"38059a8d-0e5e-4d0b-a0c3-564b927df1c1"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2017-01-30"@en . "1906-06-12"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xgrandforks/items/1.0341714/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " -v- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*M-J&\n,'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 *\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*.*\nZhc\n*r\n-\"2 JUN 16190b &\nSun.\ni Year-No. TMkV\nGrand forks, B. &\u00C2\u00BB Tuesday, June 12,1906\nSemi-Weekly\u00E2\u0080\u0094$1.00 Per Year in Advance\nWork on North Fork Extension Started at 1:15\nYesterday\nPacific railway by a provincial government-owned railway running from\nOkanagan to Sicainous. This short\ngovernment line is now operated by\nthe Canadian Pacific railwayr.\nThree Carloads of Horses\nand Mules Will Arrive in\na Day or Two\nThe first sod of the North Fork\nextension of the Kettle Valley line\nwas broken yesterday by Foreman\nMcDonald on Frank Miller's ranch\nat exactly fifteen minutes past one\no'clock. At present there are only\nabout fifteen teams employed, and\nthe force of men is not very large\nowning to the scarcity of laborers.\nHowever, two carloads of mules and\na carload of horses are expected to\narrive in the city tomorrow from\nChicago and Winnipeg, and the\ncamps will be stretched all along\nthe line as soon as sufficient help\ncan be secured. W. P. Tierney, the\ngeneral contractor for the fifty miles\nof road to be constructed, arrived in\nthe city this afternoon from the\neast, and work will undoubtedly be\nrushed as much as possible. Yesterday Mr. Andrews purchased the\nright of way through Wm. Glen-\nmore's ranch, at the head of Smelter\nlake.\nThe Midway & Vernon\nA dispatch from Montreal of the\n8th inst. states that 14,000 tons of\nsteel rails for the Midway ifc Vernon\nr.ilway has just been ordered, and\nthe continuation of construction of\nthe road is to be started within a very** chard, forest, sea, and mines,\nshort time, according to information\nsecured in that citv and New York,\nwhere the capital behind the railway\ncomes from.\nThe rails have been ordered froip\nthe Dominion Iron k Steel coinpany\nof Sydney, Cape Breton, and the\norder will be rushed out as soon us\nthe works can commence on it.\nIt is understood that the rails will\nbe shipped ccross the continent over\nthe Canadian Pacific railway in preference to transportation around the\nHorn, because of the desirability of\nsaving time.\nSince the decision in favor of the\nMidway k Vernon as against the\nprovince of British Columbia on a\nreference as to the disputed subsidy\nclaimed by the former, the backers of\nthe railway company have been busi y\narranging to go ahead with the building of the road. Some ten or twelve\nmiles of it has already been grodeo\nand made ready for the steel. This\nw.irk was performed out of Midway.\nGrading will be pushed ahead this\nsummer and tracklaying will be commenced just us soon as the rails are or\nthe ground if present plans are carried\nout.\nThere is considerable speculation in\nrailway circles as to where the con\ntrol of the Midway k Vernon will go\nwhen it is completed, and as to what\nroads it will make connections with.\nThe Midway terminal of the railway\nwill be accessible both by the Vancouver, Victoria .fc Eastern and the Bill White was fined $10 and costs\nCanadian Pacific lines, while at Ver* in Judge Cochrane's court yesterday\nnon there is a possible connection for assaulting Pete Genelle on the\nwith the main line of the Canadian I streets a couple of days ago.\nMr. Hill Interviewed\nAccording to a dispatch from St.\nPaul, James J. Hill has come out\nlocally in a lenghtly interview explaining the extent and nature of his invasion of Canada, in response to a\nseries of questions put to him by a\nprominent Canadian. The interview\nin part is as follows:\n\"I presume you intend to start immediately with your Canadian construction!\"\n''We will push work from both\nends,\" said Mr. Hill, ''first through\nthe Rocky Mountains to the prairies,\nstarting from Vancouver, and then\nfrom Winnipeg westward. In British Columbia we shall close up quickly from Midway., to the Similkameen.\"\n\"That is a very rich fruit country,\nis it not?\"\" \"*\"\"\" \"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'-:\n\"Yes; that country raises great\nfruit. I have seen a box of their apples sold in New York for about the\nprice of two boxes of California oranges.\" ,':\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 jy*-^ <\n\"You are evidently a keen student\nof all parts of Canada.\"\n\"We Btndy because we have to study\nall these questions, fertility and natural resources of country. There is\nnothing else for a railroad to do, but\ncarry the resources of the country it\npasses through, and it must find\nmarket for them.\"\n\"Do you agree with the statement\nthat has so frequently been made that\nBritish Columbia is the richest province in the Dominion of Canada?\"\n\"If you take the question of natur\nal resources, that is undoubtedly true.\nIt has all the advantages of farm, or-\nThe\n\"prairies, from Winnipeg westward,\nhave unquestionably advantages of\nlarge areas of good grain land und\nbreadstuff's, bnt British Columbia has\neverything in the way of minerals\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nc ml, iron,gold, silver, copper, lead and\nzinc; large areas of agricultural land,\nand large valleys suitable for for the\nproduction.of fruits and vegetables,\nThere is no reason why we should not\nusu the Grand Trunk and Canadian\nPacific west of Winnipeg if they make\nfair rates.\"\n\"is it your intention to build a line\nfrom the Canadian wheatfields to\nHudson Bay and then run steamers\nfrum there to Europe?''\n\"No; there is only, I understand\nfour mouths of navigation possible\nthere; ships would have to be other\nwise occupied or idle the other eight\nmonths, which would make it rather\nexpensive.''\n'iThen you do not intend to build a\nliiie of railway to Hudson Bay?\"\n' '1 have already said that Winni\npeg is uur terminal point. We have\nno intention of going north of there,\nif we can get fair treatment from the\nCanadian loads.\"\n\"Where do you think Camilla will\nget its greatest markets?\"\n''1 think the biggest market for the\nuho.eof Canada will be the United\nStates. This country furnishes a market for the manufacturers of Canada\nas well as for farm products.\"\nNEWS OFTHE CITY\nAthletic Association Will Give\na Smoker in Their Rooms\nThis Evening\nNo. 3 Fire Hall to De Opened\nWith a Free Ball on\nthe 29th\nthe Granby mines, is in good working order and is used daily. Its\nfunction is to raise the crushed ore\nfrom the crusher to the ore bins, so\nthat it can be loaded into the\nrailway dump can. It operates\nsomewhat on the principle of a grain\nelevator, and is the first one of its\nkind to be installed, so far as known\nin the province. It is one of the\nlabor saving ideas of superintendent\nHodges.\nThe Grand Forks Athletic Association will open its new gymnasium\nthis evening by giving a smoker.\nThe program will consist of songs,\ndances, club swinging and sparring\nand wrestling matches, and everybody who attends is assured a good\ntime. An admission fee of 50 cents\nwill be charged.\nThe fire boys of the West end will\nopen their new No 3 station by giving a free dance on Friday evening,\nJune 291 h. Everybody is invited\nto attend, and as first-class music\nhas been engaged, an enjoyable\ntime is assured. The ladies are requested to bring baskets filled with\ncake and other delicacies for lunch.\nVancouver parties were in tbe\ncity the lattter part of last week\nlooking over the field in reference to\nthe establishment of a modern up-\nto-date department store here.\nW. B. Cochrane and John Temple\nreturned Saturday from Revelstoke,\nwhere they had been attending the\nannual convention of the provincial\naerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.\nThey state that there was a large attendance and that everybody had a\ngood time. The grand aerie will meet\nin Fernie next year.\nHarold Averill left last Sunday\nmorning for Fairbanks, Alaska, where\nhis father is located at present. A\nnumber of his friends were at the\nstation to bid him good-bye and wish\nhim a pleasant journey.\nSmith Curtis, ex-M.P.P. for Ross\nland, was a guest at the Yale yesterday.\nGeo. A. MacLeod sent four men up\nto Franklin on last Friday's stage to\nwork on the townsite.\nMrs. Geo. A. MacLeod returned on\nFriday evening from a two weeks'\nvisit to Spokane.\nP. T. McCallum left this afternoon\non a business trip to Nelson and\nBalfour.\nR. T. Lowery, editor of Lowery's\nClaim and the Green wood Ledge,\nwas a guest at thc Yale last night.\nWhile in the city he put in most of\nhis time hustling business for his\ntwo publications.\nLast week the Dominion Copper\ncompany sent a force of seven men\nunder foreman A. T. Stewart, to the\nGloucester group of mines in Franklin camp, to start development\nwork. This is the group which was\nlately bonded by the company after\nan inspection had been made by\nThomas H. Drummond.\nAfter some time spent in adjustments, the automatic ore bin feeder\nat the Great Northern terminal uf\nMiss Mutie Christianson, who has\nbeen employed at the Yale for some\ntime, left last Sunday for her home\nin Coeur d'Alene City, Idaho.\nBorn\u00E2\u0080\u0094In Grand Forks,, on.. Monday, June 11, 1906, to Mr. and Mre.\nJeffery Hammar, a daughter.\nThe report of the minister of\nmines of British Columbia for 1905,\namong other information about the\nGranby Consolidated, gives the production of ore as approximately\n645,788 tons during the year. The\nshipments of ore from the mines to\nthe company's smelter were slightly\nlarger, being 651,761 tons. The\naverage percentage of copper carried\nby the ores of the Bounday district\nin which the properties of the Gran*\nby are situated are given as 1.52.\nUsing this agerage figure, this would\nshow the output of the copper by\nthe Granby for 1905 to have been\nabout 19,500,000 pounds. The\npresent rate of production is higher\nthan this, being about 24,000,000\npounds per annum. Besides, the\no-ftput will be considerably increased before the end of the year. The\nGranby does not depend entirely on\nthe copper values in its ores. The\nlatter carry gold as well as copper.\nHowevr, the Granby is thus shown\nto be easily the largest copper producer in Canada.\nHon. Richard McBride has returned to Victoria, after an entend\ned tour of the Kootenays. Included\nin his itinerary were Golden Windermere, Wilmer, Field, Rcelstoke,\nNelson. Moyie, Cranbrook and\nFernie. Intervied at Victoria he\nstated thai the whole interior was\n1 -oking better than ever before.\nLumbering and fruit growing have\nbecome firmly established and mining is flourishing. Probably the\nmost important recent development\nhas been the inception of a large\nfruit growing industry in the lower\nColumbia valley and along the Arrow lakes. The climate has been\nfound admirably adapted for hardy\nfruits and berries, and many thou\nsand acres have been planted within\nthe past few years. When .isked\nwhat the government would do regarding the oil licenses in Southeast\nKootenay recently declared invalid\nby tho supreme court, the premier\nstated he could not discuss a matter\nthat was before the Full court, in\nwhich he was advised the government would be successful He\npassed the matter off, however, with\na hint that the order in council under which the licenses were issued\nis part of the policy of the administration, and that policy he was prepared to stand by. The inference\nis that if unsuccessful in legal proceedings legislation will be introduced to validate the licenses. The\npremier denied that his tour had\nany political significance, and stated\nit was the usual annual visit he had\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2nade io the interior ever since he\nbecame a minister of the crown.\nFRANKLIN SIM\n\t\nStarted on Thrice a Week\nSchedule This Morning\nSaddle Pack Horses From\nEnd of Wagon Road to\nAll Camps\nToday A. E. Smith k Co'i Grand\nForks-Franklin stage commenced making thrice a week trips. A service of\nsaddle pack horses has also been put\non from the end of the wagon road to\nFranklin townsite and different mining properties of Franklin and Gloucester camps. Travel to the northern\ncamps hat increased to such an extent\nthat last Saturday it was necessary to\nsend tw4>\u00C2\u00ABuges, ten passengers being\nbooked tor the trip. Among these\nwere Don McVioar, W. H. Hamilton\nEnas H-wnley of the Dominion Copper com fitly, who went up to Gloucester oamp. The stage company is\nalso prepared to handle freight for all\npoints in the North Fork country.\nLOCAL MINING SHARES\nFollowing are the quotations for the\nweek ending Saturday, June 9,\nBid. Asked\nArlington Mines ...J .04 $ .05\nAlhambra 134 .16*\nAmerican Boy OOf .01\nB. C. Copper 8.35 9.65\nCanadian Smelters.. 1.25 135.\nCrow's Nest Coal...300.00 350.00\nCanadian Goldfieids .07 .07A\nCariboo-McKinney. .2i .2if\nDiamond Vale Coal .25 .26\nDenoro Mines 08 .09\nDominion Copper... 3.25 3.60\nElkhorn-Boundury.. .30 .32\nGranby. 12 75 13.50\nHunter V 15 .17\nInternational Coal.. .47 .48\nJuno .1 .02\nLa Plata 18 .20\nLardeau Mines 01 .01\"-\nLightning Peak 01 .02\nMarconi, Canada... 3.25 3.50\nMarconi, American. 53.00 55.00\nNiroU'.Coai 05 .06\nNorth'Sttr 04 .06\nOlympic, Wash 04 .06\nRambfe'r-Cariboo... .20 .21\nRocky Mountain Oil .75 .80\nSullivan';'. 67 .68\nWestern Oil 15 .17\nWhite_*B-*'r.' 3J, A*\nYale-fcootenay Ice. .07 .08\nOnly the converter is now in operation at the British Columbia Copper company's Greenwood smelter,\nthe last furnace having been blown\nout and dismantled last Monday, in\nthe preparations for the installation\nof the three giant furnaces Boon to\nbe received. This is expected to require about throe months. In the\nmeantime the converter will blow\nthe matte from the Dominion Copper company's smelter up into\nblister copper, as heretofore, for\nshipment to the eastern refinery.\nF. I. Whitney, for 18 years at the\nhead of the Great Northern general\npassenger department, has resigned,\neffective July 1, aB general passenger\ntraffic agent, to go into business. C.\nE. Stone, now general passenger\nagent of the Great Northern, and A.\nL. Craig, general passenger agent of\ntho Oregon Railway & Navigation\ncompany, are each mentioned as\nhis probable successor. \u00C2\u00AEIjp Efomttg 0mt\nPublished at Gram! Porks. British Columbia,\nKvory Tuesday aud Friday Kvouiiigs.\n,.1'dltor and Publishei\nBUBHCHIPTION HATES I\nOne Year $1..W\nOne Yoar (In advance) 1.00\nAdvertisiuj-; rate-, furnished on aiiplieatin\nLeirul notices, HI nml .1 cents per line.\nAddress nil coinmiinlnatiouB to\nTub Evenino Sun,\nPhonb B74 Ohand Poiiks, II.C.\nTUESDAY, JUNE 12, 190(1\nA recent issue of tho London Financial Times had the following: A\nrecent run of the Granby smelter at\nGrand Forks, British Columbia, is reported, in which 2,850 tons of ore\nwere treated in a single day of 24\nhours. At the Mount Lydell mine\nin Tasmania 1,200 tons daily is regarded as good work, and considering\nthe few years during which the Granby smelter has been at work, the\ntreatment of as much as 2,850 tons of\nore in a single day shows the magnitude of the scale upon which operations are carried on in the British\nColumbian works. At the Granby\nmine, by applying the gold and silver\nvalues in reduction of .costs, copper\ncan be produced at about 4d. per\npound. Its ore reserves exceed 30,-\n000,000 tons, and the control of the\nmine and smelter recently passed into\nthe hands of New York capitalists,\nwho made large additions to the mining and smelting plant, using electrical power on an extensive scale. General mining and smelting costs have\nbeen reduced to a figure which will\ncompare favorably with any work\ndone elsewhere. A few years ago it\nwould have been considered impossible to smelt ore at a dollar per ton,\nas is now being accomplished at the\nGranby smelter. British Columbia is\nmuch more of a mixed metal than a\ngold country, and with the higher\nprices of copper, lead and zinc, together with the lower smelting charges\nnow prevailing, und the fact that development is proving the existence of\nextensive ore bodies in many directions, the mining outlook has never\nbeen brighter than it is at present in\nBritish Columbia.\nAn American Disease\nSome doctors go so far as to say\nthat indigestion is the national disease\nof America. There is but one national remedy for indigestion and tbat is\nDr. Hamilton's Pills which accelerate\nthe action of the gastic glands and\ngive tone to the digestive organs.\nThey strengthen the kidneys and\nliver, cleanse and purify the blood\nand thus add general tone to every\norgan of the body. Flesh and\nstrength are fast restored and the patient can eat and digest any food he\nptoises. Test Dr. Hamilton's Pills\nyourself,\u00E2\u0080\u009425c per box or five boxes\nfor one dollar at all dealers.\nTHE MINING RECORDS\nFollowing are tht* locations, certificates of work, bills of sale, etc.,\nrecorded in tho Government olliee at\nGrand Forks, B. C, of the flnmJ\nEorks mining division, from June\n(*th to June 1'', .inclusive:\nRECORD UK LOCATIONS,\nlilutf Bird, Worcester camp, N. D.\nJli-Intosli; Diamond, Worcester camp,\nWin. Minion; Jumbo, Worcester\ncamp, N. D. Mcintosh; Payeii, Worcester camp, Russell Mill; Ivy, Frank-\nlin camp, Geo, A. McLeod; Laurel,\nFranklin camp, A. E. Hogue; Look-\nport, Summit camp, James F. Cunningham; Blue Bell, Knight's camp,\nE,R. Knight; Happy Thought fraction, {Greenwood camp, relocation of\nthe Gladiator fraction, Wm. Mclntyre; I. X. L., Franklin camp, James\nWhite; Superior, Summit camp, relocation of M.B, k M., W.S. Sargeant;\nMelrose, McRat- creek, Geo. A. Cameron; Maid of the Mist, Mabin's\ncamp, James Wilcher and \V, W. Miller; Sun-up, Mabin's camp, James\nWilcher; Labor King, Franklin camp,\nH. W. Warrington; M. It, Franklin\ncamp; Geo. A. MacLeod; Copper,\nFranklin camp, A. Oman, J. Gelinas\nand D. Morrison; Riverside, Franklin\ncamp, A. Oman, J. Gelinas and Dan\nMorrison; Whitetail, Franklin cnmp,\nA. o,nani J' Gelinas and IJ. Muni-\nson; Iron Hill fraction, Franklin\ncamp, L. D. Walfavd; Mammoth fraction, Franklin eamp, L. M. Wolfard:\nDear One, Gloncester camp, Pete\nSanture; MiTllower, Gloucester eamp,\nPete Santure; Surprise, Gloucester\ncamp, Joe Gelinas; Sure Shot, Glou\n(jester camp, Pete Santure; Gilped\nfraction, Gloucester camp,Joe Gelinas;\nGold Levy, Franklin camp, Lewis\nJohnson and Mike McDonnell; Humming Bird, Franklin camp, Mike Mc\nJ'ounell and Lewis Johnson; Maple\nIjeaf fraction, Franklin camp, Lewis\nJohnson and Pat Magginnis; All\nShapes fraction Franklin camp, M.\nMcQuarrie; Glenora, Wellington camp,\nrelocation of Glenora, S. M. Johnson;\nPinchrock, Summit camp, Jos. Huron;\nElcie, Summit camp, reloctation of\nMerrymock, Steve McNeil.\n('EUTIKICATES OF WORK.\nUncle Sam, McRae creek, W. M.\nMcKay, snrvey; Saloon fraction, Summit camp, James F. Cunningham;\nEclipse, Summit camp, James F. Cunningham; Wonder, Hardy mountain\nGus Bjorklund; Pacific fraction, Wei\nlington camp, W. J. Porter, survey;\nGold qnestion, Texas creek, Ulrich\nKech; New Era, McBae Creek, Kech\net al; Nunziella, McKinley camp,\nMorrell et al; Juditta, Mckinley camp,\nMorrell et al; Jumbo and Wallace,\nFranklin camp, Whiteside et ol, surveys; Cinnabar, Hardy mountain, R.\nW. Yuill; Pamposa, Fourth of July\ncreek, Miriau Mabel; Norden, Hardy\nmountain, Carl Nelson; Maryland,\nPass creek, Helmer et al; Fife, Ben\nHur, Dykehead No. 2, Three IWIs,\nSutherland creek, Kelly et al, three\nyears; Riverside, Brown's camp, Tim\nTownsend, survey; Maine fraction,\nBrown's camp, P. J. Byrne, survey.\nTiger. Summit camp, Jos Buron;\nHtron, Franklin camp, J. S.C. Fraser;\nMichigan, Franklin camp, same; Mun-\nstcr, Franklin camp, Geo.A. MacLeod;\nF. P. fraction, Wellington camp, J. A.\nMiller; Sunrise, Wellington camp,\nsame.\nCONVEYANCES.\nBlack Eye No. 1, 1-2, Brown's\ncamp, Hector Kelly to Neil McCallum; Derby, all, E. P. fraction, 1-2,\nIron Bell, all, Brown's camp, F. H.\nKnight to Joe Pringle; Iron Bell, all,\nPathfinder mountain, C. M. Kingston\nto F. H. Knight; Bank of England,\nGreenwood camp, J. W.H. Wood, W.\nForster, A. M. Wilson, E. T. Wick-\nwire, J. J. Caulfield to Granby company; Bank of England, Greenwood\ncamp.R. Wood to Granby company;\nMarguerite, 1-3, Brown's camp,\nFrank Fritz ro M. Fritz; Marguerite,\nFrank Fritz to J. Pringle; Monterey\nand Manhattan, 1-3, Frnnkliii camp,\nAnnie J. McKinley to J. A. McDonald. \t\nA '-Wheezy\" Chest\nMeans your trouble is deep seated. To delay is dangerous. All the\ninllainatioii would be drawn one day\nby applying Nerviline. It penetrates\nthrough the pores of the skin, relievos\ninllainatioii and thus prevents serious\nconsequences. For sore throat, weak\nchest and tendency to colds, no prescription is better than Poison's\nNerviline. For nearly fifty years it\nhas lieen Canada's great household\nremedy. Twenty-five cents buys a\nlarge bottle.\nSPECIAL LOW RATES EAST.\nThe Northern Pacific Railway an\nnounces special low round trip rates\nfrom all points in this sectitjn to eastern terminals on basis of one first\nfirst class fare plus 810.00 for the\nround trip. Selling dates June 4th,\n0th, 7th, 23rd and 25th. Limit 90\ndays from date of sale. Rate from\nSpokane to St. Paul, Minneapolis,\nSioux City, Omaha or Kansas City\nand return $62.50; St. Louis 860.00;\nChicago, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2MH.OO. For detailed information write to one of the undersigned.\nA. D. Charlton, A. G. P. A.,\nPortland, Ore. G. A. Mitchell,\nGeneral Agent, Spokane, Wash. W.\nH. Uuu, T. P. A., Spokane, Wash.\nFE palm\nWAL LACE\nCHALMERS\nPROP.\nA FRESH STOOK OF\nConfectionery, Fruits,\nCigars and Tobacco.\nMOST COMPLETE STOCK\nof its kind in the city.\nCOR. BRIDGE AND FIRST STREETS\nThe Kettle River Valley Railway\nCompany\nWOTICK IS HHREnYOIVRN THAT puriu-\n-itittn ll,e i,rovl.l0n1 of the Railway Act\nii thnt heliulf a iluplio\u00C2\u00ABt\u00C2\u00AB I'lan, ProHle and\nlluak of Reference jhewltiif Ihe Hid Killltvuy\n(.i.iiiimny , Hitht of wny helwee,, the City of\nl.riind ForkH nnd Franklin Cam*,, on the\nNorth Fork of Ihe Kettle River, \u00C2\u00BBii \u00E2\u0080\u009E the\nThlrtv-llriit dny of May, 1006, depoilteVl with\nthe l*r\u00C2\u00BBtrlct KeifUtrnr of Title, at Kamloops, 11.0.\nof June iiV?\"\"\"' ForU'\"'C*',M'5th Aay\nH.W. WARRINGTON-,\nChief Engineer,\nR. C. MGCUTCHEON\nCABINET MAKER\nTurning, Scroll Work, Saw\nFiling, Gun Repairing, Manufacturer of Screen Doors and\nWindows.\nFirst Street\nGrand Forks. B. C.\nHEADQUARTERS FOR\nSMOKERS\nSUPPLIES\nRAINEY'SCIGARSTORE\nDRAYING\nHeavy and Light Dray Work\nAttended to Promptly\nPassengers and Trunks to\nand From All Trains\nTk-lkphone A129\nGRAND FORKS TRANSFER COMPANY\nKutiierford Bros., Props.\nFoo Lee\nLaundry\nFINE LAUNDERING.\nCOLLARS, CUFFS AND\nSHIRTS WASHED CLEAN AND\nNICE AND IRONED BY\nMACHINERY, NEW\nMEN EMPLOYED.\nNEXT CHINESE STORE\nRIVERSIDE AVENUE.\nIt taken an accomplished liar to\nhand a woman satisfactory compli\nments.\nThe Lion Bottling Works have cut\ntheir price on all case anil draught\nwines and liquors.\nStock Certificates printed at The\nSun job office.\nWhite people want white .service.\nWe employ only white help because\nwe wish to treat you white. Jt costs\nmore, but we are here to accommodate\nyou with the best to he bad. Not how\ncheap but how good is our motto Tl e\nProvince.\nThe quart bottle\nfor 50o ut tha Lioii\nof Nelson bier\nKitl.tlini\" Works.\nA man's actions alter marriage are I\nnothing like the samples submitted |\nduring courtship.\n^****-*S\n&Q^ DOMINION DAY ^^S\n\ CELEBRATION P\nc>it Phoenix, B. C, July 2 and 3\nLiberal Prizes In All Events\nBase Ball Tournament\nHose Reel Racing \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Horse Racing\nMachine Rock Drilling\nA Long List of Caledonian Sports\nBall in the Evening\nMusic by Phoenix Fire Department Band\nSpecial Rates on All Railroads\nFor Particulars, Address\nE.P, SHEA, Chairman 0. McEACHERN, Secretary\nP. BURNS & CO., LTD.\nDEALERS IX ALL KINDS OF FRESH AND CURED\ncTWEATS\nFish and Game in Season\nGRAND FORKS, B\nA. Erskine Smith & Co\nc-4U -Aboard for Franklin\n/\"\u00C2\u00BB \u00E2\u0080\u009E fy\u00C2\u00ABf* Stage leaves our office on Tuesdays and\nSaturdays, 7:00 a.m., returning Mon-\nursdays. Frei\nhandled to nil points on\ndays and Thursdays. Freight j^.^ j^\nBridge and First Sts\nBECI'IMIO FEB. 15, 1906\nTHROUGH\nTOURIST\nSLEEPERS\nEVERY DAY IN THE YEAR\nBETWEEN\nCHICAGO\nVIA THE\nSEATTLE oind\nGREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY\n\"THE COMFORTABLE WAY\"\nRoute of thej Famous Oriental Limited i,7'\nFor detailed information, sates, etc., call on or address\nH. SHEEDY, Agent,\nGRAND FORKS, B.C. f\n-Iif \u00E2\u0080\u00A2? Bu?ttt\u00C2\u00AB5 *8>mt ^ttpplrtttrtit\nimt*to*mo*mm}*o*mo1ite**o%m mmmteOm********! \u00C2\u00BB^\u00C2\u00AB*\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BBtPM>\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0080\u0094^r>^n.M*tv4\u00C2\u00BB^\u00C2\u00BB%^^\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BBi (jmmwMWii' y*\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 ****'\n\u00C2\u00BB<,\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 mMmemm^*p\u00C2\u00BBt&o*m*mp*mmmomJm*wy, ...'r&''**o*^'^+*ii^Oe4^'1*'**K*+<+ltt''++**e*^Kt**t/lJ^\\n1\nA Rousing Indictment Against the Government\n:B Y:\nJ. A. MACDONALD, K. O.,\nLEADER OF THE OPPOSITION.\ns\nMany Matters of Supreme Importance to the Electors of British Columbia Discussed and the Utter Incompetency of the McBride Government Laid Bare.\nNn more striking: Illustration of the\ndifference In the calibre of the two\nleaders in the legislature, or of their\nmethod or grappling nud dealing with\npublic nuestions, could have been afforded than that witnessed at the\nlast session of the House, when\nthe leader of the opposition analyzed the speech from the throne, and\nwhen Hie lender of the government attempted to reply to him. The speech\nof J. A. Macdonald, like all--those he\ndeltvei'8, was analytical\u00E2\u0080\u0094mercilessly\nso\u00E2\u0080\u0094and thc lirst minister In his reply\nattempted only the weakest kind of\ndefence. Mr. Macdonald's speech was\nsuch an excellent commentary on the\nspeech, and his criticisms thereon were\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0o tronchent, that it is reproduced verbatim.\nMr. Macdonald said: I thought thnt\n1 should be able to congratulate my\nfriend, the fourth member for Vancouver, upon one or the best Bpe-30hCS\ndelivered in th-0 House since I have\nbeen a member of It. In fact I felt\nduring the first part of his speech that\nhe was saying a great deal of what\nwe had been led to expect would he,\nand which ought to have been, sail by\nills Honor the Lieutenant-Governor in\nthe speech from the throne. Thaf honorable member, who has Just taken\nhis seat, referred to matters of real\nprovincial interest when he was 31*3-\ncusstng the Municipal Act, the protection of our forests from fires, and other\nmatters with which the people of this\nprovince are in sympathy and which\nthey have been expecting the government to deal With during the past sessions of this House. Unfortunately\nthe latter part of the honorable member's speech was taken up in discussing matters which are of no interest\nto the people of this province. We\nhave had from time to time attacks\nmade upon the government at Ottawa,\nand upon the legislation enacted there\n\"With regard to the Northwest. We\nhave also heard dtump speeches delivered, not alone by the member for\nVancouver, but we flattered ourselves\nthat to-day his speech would be con-\ntlned to matters relating to the province, and that he would not break out\nIn the way he has this afternoon.\nNow 1 had no hesitation, Mr. Speaker, In welcoming to this House, on behalf of the Liberals, our friend the\npresent member of Alberni. We have\nno ill-feeling because the electors have\nseen fit to elect the gentleman who\nnow sits hi this House Instead of the\ncandidate whom we put before them.\nWe feel that when a stranger has been\nelected io this House that, as the representative of his constituents, he Is\nentitled to, and will always receive\nfrom this side of the House, the same\nwelcome as though he sat on this side\nof the House. I have the greatest\npleasure In extending a weleome to our\nfriend the member for Alberni. (Applause.)\nMr. Speaker, I have no hesitation In\nsaying that the task imposed upon the\nmover and seconder of the address\n_wa!> one of the most difficult ever imposed on a member of this House. Because of the different speeches from\nthe throne which I have listened to, I\nthink it would be difficult to find one\nmore barren aud more unprofitable\nthan the one read the other day. The\nonly merit the speech can claim Is\nthat It permits of giving unbounded\nscope to the orator's Imagination. I\nam only sorry that the mover did not\ndo as the seconder did,, aud give us\nhis own 'lews upon public matters.\nThe gi rninent takes great credit\nfor the nourishing\nCondition of the Lumber Industry.\nNow if the present flourishing condition of the lumber was due In any way\nto any legislature hy the government,\nI should like to have heard the mover\nor seconder explain how that came\nabout. 1 have failed to find it from\nnn Investigation of the legislation, hut\n1 find from an. Investigation of the\nptlbllo accounts fnat the present taxation boms by the lumber Industry is\nhen vler than ever before. The rea I\nexplanation of ihe improved condition\nt-f the lumber Industry Is the better\nprice obtainable for lumber, nnd the\nenhanced marital In the Northwest.\nIt was also claimed In a half-hearted sort of way that the present government was responsible for the success and Improvement In the\nFrult-Qrowtng Industry.\nNow I think that In some sections of\nthis province\u00E2\u0080\u0094] think In all\u00E2\u0080\u0094that if\nihe fruit-growers heard that It had\nheen claimed that the present government had done anything substantial\ntowards the success of indlstry, there\nwould be a great deal of amusement.\nTake the Kootenay district, where the\ngreatest advances have been made\naround Kootenay lake and the Columbia river. There they have made\ngreat strides aud have their own Fruit\nGrowers' Association. What do we\nfind when they applied for some assistance towards the holding of a fruit\nfair In Nelson'.' That assistance was\nrefused by the government, and the\nmembers of this Fruit Growers' Association had themselves to bear the expense of that exhibition of fruit, an\nexhibition that was not only a credit\nto those who got It up, but which did\nn great, deal towards advertising the\nfruit of the province, not only In Eastern Canada, because the tariff\" commissioners were there In Nelson at the\ntime, hut did a great deal towards tin-\nsuccess of the exhlblls In London and\nt the capturing of thc prizes awarded\nI there. No, Mr. Speaker, the present\ngovernment has done nothing, aud no\nsingle speaker has so far adverted to\na single Instance in which the government has done anything for the assistance of the fruit growing Industry. It\nis true that Mr. Palmer*\u00E2\u0080\u0094a man who\nhas done more, perhaps, than any\nother man in the province for the Interests of the Industry\u00E2\u0080\u0094It is true that\nhe is an official of the government.\nBut he did the work of which we are\nnow reaping the benefit years and\nyears ago before the present government was in existence. He did the\nwork years and years ago, and we are\njust now enjoying the legitimate result\nof that work in the bearing orchards\nof this province. Years ago the young-\ntrees were planted, supplied with Irrigation, and now that the trees have\ncome to maturity, and that they are\njust beginning to bear fruit, the Industry Is beginning tn receive that\nrecognition and appreciation which It\ndeserves. Tt has come to Its present\ncondition through years of lahor and\ncultivation, not through anything the\ngovernment has done during the past\nyear.\nAs to mining, the mover of the address stated that the reason the returns from this source were so much\nlarger than they had heen since 1901\nwas because the government of this\nprovince had not touched\nThe Mining Laws\nsince they came into power. Well, if\nthe mover of the address had been In\nthis House during thc last few sessions\u00E2\u0080\u0094more particularly the session\nbefore last\u00E2\u0080\u0094he would have remembered that the premier of the province,\nthe membr for Dewdney, hud made\npromises after promise that he would\nremedy defects In the mining laws\nwith reference to taxation on minerals\nwhich he declared to be unfair and\nprejudicial to the hest Interests of the\nIndustry. He made promise after\npromise to that effect, and now we\nAnd a supporter of his government\ntaking credit for the present government because the premier had not carried out his promises made to this\nHouse and the people of thc province.\n(Applause.)\nWe find that the whole of the speech\nof His Honor, and that of the mover,\nare characteristic of the real author. It\nis simply a sort of commentary addressed to the people of the province\nand the members of this House, congratulating them upon this, and congratulating them upon that, subjects\nIn thc main for congratulation. But,\nIf we are to be congratulated upon\nthese subjects and upon the prosperity\nof the province. It is because of the\nenergy of the people, and because the\npeople have resources and the capital\nto Invest In those resources, not because of, I might almost say in spite\nof, anything this government has done\nfor them. (Applause.)\nNow if there is one thing that would\nstrike one more than another on a\nperusal of the speech, it is the maimer\nIn which the government have shirked\nthe question that they have promised\nto deal wilh ever since they came, nay,\nbefore they came Into power, PrIo\u00C2\u00BB* to\nthe elections of 1M3 wc find the members of the government, the premier\nin particular, going through the different portions of the province, and\nmaking pledges that as soon as they\nwere returned to power again, this\nquestion of the encouragement uf the\nBuilding or Railways\nshould be Immediately taken up and\ndealt with. During the whole of last\nsession we find the premier making\npromises and at the end of Ihe session, as an excuse for his failure to do\nas he had promised, he promised a\nsummer session to deal wilh the railway question. Yet It la known lo\nevery one lhat, If he had ever any Intention of carrying OUt his pledges, he\nhas broken away front Hint Intention,\nWe find thnt he snys in the opening\nof the third session that he has this\nto say lu reference to Ihe constvuotton\nof railways iu (his province:\nhopes In the future. In tlit*\nt,ure. it will not he necessary\nihe people further for (be cc\nof railways or to alienate any portion\nof the public lands In Ihe form of\ngrants or subsidies to railway corporations. We all hope that, Mr. Speaker.\nWe hope that the potentialities will he\nsuch as to Induce the building of the\nrailways without assistance. In fact\nthat the potentialities will be such that\nthe people will not have to be taxed,\nbut that the natural resources of thc\npnovlnce will be sufficient to pay the\ncurrent expenditure without exacting\nfrom the people a further amount of\nmoney. We all hope these things, but\nthere is not a single sentence In the\nspeech Indicating what the gtivern-\nment propose to do as regards the railway situation.\nIt is well known\u00E2\u0080\u0094perhaps belter\nknown to the seconder of the address\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094that the premier and the members of\nthe government, with perhaps one or\ntwo exceptions, were in favor of giving\nto a large trans-contlnenlal railway\ncorporation Jl.GOO.OOO of the people's\nmoney for the construction of a railroad which Is now being constructed\nwithout the assistance of one dollar of\nthe money of the public. It was main\nly through the efforts of the seconder i cation of the children placed under their.\nthat that scheme was overthrown. It\nIs due to him and one or two others\nnow supporting the government, to\nthem is due the fact that the province\nIs not now saddled with a debt of $1,-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2hargc whether they agree with the\nlaw or whether they disagree with Ihe\nlaw. It ought lo he carried out, and\nthey ought to do their duty as ihe\nguardians of the interests nf these\nid lest tl\nconstruction, and yet we find In this | ince, or the highest courts in the Em-\nvery mlnute-of-council it Is stated that\nin addition to the land granted being\na terminus, it Is to be a townsite. It\nIs not given for railway purposes\nalone, it is not because it is nr-ressary\nI plr\nposition of ail.\n, test the questh\n; dial nit wlietlu\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 that the giving\nIhe people\n. railway d\nuestlon. in his own\nney-general he can\nfor himself, and can\nOr nni it can be said\nif ten square miles of\nland at the terminus of a\na townsite to the railway\nand has shown himself hi so far\nmore progressive than his leade\nll\"\n..<>;o!Ojo]ojo]-olo]ojo]oioi\u00C2\u00A9loioioio\nOlOOIOOiOOO\nmil\n.71\n).\").\n.1.7!\nIII\nu\n10 1\nio'\nlo\nBj\nTov\nU.0\nn\nTo]\nHI\n! [oT\nm\nH\n01\n0 I\nl*H\nm\n,h\nI 10\nJ. A. MACDONALD. KT. G\u00E2\u0080\u009E\nMember for Rossl-md and Leader of the Opposition In the Provincial Legislature.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094.*. - .j.\u00E2\u0080\u0094.;. - -*-r-*r- **\u00E2\u0080\u0094*. *.\u00E2\u0080\u0094.*.-\no-oo o oo o,o\n*0 'o IO 'ol O * -\n01\nfoT\n|0l\nTo'?'\nIII\nLo]\nEf\nTot\n1*1\nH\n[ol\nH\ni*i\n[ot\n1*1\n[o[\nToT\nR\nm i\u00C2\u00B0i\n-HP jo*\ntot\n*l\n0\n0\n! 0\nw\nfof I\nj.\u00E2\u0080\u0094*y-&\u00E2\u0080\u0094.>\u00E2\u0080\u0094a\u00E2\u0080\u0094-{. o*o- <. -a l\ni O 1 O- * -O ' O \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 O OlO of\ntails within secti-m lit) of ihe hand Act.\n! r have no oouht tlmt my*honorable\n. friend will\n'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'hat he\nI,ear fu-\nto burden\nnsiructloii\n5DO.00O towards the construction nf\nrailway hi Similkameen, and that to a\ncorporation which has, In all conscience, received enough from the people of Canada. (Applause.)\nCredit is also taken because the\nGovernment Has a Surplus.\nNow such credit might as well be\ntaken by a robber after he had relieved his victim of his possessions, because he too would have a surplus.\n(Laughter.) The finance minister has\nshown himself an expert at relieving\nthe people of their money and getting\nit into the treasury. If that Is what\nIs going to build the province then the\nfinance minister Is entitled to credit\nand more. I think that we will never\nbuild up this province by taxation.\nTaxation Is not the whole business of\na finance minister. I admit that it is\na pan of his business. I admit, as far\nas my honorable friend Is concerned,\nthat It ts part of his business lo Inflict\ntaxation upon the people, but it is the\nbusiness of a statesmanlike minister of\nPnauce to attempt out of the valuable\npublic resources of tills province to\n' meet the burden of current expendi-\n1 lure without heaping these additional\ni taxes upon the people.\nNo reference Is to be found In this\nspeech to Ihe\nSchool Act\n1 passed during the lusl session, which\nwe then contended was merely a mat-\ntor of revenue, and was intended lo\nrelieve thc treasury of the province of a\n| large burden In connection with the\nSchools, I presume that my honorable\nj friends opposite have followed public\nI opinion lu regnrd to that. There is a\n1 strong Impression from one end of the\ni province lo the other that thnt act was\nj an interference with the free schools\n, or Hritish Celumbla. It was the boast\ni of the people of British Columbia up to\n! the time of the passage of lhat act\nj that we had the freest schools In\nCanada, that no child, no matter\ni where the parents might reside, need\nI lack opportunities for education. It Is\nnow said, und said by trustees and the\nreeves of the different rural districts,\n! that the present act deprives the peo-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 pie of those free schools upon which\nj we prided ourselves. In ilfferent\nschool sections we find the trustees resigning and in others refusing to act.\n| And why Is It? In it because these\npeople are wrong In the position they\ntake and the government right, or is\nil because these people know the local\nconditions, and, therefore, know the\nimpossibility of carrying out that act'.'\n1 do not for one moment approve of\nthe trustees resigning their offices he-\ncause they are dissatisfied with the\nschool act. I think it Is the duty of\nthe irustees to look first after the edu-\nchlldreti by seeing that the hest is\nmade of a bad act. It Is the duty of\nthis House after seeing ihe opposition\nraised against that act to come at the\npresent session of the legislature and\nRepeal That Act.\n(applause.) and restore to the people\nthe free schools of the past\nI submit that there should have been\nsomething said in ihe speech from the\nthrone with regard to many of the\npublic questions which are now agitating the minds of the people. It has\nbeen a cause of serious complaint that\nsettlers coming in are unable to ascertain what lands are open for settlement and what lands are not so open.\n1 pointed out In other sessions that it\nwas tiie bounden du*ty of the government to\nHave Surveys Made\nso that settlers coming lu would be\nable to get a title to the land.- upon\nwhich they settled. I lind no reference In Ihe speech to that subject. 1\ndo not find the government awake to\nthe necessity of such a measure, although the people are entirely awake\ntn the urgent necessity existing, it\nhas been demanded irom time to lime\ntiiat there should be some systematic\narrangement, some systematic plan,\nadopted by the government so that\nthese surveys of the land might he\nmade.\nNow, Mr. Speaker, credit las been\nIn Ken by the government for the passage of what has been denominated a\nuilnutc-of-ciaincil relating to Ihe terminus of the Urand Trunk Pacific railway. The mover of the address said\nthat he was alarmed when he lirst\nheard of It. I will venture lo say that\nIhe first reports were not In the slightest degree more alarming than the\ndocument itself. Thc lirst reports\ncame out that the government had\nsold Kl.nOO acres of Kaien Island for SI\nan acre, but what do we find when the\ndocument comes to hand'.' We find the\ngovernment, purporting to act under\npowers alleged lo he given by section\nai) of the Land Act, has undertaken to\ngive lo the Orand Trunk Pacific a\nbonus towards th- construction or lhat\nroad contrary to ihe provisions of the\nact. I have no hesitation in saying\nthai the government has done this in\nthe face and in ili<- teeth of Ihe statutes of lids province, and ihe proof\nmay be found in Hie iniiiute-of-councll\nitself. Section Xi of the Land Act provides thai the Lieut.-'b-vernor In\nCouncil may make grants of public\nland.** for immigration purposes or\nother purposes of public advantage\nnot being bonuses for the construction\nof Mil ways. There in Ali express prohibition against giving ihe lands for\nihe purpose of encouraging railway\nfor the right-of-way, ihe yards, roundhouses and wharves, hut It Is given as\na townsite to be sold to you aud I and\nthe rest, to be sold as town lots aud\na profit made for the Orand Trunk. Is\nthat carrying out either the letter or\nthe spirit of that act? If It Is, it Is\npermissible for the Lleutcnant-Goy-\nernor-in-Councfl to make grants of tInmost valuable pieces of land In the\nprovince, and they have granted the\nmost valuable piece of land that ihe\ngovernment had to deal with, they\nhave given it to a railway corporation.\nFifteen square miles, because that is\nwhat 10.000 acres means, 15 miles of\nthe choices! piece of land, that which\nwill be the future metropolis of the\nnorth, they have given away, for what? I\nFor a bonus to that road and for the\npurpose of securing a profit by selling j\n1 tbe lots to those who choose to buy.\nj If It is permissible to give away 10.- ]\nj 000 acres without consulting the people [\nI of this province, or their represents-\nj tlves, the members of this Mouse, then [\n, it Is permissible to give every townsite\nj on the 800 miles of this road In thc '.\nprovince, and every valuable piece of\n! bind through which the railway passes\nlo the Orand Trunk Hallway Company,\nWhere Is This Going to stop*:\n) IT you can give away every townsite .\nI from one end of the province to the\nj oilier, everything which Is of real value\napart from the fanning lands, ami tli''\nminerals, and the limber. If you can ,\ni give gway everything thai Is of special\n! value by reason of its position on that j\n' road, in the face of tho l*and Act, '\n, where Is this going to Stop? There '\nI will be no necessity to come to this\ni legislature and ask for a bonus, or to\ni ask us to assent in giving away the \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nj public assets Of the province. All lhat\n! will be necessary will be for the Premier to declare that It Is lo the public\ni advantage, and by a nilnule-of-eouncil ;\nI to give. It away for the assisting or en- j\n: eouriiglug of every railway lhat comes '\n' along.\nI suppose it will be denied that my\n1 position is sound, but I will say this, .\nt Mr. Speaker, we have an attorney-gen-\nj era I. [he head of the legal profession\nj In this province, n gentleman of grent I\nlearning. I would ask him If he Is pre- [\ni pared to get up In his place In this\nI House and affirm that he will guatan- ,\n| tee the ininute-of-council, aud say thai\n, Ihe government hnve the power to ;\n. gram that land, not for terminal faclll-\n! ties, but for a lownstte\u00E2\u0080\u0094that the gov-\n1 ernment have the right hy that minute-\nof-councll to give that valuable town-\nI site lo Ihe Orand Trunk Hallway Com-\n, pany I say that If he will get up lu\nIlls place, and declare lhat It Is in ae-\n'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ordance with the statute which It\npurports lo follow. T will challenge him\n| lo go h\u00C2\u00BBfore ihe rourls of Ihis pro.- ,\nNot Accept Thai Challenge.\nThey have not strictly according to the\nmlnute-of-eounell given ihis land to\nthe railway coinpany; they have given\nIt to Ernest Victor Bodwell. They\nhave given him fifteen square miles of\nlaud at the terminus for the purpose\nof h*a obtaining the terminus being\nupon lhat piece of laud. Why la this\ndocument made out In (he name of\nErnest Victor Bodwell? He Is the representative of the Grand Trunk, heap- .\npeared as their solicitor, but It Is not j\nusual to make out documents In the\nnume of the solicitor, but hi the name\nof the client. The reason 1 will leave '\nto the members of Ihis House. This j\npiece of valuable land was tied up In\nthe hands of tiniest Victor Bodwell.\nand thos.* who surrounded him before\never the Urand Trunk were consulted\nabout It at all. and It was for tiniest\nVictor Bodwell to obtuln the location\nof ihe terminus upon these lands. If\nhe was uctlng strictly for the Grand\nTrunk there was no necessity for\ngranting Ihe land Ihe way It was. but I\nhe was being placed in a position\nwhere he could gel something out of I\nft for himself or for his associates |\napart from the Grand Trunk. This\nland given for the public advantage\nwas not given to the (Irand Trunk, but\nll was gfvert to a\nClique of Speculators\nto make a profit out of it. aud then\nhand il over to the railway company.\nNow ihis act of giving hy mluute-of-\ncouncll the lands of Die province to a\ncorpotatlon Is merely following out the\npolicy Inaugurated hy this government\nfrom Ihe Start, ll commenced with\nthe giving to a few favored individuals of lands on Kiilmaat harbor,\nwhich were on reserve. The public\nwere excluded. The ordinary public\naccording to the notions of this government, have no business lo get any\npublic lands. The land ts put under\nreserve and favorites t ome in. and\ngrants are made lo ihem over the\nheads of those really entitled to them.\nThat was the policy adopted in connection with the land at Kltlniaal harbor, tbe same policy of taking the disposal of the public lands out of the\npeople.\nThe same policy was followed last\nsession when the government came to\ndeal with the\nSonghees Heserve.\nTher? Is a valuable asset to thi- province, and also to the city of Victoria.\nThe reserve Is situated almost In the\nheart of the city of Victoria, and ll has\nbeen an eyesore to the people of Victoria for years, ll Is a piece of land\nof exceptional value, and ihe government were not disposed to allow ll to\nbe dealt with hy this legislature as the\nreprtvsentallves of the people. K was\ntaken out of Ihe control of the general\nLand Act and placed In the hands of\nthe Chief Commissioner of Lands and\nWorks or ihe Lleutenant-Governor-tn-\nCouncil.\nThen follows this Kaien Island deal.\n1 say lhat tliere Is a sleady effort to\ndeal with the assets of the province\nwithout consulting (he representatives\nof the people lu this House. I hope\nthat before they go buck lo the people\nfor election my honorable friends will\ncome oui very plainly fiol only In regard to Ihe assistance of railways, bui\nalso with regard to lids disposal of\npublic lands, if ihe govern men I coej to\nIhe country for election wltlioul laving before Hie people what ll prOpOB '\nto do whh the public bindH, If the premier goes io iii>- people claiming that\nwherever, in his opinion, it is in the\npublic (nteresl to give a grant .il land\nfor iaMway purposes, tu give ihe land\n a\nsquare understanding on Hie matter.\nand avoid the friction between employers and employees, which has done\nso much to Injure the province. 1 am\nglad lo say Unit my advice whh taken,\nand the result h.is been the\nReductl f Hi- Working Uoura\nfrom li! to s in every mnelter In the upper country* and it was done without\nfriction between the employers and\nemployed, so thai 1 trusl that n matter which threatJlf I\nyi'fi-Hi j notice that ojy of\nthe government did in the new Assessment bill of last year was to reduce the\ntax on wild land by 20 per cent. They\nput a large acreage of land formerly\nassessed as wild land into a different\nclass as timber lands. So that, sir, instead of paying ft per cent, assessment\nnt. wild lands, they now pay but 2 per\ncent, as timber lands. In addition\nwe find a large area now assessed as\ncoal tond and paying but 2 per cent,\ninstead of 5 per cent, ns formerly. But\nwhat do we find ns to tbese cnal lands\nadjoining coal mines ? We find thnt\nthe government looked aft'er the coal\nmining companies for they allowed\nevery coal company which had eoal\nlands adjoining their mine. For every\n25 cents paid In royalty the government exempted one acre of their lands\nfrom being classed ns wild lands. Sir,\nalthough we have no positive information, nor reliable Information, such as\nthe public accounts on this head, I\nhave not the slightest hesitation In\nsaying Hint the result of that change\nwill be to enable the coal companies\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwhich seem to be such an object of hatred to the dictator from Nanaimo, because of their oppression of the workingman\u00E2\u0080\u0094it allows these companies,\nmaking their millions, I say. sir, It\nenables them to evade the payment of\ntaxes on their wild land. (Applause)\nLet us pnss from the Assessment act\nwith Its many amendments, in consider\nthe legislation passed by this government under the head of Land Act\namendments. It Is within the recollection of this House that when the\ngovernment Introduced this legislation\ndeputation after deputation wafted\nupon the government. The hotels of\nthis city were full with men from all\nportions of the province, groups upon\nevery street corner discussed adversely\nthe government proposals, and the corridors of this building were crowded\nwith int-n\nProtesting Against This Legislation.\nLegislation, sir, which confiscated\nthe value of the timber upon crown-\ngranted lands. We find that the government turned a deaf ear to the petition of these men and positively refused to grant any concession whatever. They Insisted on confiscating the\nvalue of this timber. The protest\nagainst this legislation wns not confined to the large speculator class, so\nthe appeal was In vain. Take It In\nmy own district. What was the effect of tbis proposed legislation. ? We\nbave a large area of lands within the\n20-mile C. P. R. belt. We find tbe regulations of the Dominion government\nwere very liberal towards the settlors\nat they should be, where the difficulty\nof clearing land Is so great. They\ngave every settler a homestead of 160\nacres free, and after Borne little time\nthey followed thnt up by a free gift\nor tbe timber on the land. It was absolutely necessary to enable the settler to clear his land that he should be\nIn a position to sell the timber nnd\nhave the proceeds to clenr his homestead. Compare the policy of the Liberal government at Ottawa with thnt\no.\" the Conservative government nt Victoria. The government at Ottuwa listened to the prayer of the nctual set-\ntiers on the land and gave them the\ntimber for nothing, and scarcely was\nthe ink dry on their grants wben this\ngovernment introduced legislation to\nconfiscate the whole vnlue of the timber. Deputation after deputation\nwaited upon tho government nnd laid\nthese facts before them, and what was\nthe result ? Tbe government said thai\ntbey were In a tight place and that\nthey had to do It. That wns the\nanswer these gentlemen received from\nthe first Conservative government of\nBritish Columbia, Owners of shingle\nmills who proposed to manufacture the\ntimber on tbese homesteads found that\nthe effect of the proposed legislation\nwould be to render their operation Impossible so that tho government, by Introducing this legislation, would be\nclosing up these promising industries.\nWe found that tho effect nf thf* proposed legislation would be to Impose a\nvery heavy tax upon the logs cut upon these homestead?, nnd there wns a\nproposition made thnt if these logs\nwere manufnetnred In the province\nthere would be a rebate which would\nmake the value of timber on homesteads just the same as thnt of the\ntimber on crown lauds which had\nnever had anything done to them in\nthe shape of hi*>p,'ov*--m**nr. After ul!\nthese deputations bad hcon down here,\nthe members of them proceeded to\nmake a canvass of the members of this\nHouse. There was no trouble what\never with the members of the oppost-\ntion. They, to a mnn, were unalterably opposed to a policy of confiscation.\nTo tbe laBtlng credit of the member for\nNew Wcutminitor he told the government\u00E2\u0080\u0094the much vaunted first Conservative government of the province of\nBritish Columbia\u00E2\u0080\u0094lhat while he was\nprepared to support the party, he and\nothers of his colleagues whom he had\nconsulted wer-\u00C2\u00BB not p*\"pared to arbitrarily confiscate the property of thest\nland owners. It wus owing to tbe determined stand of the opposition, assisted by somo three or four of the\ngovernment supporters, that the gov\nernment were compelled to recede from\nthe position tiiey had taken up, and\nthis tax of 50 cents per thousand feel\nwas reluctantly reduced to 1 cent per\nthousand feet, l well recollect the determined attitude taken up by tho\nfinance minister when this question\nwns before Ihe House. He first held\nout for 50 cents per cord on shingle\nbolts, then hi maintained M should be\n3.1 cents, and then SB cents, ami finally,\nwhen it was argued lhat shingle bolts\nshould be fronted ns ordinary lumber,\nhe reluctantly consented, and the taxation, as 1 said before, Ir now 1 cent\nper cord and 1 Cant per thousand feet.\nThat Is due, sir, entirely to the action\nof the Liberal members of th in House.\nWe next come to the timber license\nquestion. One of tbe greatest objections to the timber license system was\nthat licenses wore issued from year tn\nyear, and there was no security of\ntitle. The government In 1903-4 emu-led legislation, authorizing tho Issuing\nof licenses for 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 years. The\nfees being paid In a lump sum by this\nmeans, the government secured in ono\nyear moneys which should properly belong to the revenue of following years.\nThen last year we have tho proposition\nfor an entirely new system of licensing. But what do we find when the\ngovernment proposed to give continuity of title for a period of 20 or 21\nyears? We find, sir, the timber\nSpeculators Had Inside Knowledge\nof the proposed legislation, and they\nwere thus enabled to stoke off and\nacquire licenses for Immense areas\nowing entirely to their knowledge of\nthe proposals of the government.\nLargely, as -a result of their surrept-\n.'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nitlous knowledge, the public accounts\nshow that the revenue from timber licenses and royalty was considerably\nover (100,000. We know, as a matter\nof fact, that the Increased amount of\ntimber manufactured, according to the\nstatement of the minister of finance,\nwas one hundred million foot, nnd that\nthis produced a revenue of not more\nthan $50,000. But We find that the revenue jumpoil to an nmount considerably over $100,000. showing thnt the inside knowledge of the speculators enabled them to take up vast areas of\npublic lands und thus to tnke full ad-\nvnntage of their knowledge of the proposed legislation. Now. sir, wbat was\nthat proposed legislation? Licenses\nwore to be Issued from yoar to year,\nand were subject to any Increase In\nroyalties which the legislature saw fit\nto Impose. Then there was another\nlause under which holders of timber\nlicenses Issued before the passing of\nthe act were to be given the right to\nrenew their licenses for un additional\nperiod of sixteen years, and fixing tha\nmaximum royalty payable under such\nrenewed licenses at 00 cents per thousand feet. When you came to consider\nthat in the near future it muy be\nnecessary to Increase tho royalty for\ntho purpose of augmenting the revenue of 75 cents or $1, or even more,\nyou can easily see the Immense advantage these speculators have over the\nordinary license holder. The favored\nIndividuals who, on account of inside\nInformation, were enabled to stake off\nlarge areas of our timber lands, have\nthus added to the value of their holdings. When we consider the fact that\nIt may be found necessary for the\npurpose of Increasing the revenue to\nraise this royalty on timber to 75 cents\nor even $1, or possibly 52. the Immense\nspeculative value of these licenses can\neasily be seen, they become a most\nvaluable property solely on account of\nthe inside knowledge obtained by the\nholders. When this matter wus being\nthreshed out on the floor of this House,\nwe had the honorable the third member for Vancouver declaring thut It\nwas good policy to give the speculator\na good chance In the province of Br't-\nIsh Columbia. I do not know, sir, what\nposition that honorable gentleman will\ntake when next he solicits tho suffrages of the electors. But I do think\nthat the electors of British Columbia\nwould prefer that these values should\ninure to the benefit of the whole people rather than this speculator.\nI think there is another point in\nronncetlon with this matter worthy of\nnnr attention. We have a class of\ntimber lands held under leases with a\nroyalty of 50 cents; wo have another\nclass of timber license where tho royalty Is limited to 60 cents, and we have\na large number of licenses\u00E2\u0080\u0094new 11-\ncenses\u00E2\u0080\u0094 where the royalty mny bo advanced to any sum this legislature\nsees fit to impose. I do not think It Is\nto the best Interests of the province\nthnt Ihis state of affairs should exist.\nI say the proper position for the government to take was to give all the\nlicensees the opportunity to renew\ntheir licenses under tbe same conditions and with the same privileges\npossessed by those taking out new licenses. That would have been a sound\npolicy, a good business policy, and\nI here tn a good deal of talk about\ngraft these days. There should be no\ngraft, nor should opportunities he\ngiven for graft. I maintain, sir, that\nit would hove been a much better and\nmore business like policy had the government first taken some steps to ascertain the extent nnd nature of our\ntimber resources, so that they would\nhave at their disposal reliable information to lay before the capitalist\nwhen he sought to invest In this province. We\nShould Have a Uniform System\nof dealing with our timber resources,\nand it is much to be regretted that\nthe government havo neglected this\nopportunity of inaugurating a business\nlike and straightforward policy In this\nconnection. (Applause.)\nThen, sir, we have this session numerous amendments to the Land Act.\nJudging by their general tenor and by\ntho speeches made In their support,\nwe are forced to the conclusion that\nthis legislation was Inspired by the desire of the chief commissioner of lands\nnnd works to got even with Mr. Emerson, of Vancouver. We find legislation tn force the hand logger to return\nto the primitive methods of fifty years\nbark. The hand logger was to be denied the assistance of steam power,\nand tho hand of time was to be turned\nback fifty years or more. That was\nthe kind of legislation the government\nsought to Impose upon the province.\nWe now come to the Loan Act Introduced by the government. Owing to\nthe financial position of tbe government tt was claimed that It was absolutely necessary to float a loan for $1,-\nOOo.dOO. It wns proposed that that loan\nshould bear Interest at 5 per cent., and\ntbat It should be repayable In ten\nyears by yearly Instalments. Tho opposition took the position that the\nStringency in the money mnrkot was\nonly temporary, and moved In amendment that It was not advisable to Issue the loan for a longer period than\nthroe years, during which time a new\nloan might be Issued for Ihe purposo\nof taking up the temporary loan at a\nmuch more reasonable rnto of Interest,\nprobably 3 per cent. The government\nof the duy would not listen to this rcn-\nsonablfl proposition, It wns polntei)\nout in them that the annual repayment, coupled with the high rate of\nInterest amounted to $150,000, nnd that\ntho result would he that the government would not hnve the necessary\nmoney to lay out In reproductive\nworks, such ns roads, streets nnd\nbridges, as It would be Impossible to\nstill maintain tbese nnd keep up the\nInstalments on the loan, and we find\ntImt the appropriations for these very\nnecessary public works have heen less\nthan one half the amount of the former appropriations. Sir, tbe position\ntho opposition then took up wns more\nthan justified loss than two years afterwards. Less than two years after\nthe Issuing of that lonn the municipality of North Vancouver and Ihe\ncity of Vancouver borrowed money at\n4 per cent. Tbat Is to say that n new\nmunlo.lpnllty was In a bettor position\nto borrow money than the province of\nBritish Columbia. I say, sir. that under a -vlser administration iIn- province of British Columbia would be In\na position to borrow money at a cheap*\ner rate thnn a new municipality, when\nit bus a very heavy debt bs North\nVancouver already has. I maintain,\nsir, that tbe government of this province should, nt all events, bo able to\ndo ns Well as a new nnd heavily burdened municipality. (Applause.) Whnt\npositlofi are we in to-day? Last ses\nsion, sir, I called the attention of thi**\nHouse to the fact that this wise and\nbusiness-like government was paying\ninterest at the rate of 5 per cent, on an\noverdraft of over $300,000, at the same\ntime they had In hand $500,000, which\nwas only yielding 3 per cent. In other\nwords, owing to their lack of business\nforesight the government were throwing away 2 per cent, on $300,000,\namounting to $6,000 per annum. I am\nglad to say that this matter having\nbeen urged upon the finance minister,\nand the Information given him, he proceeded to act upon ft, and he has Blnce\npaid off that overdraft. If the honorable gentleman will pay more attention to the Information and advice\nwhich he receives from this side of the\nHouse, If it should be his good fortune to make another annual financial\nstatement, I make no doubt but that\nhe will be In a better position than\nhe Is to-day. (Applause.) We find,\nsir, that ihe debentures authorized under this Loan Act were issued somewhere about March 1st, 1904; we find,\naccording to the public accounts, tbat\non ihe 30th June, 1904, $536,000 stood to\nthe credit of tho province nt current\naccount at the Bank of Commerce; we\nfind on the 31st December, 1904, $402,000\nof this money stood to our credit; we\nfind that on the 15th February, 1005,\n$554,000; on the 30th June, 1905, $525,000,\nand on the mst December last we find\n$622,000 standing to our credit. In\nother words, under this Loan Act we\nare paying 5 per cent on $1,000,000, and\non an average have $538,000 lying in\nthe bank at current account, for which\nwe receive 2 per cent., a loss of 2 per\ncent, to the province, or over $10,000\nper annum. I think, sir, tbat If the\nhonorable gentleman, tbe minister of\nfinance, will take such matters as this\nInto consideration, he will find himself\nIn a position to make a more satisfactory financial statement than he has\ndone. (Applause.)\nWe were told the other day by the\npremier, with his usual truthfulness,\nthat the Liberals opposed the taxation\nof railways. Sir, you can take the\nJournals of this House and turn up\nthe record of that Railway Assessment\nBUI, and you will find that that bill\npassed Its second reading without any\ndivision of the House. You will find,\nsir, that we did not oppose the increased taxation of railways. You will\nfind, sir, that we did protest emphatically against the discrimination\nshown as between one railway and anther. It was pointed out that some\nrailways that came within the scope\nof this bill would be paying at the\nrate of 1 per cent., and some of the\nothers as high as 38 per cent, of their\ngross Income taxation. It was pointed out thnt an equitable government,\na business like government, an Intelligent government, would ao have drawn\nup their legislation ns\nTo Bear Equitably\nupon all the companies. But who was\nIt, sir, who drew the attention of the\ngovernment to this much needed legislation? Who wns It pointed out to\nthe government of the day, the neees-\nslty of making the railway companies\nbear their fair share of the burdens of\ntbe province? Did that suggestion\ncome, Bir, from the government side of\nthe House? If you will turn to the\njournals of the House, sir, for 1908, at\npage 56, you will find that It was Mr.\nSmith Curtis, at thnt time and able\nLiberal member of this House, a man\nwho Is known and respected throughout the length and breadth of the province, you will find, sir, that It was\nthat gentleman who pointed out to the\noccupants of the government benches,\nthat the railway companies were not\npaying their fair share of taxation. It\nwas the exposure then made which\nled to the Increased taxation of railways. In this connection, members of\n(his House will doubtless call to mind\na little by play In which the leader of\nthe government took part. The premier was spreading himself on the\nfloor of this House and patting himself on the back because of his courage\nIn Introducing this legislation, when\nsuddenly a page of the House was\nseen to hurry out and return accompanied by the\nDictator From Nanaimo.\nSo soon as the Inst nnmed takes his\nseat he asks the premier, \"Have you\nreceived any protests from the railway\ncompanies?\" At once the premier\ndives into his pocket, puils out a yellow paper and reads a protest from\nthe C. P. R. Sir, the honorable gentleman evidently thinks the members on\nthis side of the House do not appreciate a idee little piece of clap-trap of\nthat sort. We have had our eyes opened for some time, and whilst the premier of the privonce and his dictator\nfrom Nannlmo may condescend, we, on\nthis side of the House, think It he-\nneath our dignity to resort to such\npetty tricks. (Applause.)\nWe now come to the\nDyking Act\nof last session. Here again, sir. we on\nthis side of the House were fully alive\nto the difficulty of settling the question, and we were fully prepared to\ngive our support to any reasonable\nmeasure tending te a satisfactory nolu-\ntlon of the question. But, sir, what did\nwe find when this legislation was\nbrought down? Why, sir. the paid\nagent of speculators frequenting the\ncorridors and galleries of this House,\nFurthermore, when this matter came\nup for discussion we find this pnld\nngettt of speculators sitting In the galleries and contradicting n statement\nmade on the floor of this House by a\nmember of tills House; we find this\npaid agent of speculators vacating tho\nposition In the galleries nnd denying\nthat he had uttered the contradiction\nnnd laying the blame on some mys-\nterlOUB iwrsou strongly resembling him.\n(Laughter and applause.) We find thnt\nIhis bill has added In round numbers\n$600,000 to the burdens of the people.\nThis burden has been saddled upon the\npeople of the province, and this Is a\nbill in the Interest of speculators. We\nfind this to be the position: In Chlllt-\nwack, where the land Is nearly all\nowned by settlers, the reduction pro-\nI posed was 13 per cent., and In Matsqul,\n: where a portion only of the land fs\n; owned by speculators, the proposed e-\nduotlon wns 23 per cent.; in Maple rld-\n; In| there wns a proposed reduction of\n. 48 per cent.; In Coqultlam, where there\n1 are few settlers, a proposed reduction\nof 63 per cent,: In Pitt Meadows, where\ni there Is not a single settler, there ts a\n| reduction of 63 per cent. In other\n! w-rtr-19. the Arnoniit'of r-Pdu. tlnn atlow-\nI ed these districts Is In Inverse ratio to\nthe number of bona fide settlers tn the\nplace, t characterise this bill as\nA Rajik Speculator's bill.\n[This Is k-i^-t^iiient legislation on I haif of the -\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0peculator as opposed to\nthe bona fide settler on the land. I\nwould warn the minister of finance\nthat if he be really desirous to develop\nThose natural resources Of which he\nclaims to have such an exalted opinion, then. sir. be must in the future\nfollow a very different policy to that\nwhich baa been pursued by the government in the past. (Applause.)\nWe come now, sir. to what? We find\nthe government Introducing last year a\nbill entitled \"An act to amend and consolidate the School Act.\" Imagine, sir.\nIf It be possible for you to do ho, the\ngovernment calling such a piece of\nlegislation as this an net to amend anything. We must lay ll cither to their\naudacity or their ignorance. Anything*\nworse than the bill of last year Is not\nto be found lu the civilized world outside of Russia. T am surprised that the\npeople of British Columbia have not\nprotested more emphatically ugalnst It\nHut, sir, they are a law-abiding people, and knowing that there was but a\nshort two yearn from the passage of\nthat hill until they would hnve an opportunity of\nItedreBfi hy Constitutional Means,\nfhey nre hut wailing their opportunity,\nand. sir, I am much mistaken If they\ndo not follow the example set them by\nthe Mother Country and wipe the government and their School Act out of\nexistence. What does this bill do? It\nreduces the salaries of the school\nteachers and discriminates against,\nlitem: It discriminates against the outlying districts. We find, sir, that 76\nschools out of 200 positively refused to\nvole one single dollar for the purposes\nfif this act; we find some school dis-\niricts refusing to elect trustees; we\nfind other districts refusing to supplement the grant; wo find many of the\nteachers, finding tbey could get no increase of salary beyond that ullowed\nby tbe government, resigned; and we\nfind lhat tbe government actually propose (hat ibese teachers shall not be\nallowed to resign their positions until\nthe end of the school term. The government, sir, is thus attempting to\ndragoon these school teachers so that\nliiey cannot resign, and that In the\nprovince of British Columbia. (Applause). We have been told by the\nfinance minister that thc whole eaving\nin ihe cost of education was $13.7r>S less\nlhan Ins! year. Sir, Ihe honorable\ngentleman proceeded to tell us that six\nmonths of the year comes In under the\npew act, so that the saving for ono\nyear may bo taken as sumeihing like\n$27,000. We fiud in the year ending\n1904 that the vote for education amounted to $441.01)0; for the year ending\n1006 the vote for education was $444.-\nOOO\u00E2\u0080\u0094un iucreuse for the year of $;:,000.\nI muy say that these figures are taken\nfrom tho estimates for the different\nyears and they, llierefore, Know un estimated saving of $30,000. We find, sir,\nthat the tax on real property for the\ncoming year Ih estimated to produce\n$\u00E2\u0096\u00A0,'35,000; the tax on personal property\nto produce *J12r>.O0t>. and the lax on wild\nland to produce $100,onri. sir, If you put\none mill on the dollar on these three\nHems you will find dial It will reHtilt\nIn a revenue of over $45,000, showing\nconclusively that one milt on tho dollar\non the assessment roll will realise\n$-16,000 per annum In excess of what\nthe linan.ee minister claims to he the\namount saved by this act. I submit,\nsir, (bat It Is\nNot a Business Proposition\nto disarrange the whole of the legisla-\nlion regarding education, to decrease\nihe efficiency of our schools, to cut\ndown the salaries of ihe teachers, and\ncause the widespread discontent which\nthis legislation has caused for thy sake\nof tho saving tn the treasury of an impost of one mill on the dollar. Take\nthis present year; the minister nf finance has pointed out that tliere is a\nsaving i>f (13.750 on Ihe six months.\nDoes this represent a saving to the\npeople? Is it nol a fact lhat this\nmoney has still to bo provided? In 124\nschool districts the deficiency caused\nby this dangorous system has got to\nbe made good, and Ihe school districts\nhnve to Increase the teachers' salaries\noyer what was formerly found sutfici-\nfjit. For the reason lhat under thc\nprovii-'lnns of ibis School Aet not one\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0lollar of the money to be collected will\nbe available till nexi year, and when\nvou soy to a lonelier. \"Please to wait\nfor a part of your salary unlit next\nyear,\" It is only right lhat lhat salary\nshould he increased as some compensation for the inconvenience caused hy\nihe withholding of a part of Ihe teacher's earnings. I am sorry to see that\ntny honorable friend tho member for\nNanaimo is not In his seal, because i\nwant to draw the attention of that\nE-enllemun to the fact that school\nteachers nre .just as much dependent on\ntheir earnings as ihe workers in mines,\nind yet be und his friends havo supported legislation which withholds\nrrom these wage earners u portion of\nlhplr earnings for twelve months, T\nwill leave bim to Justify bis position\nif he can. Not only does the necessity\nlo raise this additional money exist,\nbut there is the cost of assessing and\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ollectlng his money In die different\ndistrict*-. -Ve Hod. sir. that In the\n{yerage rural school district ii is worth\nt) per cent, on the dollar to collect this\nhoney. Then, sir. wbat do we find as\nmother result of this bill? Wo find\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2he honorable the minister of finance\nmm frig down here and tolling us lhal\n* is necessary lo provide $9,600 to pny\ntddltlonal .issessors. conclusively proving oot of the honorable gentleman's\nDWn mouth that It will be necessary\nI\" in-Tense the number of government\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2>m.-lals in order lo set this additional\nrnachlnery In motion, machinery ere-\nited, sir. by this statute. 1 have stat-\n'd that this legislation will\nWork Peculiar Hardship\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2tn the outlying districts. I have a\nrommunicatlon here. sir. from a man\nwho Is an utter stranger to me. He\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ays. sir, lhat the trustees for the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ii'hools of New Denver are about to\noorrow money from the Bank of Mon-\ntrpal at 12 per cent, on their personal\nnote In order to carry on the schools.\nHon. Mr. Fulton: \"Good for them!\"\nMr, Oliver: The honorable the minister of education says, \"good for\nlhetn.\"\"but I say thai any body of j\nicliool trustees who will borrow Money\nui their personal note for the purpose\nif carrying on the schools committed |\nlo Jhelr care have a great deal moro I\nommon sense, more thought for the j\njublic wetfnre and more business abll- I\nIty than the mlnlsler of education or\nhe government thai endorsed thifl hill. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n(Applause.) to ihir* I'onneclloti, the |\nLiberals on the fb-or of thi\" .House, sir,\nisk-e ih* position Ihsi lt>*'ild be bet-\nI\nter to revert to the conditions existing\nbefore the passage of this bill. We\ntake this position. The resources ot\nthe provinco handled In a statesmanlike way will provide a very large revenue, and we take the position that\nall tbe people of the province have an\nequal right to participate In the benefits accruing from the development of\nour natural resources, no one person\nbeing entitled io more than another,\nand further that the revenue so derived cannot be more equitably expended\nthan In maintaining a proper educational system, and lhat tbe revenue so\nderived should be expended for the\nbenefit of the people as a whole. I\ndesire, sir, to call your attention to the\nfact lhat this reprehensible legislation\nwas supported hy the so-called Social-\nits party In ibis House, by the dictator\nfrom Nanaimo and his friends. It was\nsupported by these gentlemen, although ihey were well aware that It\nWeighed Most Heavily\non the poorer sections of the province,\nbin on account of their compact with\nthe government of the day they are\nprepared to support this legislation the\nprinciple of which they condemn. They\nsupport It simply because they are carrying out their compact Willi Ihe government of tbe day by doing so, but,\nsir, what does tho shrewd. iar-seelng\nmember for Nanaimo do? He dictates\nto the government. He says: \"1 will\nsupport this legislation, but you must\nand you shall exempt from its operation all the lands within (he- Esquimau & Nanaimo railway bolt outside\nmunicipalities. It Is bad legislation. I\nwill support you, but I will not allow\nyou to inflict it on the district which I\nrepresent and the district with which\nmy interests are hound up.\" Then,\nsir, we have before us a proposition\nfor the amendment of ihis legislation,\nThe governmenl one year ngo passed\na bill of 12S sections, and this year they\nfind It necessary\u00E2\u0080\u0094Just as they have\ndone with Ihe Assessment bill\u00E2\u0080\u0094to\nbring down a bill of B7 sections to\namend Ihe bill of 128 sections. That,\nair, is another example of what the\ngovernment calls well considered legislation. This Is Ihe class of legislation\nwhich Ihey had the audacity lo tell us\nthe otber day met with the approval of\nthe masses of the people. (Applause.)\nThe premier denounced myself as the\nman who had stirred up all the trouble,\nbut lie could not substantiate his statement by one atom of proof. The fact\nremains, this legislation which the premier termed \"well conceived\" now\nstands In need of a further bill of 68\nsections to amend It, ft having been\nIn operation only a few days. It Is\nproposed to amend this bill so far as\nIhe rural municipalities are concerned\nby cancelling all school districts and\nthe election of all school trustees, and\nby throwing the municipality all into\none school district. I have In my district two municipalities, each 10 miles\nin width, and a length of 15 miles.\nThese municipalities cover an area of\n140 to 150 square miles, in each of\nwhich some 15 schools are situated.\nThese schools are from 13 to 18 miles\napart, and some of our roads are such\nlhat it is Impossible to travel them except on a good stoftl horse. We have\nall these schools to be put Into the\nhands of five trustees, Those gentlemen ore supposed to be so patriotic\nthat they are prepared lo devote the\nnecessary time to attend without remuneration lo ihe welfare or the\nschools. 1 say. sir. that such a proposal is well worthy of the brain from\nwhich it emanated; it Is a proposal\nwhich would do credit to one of the Inmates of Ihe government institution at\nNow Westminister, When it was pointed out lhat the\nSchool System Would Inevitably Suffer\nthrough throwing these responslblltles\nupon the shoulders of these five gentlemen, what did the minister propose?\nHe proposed Instead of bavlng five men\nto work for nothing, to huxe seven men\nwork for nothing. 1 cannot see, sir,\nhis idea In this, It was not a matter\nof physical exertion; it was simply a\nmatter of time and trouble, and I can-\nnil see how ll would make li any easier\nfor the original live to give them two\nadditional i ravelling companions nor\nwould It make the roads any more passable, (Applause.)\nLet us now, sir, consider for a few\nmoments whal the government havo\ndone in the way of administration. One\nof the most Important questions which\ncame up for settlement was lu connection with tbe administering of the\nlands rescued from tho C. P. B, in\nSoutheast Kootenay. What did they\ndo in Ibis regard? What did they say\nto the applicants for prospecting licenses? They said, \"We'll give you all\nlicenses. Vou jusl band over $100 in\nlawful money of tho Dominion of Canada, and we'll give you all licenses\ncovering Ihe whole of these coal and oil\nlands. What has been thc result? A\ncertain amount of revenue has found\nIts way Into the treasury of tho pvov\nInce, and for the benefit of the gentlemen of tho long robe there bus been\nruised a very pretty crop of law suits.\nTbe action of the government simply\nfed In cotifusion worse confounded,\nSuch a state of affairs would not bave\nbeen possible if we bad hud a government lhal would have first ascertained\nthe exact condition or things and governed itself accordingly, As u consequence, ihe full Ure of the governmenl\nlo exercise due discretion has ted to\ngrave Injustice, I do not say this wns\nan easy matter to deal with, but there\nhas never yet been u difficulty which\nwas nol caiiahle ,,f some kind of solution. Thnt solution might do an Injustice to some, or an Injustice to\nothers because there nre situations\nwhere it Is not possible to\nDo Justice lo All.\n[tut when yen aro race lo face wilh a\nsituation of this sort, I lake It that the\nproper solution of the difficulty Is that'\none which would do tho least amount of\nInjustice. But in this case the government have Issued licenses overlapping\none another; In some cases I have been\nInformed, as many as twenty licenses\nhad been Issued ror the same land and\ncovering the same gr id. What was\nthe result? Instead of the country being developed, men who bad money\nwould not come near It. Tbey said, in\neffect, we nre buying mines and are\nwilling to lay nut our money In such \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nInvestments, but we are nol buying '\nlawsuits. Furthermore) no title can be I\nobtained to these lands In respect to\ncoal or oil, and for thus retarding the\nprogress nf the country I say that the\ngovernment is worthy of severe condom nn lion. (Applause.)\nThen, sir. we have tho government of\nihe day contrary to the provision*: of\nthe Land Act, engaged In the swap- |\nring of lauds and behaving like a common huckster. They even went the\nlength of employing a real estate agent\nto gl\e an opinion on the value of\nlands. We find them applying to their\nown officials, and we find Mr. Skinner,\nof Vancouver, a Ihoroughly competent official of the government, advising against tbe premeditated deal, so\nthey go and employ a real estate agent.\nI say, sir. lhat his report was made to\nill the exigencies of the case, and that\nthe government simply made an exchange of lands situated between New\nWestminster and Vancouver for swamp\nand other lands covered with worthies** timber. In tbe district of Coqult-\nlam, at a loss of thousands of dollars\nto the province.\nThen, sir, lake the dealing with the\nLands at Kitlmaat\nlast session. Tnke the sworn evidence\nof the chief commissioner of lands and\nworks. Who should have known all\nabout this mailer If be did not? It\nwas in his department, and yet he admits under oath that he only knew of\nthese transactions going on when they\nwere reported to bim by an outside\nparty altogether. Here is a gentleman puld $4,000 a year by the province to be the head of his department,\nad yet he has sworn thnt he did not\nknow what was going on In It.\nTake the position of tbe premier himself. We find that be hHs authorized\ngrants of land over bis own signature\nwhich he had to admit under oath\nought lo be cancelled. We find, owing lo the revelations before the investigating committee that of the land\nalienated by the government for the\npurposes of the Orand Trunk Railway\none quarter will bring In millions of\ndollars to the government. Thut was\nstated by the premier. Is It not plain,\nthen, that if one quarter\nWill Bring In Millions,\nthe other three-quarters will bring in\nthrice those millions ? We find that\nIhe government of the day for the paltry sum of one dollar per aore alienated these lands to a group of private\n-\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0peculators, and we have evidence\nthat these speculators purposed and\nhad made au agreement to alienate\nthem In their turn for a profit of $40,-\n000. Sir, there is a further menace; the\npremier did not say, and will not say,\nhow many more of these Becret agreements are In the archives of the government. We, ou this side of thc\nHouse do not know bow many of these\nKltlmaat-Katen-Burnaby transactions\nare hidden away In Ihe department.\nand, sir, it Is Impossible for us to\nImagine. These matters, however, are\ntoo fresh In the minds of the members\nof the House to Justify me In taking\nup time at the present juncture.\nI turn now to the position or the\nminister or mines. It Is well known\nthat this province Is rich beyond tbe\ndreams of avarice in mineral wealth.\nOur Mineral Wealth\nhas been a surprise to the whole of\nthe civilized world. The governmenl\nwere pledged to follow a certain line\nof policy when they came to this\nHouse, But, sir. when they were asked lo redeem their promises we find\nthem simply trifling with the representatives of the people. Sir, nothing,\nabsolutely nothing, has heen done by\nIhe minister of mines to redeem bis\npromises, nothing whatever bas been\ndone during his term of office to develop our vast mineral wealth. (Applause.)\nTurn for a moment fo the department of tbe attorney-general und what\ndo we find ? The honorable the attorney-general Is, T regret to say, absent or I had intended lo go fully Into\nhis career as attorney-general and to\nshow the people what kind of chief\nlaw officer of the crown they had, (Applause.)\nTake the\nAdministration of Justice\nir this province. It bas degenerated\ninto u farce. Sir, accused criminals\nhave been sent up for trial und the In-\nOfctments so drawn up that they did\nnot meet the offence. As a result, the\ntrial judge bad to say to the jury that\nI here was no evidence to lay before\nthem In support of the charge, In one\ncase, nfter this farce had been played,\ntbe culprit bud a hack waiting aud he\nwas crossing the boundary line In a\nshort time. Then came tho ridiculous\nby-play of an attempt to capture htm\nafter he had had hours of start on his\nwuy to the International boundary line.\nIn this province we have laws for the\nprotection of tbe people, but when the\nattorney-general is applied to, he says,\n\"It la not for me to take action,\" I\nhave communication after communication In which this gentleman has been\napplied to and In reply he says, \"I\nwill see justice done.\" In a few dnys\nanother communication is received in\nwhich he declines to net. For nearly\ntwo years I strove to call his attention\nte a glaring Injustice In my own constituency. Notwithstanding promise\nafter promise that matter stands today just where It did two yours ago.\nWe find the honorable gentleman\ntaking a nice little journey over to the\nOld Country at the\nExpense of the People\nof this province for the purpose of get-\nhug a couple or ruses sei down for\nappeal. Travelling as the Attorney-\nGeneral or the Province of British Columbia, it is beneath the dignity of\n(he honorable gentleman to travel\nwithout his COUrtlerS, He is unable io\ng. there tinlesB nltended by hh private secretary and. when he gets back\nAfter seining these two cases roi* appeal, the province Iihs to Toot the bill.\nHe Is a gentleman of such eminent legal ability that he thinks he would like\nanother trip lo the Old Country last\nyear to argue the street ends ease between the City of Vancouver and Ihe\nC. P. R. Such wus the opinion of the\npeople of Vancouver ns to bis ability\nthat, us soon us they heard tbat the\nattorney-general wns to nrgue the ense,\nIhey said, \"We wash our hands of the\nwhole affair; If you ure going to take\nIt up, wc won\" thave anything to do\nWith it.\" Well, sir, the honorable gentleman argued the cose with such rein.rkuble ability lhat he secured judgment with costs against his unfortunate clients. (Laughter and upplause.)\nIu addition to that, sir, tbe Province\nof British Columbia will have another\nI'llle\nBUI or Expenses\nto setlle or $1,501- or $1,000, and proh-\nuhly five oi six thousand more, for a\nbill of COItl for tho privilege of having\nthis legal luminary aigue a case before tbe Privy Council. The honorable\ngentlemen It: now enjoving a Utile trip\nIn Ottawa on private business. T\nthink, sir, that when thu people of\nthe country are called upon to pay a\nsalary of $4,000 per annum to this honorable gentleman, they are entitled to\nhis services, and If it be not sufficient\nto secure all his time, it would be better to increase his salary in order that\nthe business of the country may be attended to, or to dispense with his services altogether, and it is rumored\nthat the honorable gentleman will have\nlo adopt the latter alternative in the\nnear future. It is also reported, with\nsome show of reason, that there Is a\ndifference between the honorable gentleman and bis colfeagues as to a matter which relates to the C. P. R, It Is\na peculiar fact that hts absence from\nthis legislature tends to the belief that\nthere is a solid foundation for this rumor.\nSir, I, like the honorable the minister of finance, have unbounded faith\nin the\nPotentialities .. This Province.\nIn our climate we have a most valuable asset, an asset which has already\nbrought many here, and In the near\nfuture will bring many more from the\nNorthwest Territory, which Is not so\nblessed. It is the climate which will\nInduce many to come to this beautiful\nIsland for the purpose of settling; It\nIs the climate which will induce many\nto make homes upon the coast of the\nmainland. In addition we have vast\nnatural resources; we can offer the\ngreatest facilities for the purposes of\nstock raising and agriculture; we are\npossessed of great potentialities In the\nway of wator power for the generating\nof electricity and other purposes. At\nthis point, sir, let me make a contrast\nbetween this so-called Conservative\ngovernment and the Liberal administration at Ottawa. The government at\nOttawa conducted experiments which\ndemonstrated that\nSmelting of Iron Ores\ncan be carried on by means of electricity as a commercial enterprise. I\nsay, sir, tbat by that one thing alone,\nthe Liberal government at Ottawa has\ndone more for the development of our\nmineral resources than the Conservatives have done rlnee Confeacratlon.\nWe have large areas which produce\ngold, sliver and copper, and the in\nducements offered by the Dominion\ngovernment have led to the production of zinc as a commercial enterprise.\nSir, if we had a -wise provincial administration, one of their first acts\nwould be to take stock of the assets of\nthe province; they would take stock of\nthe timber resources; they would take\nstock of our coal, and our oil: they\nwould take stock of our vast fishing\npossibilities; they would institute\nnumerous exploratory ond Instrumental surveys, so that fhey would be tn\na position to direct Intending settlers\nlo such lands as they desire. To-day,\nsir, we are In a worse position as to\ntbe obtaining of such information as\nIs required by intending settlers than\nwe were when 1 first arrived in this\nprovince, some 29 years ago. There\nwas then more information available\nto the Intending settler than there Is\nto-day, Sir, we should send our surveyors to lay out and obtain information about these lands; steps should\nbe taken to ascertain their possibilities so as to induce tbe\nCapitalist and the Settler\nalike to come In. Then wo should be\nable to give both the capitalist and\nthe settler clear lilies, and we would\nnot stand for confiscation, as this present government bus stood. We would\nnot bave to break faith with those\nwith whom we made contracts, be\nthey corporations or private individuals. I say, sir, that we should not\nonly keep faith, but we should administer the property r.f the people of the\nprovince as asacred trust. (Applause.)\nBy a wise regulation and administration of the affairs of the people of the\nprovinco we would raise British Columbia to that proud position to which\nher vast natural resources entitle her\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe foremost province In this vast Dominion. Thnt, sir. Is our policy on this\nside of the House, and we feel confident that wben the day of a general\nelection comes, that policy will commend Itself to the people: we have a\nJust cause, undivided honesty of purposo, and we are confident, sir, that\nwe will meet with that approbation\nfrom the people to which our policy\nentitles us. (Loud and prolonged applause.)\nLEADER OF THE OPPOSITION\nREVIEWS WORK OF LAST\nSESSION AT VANCOUVER\nHE TAKES UP KAIEN\nISLAND QUESTION\nJ. A. Macdonald K. C\u00E2\u0080\u009E Tells ot the Difficulties Which the Opposition Hus\nHad to Encounter,\nThe Liberal Association in Vancouver recently took advantage of\nthe presence of J. A. Macdonald, K, C,\ntho leader jf the opposition In the local\nlegislature, In that city, and held a\nmeeting at which Mr. Macdonald reviewed the session. The meeting was\npresided over by Onpt. J, Duff Stuart.\nIn Introducing the leader of tbe opposition the chairman declared tbat the\nminority report In the Kaien Island\nmatter would Justify the phrase used,\n\"a land of adventurers, male und fe-\nmaitt.\" He suid thut Chas. Wilson has\nbeccme so i ick of the government tlmt\nho hud got out \"torn utuong them. He\npropher-tcll tht*: the government was\nriding to c luil\nJ. A. Mi.cdonuld's speech nl the\nmeeting Is reported In the News-Advertiser as follows:\nHe said that as there had been some\nfeeling on the part of some Liberals\nthut he had gone through the city several times without seeking to make\nhimself better acqunfntetd, he felt he\ncould not go back this time without\nmeeting in the manner In which he was\nnow meeting the Liberals of the greatest city in British Columbia. (Applause.) He knew they were a strenuous lot here, and did not need to go\nto the hulls of the legislature to find\nmen who were prepared to make a\nvigorous struggle for their own existence.\nProceeding to deni with questions of\npolitics, he said he did not say tbe opposition had done good work during\nthe session Just closed; he did not\nsay thut It had done nil that It was\npossible for Liberals to do lu the\nHouse, because a great many, no\ndoubt, thought that, to have done the\nvery best work, they ought lo bave\nturned the government out of power\naud got in themselves, but those who\nthought so knew nothing of the combination the opposition had lo face.\nThere were some Conservatives In ihe\nHouse, representatives of Vancouver,\nMho mude a claim Hint Ihey were Independent, who were Inclined to pose\nns Independents, and were inclined to\nvote against the government when\nthere wns no danger to the government, and poso before the electors as\nthe Independent representatives or ihe\npeople; bui whenever ii came to a\ndecisive test, no matter how much\nrpposed to the Interests or Vancouver,\nand to their own professed sentiments\nand beliefs, these same gentlemen were\nalways found lined up und voting In\nfavor of the McBride government.\nThen there were the Socialists, who\nwere supposed to huve principles\nwhich Liberals did not believe lu, and\nno more did Conservatives; but whenever It came to a question of endangering the existence of the government, the Socialists were found lining up, becoming the principal supporters of the government, nnd assisting by their voices and by their\nvoles In sustaining the government in\nlower. He referred In particular to\nthe McOllI University bill. While the\nhill was In committee of tbe whole, he\nsaid, tbe Socialists were found speaking und voting against it. They de-\nr'ured that they believed It wus not\ntn the Interests of the people of tbe\nprovince, just ns tbe Liberals declared\nthey b-iheved* it was an Interference\nwith the existence of the High schools,\nand thnt ll tended to keep back the\nt\"ay when lite province would have a\nuniversity of its own, They spoke and\nvoted against It. with ihe result, according to the SfttMier, thut it wes de\nfeated In committee, and once, on a\nmotion by Hon. Mr. Carter-Cotton, In\nthe House.; but when it came to a\ntest, a Juncture when the government\nwould have been defeated, and if defeated, would have had to resign, what\nwere the Socialists found doing? These\nsame men became the principal champions of the government und voted and\ncarried the measure through,\nThut wus the kind of thing the opposition had hnd to contend against.\nThere never wus the slightest danger\nto thc Conservative administration\nfrom the Socialists. They wanted to\nhold their seats nnd draw their indemnities, nnd hold the balance of\npower In the House. Why should the\nSocialists put the government out?\nWere the Socialists fools? Did they\nwant to surrender the power they\nhad? He did not believe they would\never again have In tbe legislature of\nBritish Columbia tbe power they had\nhad during thc last three years.\nOne question which has appealed\nvery strongly to the imagination of\nHie people of Ihis province, continueed\nMr, Mucdonuld, one of tbe things\nwhich had shocked\u00E2\u0080\u0094he would not\nsay the mornl sentiment, but the sentiment of honesty, which was the\ngroundwork of the character of the\npeople\u00E2\u0080\u0094was this question of the Kaien\ndeal. He understood the press In Vancouver had limited itself to saying that\nthis was a good bargain for the province.\nThe Colonist bud gone further, and\nsaid the name of a defenceless woman hud been introduced into the affair, and that this was most ungal-\nlaut, und thut tie uud his colleague.\nMr. Paterson, ought to be ashamed of\nhaving dared to mention tbe name of\na woman tn this connection. He believed the duty of men investigating\na, matter in which the public interest\nwas at stake\u00E2\u0080\u0094when men were called\nen to perform a duty In tbe Interests\nof the public\u00E2\u0080\u0094they should perform it\nirrespective or whether a woman In\nthe matter wus drugged into the In-\nvestlgatlon or not. There was nn old\nsaying that \"one should hew to the\nline, let tbe chips fall where tbey\nmay.\" The chips might fall where\nthey might, but he thought the minority had hewn to the line, and the\nprovince had appreciated the fact to\nthe full. They started out with the\ndetermination that the labors of that\ncommittee might be kept clean. They\nresisted pressure lo cull tbe woman\nwhose name had heen mentioned, as\na witness. They felt tt was their\nduty to get at the salient facts thnt\nwould connect the government with\nsomething that had been done by the\nchief commissioner und his colleagues,\niho premier included, detrimental to\ntho intereslH of Ihis province, nnd the\nonly thanks they got for keeping out\nihe Immoral and objectionable element\nwas I his charge, because they had\ndared to quote the evidence of tlte chief\ncommissioner himself In regard to the\nconnection this woinun had with the\naffair.\nThe transaction wns not entered Into\nIn thc public interest. From the beginning of January. 1904, the matter\nwas kept secret between the governmenl und the people they were dealing with. The House was told that\nthis was a snored matter. \"Individuals,\" as Mr. Bodwell said, \"must not\nget to know about this,\" because Individuals might get to know of it to\nthe great discomfiture of himself and\nbis band of adventurers. It was\nproven out of the mouth of Mr.\nGreen himself thai hi January, 11.04,\nihis multer, which wus a state secret,\nund must not be whispered to the rep-\nresentutives of the electors, who\nwore then tn session, wus u mutter of\ntilile-liiltle between the chief commissioner and tb'is womnn on the\nstreets nnd in her house. The committee found that there never was a\nreserve on Kaien Island, Tbe government still contended that there\nwas: but Ihe committee had found,\nand had given the *\u00C2\u00BBvldence on which\ntho finding was based, thai there l/u\nno reserve, and that the pretence set\nup by Mr. Green for refusing South\nAfrican volunteers and others was a\nmere subterfuge to enable him to deal\nwith \"this bund of adventurers, male\nand female. Mr. Bodwell was th* solicitor of the band.\" He got no fees, he\nsaid, and was out his disbursements.\nThis philanthropist, who was never\nknown to be guilty of philanthropy before, was in the position of acting\npurely from the love of the province,\nhe supposed, and love of his clients.\nIt was necessary that two things\nshould be established\u00E2\u0080\u0094first, that there\nwas a reserve on Kaien Island\u00E2\u0080\u0094because Mr. Anderson said that was a\npretty hard proposition\u00E2\u0080\u0094und they\nmust next find some means by which\nthe Lleut.-Governor in council could\nnot make this grant, They avoided\nthe legislature, and they found section\n3fl of the Land Act, which enabled tbe\nLieut.-Governor In council to make\nfree, or partially free grants for purposes of Immigration. The whole result of the evidence of Ihe attorney-\ngeneral was that his conception of the\nlesponslbillly of n minister of the\ncrown was this: That he did not need\nto care whether he went agnlnst the\nlaw or not. so long us the purchaser\nwns prepared to tiike a bad title, but\nwas prepared to advise the Lieut.-Gov-\nernor to go outside of his province and\ndo something which was contrary to\nlaw.\nIt was now recognised that Lima\nharbor wns the best harbor on tbe\nwest coast of British Columbia, and\nthe best available for transcontinental\nlines like the Grand Trunk und the\nCanadian Northern, It was a valu\nable asset to the province, and he argued that the government should havi\nInformed itself of its value before making the bargain. Tbe government, hi\ndeclared, had no verbal communication\nwith any official of tbe company up t<\nthe lime the order was passed, and thi\nonly written communication was a telegram from Mr. Hays to Mr. Bodwel!\nasking Mr. Bodwell to look after thi\nInterests of the eompany. If the government had made a good bargain\nMessrs. Bodwell and Anderson had\nmade one five times better. The speaker also objected to tbe agreement because the government had not asked\nthe railway company to begin construction from this end.\nDiscussing the Columbia & Western\nland grant, be argued that the railwa***\ncompuny had not fulfilled the terms\nunder which the grunt was obtained\nfrom a previous administration by\nbuilding from Rossland to Penticton.\nHe also referred to another laud gratg\nmade to the British Columbia Southern\nHallway Company in 18&0 In which, be\nclaimed, the present administration\nhad made no attempt to make the railway eompany observe the conditions\non which the grant, was made.\nAfter declaring that he was prepared\ntt* fight with the enmity rather than\nwith the friendship of the Socialists,\nthe speaker closed with a reference to\nbis three years' experience of politics\nund his appreciation of meetings like\nthe one he was addressing.\nOn motion of F. C. Wade, K. C\u00E2\u0080\u009E and\nCapt. Hart McHarg. a vote of thanks\nwas tendered Mr. Macdonald and confidence expressed In him and In the\nopposition party.\nPRESS COMMENTS.\nON THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA.\nDECEIVING THE CROWN.\n(Victoria Dally Times.)\nFrom day to day the government organ in Victoria continues its struggle\nto extricate the advisers of the Lieutenant-Governor from the uncomfortable position tn which they have placed\nthemselves by inducing His Honor to\nassent to a transaction teeming with\nInjustice and illegality.\nIf there was no legal reserve on\nKaien Island, as the minority report\nfinds, a number of poor \"individuals,\"\nas Mr, Bodwell contemptuously calls\nthem, have been unjuBtly deprived of\ntheir rights.\nIf, on tbe other hand, there was legal\nreserve on Kaien Island, tbe lands\ncould not be granted to the G. T. P. or\nto anyone else until thn reserve was\nduly cancelled in accordance with the\nprovisions of the Land Act.\nThe provisions of the Land Act are\nperfectly clear and explicit on this\npoint.\nSection 72 prescribes the method to\nbe followed by the Lieutenant-Governor In Council In placing a reserve\nupon Crown lands, and the purposes\nfor which a reserve may be established.\nNow if no provision existed for the\ncancellation of reserves, it might welt\nbe argued that this power must reside\ntn tbe same authority as that which\ncreated tbe reserve, viz., the Lieutenant-Governor in Council without any\nspecial restrictions as to time, or notice to the public. But such a power\nmight be greatly abused by the advisers of His Honor from time to time,\nand accordingly the Legislature wisely provided the following limitation on\nany such power:\nSection 73: \"The Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall have power to con-\ncel reservations of land made for temporary purposes, but the Order In\nCouncil providing for the cancellation\nshall not take effect until notice thereof shall have been published for three\nmonths In tho British Columbia Gazette, and In some newspaper circulating In the district In which the lands\nproposed to be affected arc situate.\"\nThe reserve tn question was not cancelled, but tbe Lieutenant-Governor,\nunder the advice of his Ministers, assented to a grant of public lands in\nflagrant disregard of tbe law.\nWe do not for a moment suggest tbat\nHis Honor did this knowingly, but his\nadvisers acted with full knowledge,\nand upon them the blame must rest.\nThis phase of tbe Kaien Island controversy does not appear to have been\ndealt with In either of the reports\nmade by the members of the select\ncommittee, but It Is eassy to see what\nanswer would have been given by the\nmajority.\nThey doubtless would bave said, as\nwas said by the Chief Commissioner or\nby Mr. Anderson in evidence, that the\ngovernment (on the advice and with\ntbe consent of Mr. Bodwell) relied\nupon section 39 of the Land Act.\nThat section Is as follows:\n\"3!>, It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to make\nsuch special free or partially free\ngrants of the unoccupied and unappropriated Crown lands of the province for\nthe encouragement of Immigration or\nother purposes of public advantage,\nnot being bonuses for the construction\nof railways, with and under such provisions, restrictions and privileges as\nto the Lieutenant-Governor In Council\nmay seem most advisable.\"\nBut tho transaction In question cannot be supported by this provision. It\nwas not a free or partially freo grant\nat all. The price charged by the government to the G, T. P. was the same\namount that they charge every pre-\neinptor tn tho province, Vis., a dollar\nper acre for every acre conveyed. Nor\ndoes It give the Lieutenant-Governor\nIn Council any right to deal with the\nlands of the province which are under\nreserve.\nIt thus appears that whether the\nlands were legally under reserve or\nnot. the Lieutenant-Governor has been\nmisled: on the one supposition Into\ndenying the just rights of the original\nlocators, and, on the otber, into assenting to an illegal grant of the public\ndomain.\nBut the seriousness of the situation\ndoes not end with any fate which may\novertake the government In this ill-\nadvised transaction. If our view be\ncorrect, and If the Lieutenant-Governor set his hand to a grant of lands\nwhich by law he could uot grant, the\ngrant 1b void, and the G. T. P. will be\nunable to show a good title to auy Intending purchasers.\nNothing short of lengthy litigation.\nending only with a decision of the\nPrivy Council, will probably result\nfrom the course adopted by all the par-\ntics concerned in ibis nefarious deal,\nand all because the Executive preferred to deal wltb a band of adventurers In secret, Instead of following plain\nconstitutional procedure.\n(Victoria Daily Times.)\nIt will be remembered that Hon.\nCharles Wilson, K. C\u00E2\u0080\u009E In his evidence\nbefore the Kaien Isla-nd investigation\ncommittee, refused to affirm the legality of the act of his government in\nconveying ten thousand acres of land\nto a \"band of adventurers.\" Mr. Wilson was pressed for a legal opinion, he\nwas reasoned with by the leader of the\nopposH-on for upwards of half an hour\nthat as the legal adviser of the administration of which he was a member\nhe ought to express an opinion\nrune way or the other. But the Ai-\ntonj'ty*General was obdurate. He said\nIt was the business of the parties to\nwhom the lands would ultlmaely be\nconveyed to asceraln whether the title\nthey received was good In law. If they\nwere satisfied it was not the business\nof the government to create doubts tn\ntheir minds. It was quite evident from\nthe tenor ef Mr, Wilson's evidence that\nhe did not approve of the manner in\nwhich the transaction was cnrrled oui,\nand it Is quite as evident from the evidence of other witnesses and from\nwhat has subsequently transpired that\nthe Chief Commissioner of Lands and\nWorks was determined that the deal\nshould he consummated regardless of\nthe legal objections of the then Attorney-General. The situation, therefore,\nrespecting this extraordinary transaction is that the Lieut.-Governor was\nmisled by the adviser who had access\nto his ear and that His Honor wns persuaded to endorse an order In council\nwhich one of his ministers\u00E2\u0080\u0094the minister whose counsel should have carried special weigh In such a matter\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ncendemned.\nAgain, the Attorney-General reslgn-\net? from the government because he\nwas inflexibly opposed to the grant of\neight hundred thousand acres of land\nto the Columbia & Western Itallway-\nCompany. He handed his resignation\nto the Premier before he left Victoria.\nAs the legal adviser of the Crown he\nlf.lt that he could not endorse the proposal to bestow property worth millions of dollars upon a corporation\nwhich had not legally earned It according to the terms of the Subsidy Act.\nBut It would have been embarrassing\nto the government If the Premier had\nfollowed the usual course\u00E2\u0080\u0094the only\nconstitutional course\u00E2\u0080\u0094and handed the\nlur-lgnation of tbe Attorney-General to\nthe Lleut.-Governor as soon as it wns\nreceived. If the House had been Informed\u00E2\u0080\u0094&S it ought to have been informed\u00E2\u0080\u0094Immediately of the disruption\nof the ministry over tbe Columbia &\nWestern deal, the result might have*'\nbeen doubly embarrassing to the government. And so the Premier deltb-\neratley viotated precedent und ignored\npractice for the gratification of his lust'\nof power. He deceived the Lleut.-Governor and he flouted the legislature.\nthe two estates of the realm which\nshould Immediately have been taken'\nInto the confidence of the administration respecting the retirement of one\nof the chief of the members of the\ngovernment. It will not be contended\nthat If His Honor the Lleut.-Governor\nhad known thnt hts Attorney-General\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094the member of the government upon\nwhom be depended for legal advice-\nhud declined to endorse the Kaien Island deal und bad resigned hts office\nrather thun support the Columbia ft\nWestern land grant, that be, as tbe\ntepresentatlve of thc Crown, would\nbave given hla assent lo either of these\nmeasures.\n'The Lleut.-Governor was deceived by\nhis Prime Minister respecting two\ntransactions which have moved tbe\npeople of British Columbia to great Indignation\u00E2\u0080\u0094one for the benefit of a gang\nof sharpers who either had the government In their power and could enforce their demands, or for a purpose\nmore nefarious still: the other for the\nbenefit of a powerful corporation whose\nInfluence It was considered necessary\nt. secure against a generat election.\nHis Honor ought to be fully satisfied\nIr his mind by the accumulations of\nscandalous revelations and by the de-\ncelt of which he bus been tbe victim\nthat his present advisers are no longer\nworthy of his confidence.\nCranbrook Herald: Now that the\nlegislature has adjourned Jimmy Anderson will have 12 months to work up\nanother $40,000 commission with salary\nand expenses for the good of the people of British Columbia. Jimmy la a\ngreat public benefactor between Ihe\nsltllngs of the lerlsluture. Buy Your Wife\nHer Supply of\nGroceries\nAt our store. It will save her a lot of inconvenience and hard work in\npreparing your dinner, as we only handle the heat of everything.\nEverything for the kitchen. We advertise \"The Best\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094and we've\ngot the goods. The main factor in keeping the stock always fresh is\nour Low Prices.\ncom Jr.h,7o'f GENT'S FURNISHINGS AND BOOTS AND SHOES\nIt will pay you to inspect our goods in this department bofore\nbuying elsewhere. We can save you^noney, ami guarantee satisfaction.\nJ. H. HODSON & CO.\nPhone 30 Opposite C.P.R. Station\nPROVINCE HOTEL\nBRIDGE STREET\nEMIL LARSEN, PROP,\nEntirely Refurnished and Renovated Throughout\nHot and Cold Baths\nFirst-class board by day, week or\" month. Special\nrates to steady boarders. The finest furnished rooms\nin the eity. American and European plans. No\nChinee cooking.\nFinest Bar in City\" in Connection\nSEE DINSMORE\nBefore Ordering Your\nSPRING SUIT\n*We have all the latest styles and\ncan guarantee you satisfaction,\nand our prices are right. Call\nand inspect our goods.\nW. H. DINSMORE,\nMBHCHANT TAILOR,\nBRIDGE ST. GRAND FORKS\nGeo. Taylor\nGENERAL CONTRACTOR\nEXCAVATOR\nETC.\nAll Orders Given Prompt and Careful\nAttention.\nGeo. Taylot?\nGeneral Contractor.\nM\nSUNBEAMS\na young man's progress\n[own the stream of life is impeded\nby his getting stuck on a bar.\nThere are still a few cheery, well\nfurnished rooms, with heating stoves,\nvacant at the Province hotel.\nFor sale, at a bargain, a second\nhand Cwligraph typewriter. Call at\nThe Sun office.\nCITY OF GRAND FORKS\nLotB of people imagine they're not\ntalked about simply because they do\nnot hear it.\nWhen a barber wants to flatter a\n. u i \u00C2\u00BBj_j -_ u.. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2,\u00E2\u0080\u009E!.\u00C2\u00AB Ll\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 If v.* *!le Purpose oflienrlngull complutnts against\nbald headed man he asks him if he the assessment for tho^eario*, as made by\nA \u00E2\u0080\u009E'i \u00E2\u0084\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E. \u00E2\u0080\u009E *,\u00C2\u00BB:.,...! the Assessor forthe City of Grniul Porka.lt.\ndoesn t want a haircut. c, win he held in the city urn\u00E2\u0084\u00A2, Oram)\nPorks, on Monday, June 18th, A.D l'.i'Hi, ut 2\no'clock p.m,\nJ. A. McCALLUM,\nCity Clerk.\nNOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the an.\n'*> nual sitting ot the Court of Revision fnr\nGrand Forks, B.C.,\nMay 12th, 1906.\nNOTICE\nA man's head is like his pocket\nbonk, as it's not the outside appear-\nbut what it contains thai\ncounts. \t\nNever judge what n man has\nspent by the load he is carrying, us gf^Vft*.\nit miy have been \"t eats \" c\u00E2\u0084\u00A2'\"\u00C2\u00B0 lo*\u00C2\u00BB**1\n~ AK li NOTICE that t, John Robert Brown.\nAnnie Lee, Mineral Claim, situate In the\nGrand Forks Mining Division of Yale\nIn South Wellington\nIf ladies were satisfied with na-\nAgent for Edmund t. Wick-Aire, l-'ree\nMiller's Certiorate No. 1121)71, Thomas 11. Ed-\n, , r .1 .i \u00E2\u0080\u009E ...\u00E2\u0080\u009E.,i.i i.\u00C2\u00BB wards Pree Miner's Certiorate No. BUM. and\ntures handiwork there WOUld lie William B. George Free Miner's Certllleate\n. . ti , .. ... No. Htl.ri!IK, intend, sixty days from date here-\nfewer toilet preparations on the \u00E2\u0080\u009E(, ,0 apply t\u00E2\u0080\u009E the Mining Recorder for a\nmarket.\nThere are two kinds ot girls\u00E2\u0080\u0094one\nBICYCLES\nA Complete Line of 1906 Models.\nSecond-hand wheels always on\nhand, and will bt; suid cheap.\nBICYCLE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY\nGEO. GRAPPLE, Opposite Postoflfce\nSIGN OF THE BEST\nCertitirnte of Improvements, for the purposo\nof obtaining a Crown Grant of the above\nclaim.\nAnil further take notice that action, under\nsection H7, muat be commenced before the\nleads a man heavenward and the Jj\u00E2\u0084\u00A2*}!\"\"' \u00C2\u00B0* m'h c\u00C2\u00AB*-\"ll'''|'\u00C2\u00AB \u00E2\u0096\u00A0>' improve-\nother steers hiin up against a socia\nfountain. \t\nMany ladies cannot pass a uiilin-\nery store without looking in, and\nmany men cannot pass a saloon\nwithout going in.\nDated this 5tti day of June, A. D. 1906.\nJ.R. BROWN.\nNOTICE\nIt is nonsense to say a man is inclined to be bald.\nMountain Lion Mineral Claims, situate In\nthe Grnnd Fork Mining Division of Tate\nDistrict.\nWhere located: Gloucester Cnmp.\nTAKE NOTICE that I, H. A Sheads, (for\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2* myself and as agent for H. Watlin), Free\nMiners Certificate No.B86280 ami Henry Watlin\nRoute of the faniuus and favorite\nNORTH COAST LIMITED\n2--DAILY TRAINS-2\n-B*TW*E\u00C2\u00BB-\nSpokane, Butte, Helena, Fargo, Minneapolis, Duluth and St. Paul.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094ALSO\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n2-DAILY TRAINS-2\n;e NO.H80280 ami Henry watlin -, . \u00E2\u0080\u009E.,,. -p. ,-.\u00E2\u0080\u009E l\u00E2\u0080\u009E Kt\nWhon n man ia Free Miner's certificate No. B86168, Intend, Spok\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BBe, Billings, Denver, Uttiaha, St.\nvv lieu u man 10 , t Hays from date hereof, to apply to the. T---,.!, TCmutanitvftnd St Louis\nWnniino- hnlrl it ia nuite a-minst hia Mitiinir Recorder for a Certificate of Im* : Joseph, Kansas Ulty ana SI. LOUIS.\nbecoming Daw it is quite against nis \u00E2\u0080\u009Erove*;1H11,Si tor th, ,mrvum \u00E2\u0080\u009Ef obtaining a i\nCrown Grant of the above claim.\ninclination.\ntill COMMTAau: WAY.\nS. f. & N. RY.\nDally\nLeave\nHAND FORKS! Ml**\nArrife\nflpoElW, Seattle, |\nEverett, Belling-\nham, Vanoouver, 4.45 p.m.\nVictoria and all\nCoast points I\nSpokane, Fertile,\nWin tiipeg.St Paul 4:45\nnnd Minneapolis..\n) p.m.\nNorthport, Rons*\n11:00a.m. land,Nelson,Kaslo and Sandon....\n4:45 p.m.\nRepublic, Curlew\n4:55 p.m. and Ferry (Mid-\nWttJ^i\nftitt) p.m. I Pboenix, B.C. ... | lt):2\u00C2\u00BB a.m.\nConnnectlng at Spoltane with the famous\n\"ORIENTAL LIMITED\"\n2\u00E2\u0080\u0094Daily Overland Train.*\u00E2\u0080\u0094*%\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nFrom Spokane for Winnipeg, St. Paul.\nMiuneauolii, St. Lou In, -\"luoago and all\npoints east.\nFor complete information, rates,\nberth reservation*-, etc., cull on or ad*\ndress,\n--**-*\u00C2\u00AB-*, .fi. SHKKDY, Agent,\nGrand Forks.\nS. G. YKRKEH, A. G.P.A.,\nSeattle.\nw\n,-\u00E2\u0080\u009EUs->i.-. .11\nhen \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 j\n-ft*\nYou consider\nHP\nthat a poorly\nkV\nprinted job costs\nyes]*\njust as much as |\n\pf\none that pre\n4r\nsents a neat and\nwi\ntasty appear\n9)\nance, do you not\ntjH|l\nthink that your\nbusiness de- i\nmands t\nhe latter kind ? j|\n40\nflood Printing\u00E2\u0080\u0094the kind we dot\u00E2\u0080\u0094is in itself\nan advertisement, and a trial order will convince\nyou that Our stock and workmanship' are of the 1\nhest. Let us estimate on your order. We guar- 1\nantee satisfaction.\nIf Nero had owned a phonograph\nit would have saved him a lot of\nfiddling while Rome wus burning.\nAnd further take notioe that action, under\nsection 3T. must be commenced before the\nIssuance of such Certificate of Improvements.\nDated this Huh day of May. A. D. num.\nR. A. SHEADS.\nNLLMAN, TOURIST SLEEPERS\nand Pining Car Service on all Trains.\nA young man should remember\nthat it's far easier to find a wife than\nit is to lose her.\nNOTICE\nClOttCINNECTlONS made at St Paul\nand 8t. Louis in Union Depots for all\nNOTICE Is hereby given that sixty days \u00E2\u0080\u00A2_\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB. is... -_J S/vnth-East\nafter date I will apply to the Chief Com- point* i*st and BOUin J**as->.\nmissloner of Lands and Works for permls* >\nsion to purchase tbe following land, situate ;\nabout eighteen miles Northerly from the\nCitv of Grand Forks, la the Osoyoos Division\nof Yale District: Commencing at a post plant- summer seasouo\ned at the Southeast corner i \" \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 *'\nKiver chains South; thence l\"i chains Hast to\nthe place of beginning and containing 1U0\nacres, more or less.\nDated the 30th day of Hay, 1906.\nAUGUST JOHNSON.\nThe Tonic of Health\nMust be more than a stiumlent\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nmust be a food as well. There is ono\nmedicine that is both a food and a\ntonic,\u00E2\u0080\u0094It aids digestion, promotes\nassimilation, converts food into nutriment that builds up nerves, blood,\nbrain and bone. That tonic is Ferrozone which contains exactly what a\nrun-down system needs. Ferrozone\nsupplies OXVKen to puHfy the blood, ^~dute~i\u00C2\u00BBlllapply to the Chie'f Cbmmls-\n, l \"..\u00E2\u0080\u009E l .. l *l\u00E2\u0080\u009E. I,...:.. *..,., sloner of Lands anil Works for i-ermisslon to\nphosphorus to develop the brain, iron p\u00E2\u0080\u009Erohn8e the following land, sltunte about\nrn liin./lim the nnwcli*.; Nn wniiflei* it, thirty-four miles northerly from tbe City of\nto narcien tne muscles. i\o w onaei a GnH\u00C2\u00BB, Fork|( ln 0>oyoo> \u00E2\u0080\u00A2**-,\u00E2\u0080\u00A2.,\u00E2\u0096\u00A0,\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E of -yftte\nmakes such vigorous men and women. District: Commencing at a post planted at\nir ,1, ,i ,i \u00C2\u00BB I, ,n,i t lu.a\u00E2\u0080\u009E. the northeast corner of the land applied fori\nYou 11 eat, sleep, think and feel bstter tho,lco m \u00E2\u0080\u009E*,,,,\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E we8t. thencB w cn,ln,\n1... mint. I'VviTi/niii*' tfv it now soutli; theuce80clininseast: thence 40chains\nbv using lerrozone, liy ii\u00E2\u0080\u0094now. \u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E,.,., to ,\u00E2\u0080\u009E. p*nc(! of beirlmllDli anci co\u00E2\u0080\u009E_\ntniniiig 320 acres, more or less.\nDated the 14th day of March, IMS.\nH.P. WHITE, Locator.\nl'er.M D.WHITE,Agent.\nTo enable parties who so desire to 'hit\nfrlendsaad relatives In the *$&*&&$\u00C2\u00A3\n-lug at a post plant- summer \u00E2\u0096\u00A0f\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00B0\u00C2\u00BB,y,VvW',,d%l 3rd AUGUST\nr^w sr s^^7w\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BBjh;vass SH-sfiar-^-fflaBrpoints*\"\nMinneapolis, Oi-aha and Kansas Clt\nlowest first class fare plus Ten Doll!\nfinal return limit ninety slays from\nNOTICE\n\IOTICE is hereby given that sixty daysafter\n\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 date Iw \" \"\t\nFifty cents buys a box of fifty chocolate touted Ferrozone tablets, at all\ndealers.\ntie, out nos oeyonu wu.\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 ...*\"'\u00C2\u00AB\". t.nm\nExtremely low rates are In effect 'rem\nFebruary 15th to April 1th and September\nistiu October list, W Jrom. \u00C2\u00BBn\u00E2\u0080\u009E*\u00C2\u00BBte*\u00C2\u00BBb'S\nthe East to points in this *\u00C2\u00AB/rJrto\",-,f' y\u00E2\u0084\u00A2\nE*? SorHk^^ctFIC have ... ~m*\nnounced very low round-trlp rates Jroni\npoints luthe East to points in thl\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u009Et'*rr V,'7\u00E2\u0080\u009E'\nand tlcketswill he on /^ from Jiine l\u00C2\u00ABt to\nSeptember 15th Inclusive, Bnal limit for return October Slst, 1W-8. s*4.\u00C2\u00AB\nFor further Information address one of the\nundersigned.\nA. D. Charlton, G.A. Mitchell ,\nA G P A., Gen. Agt.,\n\"Po'rlland,4)re. Spokaue, Wash.\nW. H. UDE,\nTraveling PM-^A^\nB. LEQUIME. PRESIDENT\nGEO. A. MACLEOD, TREASURER\numaam\ngFRANKLIN TOWNSITE G0.1\na|*S LIMITED itij\nCAPITALIZED $20,000.00 V&\nLOTS NOW ON THE MARKET93\nCall and make your selection. This is the best\nreal estate investment in the Boundary today.\nPrices range from $60 to $135. Terms: One-\nthird down; balance $20 per month.\nI KEEP YOUR EYE ON FRANKLIN \u00C2\u00A7\nFor full particulars address\nm\ng A. Erskine Smith CS, Co. g\nGrand Forks, B. C. BOUNDARY ORE SHIPMENTS\nThe following table gives the ore\n1905, and for the past week:\nGranby Mines, Phoenix\t\nSnowshoe, Phoenix\t\nMother Lode, Deadwood\t\nBrooklyn-Stemwinder, Phoenix\t\nRawhide, Phoenix\t\nSunset, Deadwood \t\nMountain Rose, Summit\t\nAthelstan-Jackpot, Wellington\t\nBrooklyn-Stemwinder dump, Phoenix.\nMorrison, Deadwood\t\nB. C. Mine, Summit\t\nR. Bell, Summit\t\nEmma, Summit\t\nOro Denoro, Summit Camp\t\nSenator, Summit Camp\t\nBrey Fogle, SummitCamp\t\nNo. 37, SummitCamp \t\nReliance, Summit\t\nSulphur King, Summit\t\nWinnipeg, Wellington\t\nGoldenCrown, Wellington\t\nKing Solomon W. Copper\t\nNo. 7 Mine, Central\t\nCity of Paris, Central\t\nJewel, Long Lake\t\nCanni, West Fork\t\nProvidence, Greenwood\t\nElkhorn, Greenwood\t\nSkylark, Skylark Camp\t\nLast Chance, Skylark Camp\t\nE. P. U. Mine, Skylark Camp\t\nRuby, Boundary Falls\t\nMiscellaneous \t\nshipments of Boundary mines for 1900, 1901,\n1901. 1902.\n231,762 309,8*58\n1,721 20,800\n99,034\n150\n141,326\n7,455\n1903\n393,181\n74,212\n138,079\n550\n150\n150\n47,405\n15,731\n5,646\n650\n14,811\n560\n8,530\n3,339\n19,365\n1904\n519,703\n174,298'.\n25,050\n3,070\n3,2,M)\n1,759\n4,586\n5,000\n1905\n653,889\n174,560\n55731\n25,108\n3,056\n4,747\n1,720\n22,937\n15,537\n363\n37,960\n16,400\n3,450\n2ii2\n364\n33\n9,484\n8,007\n1.833\n1,040\n875\n665\n'350\n890\n80\n3,456\n785\n625\n\"482\n2.176\n2,435\n219\n33\n150\n993\n400\nTotal, tons 390,000\nGranby Smeltertreated 230,828\nB. C. Copper Co.'s Smelter treated 117,611\nMontreal & Boston Co.'s Smeltertreated \t\n325\n507,545\n312,340\n148,600\n167\n500\n684,961\n401,921\n162,913\n123,570\n726\n325\n52\n50\n300\n'750\n827,348\n596,252\n209,637\n30,930\n30\n770\n105\n535\n689\n255\n73\n500\n3, 1903,\n1904-\n1906 Past Wk\n373,848\n18,239\n72,325\n2,272\n65,671\n2,145\n6,813\n627\n26,678\n825\n927\n33\n6,955\n33\nG,404\n470\n15\n263\n40\n\"25\n933,516\n687,988\n194,056\n84,059\n555,315 24,339\n390,055 17,725\n82,729 1,338\n95,117 3,630\n60 YUM'\nEXPERIENCE\n Mams\nDesigns\nCopyrights Ac.\nAnyone sending a sketch and description may\nanloilT ascertain oar opinion free whether an\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2aMoR-i^Sr.?!** P\u00C2\u00BB-e\u00E2\u0080\u009E^S'*k\u00E2\u0080\u009E-?\u00C2\u00BB\"'!ffi*l'*\nicy forsecunnjjr\ntions strictly oonBdeii(\u00E2\u0080\u009Edl. H\nientfrea. Oldest \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094 '*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-*\nte. 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