is\nan important place on the Sokoto river,\nabout half way from the sultan's capital\nand the River Niger, and ia within the\nRritiah sphere.\nThe sultan of Sokoto has commanded\nthe French force to halt about 40 miles\nfrom the capital.\nThe Royal Niger Company's representative deputy agent, William Wallace, is\nholding the company's force with ammunition and stores in readiness and is\nawaiting instructions to assist the sultan\nof Sokoto and to secure French evacuation of British territory.\nMEN RETURN FROM DAWSON.\nBring Hews of a fatal Accident nnd\ntbe Finding of n Big Nngget.\nVictoria, B. C, Feb. 20.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The steamer\nCity of Seattle reached here yesterday,\nbringing five men from Dawson, Carey\nWarren of San Francisco, Jack Melntyrc\nof Fort Steele, H. Peterson of Victoria.\nJack Hanley of Snn Francisco and another. They report that a $450 nugget\nwas found on Peterson's claim nl Skook\num gulch and that Mrs. Jesaop was aeei\ndentally shot and killed in Dawson, her\nhushanti having dropped a revolver which\nwent off.\nAmong the passengers on the ill-fated\nsteamer Clara Nevada were Al Noycs and\nK. C. Bonicke, both of Juneau. There is\na report in the north that a party with\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6165,000 in dust waa on board.\nLittle Rock, Ark., Feb. 22.\u00E2\u0080\u0094E. G. Massey, a prominent citizen and constable of\nFranklin township. Little River County,\nwos murdered six miles from Ashdown\nlast night by Ned Aiken and his son and\ntwo negroes, whom he was trying to arrest. Massey was shot from ambush, his\nlungs being torn from his body by bullets.\nMassey had previously arrested Charley\nJohnson, Aiken's son-in-law, for carrying\na pistol, and Johnson had escaped. About\nmidnight Constable Massey aud Richard\nDickens, a deputy, sorted to Aiken's\nhouse to arrest Johnson. When near the\nhouse the officers were fired upon from\nambush and Massey HI from his horse,\nhis body riddled with buckshot and Winchester balls. The negroes rushed from\ncover and opened fire upon Dickens, but\nlie put spurs to his horse and escaped. Excitement runs high and lynching is probable if Aiken and Johnson are captured.\nMURDEROUS SAILOR ABOARD.\nAmerican Ship M. P. Grace \"tearl?\ni.oai Captain and Wife.\nSan Francisco, Feb. 22.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The American\nship M. P. Grace arrived today from New\nYork with her police signal flying in the\nrigging. C. A. Hansen, one of the crew,\nwas in confinement for attempt ing. the\nlives of the captain and his wife. Hansen\nhad been confined in a sailor's locker for\n128 days. According to the story of Captain De Winter, the sailor had manifested\na spirit of insubordination early in the\nvoyage and the captain was obliged to\ndiscipline him. Hansen swore vengeance,\nand one night crept into the cabin where\nthe captain nnd his wife were sitting, Tlie\nsailor was armed with a pistol, and announced his intention of killing De Win\nter and his wife. The captain grappled\nwith him nnd disarmed him. Help was\nsummoned and Hansen was placet! in confinement.\nWashington, Feb. 20.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Secretary Long\nand Assistant Secretary Day of the state\ndepartment, had an interview with the\npresident yesterday lasting nearly an\nhour. Mr. Day read a cablegram from\nConsul General Lee at Havana transmitting a request from the Spanish outhori-\nties in Cuba that Spanish officials be per\nmitted to join with our people in making\nan investigation into the cause of the disaster to the Maine.\nThe matter was discussed at considerable length and the conclusion reached,\nand Lee will be so notified, that while this\ngovernment is willing to afford the Spanish authorities all reasonable facilities for\nconducting the investigation, yet it is\nthought best that the first inquiry shall\nbe made by our own commissioners. The\nrequest of the Spanish authorities, therefore, will be respectfully declined.\nThe apparent difficulty of sending down\ndivers to the Maine was relieved, if not\nentirely removed, by the statement by\nSenor Dubosc of the Spanish legation,\nthat a complete nnd harmonious understanding between Captain Sigsbee and the\nauthorities at Havana had been reached\non the matter of divers, and that the\nSpanish authorities viewed the Maine as\npart of tho sovereign territory of the\nUnited States the same as the United\nStates legation situated in foreign territory.\nThe waters of Havana harbor are, of\ncourse, Spanish territory and some confusion has been aroused by the idea that\nthis jurisdiction over the waters attached\nalso to the wreck in its present helpless\ncondition at the bottom of the bay.\nCaptain Sigsbee will be recognized as\nthe one to direct the operations and to\nsend down the government divers for\nsuch inspection as he sees jiroper to make.\nSenor Dubosc feels assured, however,\nthat Sigsbee will extend equal facilities\nto the Spanish divers so that the inspections may proceed together.\nExpert Opinion.\nWashington, Feb. 20.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The opinion of\none of the leading experts in the use of\nhigh explosives, Professor Agler of the\n>rdnance bureau, was today asked as to\nthe cause of the explosion of the Maine.\n\"As to the question of the cause of the\nMaine's explosion, we know that no torpedo such as is known to modern warfare can of itself cause an explosion of\nthe character of that on hoard the Maine.\nWe know of no instances where the explosion of a torpedo mine under a ship's\nbottom has exploded the magazine within. It has simply torn a great hole in\nthe ship's bottom, through which water\nentered and from which the ship iinnk.\nMagazine explosions, on the contrary, produce effects exactly similar to the effects\nof the explosion on board the Maine. In\nseeking the cause of the explosion of the\nMaine magazine, we should naturally look\nnot for improbable or unusual causes, but\nthose against which we have hail to guard\nin the past. The most common of these\nis through fire in the bunkers. Many of\nour ships have been in danger at various\ntimes from this cause, and not long ago\na fire in the Cincinnati's bunkers actually set fire to fittings, wooden boxes,\netc.. within the magazine, and had it not\nbeen discovered at the time it was, it\nwould doubtless have resulted in a catastrophe on board that ship similar to the\none on the Maine. I shall again emphasize the fact that no torpedo exploded\nwithout a ship has ever produced or according to our knowledge cun produce\nan explosion of n magazine within.\"\nFatality- In the Dlaaater.\nWashington, Feb. 20.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The navy department has compiled the following summary showing the total results of the\nMaine disaster from available official information up to tonight: Total num-\nber of officers and men on board the\nMaine, 35.*); total number of officers, 20;\ntotal number of men, 329; total number of\nofficers saved, 24; total number of officers\nlost, 2; total number men lost, 246; total\nnumber officers injured, none; total num-\nber men injured, 57; total number men\nsnvetl, 7(1: doubtful (men). 7.\nThe seven men appealing as doubtful\nprobably represent that number or less\nwhoso lives have been saved, but who can\nnot be identified at present on account of\nerrors in trun mis-ion of telegrams. The\n57 appearing as injured arc included in\nthe 70 appearing as snvetl. Two men reported ns having died in the hospital are\nincluded in the total of 240 appearing\nabove as having been lost.\nChicago, Feb. 10.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tlie Canadian Puciflc\nroad yesterday exploded a bomb among\nits American competitors by announcing\na wholesale reduction of rates. These\ncuts affect business in two directions. In\nthe first place the rates from all New\nEngland points to Minneapolis and St.\nPaul are slaughtered, and again New\nEngland points and points in the state of\nNew York have had a blanket rate applied so far as all business to the north\nPacific coast points is concerned. These\ntranscontinental rates have been cut almost in two. The present rates from the\nAtlantic seaboard ti> th north Pacific\ncoast are $79.35 first class and $07.40 second clas't. Today the Canndian Pacific\nwill make these rates from all points in\nNew England, $40 for first class and $30\nfor second class. Rates to St. Paul will\nbe cut from $29.50 first class and $28.50\nsecond class to $20 first class nnd $19 second class.\nNorthern Pnclflc Meeta It.\nTacoma, Feb. 19.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Northern Pacific\nrailroad announces a big cut in passenger\nrates to become effective today, Saturday,\nFebruary 19. The rate from Tacoma to\nSt. Paul, Duluth and points in Minnesota, North Dakota and Manitoba will be\ncut in two. Heretofore the rates to the\nabove points have been $50 first class and\n$40 second elnss, Tlie rates from Tacoma\nto Chicago will be $31.50 first class and\n$26.50 second class. To points iiffOntario\nand Quebec as far cast as Montreal and\nsouth of the line of the Grand Trunk railway. Port Huron to Montreal, $40 first\nclass and $30 second class. The same\nrates will prevail from the east to Tacoma, The Canadian Pacific announces\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6 hat it will meet these rates one day Inter\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sunday, February 20. The Great Northern hns also met the cut, '\nMINES OF THE NORTHWEST.\nMineral t'lulin In the Knmloopa IMs-\ntrlct AtTorda nn Interesting Study\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Development Work In Park\nCounty- Montann-A Strike by\nTwo Travelers In Iduiio.\nDUNS REPORT IS OPTIMISTIC.\nThe Erin mineml claim, situate on the\nnorth side of the Iron Mask anil Copper\nQueen mineral claims, about five miles\nsouthwest of Kamloops, B. C and owned\nby Messrs.. Heat tie, Buxton and Blair, and\noil which development work has been going on for some months past, is said to be\nproving itself one of the best properties in\nthe camp. Gn New Year's eve an immense\nbody of ore was struck in a crosscut made\nfrom the shaft ut a depth of 40 feet. The\nvein of solid ore is about seven feet wide\nand gives an assay from $19 in gold to 30\nper cent copper, as well as a proportion of\nsilver. Other assays made run in value\nfrom $26 to $62 per ton. At Coal Hill the\nPothook 7x12 shaft is being energetically\nsunk by a force of six men, making an average id about oue foot each day of 10\nhours. The shaft has reached o depth of\n40 feet, all in much shattered and decomposed rock, with the fissures tilled and sep-\noiutrtl by thin plates of native copper,\nand, as yet, impregnated but spnrsely with\nrich copper glance. One corner, the southwest, is a sight worth seeing, being plastered with bright native metal. Altogether this claim is a most interesting study.\nJust how the native metal came to be deposited in such profusion throughout this\ngreat mass is a conundrum not yet solved,\n['here is not much, if any, doubt, that it\nthese placers. He is well backed by a syn..\ndieate of Connecticut capitalists.\nSpokane Men In Lurk.\nA rich strike is reported to have been,\nmade In the Cumberland mine on \\n\nEagle mountain at Silver City, Idaho. The\nmine, which is being worked by Sonne-\nman apd Hianscoml-e of Spokane, 1ms h\u00E2\u0080\u009Ej\nan ore body running about $100 in gom.\nThe new strike is in the 200-foot level ami\nis a 12-inch streuk of ore that eni-riis,\n$1200 in gold and $400 iu silver. The d,..\nvelopnionts in the mine indicate that it\nmay be as rich as the mine which mad*\nWar Eagle mountain famous in the early\ndays.'\nControl the Stent Winder.\nA mining man from FairView ramp, p.\nC, brings the news that Mackenzie _\nMann, the well-known railroad contractor., have recently acquired a seven-eighth,\ninterest in the Stemwinder mine, in that\ncamp, paying for the same $100,000.\nTAMPIC0 WHARF DESTROYED.\nHeavy Loss of Property Owned hy\nthe Oovernment of Mexico.\nSt. lxniis, Feb. 22.--A special to tha\nGlobe-Democrat from Monterey, Mexico,\nsays: The new wharf at Tampico, constructed by the Central railroad under guv.\neminent supervision, was totally destroy.\ned by fire Sunday. The fire started in a\nbox car on the cast end of the wharf and\nquickly spread to the sheds. The causa\nof the fire is unknown. The Ward line\nsteamer Vumuri was alongside the wharf\nand turned the first stream on the fire, but\nwithout avail, and to escape the flaincH\nshe had to steam up the river, A. C,\nItobinson, the enginer in charge, while\nfighting the flames, was injured by falling\ntimbers and will probably die. The const ruction of tlie wharf was commenced\nis a product of alteration, and it is not in duly. 1890, and it was to tie one of the\nlikely to prove a normal constituent of i finest on the Spanish coast. Its length was\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 . .. \u00C2\u00BB-,\u00C2\u00BB- ,l. .\u00C2\u00BB5-c e\u00E2\u0080\u0094, i ..ii :.. !_\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-_.! -IT... _,.-! \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMaterial\nAdvances In Staples\u00E2\u0080\u0094The\nRlae In Wheat.\nNew York, Feb. 22.\u00E2\u0080\u0094R. G. Dun _\nCompany's Review of Trade says:\nThe dreadful disaster to the Maine,\nmuch as it has affected all hearts, has\nnot much affected business. Only in the\nstock market, where there wns selling\nWednesday by speculators on thin margins, but in no other speculative market\nwas an effect felt, nor in genera! business.\nAn advance of 10 per cent by sortie\npogebic mines is expected to be general\nthroughout the lake region, excepting the\nMessaba district, and prices of ore from\nthe other ranges have been advanced 15\nper cent with an allotment of 6,000,000\ntons outside Carnegie's mines, which betokens an output much larger than ever\nknown.\nWheat has risen 35 points and exports\ncontinue so heavy that a material advance\nthe dyke, even if, as seems probable, the\nfissure be found to be on a dyke. It apparently comes from the leaching of the\ngray ore or glance. The rock itself is\neither serpentine or a mixture of that rock\nwith clotite, and this alternates with a\nconglomerate of many parts. About $4 in\ngold adds to the value and the plates of\nnative copper are gradually becoming\nthicker as the work of sinking progresses.\nStruck It Hlch.\nMichael Guertin and his son. Alcidc,\nwho left Fort Saskatchewan in May last,\nwith a man named Irish, to truvel to Idaho by team, are said to have struck it rich\nin that state thinugh an accidental discovery of a rich quartz claim. The story\nnails like fiction. The party was traveling over a high range of mountain* near\nBoise City, when one of their horses lie-\nciiiiie exhausted and they were coiii|-elletl\nto camp for the night on the mountain top.\nIn the morning Irish wandered a little\ndistance from the camp and chanced to\npick up stinie fragments of peculiar looking roek. which he showed to his compan\n2575 feet and all is burned. The custom\nhouse, nnder construction and nearly completed, was damaged to the extent of\nabout $800,000. The total loss on wharf,\ncustom house antl merchandise is nearly\n$2,000,000. ful'y insured.\nALL IS FEARFUL CALM.\nWo Action 1 mil tbe Maine Disaster\nHaa Been Investigated.\nis natural. Atlantic exports in three i \u00E2\u0096\u00A0<>\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 They examined it, and, actuated\nweeks have been 8,410,816 bushels (flour principally by curiosity, took a bag and\nWashington, Feb. 18.\u00E2\u0080\u0094At an early hour\nthis moining President McKinley decided\n| to ninke the following statement regard-\nI ing the Maine, which was given out by hi\u00C2\u00AB\n! secretary:\n\"Based on information now in his pn\u00C2\u00AB-\n-. --i-.ii. the president now believes that\n, the Maine was blown up as the result of\nI an accident\nj \"If it is found thnt the disaster waa not\n| nn accident, prompt and decisive ste-w\n1 will lie taken in the premises. The finding\n; of the naval court will develop the cause,\nand until that is submitted nothing will\nbe done.\"\nincluded, against 5,661,1171 last year, and\nPacific exports have been 2,470.652 bushels, against 1,474,782 bushels last year.\nSuch shipments, with heavy engagements\nfor the future, in spite of 11,500,831 bushels of corn exported, agninst 2,507,200\nbushels in the same week last year, are\nconclusive proof of the urgency of foreign needs. The bottom fact is that the\nworld needs wheat, which this country can\nonly supply for about six months to come.\nCHINA OPENS UP TO TRADE.\nImportant Concesalona Prontiaed tbe\nnrltlah Minister at Pekln.\nLondon, Feb. 22.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 The Pekin correspondent of the Times says:\nChina has agreed to open all of her inland waters to navigation, whether foreign or native owned, under regulations to\nbe framed subsequently. If not restricted\nby these regulations, the agreement,\nwhich is to come irto operation within\nfour months, is satista. tin , ,..: ! promises\na wide expansion of foreign trade.\nChina has also undertaken to open one\ntreaty port in the province of Ilunana\nwithin two years, and proposes Yo Chan.\nnear the Yang Tea Kinng, near the lsirder\nof the province. The Tsung Li Yemen'*\nreason for the delay is thnt the central\nauthority is at present jx-werless\nto enforce the immediate opening of\nany port in the province of Hunan, or to\nprotect foreigner! there. China has given\nGreat I'lihiin satisfactory assurance* that\nshe will not alienate to any other power\nany portion of the Yang Tse Kinng valley.\nThe Times, commenting editorially on\nthe foregoing dispatch, says: \"We heartily congratulate the British minister nt\nPekin upon these important concessions.\"\npartly 01lpd it with the broken rocks. On\nreaching BoUa City they had the rock assayed, and the nssnyer pronounced it gold\nquart/, worth $85 to the ton. On the news\nbecoming known throughout the town,\ngreat excitement was nrotiscd and Irish\nwas offered $12,000 for his one-third share,\nwhich he accepted antl departed for Portland. The claim whs duly surveyed and\nstaked and netive operation-, will eom-\ninenee when the snow goes. The Messrs.\n(iuertin and their new partner, turned\nCarson, have lieen offered $30,000 for the\nchiim, but refused the offer.\nWell Kqnlpped I'nrl,.\nSixty-seven men, comprising thr- Alaskan-Klondike Co-operative K.vpedition,\nhave arrived at Tacoma over the Northern\nPacific. Tho party comes mainly from\nNew York and Philadelphia antl will leave\nTacoma for Alaska with one of the most\ncomplete outfits ever taken into that\ncountry. They will tarry a complete complement of the most approved machinery, two sfcnni launches, a sawmill, und\nan assaying and refining plant. Fifty\nhorses have been purchased in Tneonia for\ndraft pur|>oses. Three mechanical engineers, two mining engineers, one nssnver\nand refiner, two chemists, two pliysieinns\nand one dentist nre Included in the party.\nOverloaded Steamships.\nPort I on nsend. -\u00C2\u00BBb. 22.\u00E2\u0080\u0094As a con*-\nquence of the unfavorable criticism that\nhas followed the sinking of the steamt-r\nClara Nevada and the trouble that attended the departure of the steamer North\nPacific for the north, carrying gold seekers, (ol. nel Hemtis. collector of custom',\nhas determined to compel vessels hound\nfor Alaska to carry only the number of\npassengers allowed by the federal permit.\nALL AROUND MARKET REPORT.\nWheat Oaotatloaa, Wool Flcarea\naad the Price of Produce.\nFollowing are the local quotations.\nWholesale prices are given unless otherwise quoted:\nWheat at the warehouse\u00E2\u0080\u0094Country\npoints: Club, bulk 60c, sacked 621c.\nbluestem, bulk 63c, sacked OSJcl At Spo\nkane: Club, bulk 01 '.<\u00E2\u0096\u00A0. sacked 04c: blue\nstem, bulk Mfo sacked 67c.\nOats\u00E2\u0080\u0094At Spokane f. o. b., $18018.25\nper ton.\nHarley\u00E2\u0080\u0094Country points, 00@fl5c per\ncwt.\nRye- Country poii'.ts, 70073c per cwt\nMoor\u00E2\u0080\u0094Per barrel, $3.75.\nFeed\u00E2\u0080\u0094Bran and shorts, $12 per ton:\nI hey Will carry an outfit sufficient to lust \ shorts, fit; bran, $11, rolled harley, $18;\nchicken feed, $18(o20.\nthe Klondike. Hay-Timothy, $12 per ton; wheat hay,\nJoseph Laduc, recently from the north j$10; alfalfa $13\nern gold Ileitis, says: The North Aincii- \ Produce-Country butter. .40 and 00-lb\nSHOT HER ERRING HUSBAND.\nBnt a\nUntie Jnrr Acquitted\nKami Hapttste.\nMrs.\nFnmltnre Hoase llarnr be consummated. The figures are placed at about\n$300,000. The falls are a natural waterfall and dam with a fall of 65 feet, making it one of the best powers in the world.\nCollector of the Port Jackson and United States Appraiser Dare have addressed\na letter to the secretary of the treasury'\nfor the purpose of soliciting his aid in\nchecking the flood of cheap Oriental goods\nthat are being shipped to this country,\nunder stamps which give them the appearance of having been manufactured in\nEuropean centers and which arc sold at\nprices which are driving the genuine articles out of the market.\nReceiver Wyman of the Globe Investment Company has rendered to the supreme court at Boston, Mass., a report in\nwhich he says the affairs of the concern\nwere, \"steeped in fraud.\" The.company\ndealt in farm mortgages, and the receiver\nfound $1,000,000 of liabilities with practically no assets to meet them. Arrests of\ntwo of its officers for embezzlement followed, with the result that they were convicted and are now in prison. Tlie receiver recovered $4000 worth of assets,\nbut half this Bum is yet in litigation.\nThe Russian cruiser TambntT has passed\nthrough the Bosphorous with 2000 soldiers\nantl 111 cannon, bound for Vladivostock.\nJudge Gary has denied the motion for\na new trial and formally sentenced\nChicago. Feb. 19.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Journal says:\n\"It is pretty well established in inside\ncircles about the board of trade that within the past 10 days there has been turned\ninto cash in two Chicago banks on Lasallc\nstreet about $11,000,000 for Joseph Letter's\naccount. This is confirmation of the sale\nof the whent. Within 48 hours ocean tonnage has been taken at. a low rate of\n4,000,000 bushels to the leading English\nports. Favored people wbo had the tip on\nthe heavy deposits with the banks were\ngetting all the wheat possible on soft spots\nyesterday.\"\nLetter Says He Is Buying.\nLeiter makes denial of the report that\nhe disposed of 5,000,000 bushels of his\nMay holdings of wheat during yesterday's excited trading. He was credited\nwith making a profit of $500,000. He\nsaid:\n\"I not only did not sell a bushel of\nwheat yesterday, but bought wheat. The\ncurrent prices are only the beginning of a\nrange from $1.25 to $1.50 per bushel.\nThat is what I propose to sell my wheat\nat.\"\nMr. Leiter added that he had engaged\nfreight room for 1,000,000 bushels of wheat\nsince February 1, and thnt he now controls\nroom for about 4,000,000 bushels. He\nmade the significant remark that most of\nthe 4,000,000 bushels had been sold to\nconsumers in Europe, principally to English millers. He has avoided, he says,\ndisposing of any wheat to speculators on\nthe other side of the Atlantic in order that\nthey might not become his competitors in\nthe near future.\nlie of Central America has ceased to exist,\nthe principal state, San Salvador, having\nwithdrawn from the union. This action\nwas precipitated by the step of Guiterre/.,\npresident of Salvador, who is at present\nassisting, indirectly, the revolution of Nicaragua, and who has declared officially\nthat the liberal party of Honduras is un\nworthy longer to hold power.\nFormal announcement has lieen made\nof the engagement of Miss Katharine\nDuer, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Duer of New York, to Mr. Clur- j\nanee Hungerford Mackay, only living son i\nof Mr. nnd Mrs. John W. Mackay. The\nannouncement was followed by many letters of congratulation.\nTh Saturday Review confirms the report\nthat the Chinese loan will, after all, be\nmade by Great Britain, and says: \"We\nare informed that the preliminary eon-\ntract has actually been signed. The delay in the fulfillment is caused by the\nChinaman's joy in dallying over a bargain.\"\nA Montreal dispatch states that Joseph\nA. Mercer, brother of tlie late premier,\nbacked by immense capital, has just concluded a deal with the government by\nwhich he has sole right to dredge 280\nmiles' of rivers in the heart of the Klondike district. Mercer says the men interested are mostly New Yorkers and thnt\nAmerican capital will control fully two-\nthirds of the undertaking.\nArtificially spotted tobacco raised in\nConnecticut is said to be on the market.\nUist year the exports of the United\nStates were 50 per cent larger than the\nexjiorts of France.\nThere hnve been four mysterious nssas-\nsinations in Houston, Texas, during the\npast two weeks.\nA French aeronaut is planning to go\nhunting for Andree with a team of balloons joined together.\n'A tribe of Indians with yellow hair and\nblue eyes has been discovered in the\nmountains of Sonora, Mexico.\nGeorge Duffy, an 8-year-old boy, has\nconfessed to setting fire to houses in Ho-\nboken, N. J., with malicious intent.\nA race war is threatened between the\nwhite settlers and a colony of negroes recently taken to Blnckwell, Okla.\nHawaiian annexation has the right of\nway in the United States senate, and a\ntest vote may be expected soon.\nFrom all parts of China come reports\nof attacks by natives on foreigners. The\nwhole country seems to be in a state of\nanarchy.\nThe Colorado state Imard of arbitration\nhns sustained the demands of the striking\nminers in the northern district of the\nstate.\nThere is a possibility that both branches of congress will adjourn aliout May 1.\nRich gold quart* has been discovered in\nthe Pembina mountains, in southern Manitoba.\nFlour is now lieing pressed into bricks\nfor use on the march and in camp. The\nBritish government is testing it for use\nin the army.\nThe lemon industry on the Pacific\nconst is growing very rapidly. Two\nthousand carloads will be shipped east\nduring the present season.\nThe body of Max Miller, which had\nbeen buried beneath a snowdrift in a\nstreet in Chicago for 20 days, was exposed\nby a recent thaw.\nThe British fishing schooner Spinaway.\nheavily coated with ice, was blown from\nthe const of \"Newfoundland across the Atlantic to the Azores.\nTwo representatives of the Japanese\ngovernment arc on their way to Mexico\niu the interest of a colossal colonization\nscheme near San Benito.\nTbe United States cruiser San Francisco ami the gunboats Bancroft and Helena\nhave arrived at Lisbon. Portugal, and nre\nprepared to reach any Spanish fleet in I A,len,a Foot.Ea~~-.der for the feet.\ncase of war. \ jt cures painful, swollen smarting feet aud\nAccording to a London dispatch the I instantly tukes the sting out of corns and\nSpanish legations iu London and elsewhere \ b\":*io\"L U's toe_Rrea.,e'?.. co,\"l!\u00C2\u00B0n discov-\n1 .\" , , ,, . , . ervoftheage. Aliens root-hase makes\nme suffering from long delay m their re- j tigbt-litting or new shoes feel easy. It is a\nuiittanccs. and diplomats have been forced certain cure for chilblains, sweatiiig, damn,\nto privately defray the expenses of their callous and hot, tired aching, feet. We\nThe Power\nof Schilling s Best baking\npuwder is wonderful.\nMa-\nThere are about 40,000 miners at work\nin the gold mines of eastern nnd southern\nSiberia.\nAlter being: swindled by all others, send tie\natantp for particulars of King Solomon's Treasure, the ONLY renewer ot manly strenirth.\nMASON CHEMICAL CO., P. O. Box 7\u00C2\u00AB, Philadelphia Pa.\nIn Greater New York the shillclah is\nmightier than the sword.\nAN OPEN L-TT-* TO MOTHERS.\nWe are asserting in the courts our right to tha\nexclusive use of the word \"OASTOKiA,\" und\n\"PI'i'CHEK'SCASTORIA,\" us our Trade Mark.\nI, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Kyannia, Massachusetts,\nwas the originator of \"PITCHER'S CAS 1'OR.IA,\"\nthe same that has borne and does now bear the\nfacsimile signature of CI IAS. Ii. ll.KTCUKR oil\nevery wrapper. This ia the original\" PITCHER'S\nCASTORIA \" which has been used iu the homes\nof the mothers of America for over thirty years.\nLook Carefully at the wrapper and see tliat it la\nthe kind you have always bought, and has the\nsignature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the\nwrapper. Mo one haa authority from me to use\nmy name except The Centaur Company uf which\nChaa. H. Fletcher la President.\nMarch 8, slo}. SAMUEL PITCHER, I\nSome men talk more religion in ten\nminutes than they practice in. ten years.\nFort Sli-rmmi Sown lo ;\nMove.\nCoeur d'Alene, Idaho, Feb. 10.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The j\ntroops nt Fort Sherman were startled yes-1\nterday by the receipt of an Older to put j\nt'ompanv II, Sixteenth infantry, com-1\n,n\u00C2\u00ABndcd\"by Captain Whitehall and U\u00C2\u00AB. _ ft c\ntenant Inv.n, in readiness for an early 1 \u00C2\u00ABimprisonment,\ndeparture for Fort Stevens there to tak \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ^ ^^\nstation. The company w.ll proba ily ,,nit ' J ^ ^ ^\nSherman within the next 48 hours. Spec-1 * statement of as-\nulation is rife ns , the whole meaning of \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB J * ^\nthis initial movement. Indications seem | \u00C2\u00AB^J\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00A3 \u00C2\u00ABJ>\u00C2\u00A3*J\nto point to the early transfer of he head- ^ ^ \u00C2\u00A3 inpfncipn(,v of\nquarters of the S,-^: eenth infantry to Ann-1 \u00E2\u0084\u00A2 ^.^ > ^ |n ^ ^,.\neouvcr Barracks, Wash, I _ n(nvspftpp,s \Te inlpna,wd \u00E2\u0080\u009E a ruse\n--\u00C2\u00BBttt*-_t ,1-DA-r -tr-ta-ftftVDVTi il\" (,m'ivo tnp Argentine government,\nWILLIAM OKA I Mil JHUMMMI. The supreme court of Nevada has hand-\nII xlrn.nl llox In i (,d down nn opinion reversing the decision\nMont> | uf the trinl court in the disc of August.\nEugene Moore and dismissed the ease\nSympathy From London.\nLondon. Feb. 17.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Times editorially\nex-presses profound sympathy with the\nUnited States. It says:\n\"It is to be hoped that the investigation\nwill prove the cause of the disaster nn\naccident, although the conditions which\nhnve led up to such an accident in such\ncircumstances are rather obscure.\"\nSucei. who recently completed his 64th\npublic fast in Rome, hns nbstained from\nfood in his performances for 2500 days of\nhis life\u00E2\u0080\u0094nearly seven years.\nCoal is high, but the workingmanV\nwages is still hire.\nCITO Permanently Cured. Nn flts or nervousness\nrile after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Ureal\nNerve Restorer. Send for FRK.K \u00E2\u0080\u00A2K.OO trial\nbolUe and treatise. DR. K. H. KLINE, Ltd., \u00C2\u00AB*>\nArch street, Philadelphia, Pa.\nSome of our girls do their sleighing in\nJanuary and their slaying in June.\nI never used so quick a cure as Plso s\nCure for Consumption.\u00E2\u0080\u0094J. B. Palme:.\nBox 1171, Seattle, Wash.. Nov. 25, 188S..\nI,ove makes time fly,\nquently makes love fly.\nand time, fre-\n\u00C2\u00A3 Established 1780.\nBaker's\nChocolate,\nCHINKS IS A MISS.\nWhatever may be the matter with China and other countries, it Is said that for\nthe reason that most of them have so\nlittle to feed upon and so very much\nhard work to do they suffer greatly with\nNeuralgic It Is doubtful if they could\nsuffer more than our people do, owing at\ntimes to the extremely damp, chilly atmosphere in winter, which seems to !iave\na peculiar Influence upon the nervous ~i >:-\ntcm so as to produce this affection, '>ut\nhappily for our comfort and the cure cf\nthe pain, St. Jacobs Oil is recognised as\nIts sovereign remedy. With pain pro-\ncelebrated for more 2\nthan a century as a \npackage, and our g\ntrade-mark,\"La.Belle tji\nChocolatiere,\"on the Q\nback. ^\nNONE OTHER GENUINE. cj\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2a\nMADE ONLY BY\n% WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd-\nV Dorchester, Mass\nJacobs Oil gives, and through this means |\nIt performs its office promptly and surely. '\nThe earl of Devon, at 80 years of age,\nstill preaches and attends to all his duties\nas prebendary canon of Exeter cathedral.\nSHARK INTO VUl'K SHOES\nllo\u00C2\u00ABl>- Secreted In \u00C2\u00AB\nl.lxluH'Mloll\nHelena. Mont., Feb. 21.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Three boys\nwhile playing near the stockyards yesterday in Livingston, discovered the body\nof William Amy, a well known mine owner, who disappeared from his home February 1. (Iray's head had been mashed in\nand the body secreted in n hydrant box.\nThe body hail been rohhetl. No arrests\nhave been made. Cray was a well known\nmilling mail, owning properties an Park\ncount v.\nOroide for Fusion.\nMinneapolis, Minn.. Feb. 18.- The populist convention here resulted in victory for\nthe fusion forces. The state convention\nwas set for June 15. The middle-of-the-\nroad faction, whic.li desired an April convention, found itself so much in the minority that it made no struggle. It will\nmnke an effort to control Ihe convention,\nhowever.\nMoore was convicted of embezzlement antl\nsentencetl to eight yenrs in the penitentiary, The supreme court declines that\nthe statute under which be was convicted\nwas unconstitutional,\nJudge Richardson has dismissed the case\nagainst, the directors of tbe Citizens' National bank of Spokane and discharged the\ndefendants, A. A. Ncwbery, K. II. Hyde\nand \V. J. Dwyer, from custody. Doubtless the snme nel ion will be taken on the\nother charge pending against the three\nabove named defendants, and also two\nagainst, the defendants K. D. Olmsted and\n1). F. Wetzel, the other two directors,\nagainst whom information has been filed.\nThe provisions of the stntutc and want of\nproof by the prosecution do not warrant\nholding the defendants.\nPositive Information is reported to have\nreached New Orleans from San Salvador,\nCentral America, lhat the (!renter Itepub-\nestablishnients.\nMrs. Lotiisi StOUtS, a wealthy widow\nof Portland, Intl.. was robbed and murdered in her house nt night. A postal\ncaitl written by one of the murderers and\naddressed to the city marshal gave the\ntirst intimation of the crime.\nAmong the electrical patents recently\ngranted is one for an electric lamp for bicycles, and a dynamo for generating the\ncurrent armature is geared to a friction\nwheel, which is revolved by the movement of the bicycle.\nThe radical wing of tlie autonomist party in Cuba has resolved to open negotiations with the insurgents in the belief\nthat the revolution can not be suppressed\nby force of nrms. A number of propositions will be submitted to the insurgents,\nwith a view of bringing about peace.\nThe recent cold weather in Arizona is\nunprecedented. The river in the Grand\nCanyon of the Colorado was full of Hooting ice, whereas the temperature in the\ncanyon is credited with partaking of the\nnature of perpetual summer, regardless of\nthe temperature on the plateau above.\nhave over 10,000 testimonials of cures. Try\nit today. Sold hy all druggists and shoe\nstores. Bv mail'for 25c. in stamps. Trial\npackage F'REE. Address Alien S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.\nThe New York subtreasury was opened\nin 18-4(1. Its business now amounts to\nnearly 1400,000,000 annually.\nA Wonderful Statement\nWo are the largest manufacturers in the\nslate nt\n...HARNESS...\nPrime California Oak Leather.\nImmense s'ock- of Saddlery,Uoods. If\nyour dealer does not keep onr make of\nHarness, send direei lor them.\nM. E. DAVIS,\n822 Spraguc Ay. Spokane, Wn.\nThe iiaiiie \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 M. K. Davis\" stamped on\nall Harness; on make is a guarantee\nOf excellence. l^\">k for It, Take no\nother. Catalogue upou application.\n|Yom Mrs. J. S. BfcGillas, or 113 Kllborn\nAvenue, Roo-Xord, 111.\nr-llli- Thieves In New Mealeo.\nAlbuquerque, N. M., Feb. 22.--Central\nand southern New Mexico are infested\nwith cattle and sheep thieves and trouble\nis anticipated on ranges east antl south of\nthis city, for the stockmen are organizing, antl intend to rid themselves of the\ndepredators. M. T. Mortality, a sheep\nraiser in the Chilili vicinity, where there\nnre over 200,000 sheep, says that the big\nHocks arc being greatly diminished and\nthnt the officers appear to be powerless\nto stop the lawlessness.\nAnother llon.l for Klondike.\nHelena, Mont., Keb. 18.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Henry Hrutno-\nlier, the mining expert who went to London recently to report to the Rothschilds\nupon their scheme to build n railroad\nfrom the const of Alaska at or near Skaguay to the gold fields nf the Northwest,\nterritory, says that the railroad will be\nbuilt if the company can secure a franchise from the Canadian government,\n\"I was dreadfully ill\u00E2\u0080\u0094the doctors\nsaid they could cure me, but failed\nto do so.\n\"Igaveup\nin despair\nand took to\nmy bed. I\nhad dreadful pains in\nmy heart,\nfainting\nspells,\nsparks before my\neyes, and\nsometimes\nI would\nget so blind\nI could not\nsee for several minutes. I could not\nstand very long without feeling sick\nand vomiting.\nI also had female weakness, Inflammation of ovuries, painful menstruation, displacement of the womb, itch-\ningof the external pnrts, and ulceration\nof the womb. I have bad ull these\ncomplaints.\n\"The pains I had to stand were something divndf ul. My husband told me\nto try a bottle of Lydia B, I'iukham's\nmedicine, which I did, and after taking it for u while, was cured.rt\nFOR 14 CENTS\nWe wish to gain 130,000 now cua\u00C2\u00BB\nt-iiui i-, Antl beuoeotter\n1 1'Utt. l:i Day Kaili-li, 10-\nPkii. Karly Bpnag Turnip, 10j\n1 \" K.irh.-r-t Rt-tl Beet, lC-o\n1 *' Iti-m-in-li Olicumbt-r, lOr\n1 \" Uueen Victoria Lettuce, 15c\n1 ** Klomiyke Melon, _ 15c\n1 M Jumbo Uinnt Onion, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 luo\nS \" linlliflut. Fluuur Seeds, Uc\nWorth $1.00, for 14 reiiU.\nAbove 10 ,ik cs. worth 91.00, we will\nmail you froe, together with our\n(real Plant nnd need Catalogue\nupon receipt of thin notice and 14c.\npost***'. We invite your trade and\nknow when you onoe try Balzer'a\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2eedttyou will never g*t alone without them. I'otaliXHnt $1.50\naBblaCatatoKalonete. XSo. 11\nBiUIR HEKO CO., Li CftOSSX, WIS.\nTho Now York ehambor of ooramproo\nwo* organised by 20 atercfiant-a In Ifaunea'i\ntavern on April ft, 1708.\nHfloat\nE_d\nPISO'S---CU-R.D'FOR_-n.\nMIRIS WHF.Ht ALL Elbe IftlLS..\nOoSgn Byrup. Tail\". Ouixl. Due\nIn time. Bold brnr-ianUrta.\nBUY THE GENUINE\nSYRUP OF FIGS\n... MANUFACTURED BY ...\nCALIFORNIA FIQ SYRUP CO.\nIir NOTE THE NAME.\t\nlLLUSTRATEtt\n.CATALOSS\n$ Buell\n\u00C2\u00BB Lamhferson\nieo raoifT si\nPortland. Oft\nYOUR LIVER\nIs it Wro_i{?\nGet It Right.\nEecp it Right.\nHaota'l B.-taaUd Kamvay will do It. Th...\ndoaat will aiki yarn (Ml totter. Sat It (tan\n-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2m drujrflat ot any -hnUiala drug houaa, \u00C2\u00AB\ntroB Stewart * HoftaM Oral Co, Soattlo.\nFAT\nFOLKS\nllSDt'CIW _tg_\n16 M \u00E2\u0080\u00A2:.;\npnuntta per mmitii.\nIIAltrtll.l'HX' no\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2inrvliiK! 2-yi-ura'\t\nIBMrtOMO. HOOK. FKEE. AUlM' \u00C2\u00BBflf\niMlil.lt, I' McVlcaer'n 1'hivit-o. I ln-nnn. '\".\n\. V.\nfor triirliiK ntitl locattHK Gold or Hllver\nOn*. li,Ht or burled IrMunM*. M. D.\nFtlWI.KK, H\u00C2\u00BBx 337.BolUlllimtiiu.UOtm.\nSo. II, '1*8.\nI\nI\n1 SILVERTON 8ILVEETOHIJUI.\nit. O. lttATHESON, Editor.\nSATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1808,\nHotel Selkirk:::\nBrandon S Barrett, Props.\nLARGE AND COMFORTABLE ROOMS. FITTED WITH ALL THE\nMODERN IMPROVEMENTS. TABLE UNSURPASSED\nIN THE NORTHWEST.\nPine View of the Lak\nUp to Hate Service.\nPHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS.\nCOURTEOUS TREATMEIST. CALL AND SEE US\nOpposite the SILVERTON WHARF.\nGROSS S CO\nfire Insurance and General Agents,\noaoaoaMIMNU BKOKEBB.oaoaoa\nJBflFSole. agent tor Silverton Townsite.\nSILVERTON, B. C.\nCERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS\nNOTICE\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"J. I. 0.\" Mineral claim,\nsituate in thn Slocan Mining Division\nol West' Kootenay District. Where\n.located:\u00E2\u0080\u0094North of Four-Mile creek,\nabout two.miles from Silverton, B. C.\nTake notice that I, Charles E. Hope,\nFree Miner's Certificate No. 97291, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to\napply to tlie Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of tlie\nabove claim. And further take notice\nthat action, under section 37, must be\ncommenced before the issuances of such\nCertificate of Improvements.\nDated' this 16th day of February, 189S.\nChah. E. flora.\nCERTIFICATE OF.I IMPROVEMENTS\".\nNOTICE\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Arena Fraction\" Mineral\n' Claim; siteate in (the) Slocan Mining\nDivision of West Kootenay District.\nWhere located:\u00E2\u0080\u0094North of Four-Mile\ncreek, about two miles from Silverton,\nB.C.\nTake notice that I. Charles F. Hope,\nFree Miner's Certificate No. 97291, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to\napply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown (Grant of the\n?.bove Claim. And further take notice\nhat action, nnder section 37, must be\ncommenced before the issuance of such\nCertificate oCImprovernepts.\nDated this 15th day of February, 1898.\nChah. E. Hops.\nCERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS\nNOTICE\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"W.II. R.\" Mineral Claim,\nsituate in tlie Slocan Mining Division\nof West Kootenay District Where\nlocated:\u00E2\u0080\u0094North of Four-Mile creek,\nabout two miles from Silverton, B. C.\nTake notice that I, Charles E. Hope,\nFree Miner's Certificate No. 97291. intend sixty days fro n the date hereof, to\napply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for I lie purpose\nof obtaining u Crown Grant ol the above\nclaim. And further take notice that\naction, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements.\nDated this 15th day of February, 1893.\nCiias. E. Hoi'B.\nCERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS\nNOTICE.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Mohawk\"mineral claim situate in the Slocan Mining Division ot\nWest Kootenny District. Vt here\nlocated: On Four-Mile creek, and\nabout two miles from Silverton, B. C.\nTako notice that I, Charles E. Hope, free\nminer's certificate No, 97291, intend\nsixty days from th\u00C2\u00AB date hereof to apply\nto the Mining Recorder for a certificate\nof improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown ('rant ol the above\nclaim. And fnrther t\u00C2\u00ABke notice that\naction under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such\nCertificate of Improvements.\nDated this 15th day of February, 1898.\nCiias K. Hon:.\nCERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENT S\nNOTICE\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Emily Edith\" Mineral\nClaim; situate in the Slocan Mining\nDivision of West Kootenay District.\nWhere (located;\u00E2\u0080\u0094North of Four-Mile\ncreek, about two miles from Silverton,\nB.C.\nTake notice that I, Charles E. Hope,\nFree Miner's Certificate No. 97291, intend, sixty days from the tlate hereof, to\napply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of tbe\nabove claim. And further take notice\nthat action, under section 37, must be\ncommenced before the issuance of such\nCertificate of Improvements, i\nDated this 15th Jay of February, 189.S.\nCiias. E. Hope.\nCERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS\nNOTICE\u00E2\u0080\u0094-'Jenny Jones\" Mineral\nClaim, situate in the Slocan Mining\nDivision of West Kootenny District.\nWhere located:\u00E2\u0080\u0094North of Four-Mile\ncreek, about two miies from Silverton,\nB.C.\nTake notice that I, Charles E. Hope,\nFree Miner's Certificate No. 97291, intend, sixty days from tbe date hereof, to\napply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate ot Improvements, for tbe purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the\nabove claim. And further take notice\nthat action, under section 37, must be\ncommenced before the issuance of such\nCertificate of Irapiovcments.\n' Dated this 15th day of February. 1898.\nCiias E. Hope.\nCERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS\nNOTICE\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Silverton Boy\" Mineral\nClaim, situate in the Slocan Mining\nDivision of West Kootenay District.\nWhere located:\u00E2\u0080\u0094 North of Four-Mile\ncreek, about two miles from Silverton,\nB.C.\nTake notice that I, Charles E. Hope.\nFree Miner's Certificate No. 97291, intend sixty days from the date hereof, to\napply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the\nabove claim. And further take notice\nthat action, under, section 37, t^nst be\ncommenced before tlie issuance of such\nCertificate of Improvements.\nDated this 15th day of February, 1898.\nx ' \" C\u00C2\u00A3A8 E. HorE.\nCERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS\nNOTICE.-\"Creseent\" Mineral Claim,\nsituate in the Slocan Mning Division\nof West Kootenay District. Where\nlocated:\u00E2\u0080\u0094North of\" Four-Mile creek,\n\"bout two miles from Silverton,B .C.\nTake notice that I, Charles E. Hope,\nFree Miner's Certificate No. 97291, intend sixty days from the date hereof., to\napply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the\nabove eluim.\nAnd further lake notice thnt action,\nunder section 37, must be commenced\nbefore the issuance of such Certificate\nof Improvements.\nDated this 15th day of February, 1898.\nChah. E. Hope.\nAN EARNEST WORKER.\nWm. Hunter, who has the interests\nof Silverton always in view, 1ms reminded our local member, J. F. Hume,\nthat Silverton has not received what\nis due us in the matter of appropriations. The need of funds to repair\ntho Four-Milo waggon road, the urgent ueed of a school building, the\nlack of fire protection and repai rs to\ntrails, in and around our town were\nall presented by Mr. Hunter. A grant\nof at least 83,000 should be given to\nthe road which will b> sadly in ueed\nof repair after the snow Blides and\nfloods have ^done with it, and the\nmaintenance of our communication\nwith the mines on this road is a vital\nnecessity to us.\nThe fire protection which every\ntown is entitled to, has so far been\noverlooked for Silverton, and we are\nabsolutely without any nieuiia to extinguish any lire that gets beyond the\nincipient stage.\nThe owners of mines on Four-Mil:\nshould urgo the Legislature to grunt\nus the required sum for our road, and\nto see also that it is properly expcndT\ned.\nMr. Hunter deserves the thanks of\nall Silvertonians for thus starting the\nball rolling, and we (mould see that\nhe is earnestly backed up in hii requests. If the waggon road could be\nextended to tho lake, at the head of\nthe gulch, it would result in several\ngroups more being added to tho list of\nour shippers. There is some talk in\ntown of agitating the converting of\nthe Silverton-New Denver sleigh road\ninto a waggon road. We are informed that a very small sum would accomplish this, and the New Denverites\nshould unite with us towards carrying\nthis scheme through. Benefit would\naccrue to both Silverton aud New\nDenver through this chtnge.\nting the 24th of May was published\nin the Now Denver Ledge, as an\nauthontic piece of news. Wo judged\nfrom the stylo in which it waB written that tho idea was to givo expression to the latent humour of Editor\nLowory. As no notice of any meeting was given to us, and no other\nmeution of the celebration was seen\nin tho issue of the Ledge, our deduction was apparently confirmed, Wo\nregret exceedingly that our plans have\nclashed with those of^our neighbor, but\nwe have gone too far with our prep-\nparations to withdraw now friwi the\nfield. Looking at the ail'air impartially, aro wo not entitled to tho 24th?\nSilvertion has already shown that she\ncan make a success of a celebration,\nand we tire in a much better position\nnow to entertain our visitors than at\n; other previous time. We don't want\n! tho earth, only the 24th of May noxt,\nwhich W9 are entitled to by every\ni claim of justice.\nSilverton News Co.\n DEALERS IN\t\nFruits and Conleetionery. Tobaccos,\nCIGAK8, ETC.\nAll the Latest Periodicals, Including the\nLeading Daily Papers of the World.\nBlank Books, Keccipt Books, Stationery.\nSupscriptions received for all magazines. Courteous treatment.\nSILVERTON,\nB. C.\nGO TO\nMrs. Matheson,\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094i\u00E2\u0080\u0094_\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nFor Dress Goods. Millinery, fancy\ngoods. Confectioner and Baker.\nNEW DENVER,\nB. C\nT; U. GORDON,\nMINES, HEAL ESTATE, CONVEYANCER\nIVOTARY PUBLIC.\nSILVERTON, 13. C\nSHOULD BECOME A LAW.\nA bill, restricting Asiatic emigration, is at present before the Dominion House, and will doubtless secure\nthe unanimous support of our members. It is introduced by Mr. Maxwell, who asks that the bounty on\nAsiactic emigrants be raised to $000\ninstead of as it now stands, \u00C2\u00A750. If\nthe figures were multiplied by ten, the\nchange wonld meet with the approval\nof all in this Province. The Legislators and residents of Eisteru Canada\ntake a very apathetic view regarding\nMongolian emigration, but to us it is\na real live question. It will be necessary for us to impress this fact on our\nEastern co-patriots and to show them\nwe are in earnest.\nAnother bill now before our Local\nHouse, bears on the same question.\nIt is introduced by Helmckcn, a representative from Victoria, and forbids the employment of Asiatics on\nany public work.\nSILVERTON'S MANY ADVANTAGES\nThose who have been fortunate\nenough to hayo passed the wintry\nmonths\u00E2\u0080\u0094so much dreaded by nearly\noveryono\u00E2\u0080\u0094in Silverton have every\nreason to congratulate themselves oi,\nthe sheltered position in which our\ntown ia placed. While u few miles on\ncither tide of us the full force of all\nthe winter's blast were felt we, pro-\nteoted on every side by the shield\nwhich nature has made for usi experienced no wind, little snow and enjoyed a season which only a fews\ntowns iu the Kootenay could boast of.\nWo can see occasionally, beyond the\nj bay, around whiclr our town is built,\nthe angry whitecaps of Lake Slocan\nraging, and beyond this ocular proof\nthat the wind is disporting itself above\nus, wo would never\", from any feeling\nj of discomfort experienced, be aware\nof it. For a residential town, Silver-\nton possesses advantages unknown in\nmost of our sister cities. The best of\nspots along the lake shoro for bathing\nare found around our bay, the numerous springs of the purest water run-\nuing to the lake from the hills behind\nus. assures us an abundant supply of\nwater without recourse to the lake,\nthe sheltered townsite, proximity to\nthe mints, ubwlute immunity from\nforest fires or Snowslides, stores carrying the largest stock-' in the S,!c.ea*t,\nand scenery unsurpassed by any\nlocality, are some of tho appreciable\nfeatures of Silverton\nONTARIO'S ELECTIONS.\nThe elections held last Tuesday for\nthe Ontario Legislature show a great\ngain for the Conservatives, but Hardy\nstill retains a small working majority,\nToronto and Hamilton returned ull\nConservative member's' Loudon ai.ti\nKingston went for the Liberals, and\nOttawa returned a member far each\nparty. John Dryden, Minister of\nAgriculture, was defeated in North\nOntario. Two Liberals were elected\nby acclamation. Haycock, the leader\nof the' Patron party, was defeated by\nCallagher, Conservative, in Frontenac.\nJ. M. Gibson, Commissioner of Crown\nLands, is beaten in West Hamilton,\nNo election was held iu Russell, as\ntho returning officer was prevented by\nstoriin, reaching thor.) in time for\nnominations. The election there will\ntake place next Tuesday. The usual\nnumber of rocounts will, of course,\ntake placa now, and the closeness ot\nthe election will no doubt, cause many\nprotests. The Independent party\nelected only one out of 22 cand idates\nin th\" field.\nTho last Legislature was composed\nof Independents 17, Conservatives 28\nand Liberals 19, The ('lections just\nheld gives tho Independents 1, Conservatives .'10, Liberals 4.\"), with two\nconstituencies to hear from.\nTHAT CELEBRATION.\nIt iB with considerable surprise that\nwe learn that the notice regarding\nNew Denver's intention of uppropru-\nWANT AN APPKOPRIAT ION.\nTo the Honorable, the Speaker an.l\nthe Members of the Legislative\nAssembly of tho Province of British\nColumbia, in Session assembled:\nThis, the petition of tho undersigned\nresidents and taxpayers of the Slocan\nMining Division of the West Kootenay District, sheweth that\nWhereas, The sleighroad constructed in the fall of 1896. between\ntho towns of Silverton and New Denver, was principally paid for by subscriptions of the aforesaid towns, and\nhas since been kept in repair without\nthe assistance of the Government; and\nWjiekbas, The volume of travel\nover the said road demonstrates, not\nonly the desirability, but tho necessity\nfor tho widening of tho said sleigh\nroad to permit the passage of wheelod\nvehicles; and\nWhereas, The widening of the\nsaid sleigh road will have the effect of\ncompleting a waggon road between\nSilverton and Sandon, via New Denver and Three Forks, and will provide\na connecting link between tho waggon\nroads now existing on Four-Mile, and\nCarpenter creeks; and\nWiiki.kas, It, is estimated that the\ntuiu of \u00C2\u00A71,000 properly applied will\ngive the dehired improvement.\nTniBBVORB, ft is requested that\nthe said sum of 61,000 be, as soon as\npossible, appropriated and placed at\nthe disposal of the Uoycrnment Agent\nat New Denver; to bo expended for\nthat purpose.\nTlio above petition is now placed\nfor signing iu several places in town,\nand the contained requests to tho\nLegislature, should commend themselves to all. It is also hoped that if\nsuch appropriation asked for is granted, that tenders be asked for from the\npublic for the widening of tho road.\nGranting public work behind locked\ndoor without allowing all to bid, is too\nprevalent iu West Kootenay.\nt\nt\nt\nt\nt\nt\nI\nW\ni\nt\nCOMING IN\nSAAiVVNVVVVVVNiVWVV\n200 Gases Goodwin's Candles\nIQO cases Hamilton powder\nOne car Cumberland coal\nand one car fresh groceries.\nJ. A. M'KINNON & CO.\nSilverton, 15. O.\nIt is claimed} by Hon. Mi. Sifton,\nMinister of the Interior, that Dyea\nand Skagway are on Canadian soil,\nand are to be claimed by Canada. The\nboundary line, he claims, crosses the\nStikine river about fifteen miles from\nits mouth.\nThe position of Provincial Mineralogist vacated by Prof. Carlyle, has\nbeen offered to and accepted by R. O.\nMcConnell, of the Geological Survey.\nOttawa. Mr. McConnell is a graduate\nof Science from McGill University,\nand is well known here, having been\nengaged most of the time, for tho last\nthree years, in the Kooteuays.\nWe read in ono of our exchanges of\nthe marriage of A. J. Jaekson to a\ngirl, who has hitherto rejoiced iu the\nname ot Penny. No*', if we were\ngoing to be married, wtt would 'want\nmore than a penny to start housekeeping with, but in the case of this\nyoung i-ouple we Buppcse there will\nbe several half pennies soon iu the\nfamily treasury.\nTlio ore shipments of 1893 via the\nport of Nelson up to th\" 18i~i of\nlust month amounted to 13,507 tons\nof ore, valued at $1,840,225, which\nindicates a large advance In-fore the\nclose of the present yeur, over the\naggregate shipments of 1897, certified\nae and through Nelson, which were\nvalued at 87,031,324. At the. present\nrate of progress the returns of 1893\nshould exceed 811,000,000.\nTwo would-be assassins unsuccessfully attempted to take the life of the\nKing, of Greece last Saturday.\nSeveral shots were fired at the King,\nand his daughter, Princess Maria, as\nthpy were returning in their carriage\nfrom Phaleruin. A wound in the\narm of one of the footmen was received. The King risked his own lift-\nin order to stand in front of nnd\nshield his daughter,\nM|N1NQ RECORD*\nPolio Wing is a complete list of the\nmining transael ions recorded during the\nweek for tho (Slocan Mining Division:\nxi:w lmxvsa\u00E2\u0080\u0094assessments.\nPrescott, Prescott Fraction, Prescott\nFraction No. 2. Four-Mile Fraction,\nCroydon Fraction, Superior.\nncKTiriiMTi: or improvements.\nFirst Extension, American Girl, Concord, Sapphire. Gem, Reciprocity, Lillian No. 4.\ntra nkkkhs\nLoudon Fraction, '.., A W McMillan\nto P A McDongalU H.tnlv %, 0 H\nTowns to Geo Almr; Okanogan Chief ts,\nFrank Jacobson to Er&eet liarrup*.\nCroydon Fraction, .las I. Forrester to\nAlexander A Hcdgi-a ; Valkyrie all. Gait\nK, 8 lv-.-r Cord *:-. Bryan Jf, B M Walton to I) Diarg; .Uollie Hughes, Kinkora,\nIdea, lioiil Idea, No. 2, Pinto No 2,\nTyron, Khiiilliiin. Mary K. Bradgon,\nThos Avi-on, Hurry Sherrau, and Herman Clever to Wui II Sautliford, 30-day\noption to pnrchaee at $40,000; Wellington, Chambers, Earaka, v Fraction\nM, J II Nuiin to W 8 Clark. 1500;\nliutivher, James T Brockmau lo Wm\nHunter\nThe cost of the Oubon war from\nFebruary, 1895, to the end of 1897, is\nofficially estimated at $48,000,000, beside* the in-rear.-; due from tho Oubat),\ntreasury, amounting to .\u00C2\u00A38,000,000.\nThe American railroads have met\nthe cut in passenger rates inaugurated\nby tho O. P. R. and it is rumored that\na further cut will be made by the latter roud. The public has no reason\nto feel at all anxious over thiscquar-\nrel. He may ride on a reduced fare\nticket with the full assurance that\nsome future day will sea him re-iru-\nbursing the company for present\nfavors by an oxtra charge then.\nCHEAP POWKU.\nSir Charles Ross, tho moving spirit\nof tho West Kootenay Electric Ll(*ht\nand Power Company, in an interview\nin Vancouver tho other day said:\n\"Tho worlds of tho company are\nsituated at Hennington Fulls, about\ncloven miles below Nelson, on the\nKootenay river. Tho works aro all\ncompleted, and the plant is now being\ninstalled. As soon as tho machinery\nis in place we shall be able to,start.\nWo aro not going to Bupply the mines\ncf Rossland camp alone, but the\nwhole of West Kootenay within a\nradius of about fifty miles from Rossland. That takes in a big mining\ncountry. We shall supply most of\ntho loading mines in the camp, Tho\nworks at Hennington Falls have boon\ndono by contract, and have not yet\nbeen handed ovei to tho company.\nThe minimi report of tint Provinciil\nregistrar of births, deaths and marriages\nfur the year ending'list Decomber, 1897,\nehoAS that there were 1,641 births, 1,0*20\ndeaths, and 030 mammies. Of the births,\n\u00C2\u00A309 were boys unci 772 were girls. The\nIncrease in births over the previous year\nwas 389. Of the 6\"\"6 marri.iges.oiily 17 of\nthe contracting parties, wt nt on. record\nus having no religious belief. Tbe Episcopalian church still leads in the number\nuf marriages among its adherents, with a\ntotal ol 91 for the year; the Presbyterian\nbeing close up with 91; and the others\nfolio, i ii,-/ iii I be order named: Methodist. 80; K .nun Catholic, 40; Lutheran,\n19; Baptist, lo; others ilt-tuominations,\n18. The deaths included 071 males and\n8tt females, inclusive of Indiana and\nChinese.\nKLONDYKE\no\no\no\no\no\no o\no o\no o\nYUKON\nMINERS, I'KOHPECTORS.and\n' ethers who intend going into the\nYukon, nnd other Interior\n* *\nPoints in Ala.-ikix, should call at\nthtiC. P. It. oflico, at the wharf,\nand g\u00C2\u00ABt LATE8T INEORMA-\nTI0 *' regarding Passenger anil\nFreight Kates. Steamers sailing from Vancouver and Victoria. All other information\nrelating to Alaska, including\nMiningi; Laws. Inscription of\nlumii-H.wiih Table of Distances,\nCustoms, Regulations, Maps,\nlite.\nASK FOR NEW KLONDYKE \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 AND IM FOLDER.\nA Book Issued by the C. P. R.\nCo., (living all Possibio Information Regarding tho Yukon and\nAlaska, Compiled from Inlorm-\natlon as Supplied by the Canadian Government Officials.\nW. S. CLARK, Agent-.."@en . "Titled Silverton Silvertonian from 1898-01-01 to 1898-01-29; titled The Silvertonian from 1898-02-12 onward.

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