"99a45164-9d30-455a-878c-a4cc85bbe910"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2011-09-29"@en . "1897-10-28"@en . "The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xnakledge/items/1.0182330/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " Volume V. No. 4 NEW DENVER, B. C OCTOBER 28, 1897. Price. $2 00 Year, Spokesman-Review. For some time reports have been com. ing to Spokane that tlie laborers on the Crow's Nest. Pass road were not receiving fair treatment, but the rumors could not be traced to a reliable source, and attracted little attention,in labor circles here owing to tlie fact that none but Canadian labor is employed; in the construction of the road. A man arrived in in the city yesterday, however, who claims to have fiersonal knowledge of the methods of the contractors, though he never worked a day for tliein in his life. He is one of a gang of men brought out from the east, being gathered up? at different cities in Canada, induced by flattering piomlses to come west to work on the new railroad. , Arthur McLeod'is his name. He is evidently an intelligent young Scotchman. His story follows: \"Work was scarce dowu east,\" said Mr. McLeod, ''and when I was promised $45 per month to work on. the Crow's Nest road I thought it was better than doing nothing and agreed to come. There were about 00 of us in the party, and every one of us came on the under- ... .standing that we would be charged $3.50 a week for board and lodging, with free passage to the scene of operations. \"We arrived at Godfrey's camp, about 20 miles above Coal creek, a little ove1' two weeks ago and found as soon as we got on the ground that tlu; company's definition of a month is 80 working days and as we could not work on Sundays we would be paid a month's wages in 34 or 35 days. Then, loo, each one had a charge entered against him for $30 for transportation, in spite of the fact that most of us had contracts in writing stating that our transportation was to be at the expense of tlie company. Another violation of the agreement was the charge for board, which was $5 instead of $3.50. You see, the railroad people thought they had us at their mercy, as we were a long way away from home and most of us without money. They did not find us easy prey, however, as we held a meeting and almost unanious- 1)' passed a resolution refusing to accept the terms offered, and declaring our intention of going back east and making it warm for those people who had lied to us to get us to come west. \"The local officials were not affected by our resolutions, the reason of their indifference, and possibly one reason for their breach of faith with us, being that \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD they had a carload of Italians readv to take our places at the rates we refused to accept. Possibly a.dozen of our crowd went to work rather than hit the trail on the way back, but there were about 70 of us who started for the end of the road next morning on our way back to McLeod. Most of the crowd went back east, some who had money paid their fare, but most of them had to travel hobo fashion. Having friends in Spokane, 1 concluded to come here, and so I do not know whether any action will be taken to bring the people who hired us to account or not. It will probably be difiicult to fix the responsibility, as the contracts were made through an employment agency. They claimed, however, to represent the Canadian Pacific railroad. \"If wc had gone to work on the terms proposed, every one of us would liave still been in debt to tlie company at the end of the first month of 34 days'. By a system of extortion and overcharging,as well as fines and dockages, tlie men who have been at work for some time are rarely in possession of any cash and some of the time checks 'I saw for a month's work were worse than some of those that were paid to eastern coal miners before the recent strike. There was dissatisfaction loudly expressed bv laborers in every department and 1 believe there will be serious difficulty unless the tactics of those in control are speedily changed. A number of teamsters who hae been hauling in supplies claimed they had not had a square deal, but I don't know the nature of their complaint. Some of them refused to do any more hauling and supplies were company has offered no explanation. They are silent about every thing. Tliey do not even say that they expect to have money to pay tlie wages in the near future, or to commence operation. There is a wide difference of opinion expressed as to the cause of the shut down. Some say the mine has entirely run out of orej and has nothing to look forward to. Others think it is all for the purpose of getting hold ol; stock held outside. A meeting of tlie shareholders is called at Cody on the 30th inst: for the purpose of authorising a loan of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD150,000, to pay off the debts and develop tlie mine. What the debts are for is not known. Enough treasury stock was sold to pay for the mill and train, and they have been shipping concentrates all this year. Since August 1st, 512 tons have been shipped. The stock was quoted considerably above 50 cents last winter. It is now quoted iu Spokane at 17. SIXV.KRTON. [Froni Our .Regular Correspondent.] Levi Smith, assayer, has left, having secured a position' in thc Reco. Mr. Smith leaves many friends behind him in Silverton, who wish him every success. Ed, Nelson, of the Silverton News Co., has bought out his partner C. K. Hammond, of Sandon. Mr. Nelson is the busiest business man here, and is working up a good business by prompt service and good fresh stock. * R. O. Matheson, druggest, and H. J. Matheson have left Silverton for a while to do development work on one of their claims. T. A. Coe will have charge of the Drug Store during the absence of Mr. Matheson. School opened last week with Miss Dyken of Vancouver as teacher. At present 20 scholars are in attendance. A big strike is reported on tiie Molly Dooneruear the Vancouver. The Molly Doone is owned by Silverton parties, and may be one of our shippers this winter. __ BURTON CITY. There is no ground for the reports of this being the toughest town in America. It is no worse than other mining camps in B.C. A sample of the whiskey sold hero has ;been sent to Vancouver for analysis. George Clark with eight men and- two pack trains loaded with supplies went to the Chieftian group on Cariboo creek last week to work all winter. James Brady, of Rossland, who has the Promestora under bond for $25,000, is expected to commence, work next month. He has to spend $2,500 on it by the 1st of Mav. Nearly twenty claims tributary to are to be crown-granted' this ous, and vigorous .population of miners of one nationality is developing the territory of a weak, alien state.\" Thanks, awfully, Brother Jonathan, but your kind offices we must most respectfully decline. We are not quite so weak as you imagine. As far as the trade of the Klondike district is concerned, you will find before next spring that Canadian merchants will furnish the outfits and Canadian transportation companies will have the profit; of carrying them. The cities of Victoria and Vancouver are quite able to take care of the business that now goes to Seattle. Canada enjoys/ under the Washington treaty, the right of navigation of \"the Yukon river through United States territory, and is able to reach the district from the Pacific ocean. Canada possesses a right of way into the very heart of the gold district, both via the Yukon and Mackenzie rivers, while we have several ways of reaching the interior. The route from Edmonton to thc mouth of the Mackenzie river, for instance, involves a land carriage of only 1G3 miles\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD00 miles at the first rapids on the Athabasca, 00 miles of wagon road from Edmonton to Athabasca Landing, and 13 miles of obstructions at Fort Smith. Edmonton, as it is well known, is a station on the C.PR. Then we have a route via Hudson Bay, which possesses great possibilities as to cheapness and despatch in the handling of passengers and freight. Canada can reach the Klondike gold fields from the Pacific Ocean, from the Hudson Bay, and from the interior of British Columbia and the North-AVest Territories. The United States is confined to the Pacific Ocean. : But Canada must assert its supremacy and independence immediately. We must have customs officers on the ground this season. AVe must have control of all the routes leading into the district. Law and order must obtain from the start, and our Government must see to i it that the wealth of the district does not j pass into the hands of foreigners. As far as Canada is concerned, it would be better would the Governmentabsolutely refuse to grant a mining license or claim of any nature until we know exact!}' where we stand. Tlie gold is there and will not 'deteriorate. In the meantime the Americans are invading the country and have already taken out millions of dollars, while the estimates of next year's output vary all the wav from $10,- 000,000 to $50,000,000. The Government should become fully seized of these facts, that the gold belongs to Canada; that at present it is being taken out by Americans;, that Canada is profiting in no respect from the new discoveries, while our neighbors are reaping all the benefits. The country is calling upon the Government to take immediate action. The country expects the Government to keep the Klondike gold fields for the Canadians. The Americans have treated us so shamefully of late, through their obnoxious alien labor laws, that we are more than justified in preventing them from entering this country for the purpose of seeking employment or of making gain. If we acted on the principle underlying the policy they have applied to Canada, not a single American would be allowed to enter the Canadian Yukon. Let Canada assert its supremecv.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Toronto World. plans of the canal in one hand other hand pointing towards trance, Upon tho granite pede be medallions representing in I and the the on- stal will -as-relief is struck on the the portraits of the three Khedives who enouraged thc construction of the canal. | NEWS IN PLACE | %llllllllllllillillllll!ll!lllllllllllllllllllllll!illlllllllllllllllllllllllllli!!l!ll!ll# X. 'Berubb is building an hotel Burton City. Some nice ore w; Adams last Saturday. The Enterprise on Ten Mile will resume operations shortly. J. M. Kellie, M.P.P., is in New York looking up mining* deals. Although not large the oat and wheat crop this summer in Fire Valley was of good quality. James Dolaney received a painful fracture of the arm last week by being thrown from a horse by the animal stumbling. The cottage under construction by Mr. Bolander, to be occupied by Dr. Brouse, is enclosed and will soon be ready for the painters. The new steamer that has beeii under construction all summer at Nakusp will be launched in a day or two. It will be called The Rosslaiul. , The steamer Nakusp resumed its .trips last week looking more like a floating palace than ever before. Hanging on a bar improved its appearance. The settlers in the Fire Valley are building a bridge across Fire Vallev creek with the $300 that the Govern - for that pur- XOTK AND COJIMKST, this city season.\" THE NVEKDLKS. At the Needles, opposite Fire Valley there are over 40 live mineral claims. \" The Aaron's Rod Mining Co. have started a 500-foot tunnel on the White Swan, average assays show $80 in gold. There is considerable ore on the dump but none will be shipped until the long tunnel is completed. THK I'TDKLITY. No sale has yet been made of the Fidelity, although all kinds of rumors have been circulated to that effect. A small vein of water was struck in the shaft recently, and operations suspended until the returns from a 05 ton shipment to the Nelson smelter are received. The value of that shipment will determine to some extent the amount of money to be expended in putting in pumping machinery and. other improvements. I.KT CAN AW A ASSERT HERS EI. K. growing left. scarce at Godfrey's when I NOBLK FIVE CLOSED DOWN, No Explanation (Sri von us to ov i'utuvo Intentions lie Ca list-/ The Noble Five mine closed down last Saturday. and The mill men were given their checks, but have been unable to get their money, the bank on which they are drawn refusing to cash them, saying there are no funds. The The New York Journal ventures the assertion that the Klondike gold fields \"will be for all practical purposes an American district.\" \"Americans,'' says our contemporary, \" have done the mining : the gold has been brought to an American, mint. American merchants are furnishing the outfits to the new pilgrims, almost all of whom are Americans themselves, and American transportation companies will have the profit of carrying them.\" The Journal goes on to state that in regard to the new discoveries the Transvaal episode has been reversed. \"A strong, numer- One of the evils of the present system of land tenure in British Columbia is beginning to show itself very plainly in Kootenay just now, and particularly in the northern part of the district.\" In this portion of the country the lumber industry is now rising into considerable importance. The climate being more humid here than in South Kootenay. our forests are more extensive and our timber -more valuable, and we are already not only supplying the home demand,but our lumber is finding a readv market in the lower country.' But the industry is hampered by the dit'liculty experienced by newcomers in the saw mill business in getting timber limits, on which to get out logs. The. timber all over the country is i'ii the possession of corporations and speculators, who have acquired the limits from the government in years past for a mere song, aud are holding on to it till it increases in value. They are not for the most part making any other use of the limits at all. And the country is being kept back and an important' industry\" hampered on account of tbe old-fashioned methods of disposing of the national property in vogue at\" Victoria. The Father of the British Navy, Admiral of the Fleet, the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, has just celebrated his SSth birthday. Despite his advanced age, he still remains on the active list, and is 18 years older than Lord John Hay. who is next, in seniority. Sir Henry Keppe* has had a brilliant service career, which dates back to the war between the East India Company and the Rajah of Nan-1 ning, when he acted as lieutenant of the j Magicienne at the blockade of Mooran. j M. Freniiet, the sculptor who has been j commissioned to execute the statue of; M. Ferdinand de Lesseps to be erected j at the entrance to the Suez Canal, says ; the monument will be of colossal propor-1 sions. four times life size. M.de Lesseps j will be represented standing with the i ment recently gave them pose. / :Ln vine service will be\"> held in the Presbyterian church on Sunday, Oct. 31st, at 11 a. m. All welcome. Strangers cordially invited. Preacher, W. .). Booth. The handsome residence of A. Mc- Gillivray on Sixth Street is* neuring completion. It will be one of the best in West Kootenay, hard finished within and rough cast without. Recorder Alex Sproat has been appointed deputy of the District Registrar under the \" Births, Deaths and Marriages Act.\" Young-men matrimonially inclined are thus saved the expense of a trip to Nelson. A force of men were put to. work this week building a cabin on the Frisco, cutting a trail thereto and getting ready to push development work thereon. Ore is in sight, but the quantity is yet to be determined. Divine service will be held in the Methodist Church on Sunday next at 11 and 7. Preacher R. N. Powell. Subjects : Morning, \"The Father's dwelling place; Evening, \"Playing the, fool.\" Song service after the evening service. VV. Meldrum & Co. have adopted the up-to-date style of window dressing. The display tills week is very prettify put on. There is nothing to be encouraged in our merchants so much as handsomely dressed windows. Next to the liberal use of printer's ink the show window is the trade getter. The Nesbitt C. 0. D. Laundry commenced operations this .week, after a long wait for machinery and the ncces- saryiappurtenances. Mr. C. M. Nesbitt has employed Arthur Brown to fake charge of the establishment. Mr. Brown conies from Vancouver and isancxperi- A new grain elevator will soon be erected at Collingwood,having a capacity of one million bushels. There is considerable excitement amongst oil men, owing to a large well being struck near Florence, Ont. The Postmaster General, Mr. Mulock. is endeavoring to exact a postage upon newspapers carried through the mails. The Druinmond County Railway was be formally opened on Oct. 22nd, and on Nov. 1st Intercolonial trains will run into Montreal direct. The Bank of Nova Scotia, in consequence of its increased western trade, is about to open a branch office in Toronto, which will be the first office it has established in Ontario. The lady golfers of Ontario, who went to Montreal last week to play against the Quebec club of fair golfers* have returned home crowned with laurels, hav- \yon a brilliant game forOntario. A rich discovery of gold-bearing rock has been made * on the farm of Ira Swayze, a few miles from Jordan, Out. Samples which liave been tested, show that the metal is there in paying quantities. Capt. Cook, a graduate of .the Royal Military College, Kingston, has received an offer, which' he will likely accept, from the Imperial authorities* to take'the position of assistant officer of the British protectorate of Zanzibar. An old resident of Petrolia, John W. Chittick, committed suicide on'Wednesday night, Oct. 13th. At one time he was a prominent business man, but drink, that curse of mankind, brought him to a prison cell, where he hung himself. corded in any October in the history of Toronto. Almost at the same time a cable from England says: \"There is snow on the Westmoreland Hills.\" What will poor deluded Rudyard Kipling say now of the \" Lady of the Snows?\" William Green, an employee of the Stephens-Campbell Company's Mills at Chatham, while emptying wheat from the second floor of the mill was drawn down into the grain and despite the efforts of his companion to extricate him sank out of sight. When his body came through to the lower floor life was extinct, as he had been fully fifteen minutes under the wheat. The express, from Toronto on the Canada Pacific liy. collided with a freight train near Stittsville on Thursday night, killing three train employees, F. Laron- dean, jthe engineer of the express; R. Peden, mail clerk; S. Llastey, brakesman on the freight; and a drover from Cautley, Que., who was stealing a ride. The financial loss to the railway will probably amount to over $30,000. Capt. Currie has returned from his trip of investigation in the Michipicoteu. gold district and says that he is convinced tnat they will prove as productive as any yet' discovered in Canada. He says there are a lot of tenderfeet there who are doing more harm than good to the country, because, as they couldn't pick up gold nuggets in bushel buckets, they say the country is no good: One o'f the\" best feature's of the mines is that they have attained greater depth than anywhere else in the world, the shafts on some of the mines reaching 0,000 feet. AV. A. Grenier, the defendant in famous Tarte-Grenier libel suit, has 1 the >een sentenced V)}- Judge AVurtele, to six months iinprisonmentin gaol. The people now look upon Mr. Grenier as a martyr and think the sentence is too harsh. The !Government has decided to reserve the timber belts between the western boundary of .Manitoba and tiie summit of the Rockies, and also on the Saskatchewan and in tlie Yukon, so as to preserve the , young trees and afford windbreaks. Commissioner ed Police writin-j Ilerehmero!' ihe Mount- _* to Ottawa, says : \"Ten tons of provisions for the dogs were shipped with Major AA'alsh's party. . . . . . This is to be left at different pouts along the trail to the Klondike for use on future occasions.\" The trial ot AV. H. Ponton, the teller of the Dominion Bank, has been going on all week. The people of.Napanee still believe that the accused is innocent, although'the detectives working on the ease think differently. No new evidence has been brought to bear, on the case, Our Premier, Sir AVilfrid Laurier and Madame Laurier visited Toronto last week and were welcomed and feted in the happy manner peculiar to that queen of. cities. The Board of Trade gave a sumptuous banquet in the Pavilion to Sir Wilfrid, which was attended by the prominent men of the city, both Conservative and Liberal, while the ladies in magnificent attireoccupied the balconies and listened with greatest interest to the speeches. Sir \"Wilfrid, in the course of his address, made the important, announcement that, \"in two years a fast Atlantic, service will-bring Great Britain within four days sail of Canada.\" Bishop Pen-in was in Toronto this week on his way home to British Columbia. He has been in England all summer, where he attended the Lam- md Ponton has declared nothing of the robbery. that he knows enced laundry man laundry there. late of the Pioneer I*KESI'VTERIAN OIU'UOII Ol'KStSii. The formal opening of the Presbyterian church was celebrated Sunday morning, the Rev. Powell .of the Methodist church occupying the pulpit with Mr Booth. Owiii\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD* to the threatning \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD weather the attendance was not large, but the services were greatly enjoyed. In the evening Air. Booth gave a brief statement of the condition of the church, his past efforts in connection with it and his future plans. Monday evening a social was given in the church at which there was a very large attendance. A supper preceded a vocal and instru- mental^prograin all of whieh was heartily enjoyed.' During the exercises Rev. Powell,\"Rev. Knowles, of Slocan City, and Mr. Booth made short addresses appropriate to the occasion, and Mi- Mitchell a statement showing the. receipts of tlie evening and the opening services. Combined the Sunday services and and social netted tlie church about $75. The church debt now is Ned Uanlan, the famous oarsman of Toronto, has been receiving several telegraphic messages lately, purporting to come from his brother Jack, and asking for a loan of $100. The messages were sent from Rochester and Tona- wanda, and the police of said cities have been advised of the matter and are now looking for the man, \".lack.\" Contributions for the relief of the sufferers by the late bush fires in Russell and Prescott counties aud in Manitoba arc; being sent in. Toronto made a grant of $1,00*'', ihuiiiliun $500 and Montreal $5.(1(10. Several contributions from pri vate individuals have been acknowledg ed. The Ontario Government vote* $5,000 towards the relief fund. Wm. Martin, w heroically saved 10 a tew two men the Lachine Rapids, with the diploma of umane Society. 8425: $30u to the churc! mi four years time. buildini l.unLD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDv had been examining\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe scarred and battered case of a silver watch. It was a man and not a blanket I had seen on the wagon !\" AArhen a group of vetrean oil-men come together in these latter times some rare and splendid story telling is sure to follow. The other night a little coterie of this sort was clustered'in one of the cozy corners of an uptown hotel, writes a New York correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The market furnished scant subject for discussion, and the talk soon drifted on the past. Col. Jim. Guffey, who was in at the birth of Pithole and has had a hand in the development of every oil field since that day, started the ball rolling with mention of the name of John V. Steele, better known to fame and the world as Coal-oil Johanny. \"T knew Steele well,\" said the Colonel, \"and he has been as badly lied about as any man who ever lived. All the stories 1 have read about him recently are untrue. In character he was totally different from what he has always been pictured; he was anything but a bad man or a wild youth. When the AA7idow McCliutock .waft'burned to death, in the winter of '0-2, it was found that she had left $100,- 000 and a large number of very profitable oil leases to Steele, then a young man of 20, whom she and her husband had taken from the poorhouse and legally adopted four or\" live years before. ' Steele, who had never been farther in the world than the nearest town, was an ignorant country boy, good natured and good looking, but without the slightest idea of the'value of a dollar. About this time he fell in with his evil genius\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa man named Slocum. who had been a sailor on the lakes and a brakeman on the railroad, and who ^filled Steele's head full of stories of the outside world. Slocum's tastes were low, but Steele cared little for the dog and prize lights he was induced to attend through his influence. Slocum collected a crowd of his friends around him, which iSteele paid'for, but \"the latter cared little for the drunken carousals and the wild orgies in which he is said to have indulged. Slocum, who obtained such an influence over him, died more than 20 years\" ago in jail, ivhere he was imprisoned for debt. Steele himself, when his fortune was gone, went back to hard work with a smile on his face, and is now living contentedly on a farm in Nebraska. I doubt if W ever worried about the money whieh he squandered in his palmy days. It was a curious fact that the McCliutock farm, from which Steele's money came, after being abandoned as worthless, has been revived, and in the last ten years has made another man rich. That man is John AV. Waits, of Oil City. Waits grew up in Rouseville, and thoroughly understands the oil business. Some \"years ago he made a careful study of the abandoned wells along Oil Creek, and came to the conclusion that, with improved appliances for pumping now in use, they could be made to yield oil in paying qtiantities. He bought the McCIin'tock farm for a few hundred dollars,-and had a number of the oil wells cleaned out, torpedoed, and rigged for pumping. They all produced oil, as Waits thought they would, but he has obtained the best results from the new wells he has drilled on the frrm. Nearly all of his wells have proved good nroducers, as Oil Creek wells go now. From an ab- doned farm, thought to be next to worthless, Waits developed a very handsome property.\" \"You are right,Colonel.about Steele,\" broke in Capt. J. J. Vandergrift. \"He certainly has been sadiy misunderstood. You will remember that he was not quite 21 when old Mrs. McClintock died, and I was appointed one of his guardians,appointed bj' the court pending his majority. His daily income at that time was just a trifle over 83,000\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD a handsome revenue, but not half so large as Jim McCray's a few years later. AVhen the oil excitement began McCray owned a hill farm three or four miles from Oil City, which, after it had been demonstrated that oil could be found on the hilltops as well as in valleys, was one of the first upland properties to be developed. This was in 1870, and Me- Cray leased his land at \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1,000 an acre bonus and half the oil. Every well drilled on the farm proved a good one arifl Fr*v n Innrp f'm/a Af^PvfnT*c incnm/ deuce imple in Franklin/Pa. and settled means upon her. It was well that he did it, for it enabled the two old people to round out their days in comfort. Both died about twelve years ago. Few'people are aware that on the Story farm, which adjoined the Mc.Cray, Andrew Carnegie laid the foundation of his present fortune. Carnegie and some of his friends bought- the Story in 18(51, and from it they \"sold, all told, more than \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD10,000,000 worth of oil. Before selling the farm to Carnegie, Story had offered it for \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD4,000. It was one of the richest oil farms in the world.'' \"I remember McCray well.\" said another member of the group. **He was a queer one, but not half so odd a num- bei as old Ned Clapp, of President, seven miles above Oil City. Clapp, who is now about 70 years of age, owns 8,000 acres of land right on the borders of rich developed oil territory. Wells drilled on one edge of his tract have proved absolutely that some of his property is valuable petroleum land, and it probable that the great bulk of his 8,000 acres is equally good. If this be the case, Chi])]) is the richest man in the oil regions, but he will not sell or lease an acre of his land, nor operate it himself for oil, and in spite of the fact that he has been paying heavy taxes on it for 30 years, and on some of it for even longer! The land brings him nothing as iflies. None of it is good for farming purposes. The large portion of it is heavily timbered, but as he never cuts a tree, he derives no income from this source. Some 6,000 acres of this land lie in as wild and unbroken a section of the country almost as there is in the State, and without there being any possible rise for them, Clapp has built line roads all through his property. Road building has long been one of his hobbies. All his roads begin at his residence on the banks of the Allegheny, River, but none of them goes any place in particular. Some of them end abruptly in the woods, and have remained uncompleted for years,while Clapp has gone ahead building roads in other parts of his forest lands. He builds his roads mostly by employing men wdio come along\"looking for work. Indeed, as he is noted for his generosity, it is thought by some that he builds them to give employment to idle men and for no other reason. Not wishing* to give money directly and receive no equivalent, thus inviting imposition from unworthy persons, he sets them to quarrying stone a-id working on the roads!' Be this as it may, he\"has got many miles of magnificent driveways through a large scope of country that is inaccessible.\" \"One of the queerest of the many queer things Clapp has done in the course of his life was to purchase a store filled with\" merchandise, lock it up just as it stood, and never allow it to be opened again for business. This was a dozen years or ago, and the goods are still in'the building, several thousand dollars worth, mou awav. The store which is goods t and rotting located at President, not. far from Clapp's house, thought that the account of light long- was somethiig over \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD7,000 a day. Although he soon had more money than he knew what to do with, he longed for more, and finally conceived the idea of storing his oil and holding it for an advance. He built tanks at large expense, and stored upwards of 200,000 barrels. Instead of advancing in price oil began, to go down, but still McCray held on. Some of his tanks burst, others were struck by lightning, and still others were tapped by oil thieves, who carried off thousands of barrels at night. In one way and another he lost the bulk of his holdings. The remnant he sold for $1 a barrel. In this attenvpt to increase his wealth, McCrav, if I am not mistaken, lost nearly \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1,000,000. \"About this time McCray and Jim Fiske became fast friends. Fisk's partner, Hurley, was then very active in the oil trade, and Fiske himself was largely interested in the transportation end of it. On one occasion Fiske invited McCray, who was an uncouth old codger, to visit New York, and to that end provided a special car on the Erie, and induced several of his friends to join the excursion. It was a great trip, the bill for champagne and cigars alone being in the neighborhood of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD2,500. Here in New York Fiske cave a dinner in honor of McCray and alarge number of brokers and business men were present. AVhen the banquet was ready McCray could not be found, and they were obliged to proceed without him. During* the meal word: came that Ale- Cray was in a billiard saloon in a basement near liy. Sure enough, there he was found, liis coat off. but his white kid gloves still on his hands, playing billiards with a colored man. In response to an urgent appeal to come at once to dinner, he replied that he had already dined at a restaurant across the road, and was not hungry. I have been told that McCray's association with Fiske cost him a good slice of his money. Sharpers and blackmailers got more of it, and large as his fortune was, it was fast going in one way or another, when his wife, at last prevailed upon him to set apart \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDsomething for her in the event of disaster. He bought her a fine resi- was the only one for several miles around, and the country people came long distances to trade. The business done was light, but there was some all' the time, ank it is not store was closed on trade. It would be more like Clapp to keep it open for the benefit of the public although he lost money by so doing. He had a partner in the store. One morning he came into the store and told the clerk he had bought out his partner. 'Nail up all the doors and windows,' said he, 'and give me the key. AAre will not sell any more goods.' The clerk did as he was ordered, and the store still remains in that condition, with goods rotting on the shelves. To this day no one knows just why it was done. 'I said that Clapp has refused to sell or lease any part of his land. This is not literally true, as some years ago he did lease a few acres to an oil-man. Two or three wells were put down on this lease, and proved a large stretch of country to be good oil land. Clapp, however, refused to sell or lease any more, and says that he regrets that he gave this lease. The Standard people once offered \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD750,000 for a part of his land, but he declined to accept it. He will put no price on the whole or any part of it, but simply declares that it is not for sale or lease. Oil-men have given up all hope of getting anything- from Clapp, and have left him to guard his hidden mine of wealth. He says that when oil gets to \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD10 a barrel he will open it up himself, which means, of course, that it will never be opened up while he is alive.\" \"However,\" said another member of the group, \"Clappy has made better use of his money than old Squire Newell, of Bradford, did of his. Talk about spendthrifts ! Johnnv Steele was a miser compared to Jewell. The Squire, as he was called, made his appearance in McKean county about 30 years ago as agent of Boston capitalists ' who owned nearly 250,000 acres of land in that section. He looked like a Jew, but was a Yankee born and bred, with the pluck needed by a financial agent in the wilds, and'until 1870 faithfully served the capitalists who had entrusted him with their property, at the same time securing large holdings for himself. With the advent of the oil-men, however, he began to go wrong. Wine and women ruined him. \"Piece by piece, warrant by warrant, lands owned by Newell or\" his principles faded away, while the hand of the Squire did little to stay the invaders who were robbing him with little ceremony and less respect than they would have shown toward a Digger Indian. He retained a few farms and city lots, which have been a source of great revenue to his family, but the large tracts in his keeping were practically given away to the oil-men and land sharks. The revenues obtained by Newell were squandered in every conceivable way. One of his ventures was an opera house which he called the academy. It was built of wood and was soon destroyed by one of the lires so alarmingly frequent in the early days of Bradford. Only a few vaudeville performances ever occupied the boards. Sharpers, gamblers and beats of every grade victimized and played upon his weakness as successfully as though their schemes were directed against a child. Even the ancient gold-brick trick cost him several thousand dollars. In his cups he would back any note that was handed him, and was so accomodating on this score that sharpers dubbed him the in- dorser of the citv. He staked broken- down actresses and stranded theatrical troupes and sent them on their way rejoicing-. Ten years of fast life broke down a constitution naturally robust. Newell's physical and financial resources gave way about the same time, and his relatives stepped in to check a career that could only end in ruin and death. The remnants of his estate were taken from his legal charge, and his family supported liim out of the proceeds and assumed rents until his death some six or seven years ago. Johnny Steele never squandered as much money as Newell. Steele may have thrown away \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1,500,000. Newell frittered or gave away five times that amount. His family received less than \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD250,000 from the wreck of his fortune. Newell was the easiest mark the oil country has ever known.\" \"Newell,\" said a former oil scout, who is now an editor, \"was a great friend of Bill Gallagher, the well-shooter. Bill and his brother Jim are all that are left of a family of seven. The other five brothers have been killed one after another while handling nitro-glycerine. Bill and Jim Gallagher once gave me the liveliest experience of my life, and one that I don't care ever to have repeated. AAre were riding one night along the streets of Glean, and Bill was telling me about the tricks of glycerine- thieves, when of a sudden the sky away to the south of the town was reddened by a vivid flash and the ground trembled beneath us. Bid said that the thieves whose practice is to do their work at night and then fire the looted magazine in'order to destroy all traces of their crime, had been at it again, and had just robbed and blown up a magazine Ixdonging to the Gallaghers, and located on the Wildcat road, a couple of miles out of Olean. He declared that if we made haste we might overtake the thieves, and next instant we were driving rapidly behind a splendid team of blacks along the main street of Olean, and out into the night. Half an hour later we turned into the forest road leading to the scene of the explosion. Bill leaped from the wag-on, and closely inspected the roa'd with the aid of a lantern. The fresh imprint of wheels and horses' hoofs showed that the thieves had been there within an hour, and the direction in which they had gone. \"Bill climbed back into the wagon, saying that, as the thieves had carried away a heavy load, we should be able to overhaul them, and we. ag-ain started iu pursuit. At short intervals one of brothers would leap to the road, and hurridly inspect it with a lantern. Each time the trail was easily discernable. We had gone but a short distance when the full moon came out from behind a cloud, making the road plainly visible for a long distance ahead. At \"the- end of another half a mile the rattle of a wagon came to us through the clear night air, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD plainly audible above the creaking of our own vehicle. Jim pulled up, and we all bent our heads and listened. The wagon was coming toward us at brakeneck speed from in front. We had halted at the foot or a steep hill, and at their present pace the hprses would soon become visible at the top of the incline. A moment later they shot into view at the top of the hill. A dark object, that was either a blanket or a man, was outlined against the shining tin boxes, which filled the wagon the half-craged animals were dragging after them. \"The thieves'team was miming away, and, as the road was narrow, would next moment be in deadly collision with our own. Quicker than it' takes to tell it Jim pulled his norses sharply to the right and gave them a Avicked lash with the whip. Startled by the blow, th\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD**.y leaped into the bushes at the side of the road and stuck fast, with only one of the rear wheels projecting into the highway. \"Run, and lie down,\" shouted Bill. We needed no urging. The three of us as one leaped from the wagon and fled away from the road\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand death. Step by step I fought my wav through a thick undergrowth of bushes, threw myself on thegrouud, and waited for the explosion. A moment later there was a deafening report, and the brush about me was raked as if by a galling fire of grape and canister. For what seemed an age the deadly fusilade continued. Then it ceased almost abruptly as it began, and its echoes died slowly away among the hills. I scrambled to my feet, and, Jim and Bill appearing- unharmed in answer to my shouts, we started back to the road. The brush through which we hurried/broken, torn, and covered with dust, looked as if it had been swept by a hurricaue. More impressive still, our hands soon came in contact with shreads of raw flesh clinging to the bushes. \"Such a scene of wreck and desolation as the moonlight finally displayed I never want to see again. AAre found our horses about 20 feet from the roadside. They had been lifted bodily and blown that distance, but aside from a few cuts and bruises were unharmed. Our wagon, however, had been literally reduced to kindling wood, the tongue being the only portion of the vehicle that remained intact. A rod or so below the spot where Jim had driven his horses into the bushes we found a great hole in the middle of the road a dozen feet in diameter and three or four feet deep. Embedded in the bank a few yards distant were several fragments of the thieves' wagon, and for inanj' rods down the hill we found the road littered with pieces of spokes, iron and fragments of horses' flest. As we stood looking at the wreck the sound of footsteps came to our ears from the top of the hill. Two men were coming toward us as fast as they could run. Bill motioned to us to keep silent, but the next moment the strangers caught sight of us and slackened their pace. Then one of them cried out : 'It's the Gallaghers,' and ran back up the hill, followed by his companion. Before we could overtake them they had plunged into the bush and were \"gone. We returned in disgust to the scene of the explosion. Suddenly a round, bright object caught Bill's eye. He picked it up and began examining it by the light of the moon. \"Did anyone notice a black object on the wagon ?\" I asked. \"That might have been a blanket or a\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\" \"Man ?\" interposed Jim. \"Yes, I thought it was a blanket.\" \" 'And so did I,\" said Bill in a low voice, 'but the horse that wore this will never again be curious about the time of day.' As he uttered these words he placed in my hand the bright object he WHEELING IX MUNICH. 'get I brought two American wheels with me to Munich, and after a glance at the finely-macadamized streets began to prepare for some good riding. Some Germans whom I met in the bicycle shop to which I sent my wheels' for cleaning were aghast at my termeritv. \"AVhat!\" they exclaimed. \"Rideyour wheel in Munich before learning enough German to understand the signs ! fit's madness. Besides, you can't ride until you pass .your examination and your numbers.\" Upon investigation I found rather a curious state of affairs, judged u*om our American standpoint. In the first place, every bicycle in Munich has to carry two metal'numbers, one fastened to tlie handle-bar and the other behind the saddle; my number is 16,535, from which it seems that there are a good many wheels in use here. These numbers are [issued by the 'police authorities, and cost five marks (\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1.25). They enable the police to identify and fine a rider who breaks a rule. If you run over and kill any one, any person witnessing the act can take your number, go to the police office, and find out who you are, thus permitting the friends to begin a suit for damages. In New York the bicycler who runs down a helpless pedestrian coolly rides away after giving a fictitious address. The Germans manage things differently. Both numbers on a Munich bicycle must be kept where the police officers in the streets can see them easilv. Port of Nakusp THOS. ABRIEL CUSTOflS BROKER, Real testate, Mines & Insurance. Nakusp, B. C. Keacration when Was turned against thc country, and,' iioav that|the gloom of the Argonaut days has disappeared, it looms up brighter than ever as .... A place where any . ... appetite can be satiated. COME EARLY AND AVOID'THE KL'Sir. iriKKLlNC; OK MO-XOPOIiY. Jacobson & Co, II i> Visit to tho Householder, Some ofthe Things That lie Demanded. went along* in all tlnsc streams. They pushed along doAvn the Yukon that season as far as they could before winter closed in behind them. On Aug. 10 they had .decided that they had gone about as far as Avas safe. On that, day they camped in thc Klondike and began to build a cabin. They panned the sand and gravel in Deer creek Avith good luck for '--SI days. By this time the sun Avas getting pretty Ioav. winter Avas near at liand, aiid the three miners decided to get out Avith all possible haste. On the Avay they encountered great hardships and YVilson's two partners died in the Avilderness. \"He'says that on his return to Alaska last year the cabin Avas found standing at tlie headwaters of Deer creek in tlie Klondike valley, and the Indians in that vicinity arc willing- to testify that it has been there for \"more than ten years to their knowledge. Besides the names of tlie discoverers, the date of the erection of the cabin is carved in one of the logs. \"Such being the truth, Avlmt kind of a show Avould Arkell have? It is my opinion that Dalton did not cross the \"i ukon river Avliere it is generally understood he did, because at that point the riA-er is not fordablo. In fact, I believe that the Dalton party's discovery Avas on Sixty-Mile creek, on the east and south side of the Yukon, if it Avas made at all.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMiunapolis'.Journal. BACK FHOM KLONDIKE. giving them what they Avant. I think that rig ought to do them. I count it the best in the city.\" 8 Bill Avas pacing up and doAvn the room, apparently forgetful of what he came!for, till Tom said,-'Bill, why don't vou drink your brandy?\" \"0 Tom,\" said he, \"I don't care for it, some way this morning.\" \"Why, Bill, Avhat's the matter, are you sick ?\" \"No, Tom, I'm not sick, I don't care for the brandy, and I'll tell you 'why. \"I have the best Avife that any mortal man ever had, and our littie baby, three months old, is the prettiest and loveliest baby ever born into any family\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDas sAveetj I think, as any angel let loose in heaven. A half hour ago,when I came out of my house, I found that my wife had got an old pasteboard box, and had tied it with some strings to the front Avheels of an old Avrecked baby wagon. In this pauper dog-cart she avus Avheeling our SAveet little baby around to give it a little fresh air. She said to me. 'Bill, Mrs. Jones' baby- across the street is dead. She has a baby carriage for Avhich she paid live dollars; she says she does not need it uoav, aud that if I Avill o-ive her a dollar and'a half for it I may have it. Can you let me have that much, Bill, that I may get it?' Tom, do you. knoAV that I cursed my Avife for Jin extravagant woman, Avanting a dollar and a half to buy ji carriage for the biiby, Avhen Avhat she had Avould do avcII enough. \"Toia, I'm done. I've turned into this establishment ;t good many hundred of dollars to help you buy a set out for your Avife and babies ha,ve not been able to get oik; costing- ji dollar and that brandy, the gutter. 1 Avill see if $2,000 mine a half. . I'll pjiy you for but you cjin turn it into ! don't Avant it. I'm done, nv wife and babies can't have, too, ;i decent carrijige to ride in. Good morning.\" Hoav many' there are who luiAre not the courage' or strength of Avill to turn aAvay from drink so resolutely, aiid Avho'se families, therefore, must go on suffering. I hope, hoAvever, this may fall into the hands of some one avIio will folloAv the example given above. He rang the door bell as though he wished to pull the house over on top of him, and Avhen I went to the door he rushed in, took the most comfortable seat in the room (my seat of course), told me rather gruffly to sit down, pulled out a book and pencil and began questioning me. It Avas all done so-quickly, and with such an \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD air of authority, that I obeyed like a 11 ve-year-old child. \"What is your name, age, occupation, sex and previous condition of servitude?\" he asked in one breath. I answered in half a breath, for that was all I had left, Jind I Avas so rattled that I actually told him I Avas a woman Avhen everyone knoAVS I am a man. \"Do you use any oil in your business?\"--' By this time I had recovered a moiety of my sang-froid and a little of my savoir faire. \"Well,\" I replied, \"I use some rather oily phrases when I ;im corresponding with editors.\" \"None of yer lip, young feller,\" said my visitor. \"I represent the great Standard Oil Company that iioav oaviis the greater x*art of the United States of America, and more or less of the rest of the world. One word of impudence and I Avill raise up their Avrath against yon. Noav, Iioav much kerosene oil do you burn in a year?\" I called in my Avife, she got out her account books, and we told him the exact amount to the fraction of a quart. \"During the ensuing year,\" he went on, \"you will have to use more. The company isn't making enough out of you.\" I promised to buy three more lamps and to start the fires hereafter Avith his make of oil only. \"Now, what other oil do you use?\" he asked. \"None to speak of,\" I answered. \"That won't do at all, young man. I have these blanks to fill out and I want answers to every one of them. Got a .sewing machine?\" \"Yes.\" j \"Hoav much oil do vou use on it in a j vear ?\" * | \"A quart.\" j \" Use two quarts next year.'' * \"All right,\" I answered. I. had made j a guess as the amount, but I. thought Ave might be able to get away with two quarts by hiring a seamstress and keeping her at work all the year. i '^\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD^/\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD^'''\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'^\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDk/S^^ *-*-%/\"*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD The Clifton House, Has ample'accommodations and airy, and the Dining Sandon. for a large number of people. The rooms are large Room is provided with everything in the market. Sample Rooms for Commercial Traveler)?. ^J& John Buckley,'. Prop. OTEL SANDON, ^A ?K ?A tv\ Sandon, B.C. HpHIS NEW HOUSE, with the old name, is well equipped to aceomraodate a large number of Guests. The building is plastered and the rooms are unsurpassed for comfort in the Slocan, while in the Dining Room can be found the best food in the market. Robert Cun nng, Proprietor. babv oarruure: FAD OF THE SMART GIKX, The smart girl's latest fad is to design, and to design some very commonplace belongings. That is to say she hasn't taken up modeling in clay or the designing of carpets or rugs, but she is happiest Avhen she can tell you the hat, gown or jacket Avhich sheAvears avjis designed by herself. Sometimes she is able to add that she made it, but oftenor she grows enthusiastic, describes the What the Papers Said Ho Brought What He Hid. and \"I understand your uncle brought \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD5800,000 back from Klondike ?\" \"No.\" Win* that Avas certainly the \"No? report.\" \"Yes. son Citv That Avas the report at DaAV- but Avhen he got to St. Michael's rumor let it drop to $(125,000. \"Well, that's a pretty good sum.\" \"Of course it is, but afrer he had sailed avc got word that the actual value of his nuggets probably wouldn't exceed \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD$\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'-580,000. \"Still he could do the handsome thing by you if he Avanted to.\" ' \"No doubt about that at all,but Avhen A STORY OV VERDI. A story is told of Verdi touching his kindness to those around him. For some time past he has been staying in Genoa, at his palace in the Via Andrea Doria. A feAv days ago, Avhile out driving, a man approached his carriage and begged to be alknved to speak. The man turned out to be the director of an obscure troupe of performers from Java, avIio were about to commence a series of performances at the Allien Theater, Genoa. The director (Signer Bernard) summoned up sullicient courage to beg the great :maestro to attend a special representation which his troupe desired to giA-e iu his honor. Verdi accepted the invitation, and immediatly drove to the Allien Theater, to Avhich no one but he Avas admitted. He listened with great- attention to the primitive orchestra, and Avatchedthe fabrication by the troupe of various objects. A JaAra woman offered him a silk pocket handkerchief as a present and embroidered it for him in gold in his presence. Upon leaving the theater Verdi said to Signor Bernard: \"I thank you inlinitely for the pleasant half-hour Avhich you have enabled me to pass,audi Avish good for tune to you all.\" The Ja\ra troupe Avere higldy delighted Avith the honor aid them by the Han composers. pai Ita greatest of liviiii. \"Got a \"Yes.\" \"Hoav much oil do 3rou see on it?\" \"Two quarts.\" This Avas another guess. \"Use four next year.\" I tried to explain that we couldn't do that A'ery Avell as our baby had outgrown the carriage and we hadn't made any arrangements for another. But it didn't work. He simply insisted on our using four quarts for the baby carriage if we had to get tAvins to make it necessary. Then he went on with a list of a hundred things that 1 did not have, ordered me to get one at least of each and keep it well oiled. At last I thought he had finished, but I Avas mistaken. \"Said yon had a baby, I believe?\" he asked. \"Yes.\" \"How much castor oil do you use?\" L made another guess. He told me to use the Standard Oil Company's best kerosene in the future, and give it to him every night. I promised of course. \"You or any of your family got tuberculosis?\" \"Yes,\" I answered, from habit\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDitwas the first time in my life 1 ever told a lie. \" Use Standard Oil Coinpay's AI A oil instead of Cod Liver oil in future, and liave at least two more members of your family sick with it before I come around again. Understand?\" I told him I did, and he went out of j the house as rapidly as he came in. j Times may lie bard for other people, | but I'll bet they ain't for tlie Standard j Oil Company. i I got ahead of him on one thing though. I had an oilskin coat in the] house, he never found it out. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Yellow i Magazine. He AVanted a .Discount. Is an ideal home for the weary traveler. It is conducted in a manner benttina; the approach of the 20th century, which is the latest way of saying up-to-date. Gething 8t fietidepson. -^t-y <^. -\"k- <&\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD -*&' \"**k- -^ -'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD''\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD%.' -\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDv *%\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD -^ \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD%\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ; -^ \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD%- *^ \"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"ft- '**&- \"*- *%\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD -^^ -**\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD& \"i*****, -**&, -**D*k \"^ -^& \"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa* \"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD* -\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD%\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD The assessment is $2 in dust, Nuggets, or anything of Commercial value. If you are going to the Klondike take a copy of THE LEDGE with you. iournev vers. It will cheer vou on to that mecca of the gold fSSSSKEiaZI :-TTT---g'raire-g-m--^^ THE BARREN\" LANDS OF CA.VADA. In the Geography Section, a paper read by J. B. Tyrrell, M.A.B.Sc., Ottawa, on The Barren Lands of Canada, Avas of especial moment He stated that the barren lands, or more properly the northern plains and prairies of Canada, cover an area of about 350,000 square miles betAveen the Mackenzie river and Hudson Bay, A prominent and ministerial-looking number of the club Avent into a doAvii- t<\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwn hat store. Selecting a tile that suited him, he asked: \"What's the price of this?\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'Eight dollars,\" responded the chirk. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*Any discount to a minister?'' gravely asked the caller. \"Yes. sir. you can have it for s?.\" The hardware man put the hat on, walked 0A*c.rto a glass, took a long look and said, with emphasis: \"I'll take this. If my congregation don't like it thev oan yo to the d\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Hardware. SILVERTON, B. C. >o' DAvelling I! Furnished'-or Apply to ' oust1., Six Rooms, to rciil. Unfurnished. ['ho.aii-sox, Mnviii-'j.i, >!\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD;. Co. s^E&aa&g s&mi&m Is tlie leading hotel of the city, and headquarters for Mining and Commercial men. The house is new, the rooms all plastered, and ture in use is of r the furni- the late-; &&^Wtf<^ an(*most serviceable patteni,\" The service in the Dining room is the best that can be rrovided. The bar is replete with the best wines, liquors and Cigars. JAMES BOWES. 5r\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDrr~;rm--,-v\",i1.^^i.-:-i,-.r..^^ as 4 THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., OCTOBER 28, 1897, Fifth Yeah The Lodge. Published every Thursday. R. T. LOWERY, Editor and Financier. SUBSCRIPTION months RATES Thre, Six Twelve \" -\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD''*> THKEK V1CAKS \"'.<'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD(\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ransient Advertising, ->n cents per line first in sertion. 10 eents per line subsequent insertions nonpareil measurement. TO CONTRIBUTORS.' Correspondence from every part of the Kootenay District and communications upon live topics always acceptable. Write on both sides of the pajier if you wish. Always send something: good no matter how crude. Get your copy in while it is hot. and we will do the rest TBUKSDAF, OCTOBER. 28. 1897. OIU: NATIONAL (.'OKAIOKAXT. From the Crows Nest Pass comes a cry from the laborers ot the C.P.R. which should receive prompt attention from the Dominion Government. In another column will be found an extract from the Spokesman-Review, which illustrates the methods by which thc railroad co.obtains labor. It is a story of wrong and heartless de. ception which all Canada knows that soulless corporation to be fully capable of. The statement as given to the Spokane paper has all the appearance of fact, and is more than corroborated by. Alberta journals, who .state that the services of the Mounted Police are being freely used to round up laborers who quit working on the railroad. This is apparently a modern edition of the southern fugitive Slave law of olden times, revived and transplanted to \vhat we are wont to term the free soil of Canada, for the special benefit ofthe C.P.R. It is plainly seen that the standing- policy of the company is the same now in the Crows Nest Pass, as it has been hitherto in all other parts ofthe line, that is to obtain the cheapest and lowest grade labor Avhether it be Italians, Chinese or Hottentots. . The interests of the laboring class as a factor in this community never counts with the C.P.R. That this cormorant monopoly can afford to treat its workmen on the Crows Nest Pass road, and elsewhere, as human beings, may be gathered from the fact that for the first week of October of the present year its earnings Avere $668,000 against $377,000 for the same period last year. This vast increase of income contributed by the people should be controlled and used for the benefit ofthe people, and such is the case in all other colonies of Britain. Under existing conditions the increasing revenue of \"our' National HigliAvay serves but to enrich a gang ot sharks who are revelling in the luxury of European capitals while the overworked and underpaid workers of all grades in \"their employ, may, in order to obtain living wages, have to go on another strike. We do not suppose that when the present Minister of Railways exercised the power vested in him ot dictating to the C.P.R. in the matter of coal limits, and other so-called rights, fraudulently given them by the Mac- Donald -Tupper combination, that he could have thought them capable of such a shortsighted policy as that of further embittering the people against them on the ground of outrageous treatment of workmen. But we insist on the government taking up this matter of the treatment of white men, decoyed on false pretences from distant centers of population, dumped down in a desolate region at the mercy of a corporation who have about as much consideration for the just treatment of Avorkmen as an African hyena. I ed the question from any other stand - i point than its direct bearing on the I financial institutions he represents. Continuing, he. is quoted as saying the \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD uncovered paper money is \"Based on the stability of this Domin- \"ion ; redeemable, practically speak- \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 'ing, in any commercial commodity\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"wheat, iron, gold if necessary. But \"we are not asked to redeem them \"in gold. If the paper is as good as \"the gold why should Avebe? The \"paper is the most satisfactory token \"ot exchange for use at home. The \"gold, coined, would simply have its \"bullion value abroad. We receive \"that for it ,'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDs it is. If a larger gold \"reserve is deemed necessary why \"not a bullion reserve?\" In a genera] sense the uncovered paper money is based on tbe stability of the Dominion, but, as considered in. the financial'world, it, is not, and if Mr. Clouston Avere to advance such argument in favor of a government paper money he would be classed Avith the Coxeyites of the United States. They have argued in this strain until black in the face, and the reply has always come from the gold forces that paper money is as good as gold because the gold is behind it. If Mr. Clouston is correct, and the uncovered paper is as good . as gold because based on the government's stability, then we might ask why should not this money be issued by the government at a low rate ot interest instead of by the banks at a high rate of interest? But we are not advocating the paper money theory for Canada. It is a mint we are after. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMr. Clouston says: \"If a larger gold reserve is deemed necessary .why not a bullion reserve?\" Because a bullion reserve would be of no use as a circulating medium. Bullion cannot circulate, and what Canada needs is a gold and silver money of her OAvn mintage that can go into any market in the Avorld and become a competitor for the business of the world, the same as the American eagle or the English soverign. Year after year Canada has been compelled to increase her national debt by the issue of bonds on which she pays an average percentage of 3.75 in order to raise gold to settle her balances with other nations. And the interest on and principle of all this enormous debt (now in the neighborhood of $290,000,000) is payable in gold coin\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDnot paper that is as \"good as gold because based on the stability of the Dominion.\" With a Canadian mint coining the product of Canadian mines into legal tender gold and silver Canadian coins, Ave Avould not be dependent on other countries for money to liquidate this indebtedness, and the Dominion would not be forced to go to the bankers to borrow American eagles or English soverigns. A bullion might answer very well if we had a sufficient legal tender circulating medium, but without this it would benefit nobody but the banks and money brokers. CANADA'S ABirJTV TO BORKOAV. Canada's and abroad, she floated credit is good at home The ease with whieh a $10,000,000 loan last week in London is proof of this. The money was borrowed at a very low rate of interest\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD2.73 per cent\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe loan to run 50 years. The last Canadian loan was'for $2,500,000, floated in 1894 and the interest payable on it is 3.16 per cent. In 1885 a loan Avas floated for $4,000,000 at 4.08 per cent. Of Canada's total debt, $146,- 000,000 bears 4 per cent, interest, S27,000,000 bears 3J per cent., $52,- 000,000 bears 3 per cent., $27,000,000 5 per cent, and on SI,000.000 \".6 per cent. The last loan floated is on the most fav- rable conditions of any, and indicates that Canada's credit is yet good in the financial Avorld. More than half of the bonds were taken by Canadian banks and insurance companies. It is a favorable condition for any country doing business on a credit basis to be able to borrow money at a low rate of interest. Canada is very fortunate. But the question arises, when is this,'borrowing-business-to stop? In 'twenty five years, from 1871 to 1895, the net debt of Canada increased from $77,706,- 517 to $253,074,927. The last issue of bonds indicates that it is still increasing, with no probability of its being lowered. Much has being said since the late bond issue about our country's good credit, all of Avhich sounds patriotic and fine, and we Avould not attempt to dampen anyone's patriotism, but, laying aside all sentiment, is it not a poor financial policy that compels a country so vast and rich m resources as Canada to float bonds year after year to keep her head above water? If Canada's credit is good enough to borrow money on, and pay interest for fifty years, is not it good, enough to stand behind gold and silver dollars of her OAvn mintage, equal in Aveight and fineness to the gold and silver coinage of England or any other nation ? o ^ot\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDs of the w^ek- i BY COSMO. THE TOPIC. UK. C HOUSTON'S HKBBSY. Mr. E. S. Clouston Avas with the Van Home party on their late trip through the Slocan. Mr. Clouston is a prominent bank official of Montreal, and is considered one of Canada's foremost financiers. His opinion on the financial question ought to be worth something, but we fear the atmosphere, the grand scenery of the Slocan, or some one thing or another got the best of his usually sound judgment, for to a Ledge representative he said he did not think Canada Avas in need of a mint, because \"we have curren- \"cy enough now. With a population ' 'of 5,000,000 we have $15,000,000 in ' 'gold and $5,000,000 fractional silver, \"sufficient as a basis for our paper \"and as medium for settling foreign \"balances: thc eagle to pay out* \"debts in the United States, and the \"soverign for settlement of accounts \"in Great Britain. We have $40,- \"000,OOOo-of paper with which to carry \"on business at home.\" We cannot think Mr. Clouston Avas in earnest Avhen he spoke as quoted above, and if so, that he has ebnsider- The Topic is the name of a paper just started at Trout Lake City by John Langstaff and James Currie. The name is familiar to us as many years ago Brother Bill and us started a paper by that name which still lives and has its quota of live ads. It is in honor of our first paper that John and Jim christened theirs, and we trust that their enterprise will meet with success. It is a hard proposition to run a paper in a camp as youthful as Trout Lake, but as its editor has often packed over a hard trail, his blankets, and eaten bacon and beans without sauce, he will strike pay dirt or we are no prophet. C A. UK IKS HIS BELLOWS. D. R. Young, of the Slocan City NeAvs has the following interview in the Victoria Colonist: \"The recent strikes on the Lemon creek,\" says Mr. Young, \"have proved beyond a doubt that there is an abundance of gold right at home, and four hundred men or more are now working on the Lemon properties, with results that are not only encouraging but quite satisfying to them. The Cold Blow, the Howard Fraction, the Maple Leaf, the Lucky George, and two or three other quartz properties are turning out wonderfully Avell, while on Lemon creek placer mining, too, is being actively prosecuted, washing the bed gravel returning from $4 to $8 a day.\" There are many rich prospects on Lemon creek, but Avhen Young told the reporter that 4.00 men were working on them, and that placer mining Avas being vigorously prosecuted he must have done it with his little belloAvs. About 20 men are working in that section, and placer ground is more a romance than a real it v. Senator Wolcot's mission to Europe in the interests of silver does not appear to have been much ot a success. Of course the main reliance of the, friends of the mission was centred in the hope that the British government would take a step much in advance of its present position. The silver organs in the United States who are whispering ' 'I told you so\" Avould do well to consider that the British parliamentary system circumscribes the action of the cabinet, even to the expression of an opinion. The House of Commons is the fountain of power and no premier can afford to speak for that tribune of the people- much in advance of its own decisions. There is no room to doubt that the masses of the people of Great Britain are educated and determined to dethrone the single gold standard, and the next general election will prove it. The great labor union gatherings have spoken with a unanmity against which even the combined force of Lombard St. cannot prevail. The United States mission to Great Britain will bear fruit, and that earlier than many of the friends of Senator Wolcott anticipate. The Victoria Times, a paper professing loyalty to the principles of the Laurier administration, has been sorely exercised over the fact that the allured Premier allowed some secret organization of aristocratic pretensions in London to disfigure his loved Wilfred with titles and letters which Avere not bestowed on him at baptism. The Times critic pleads that such fol-de-rol places a public man on an aristocratic pedestal which tends to alienate him from the common herd. The Vancouver World defends the actions of Sir Wilfrid in getting in out of the plebian Avet and getting himself a niche in the royal temple beside such great men as Sir William Van- Horn, and other idols (?) of the Canadian people. The controversy calls to mind a \"scene\" which occurred in the early sixties in the Melbourne Legislative Assembly Avhen Sir Charles Garin Duffy, then a minister of the crown, was twitted by the opposition Avith having once been a rebel in Ireland, and subsequently accepting Knighthood. To the first charge he replied that if Ireland had anything like the liberal treatment accorded then to Australia he would not have been a rebel. As to having accepted knighthood his apology was that a refusal to accept the proffered honor would throAv a veil of suspicion t #' t ink off Montr Capital (all paid up) $12,000,000.00 Reserved fund : : 6,000,000.00 -# Undivided profits : : 859,698.40 SirTDonald A. Smith, G.C.M.G. President. Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice President, E.S. Clouston, General Manager, , A. Macnider, Chief Inspector &Supt. of Branches. A. B. Buchanan, Inspector of Branch returns. W. S. Clouston, Assistant Inspector. James Aird, Secretary. Branches in all parts of Canada, Newfoundland, Gi'eat Britain, and the United States. New Denver branch A general banking business transacted -^-^-%--^'^-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD^-^-%--^-*v-%'-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD^%'^-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD--%^^-^^^^^^^' - -*^%k-%.-^%- ^-%.-*%^^-^^%.-^-^^v-%'-^%^^^v\"^%.-%^.-^-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDi over his, then, sincere loyalty. Laurier was once the champion of annexation to the United States and the circumstances of the time justified his course. Duffy was the Outspoken foe of toryism and landlord extortion in 184:8 and was tried for treason. The reasons for accepting the insignia of knighthood were logical and sound in both cases. The law, such as it was in 1848, clamored for Duffy's life, but he was accquitted and lived to serve his Queen and country for many years as one of the most brilliant and useful public men in the Greater Britain of Australia. The Times would do well to consider whether there are not expediences called for in the lives of public men which are wholly justified on high moral grounds. The coast papers are full of compliments to their patrons the great men of the C.P.R- A week or two ago it was Vice-President Shaugh- nessey and suite who Avere received in State at Vancouver, now it is the Emperor Van Home himself. '\" Hoav the public bodies and the private business men, from Oppenheimer to the city scavenger, fa Dentist. Kaslo, B C Atneriesin <'.Yilles.reof Dental Surgery I B C Mining Engineers & Analy-Chemists. yloean City, Chas. A. Stoess, Assoc. M. Inst. C. E. M. Can. Soc. C. E. CIVIL ENGINEER. Provincial Land Surveyor. Mining Surveying. Kaslo. B. C. THE SILVERTON MINER'S UNION x No. 71, \"W. IF1. 2s/L. Meets every Saturday night. C. MeNICHOLLS. President CHAS. BRAND, Secretary. W. S. Dkewky Kaslo, B.C. H. T. TWIGG New Denver, B.C. DREWRY & TWIGG Dominion and Provineial Land Surveyors. Civil and Mining Engineers. riedford. Me Neil Code. t; Fifth Year. THE LEDQE, NEW DENVER, B.C., OCTOBER 28, 1897. 5 m HOW CLAIMS ARE HELD Present Laws are Easily Evaded by Rossland Locators. THE SILENCE OF THE PRESS Rossland, Oct. 11.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSo much attention in the past has been paid to the mining- progress in the Kootenay, east and west, more especially in that particular centre, Rossland, that it is most surprising that the press in the east, who detailed the future so glowingly for months in succession daily, each one outvieing the other in reports of continuous rich strikes; and new finds, excelling- in value any previous known, and all these reports on little or no authority, now appear to have unanimously abandoned giving particulars as to development and progress of those great mines and prospects, enumerated for the benefit of their readers not.long since, but most of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'which have; now- mysteriously disappeared into oblivion. It must be admitted that'this policy is very short-sighted. Whilst ihe-show was lying on the ground six few in\" depth every eastern journal of any .standing had its special representative visiting mines, locations and snow claims. At this time little or nothing could be seen,and furthermore, many of those who did see were none the,-! wiser afterwards. Yet notwithstanding, the results were long and extravagant teleg-rams as to tlie brilliant future of British Columbia, and Kootenay in particular. The extensive dividend's that were to be forthcoming in the near future are as yet still wanting, and information that should now be furnished showing the amount of work done on the various mining properties is with-held, not througii any intention to mislead shareholders and their readers, but simply that at the very time these journals should liave representatives who could furnish them with reliable and trustworthy infor- . niation on the spot, have failed to do this, and the exhaustive information dealt out to the public at the commencement of mining operations remains incomplete. Yet now is the actual time when further information is necessary, whereby after the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars some discrimination could be shown, and the number of companies incorporated last vear could now be classified and shareholders have some idea a.s to.their investments according to prospects shown by actual development, were a thorough investigation to be made by a thorough competent mining man, on behalf of some well-known paper, on every company incorporated. And where large interests are held in Ontario the result would, although disastrous, be eminently satisfactory, as everyone naturally wishes to know whether their holdings are of any value or absolutely worthless. But unless a man of integrity and well-known mining experience undertakes the investigation it would be useless. Thc past experience justifies the statement that had newspapers been better represented, by men who had some knowledge of mining and the devices of those connected therewith there would be some different tales to tell to-day. As it was, all news, no matter from whom originating, was accepted as facts, and such information wired to the respective papers for publication. Misrepresentation was naturally the order of the day, hence so many wild cat schemes wliicii were actually applauded as meritorious, and though what the only necessity, to fit a man to act in the capacity as mining representative of a responsible paper, was wanting, capable, no doubt,to write a leading article on the ecclesiastical expenditure of India, the rise in wheat, or the Behring Sea question, but totally unqualified to judge between a mining proposition with or without value.\" To inspect mines one must know what he is inspecting, be able to form his own judgement, as to merit or demerit, and have the courage of his convictions. It is a mistake to withhold condemnation, of a valueless claim, and only issue statements of a favorable nature. Where able, as a matter of fact, every owner of a claim, whether there is any mineral on it or not, will inform enquirers that his or their property is unequalled in the country, and' would ( assay up to a hundred in gold and copper.' Yet all these and other such statements were accepted and published. This will prove beyond all question that investigation in the interest of the general public, through the press, should be by. men who know a mine when they see one, and can judge betAveen the qualifications of a mineralized diorite belt and an actual mineralized ledge. Unfortunately too many reports on claims, so-called' mines, were written from dictation in the various hotels in Rossland. To my mind the mining- industry has suffered very considerably through the wanton boom methods\" of the Rossland press ' in the past, which, taken as an authority, did more mischief through the unwarranted and reckless publication of strikes of hug-h and rich bodies of ore in various parts of the Kootenay, which upon investigation proved to be without foundation, and yet none of those assertions were contradicted afterwards, although it was known that no foundation existed for their publication. It was' impossible for the Rossland press to make an issue without two or three important strikes, equal, generally to $20 or S100, over a width of not less than three to six feet. The effects of such statements were without precedent in a new mining country. Copied into all the principal papers throughout Canada, and accredited with trustworthiness in coming from the fountain head, it is to be deplored that such means were used to bri-ig iu capital.to open up worthless ground\". The results of this have proven that this kind of business does not prosper in the end. The Rossland Miner, hy degrees, came down to a third rate paper, and then changed hands altogether. I trust that the new owners will sIioav better discretion than their predecessors; also that the papers east will place less confidence in those papers in the immediate vicinity of the mining camps, and rely.'more on their own investigation. By doing this they certainlvwillbeableto do their readers a good turn, which will in turn be reciprocated and beneficial to all concerned'! Now that extensive Aveeding has taken place, and mining is being carried out legitimately on the remaining properties, it is only reasonable to anticipate better results. Work is being pushed energetically, and .development sIioavs prospects that warrant anticipations of dividends in the near future, but it must be borne in mind that tlie Rossland ores, with but fe.AV exceptions, are Ioav grade, and that the facilities for transportation are not of the best, irrespective of the fact that the ground is expensive to work through its excessive hardness. Yet capital, judiciously invested, -will eventually give remunerative returns. One very great drawback to the mining industry is the present existing- Government' regulations relative to locating mineral claims, and the sooner this is remedied the better for the country at large. The fallacy in protecting the poor man in his mineral discoveries by allowing him at a cost of $2.50 to take up and hold 52 acres, is at present the curse of the industry. The moment that there is any pretense of a discovery of mineral in 'a .new district, then the whole country for miles and miles is staked off, without any sensible reason; yet all these claims are supposed to be'carrying-mineral-bearing bodies. In many instances men with'not$10 capital hold no less than 20 and even 50 claims on different veins under the same license, or in all, from 1,000 acres upwards. It is impossible for them to do assessment work, and they lock up the country against bona fide mining institutions. This prostitution of an industry which should return large revenues to the country is legalized by an intelligent government.\" Many hundreds of claims have and Avill be located but never prospected, and under these conditions never Avill be, whilst a systematic exploring party under a good head could prospect and probably discoArer a valuable lead, which would bring wealth to the country and reward the energy of the finders', avIio would only stake off that which in the future would become valuable. But no encouragement is offered competent explorers or prospectors for the moment a \"find\" is made all adjoining lands are staked, for speculative purposes, and should the speculation fall through, the. claims remain in the possession of the unitiat- ed, incompetent and impecunious party. This state of affairs is deplorable. If, as it should be, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD50 were necessary to record a claim, then there Avould be more money in the exchequer for making roads and opening up districts with merit, and there Avould be fewer wildcats. One other point that requires rectifying, the evil of which is seen by men travelling through mining districts and avIio are well versed in the rules applying to other countries, is the fact that\"a claim, Avhen staked, need not have any assessment Avork done till the expiration of tAvelve months, and this is soon evaded from year to year and the mineral Avealth, if any, unworked, to the detriment of the country, and this is how the fraud is - practised on the Government. On. the expiration of tAvelve months the claim is restakctl in another name, and the assessment Avork of course, remains undone. Two partners holding twenty claims in their alternate nanies can hold the ground from year to year by simply practicing this method and doing no assessment work. The claims so held are re-staked and those in the name of one partner are changed into the other's and so the game goes merrily on. When a claim purporting to carry mineral values is staked, only a reasonable time should be alloAved to do the first assessment, say 90 days, upon the completion of Avhich a certificate could be given that such Avork had been done. The time for obtaining a Crown grant, viz., fiA-e years, by yearly expenditures on the ground equal to if 100 annually, is absurd, tAvo years being ample to allow the locator to do this A\rork. When this change takes place there will be three times more mining and the industry will be more prosperous. It is imperative that a radical change take place in the mining- regulations as they now rejid, and the quicker it eA'entuates the better the progressl \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDToronto Telegram. to the Minin-j: Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Ciwvn grant of the above claim. And, further take notice, that action under Section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of said certiiicate of improvements. Dated this, if.th day of October, 1897. JOHN HIRSCH. L. Dtinedin 1833, G-r. l. Mineral Claim. OURNE Dwelling House, Six Rooms, to rent. Furnished or Unfurnished. Apply to Thompson*, Mitciieu, & Co.. Situated in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On Reco Hill und adjoiuing the Ruecan and Blue Bird Mineral Claims. rPAKE NOTICE that I, John Hirsch, as agent 1 for James Marshall, F. M. C. 88878, Thomas Brown, F.M.C. 83451, and Duncan S. Forbes, F. M. C. 00170. intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improA-ements Dated this 15th day of October, 1807. JOHN HIRSCH. Sapphire and Gem Mineral Claims. Provincial Secretary's Office. HIS HONOUR the Lieutenant-Governor, has been pleased to make the following appointment:-- Ai.uxa.ndkh Si'HOAT, of the town of Ncav Denver. Esquire, Mining Recorder, to be a Deputy of the District Registrar under the \" BIrth.v Deaths *\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Marriages Act,\" for the Nelson Division ofthe West Kootenay District. October 15th, 1807. CERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS Gold Ring Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining- Division of Wes* Kootenay District. Where located: About one mile from the Forks of Cariboo Creek and joining the Millie Mack mineral claim. r-JAAKE NOTICE that I. J. A: Kirk, acting as 1_ agent for H. C Pollock, free miner's certiiicate No. 67,808, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Milling Recorder for a certificate >of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining* a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must bo. commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 21st day of July, 1897 J. A. KIRK. L. 1855, Gr. 1. Bei-hy Mineral Claim. Situate in the Sicca n Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: Adjoining the Lalla Rook and Minneapolis mineral claims on Payne Mountain. TAKE NOTICE that I, John Hirsch. as agent for ihe Ramsdell Mining and Milling Co., free miner's certificate Xo. 7-.'0R A, intend, sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for certiiicate of improvements, for the purpose of obtain ing CruAvn grant of above claims. And further take notice that action, under Section 37, must bo commenced before the issuance of such certiiicate of improvements. Dated this L'5th day of October, 1807. JOHN HIRSCH. E.Parrisfe CoM SLOCAN CITY and TEN MILE. GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS &. SHOES, BUILDERS?' SUPPLIES, STOVES, ENAMEL and TINWARE, PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, POWDER, FUSE, CAPS,! JESSOP &' BLACK DIAMOND STEEL CHATHAM WAGONS, ETC.. AT LOWEST PRICES. NeAv Denver. B. C Slocan Hospital NEW DENVER, B.C. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kpotenay District. Where located:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD On Carpenter Creek about half a mile above the town of Cod.y and adjoining the Chambers mineral claim. TAKE NOTICE that I, John Hirsch, as agent for A.. H. Buchanan, free miner's certiiicate No. 83.51H, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the mining recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a eroAvn grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under Sec. 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate, of Improvements. Dated this 16th day of October, 1807. JOHN HIRSCH. L. 1.S5G, Gr. 1. -bulla Rook Mineral Claim. A full line of Prospectors' and Miners Supplies at TenMile Store. A new stock of Gents' Furnishings, Special lines in balbreggan. Carpets. Mats. Floor and Table Oilcloth and Linoleum. Also the latest styles in Dress Goods and Trimmings: in silks and velvets and buttons; Sheeting and,... Pillow Cotton. Other articles too'numerous to mention. Millinery the latest style always on hand. MRS. W W. MERELY. An office ofthe Slocan Hospital lias been opened at Sandon under the medical superintendence of DR. P. Ii. POWERS. Subscribers on presentation of their orders or tickets at the Sandon office will receive medical or surgical treatment and the necessary medicines tree of charge. All serious cases will be admitted to the Hospital for treatment. Miners in regular employ, subscribing through their payroll, can secure all the privileges of theabove. For further information apply to\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD J. E. Brouse, M.D.', New Denyer, B.C. i**t*imim*fH*iH*HHi***& Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of AA'est Kootenay District. Where located: Ad-, joining the Carbonate King- mineral claim on Payne Mountain. rpA KE NOTICE that I.John Hirsch, as agent for 1 Edward Mahon, free miner's eertificateNo. 9-1537, intend fiO days from the date hereof, to apply WHOLESALE GROCERS Agents for B. (J. Sugar Refinery and Royal City Plaining Mills. Nov*?, oi] tfye Market. NoWoij the Market, Black Prince, Cold Blow, Alpine, ] Cameronian, i 't \ Alexandra, Scenic, Situated ir> t^e Heart of 't^e Lf>err>or) \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFeek Gold Mir>es. Plenty of Good Timber. Taao beaatifal lakes neap the Shores of Ltemon Creek ^\"i. A beautifully situated townsite, sar- IroidRded by Gold MiRes.^j Perfect!Title to|all property. f\" ~ \" j \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDS'-%tj *Vf;(i? \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD7! Price of Lots from f 50 to f 150 each. Lucky George, Maple Leaf, Crusader, Howard Fraction, Sundown Fraction and many others. :\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD SL>CH2tf\N \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDITY,| B. 0.' 6 THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., OCTOBER 28, 1897. Fifth Yeae vHa^ThSopTH-syoUnSAian \".Marriage is the saving of a young man, \"said my Aunt Tabitha senten- tiously. I assented, for I find it pays to give a ready acquiescence to abstract propositions. \"You must marry,\" continued my annt. ' 'I am still very voung,\" I said meekly. My aunt turned to my mother. \"Whom shall Alfred marry? What do you say to Letitia Brownlow, or Amelia Stafforth?\" \"Is she not rather\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDmy mother ivaved one hand\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"and Alfred is so \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDdim.\" \"j think she'has a very fine figure,\" responded my aunt. ''Or there is Gertrude Williams. She will have a fortune if she outlives her sisters.\" \"There are only five of them,\" I said hopefully. \"Or Mabel Gordon?\" \"No, none of these,\" I cried decisively. My aunt looked offended. \"Very well, then; choose for yourself,\" she said tartly. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"Perhaps that would help,\" I remarked thoughtfully. \"Well,\" said my aunt impatiently after a short pause,' 'whom do you suggest?\" I thought for a moment. \"What do you say to Winifred Fraser?\" \"That minx!\" cried my aunt. \"Oh, Alfred!\" echoed my mother. \"Why not?\" I asked. \"Such a dreadful family!\" said my mother. \"So fast!\" interjected my aunt. \"But have you never noticed the sun on her hair?\" I asked innocently. My aunt drew herself up! \"We have not noticed the sun on her hair,\" she said with much dignity, \"nor do we wish to observe the sun on her hair. \" I was justly annoyed. \"I really think it must be Wiirifred Fraser,\" I said. \"She is very fond of me, and\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"How can you be so cruel tome?\" cried my mother. ' 'Have you noticed how gray my hair is getting? You will not have me long.\" She drew out her handkerchief. \"You -will come to a bad end,\" said my aunt. ' 'I always thought yon were depraved. If you marry that painted hussy, you must not expect my countenance. \" \"Under the circumstances, I will not marry Winifred Fraser,\" I said with great magnanimity, for I did not particularly want my aunt's countenance. My aunt sniffed. \" You had better not.\" \"I merely joked, \" I said soothingly, remembering she had not made her will. \"Indeed!\"' \"The truth is\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI dropped my voice \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"I am in love with somo one else.\" \"And you uever told me,\" said my mother reproachfully. \"The girl I love is not free.\" \"Married!\" cried my aunt. \"Not married\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDbut engaged.\" \"Who is it?\" asked my mother gently. I was silent for a moment, and then I sighed. \"It is Constance Burleigh. \" \"It would have been a most suitable match,\" murmured my mother. \"Very suitable,\" repeated my aunt. There was a momentary silence, broken by my aunt. \"I did not know Constance was engaged. \" ' 'It is a secret. You must not repeat what I have told you. \" \"I don't like these secret engagements, '' said my aunt brusquely. ' 'Who told you?\" \"She told me herself.\" \"Who is tho man?\" \"I do not think I should repeat his name.\" \"I hope Constance is not throwing herself'away. \" I shook my head doubtfully. \"You know the man?\" I nodded. \"Is he quite\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDquite\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Again I shook my head doubtfully. \"What have you heard?\" my aunt asked eagerly. \"I don't think I ought to repeat these things.\" \"You can surely trust your mother,\" murmured my mother. \"And my discretion,\" said my aunt. \"Well,\" I said, \"I have been told he is cruel to his mot her. \" \"Really!\" cried the two ladies in a breath. \"His mother told me so herself. \" \"How sad!\" said my mother. \"And what else?\" asked my aunt \"Another relation of his told me he was depraved. \" \"Poor, poor Constance!\" whispered my mother. \"And would probably end badly.\" \"I expect he drinks, \"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD S3id my aunt grimly. \"Does Constance know this?\" asked say mother. \"I don't think so. \" \"You did not (ell her?\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'Of.course not.\" \"I'consider it your duty to.\" \"I really cannot.\" \"Then I will, \" said my aunt resolutely. \" What I have said has been in confidence. \" \"I do not care. \" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'I beg you not to do so.\" \"It is my duty. I am too fond of Constance to allow her to throw herself away on this worthless man.\" I shrugged my shoulders. ' 'Do as you [jieaee, but don't mention my name. By tlif way, Constance said she would probably call this afternoon.\" At that moment the bell rang. \"That may be she,\" said my aunt, j flying to the window. \"It is.' I got up slowly and sauntered into ihe conservatory, which adjoins the drawing room. From behind a friendly palm I could see without being Seen. I saw my aunt look toward my mother. \"If we open her eyes,\" I heard her whisper, \"it may pave the way for Alfred.\" My mother said nothing, but I saw the same hope shine from her eyes. The door opened, and the servant announced Constance. She came forward with a little eager rush, then stopped short, embarrassed by the want of reciprocity. \"We are glad to see you,\" said my mother, and kissed her. My aunt came forward. \"We were just speaking of you,\" she said solemnly. \"Sit down.\" Constance looked a little crushed. \"I thought- Alfred would have told you,\" she murmured. \"WV have heard\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD began my aunt \"Hush,\" interposed my mother. \"Come nearer me, Constance. Won't you take off.your hat?\" Constance came and sat by her side. \"I was anxious to come and tell you that\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthat\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 1 \"If you are alluding to your engagement, '' said my aunt somewhat severely, \"we have already heard of it.\" \"You have heard!\" cried Constance. \"With the deepest sorrow.\" Constance drew herself up. \"You do not approve?\" she asked proudly. \"We love you top much,\" said my mother gently. Constance looked bewildered. ''You are too good for the wretch,\" cried my aunt. \"What! Oh, what do you mean?\" exclaimed Constance. \"If you marry this man,\" continued my aunt vigorously, \"you will regret it.\" My mother took her hand. \"My sister should not tell you this so suddenly.\" \"It is my duty to speak, and I will,\" cried my aunt. \"I will; not let Constance unite herself to this man with her eyes closed.\" \"What have you against him?\" demanded Constance, a red spot beginning to burn in each cheek. \"He drinks,\" answered my aunt almost triumphantly. Constance sank back in the cushions. \"I don't believe it,\" shesaid faintly. \"He ill treats his mother\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDbeats her, I believe,\" continued my aunt. 'This cannot be true,\" cried Constance. \"Mrs. Granville, tell me.\" My mother nodded sadly. '- \"Alas! I cannot deny it.\" Constance rose. \"Tins is awful!\" she said, holding on to the back of the sofa. \"I could never have believed it. \" She put her hand to her forehead. \"It is like a bad dream. \" \"My poor, dear Constance,\" murmured my mother, rising and putting her arms round her. My aunt brought up her artillery. \"He is thoroughly depraved and will come to a bad end. His relations are at one on this point.\" Constance buried her face in my mother's bosom. \"Oh, dear; oh, dear! And I love him so!\" she sobbed. In tlie adjoining room I was becoming uncomfortable. \"We thought it right to tell you,\" said my aunt, moved by her tears, \"though Alfred begged and implored us not to.\" \"I could never, never have believed it,\" sobbed Constance. \"Poor, poor Mrs. Granville!\" My mother soothed her. \"How difficult you must have felt it to tell me this!\" exclaimed Constance, drying her tears. \"It was so good of you. I will not give him another thought. To treat his mother so cruelly! Oh, Mrs. Granville, I am so sorry for you!\" \"It is I who am sorry for you,\" said my mother doubtfully. \"And no one would have dreamed it. We always thought you were so fond of him and spoiled him so utterly. And all the time you were hiding your Borrow. How noble of you!\" My mother looked at Aunt Tabitha, who returned ber stare. \"Who ever is it?\" said Aunt Tabitha, whispering. \"Find out.\" \"Where did you meet him, dearest?\" whispered my mother. \"Meet him? Why, here, of course,\" said Constance, with opening eyes. \"Yes, yes, of course,\" said my mother, mystified. \"I thought yon would be so pleased, and 1 hurried across to tell you.\" \"Can Alfred have made a mistake?\" muttered my aunt hoarsely. Tho two elder ladies stood still in the utmost embarrassment. \"I shall never be happy again,\" said Constance mournfully. \"Don't say that,\" implored my mother. \"Perhaps there is a mistake.\" \"How can there be a mistake?\" asked Constance, raising her head. \"There can be no mistake,\" said my aunt hastily. \"Hov.- could he be cruel to you?\" cried Constance, kissing my mother. \"Cruel to me!\" cried my mot ber. \"You said he was cruel to you. \" \"Of whom are you speaking?\" cried both ladies. \"Of Alfred, of course.\" The two elder ladies sat down suddenly. \"You are not engaged to Alfred?\" they gasped simultaneously. \"To whom else?\" said Constance in amazement. \"There is some misunderstanding,\" I observed smoothly, coming in at the moment. The three fell upon me together. it took at least an hour to explain. Yet I had said nothing which was not strictly true. \"You will not allow these Rractical joke s when you are married, will you, Conn}-?\" said my mother fondly. \"I will nor,\" replied Constance, tightening her lips. \"Marriage is the saving of a young maii,'\" repcuts-d my aunt grimly.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Chlia\".'.','. ''.jBiiMiaj^.iMiJ-Bil'Ji.'MW.glff'l.faiMiui'B. .:.iaias~\" muse.< mumamr iatiKeua&iatr^jv bM+vVL'smxmnpn. LintohBros' book store. CALGARY and SLOCAN CITY. POCKETS. rrilrty of Them Ttlado In a Pair of Breeches of the Year 1611. Perhaps* the best proof of tlie advance of the Japanese in civilization is to be found in their use of pockets. The people of that country have usually six or eight pockets cunningly inserted in the culls of their wide sleeves. These pockets are always filled with a curious miscellany. As common as tho twine in the pockets of young Americans is the prayer amulet written on sheets of rice paper and composed by the bonzes. In accordance with their faith, these amulets are swallowed like a pill iu cases of mental or physical distress. Another essential -seldom missing is a number of small squares of silky paper. These are put to une::pected uses, such as to hold the stem of a lily or lotus, to dry a teacup or to wipe away a tear. Among the Chinese and other nations a pouch is u'-ed instead of a pocket. This was also the case in western Europe in tho mid- die ages and for some time afterward. Tlie pouch was attached to tho girdle, along with a dagger and rosary. It was called an -ml 2110uir.ro or gipciere. It was often ornamented \vi; li curious patterns, gold and silk threads, coats of arms and religious sentences. A dramatist of the time cf Henry VIII wrote: From n:y girdle he plucked my pouch; By your leave ho loft me never a penny. Breeches, however, had pockets at an early date. In an old play written about 1611 it is mentioned that a man had his breeches plaited as if they had 30 pockets. But pockets did not attain their pioper position until the adoption of the modern style of men's garments. With waistcoats a great opportunity for pockets presented itself. Later they were made very broad and deep and were covered with embroidery and buttons. In the reign of George III waistcoat pockets reached such size in England that they became objects of ridicule, so that they soon began to resume more moderate proportions.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNew York Post. The Sultan's Household. In the time of thc sultan's predecessor the seraglio buildings stretched along tbe banks of the Bosporousfor \% miles, and contained some 4,000 persons, the household order and arrangement being much as they are at present. The sultan's mother\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwhen he has a mother\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD receives a servile obedience from all its initiates. Then comes tho hasnadar ousta, or mistress of the treasury, generally a shrewd old woman, promoted from the ranks of the servants for her talent for housekeeping and gossip. If the sultaui valide dies, the hasnadar succeeds her. Under Abdul Medjid the ivraglio was leug ruled hy a washerwoman, whose chief adviser was a bal- t utile, or hewer of wood, who could not read, but had the power of dismissing viziers. The sultan's four kadiues come next, who rank as spouses till he divorces tkem and marries them to soni*. of the pashas. Then there are five or sir- ikbals, or favorites; then theguieuzede*- (from guieuz, eve\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDgirls who have at tracted the master's glance). Every woman who marries from tin seraglio takes with her, besides a larg< portion in cash, her clothing, jewel? furniture, carriage.- and servants. Aftei them come the kadiues-effendis, tin mothers of the sultan's children; thei.: the unmarried princesses of tho royaj blood, then the foster mothers and fostci sisters of the sultana or princes or princesses. Among the attendants are chamberlains, secretaries, guards, eunuchs, scullions, cooks, pages, musioiaus, dancing girls, dwarfs, buffoons, priests, astrologers, barbers and shampooers, .tasters of the sultan's food, athletes, cockfighters, ramfighters, jugglers and grooms to look after the 500 horses contained in the imperial stables.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNew- York Tribune. EyelesB Animals. Many of the lower animals are known to see without eyes, the skin having a high degree of sensitiveness to light. Thus earthworms, the maggots of flies and eyeless centipeds find their way about nearly as readily as similar creatures which have eyes. In a recent German work on the sensitiveness to light of eyeless animals, Dr. Nagel, who made his observations chiefly on niol- lusks, found that the eyeless bivalves and snails he experimented with showed a high degree'of sensitiveness to light. He found that some species reacted especially to diminution, others to increase of light, and that this difference was correlated with other characters.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Philadelphia Press. Old Newspaper File. The San Francisco public library rejoices in the possession of about two years' files of the first newspaper published on the Pacific coast, it being the Oregon Spectator, which was begun at Oregon City, Or., Thursday, Feb. 5, 18-16. The first Californian publication was The Californian, which appeared at Monterey Aug. 15, 1846.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLos Angeles Times. On an average each Englishman writes 40 letters a year, each Scotchman 30 and each Irishman 16. The average Italian only posts 6, and the American 21. Books, Stationery, Wall Paper, Sporting* Goods, Fishing1 Tackle, Pipes, Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobaccoes, Mineral Glasses, Mining* Laws & Maps. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJv J. A. McKinnon & Co., General Merchants Silverton, B...C. Ship goods to. any part of the District. Their store is the largest in the Slocan country. Miller s.a.w -m:ii-iIj Opposite New Denver, is now in operation.' Orders promptly filled. Address letters to New Denver. Dealers in Hardware, Tin and Graiiiteware, Miners' Supplies, Paints, Oils, Glass and Putty, Doors & Windows. ASLO HOTEL Family it Commercial. arge And Comfortable Rooms Fitted with every modern convenience. Special protection against lire. Rates \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD2.50 and'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD3 per day. COCKLE & PAPWORTH, Proprietors. To Prospectors and Claim Owners Mining Properties of all kinds wanted for English market. Send full particulars to RICHARD PLEVv MAN Milling Broker, P. O. Box 75(1, Rossland, B. o \"' ' Guiifk \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDn)lf%mli%mlfkmlfk DR. A. MILLOY, The northern connecting point of the C. P. 11. on Slocan Lake. Eosebery Has the only safe harbor north of Slocan City.' Eosebery It is at Rosebery where the beautiful Slocan steamer ties up over night and where the employees can bring their families. Eosebery Lots were put on the market June 28 and are selling fast. You cannot afford to wait if you want a lot. They are going up. Room 17, Black's Hotel. Sandon. WW -WW WW . \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD .uuu!.Jiinuui uul^uu -jamstaiamm OLD FAVORITES. In Australia there are bird entrapping spiders that spin webs sometime.'* *W feet in diameter. By BretHartc. Gold! g*nkl! gold! iiold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten. graven, hammered and rolled; ITciivv to ffiit, and lifrht to hold ; Hoarded, bartered, bought,.awl sold, Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled : Spurned by the yoiiiiir. huj#jcd by the old To the verv v.irge of the church-yard mold; Price of man v :t crime untold : Gold! gold! gold! gold! How widely it.-, uses vary- To save\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDlo ruin\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDto curse\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDto bless- As even its minted coins express, Now stamped with the inimage of good Queen Bess, And now of Bloody Mary.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHood. For four-bits you can purchase 100 ancient,newspapers at this oflice. Men are now grading and clearing the townsite, and several buildings are about to be erected. Eosebery Is destined to be the distributing centre for the Slocan. Eosebery Will become the great Concentrating City of the Slocan, having abundance of water and being easy of access to the Mining Centre. Watch this. Eosebery Terms, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD cash; balance three and six months. For full particulars apply to A. M. BEATTIE, General Agent. Do you want Ink? Do you want Type ? Do you want Stereo Plates? Do you want to trade Presses ? Do you want to trade Paper Cutters ? Do you want Anything in the way of Printing Material. CorS?fi? theToronto Type foundry Co.,Ltd. J.C.CROWE, Agent, Clfl Cordova Street, J^u VANCOUVER, B.C. Fifth Year. THE LEDG-E, NEW DENVER, B.C., OCTOBER 28, 1897. *# OVER THE RIVER. Over the river they beckon me\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Loved one's who've passed to the other side; The gleam of their snowy robes I see. But their voices are lost in the dashing tune. There's one with ringlets of sunny gold, And eyes the reflection of heaven's own blue : He crossed in the twilight grey and cold, _ And the pale mist hid him from mortal view ; We saw not the angels who met him there, The gates of the city we could not see- Over the river, over the river, My brother stands waiting to welcome me. Over the river the the boatman pale Carried another, the household ]iet; Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale- Darling Minnie! I see her yet. She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands, And fearlessly entered the phantom bark. We felt it glide from the silver sands, And all our sunshine grew strangely dark; We know she is safe on the further side, Where all the ransomed and angels be- Over the river, the mystic river. My childhood's idol is waiting for me. For none return from those quiet shores, Who cross with the boatman cold and pale ; We hear the dip of the golden oars. And catch a gleam of the snowy sail! Audio! -they have passed from our yearning heart, ' . They cross the stream and are. gone for aye, We mav not sunder the veil apart _ That hides from our vision the gates of day : We only know that their barks no more May sail with us o'er life's stormy sea- Yet, somewhere. I know, on tlie unseen shore, They watch and beckon and wait for me. And 1 sit and think when the sunset's gold I\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD flushing river and hill and shore, I shall one dav stand by the water cold And list for the sound of thc boat-man's oar \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD, I shall watch for a gleam of the. flapping sail, I shall hear the boat as it gains the strand ; I shall pass from sight with the boatman pale To the better shore of the spirit laud. I shall know the loved who have gone before, And joyfullv sweet will thc meeting be, When over the river, the peaceful rivor, The Angel of Death shall carry me. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNancy Priest. catch my meaning. I simply asked the date of this occurrence.\" \" Yaas, that's .what*I said. Kissed her forty-seven times in less'n twenty minutes, an' then\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\" Somers pawed the citedly and howled: occur .\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD>\" atmosphere ex- \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD When did this A CARP AND A BASS CONFLICT IN DEADtT One of the most remarkable sparring contests of the season took place at Wil- liamsport, Pa. It lasted twenty minutes and there were innumerable rounds. George Ensminger was the only witness, and it is he who told the story ofthe desperate conflict. The contestants were a.bass and a carp, and the two were such deadly enemies from the start that it is to be feared the fight was not very sportsmanlike. The carp was three times the size of the bass, but it was the bass who was the assilant. Beyond doubt, as it was the spawning season, the larger fish had attacked the nest of the smaller, and under these circumstances a bass will fight to the very death. When Ensminger's attention was first attracted, the bass had a firm hold on the carp, and the splashing made in the. water by the struggles of the two was something prodigious. Now and then there would be a particularly violent ebullition of spray as the carp broke loose from the grasp of the bass. In a moment he was back in the fray, but as often as he returned he was seized again and tormented by the desperate mother, bent on avenging her young. The only method of retaliation which seemed to be at the carp's command was to pound the bass with its broad tail.but this did not stun or wound the smaller fish, and served only to infuriate it still further. The fight would undoubtedly have resulted in the killing* of the carp by its antagonist if the spectator had not interfered.' UIS' FIRST CHANOl*. \" Oh ! Why didn't you say so afore, young* man?\" Then reflectively: '* Wa'al, bein' 's I'm under oath, I should jedge 't might a be'n a lettle arter 11 o'clock 't night.\" The lawyer nearly choked, but seeing that he was fast loosing ground with the jury, he partially rallied and said quite slowly: \" I mean the date. What was the date of this? \" . \" Oh! I sh'd jedge she sot on his lap half an hour, 'ah then they changed off 'n he sot on\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\" This was too much. The jurymen were all convulsed with laughter. Tlie judge's solemn face widened into a grin. Somers jumped up and began speaking excitedly. Uncle'Dave watched him two or three minutes, and then, thinking that he was talking about Miss Spooner, he said: \"Now you look here, voung feller, don't ye never say nothin agin 'Lizy Jane.' 'Lizy Jane is es line er gal's ever trod shoe leather 'Taint nothin' agin her if Bill Smith codded her up to think he'd splice up with her.\" But the old man was removed from the box, and as he walked clown the room lie growled : \" 'E young fly trap! 'E may Cool a young gal out 'en her feller,'but'c can't cod 'n old manlike Uncle Dave Bavlev. No sir ee 1\" KRKEZEOUT AT KLONDIKE. A Dawson Citv mining man lay dying on the ice ; There was lack of woman's nursing for he didn't have the price. But a comrade bent beside him, is the sun sank to repose. \" . To hear what he might have to say, and watch him while he froze. The dying miner raised his head above the field of snow, And he said,''I never saw it thaw at sixty-five below; Take a message- and a token to some distant friends thereat, For I was born at Gibbon, at Gibbon on the Platte. \"Tell my brothers and companions, if you ever get back east That the famous Klondike country is no place for man or beast; That the mountains are too rugged and the weather is too cold, And the wheat fields of Nebraska yield a higher grade of gold. Tell my father not to sorrow with a sorrow deep and dense; \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD That I would not thus have perished if I'd had a lick of sense, But to keep the sorrel horses and the high grade cattle fat Upon the farm at Gibbon, at Gibbon on tho Platte. \"And should you chance to meet her, tell the girl that I adored That I thought to be a millionaire, but couldn't pay mv board; For a day of honest labor wouldn't buy a pound of urease And the charge for leather biscuits here is sixty cents apiece, \"Good bye,\" ho murmured faintly, \"I have nothing more to say,\" Whereupon he breathed |a time or two and froze up right away. And it took of golden nuggets eighty pounds or more than that To ship him back to Gibbon, fair Gibbon on the Platte. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNebraska State Journal. Tom\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI wish I was the Ocean Queen's little hoy. Mamma\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWhy? Tom\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'Cause \"Captain Brown said she'd just come into port with hex- spanker g'one. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"Huh!\" snorted the husband who had been inveigled into attended the rendition of a sermon. \"Call him a boy preacher ? He is 40 if lie is a day.\" \"He does look that way,\" said the wife ; \"but,\" she continued, in her anxiety to please, \"don't you think he has the mind of a boy ?\" Mary\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI actually gave a quarter to a beggar this afternoon, and I am honest enough to admit that I would not have done it if he had not called me pretty., Sarah\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDid you learn how he lost his sight. ' Well, little girl, what is it? If you please, sir, Mr. Slimmer will not be able to come down this morning. He's just got back from a two weeks' rest in the\"' country, and he's all tired out. Ethel\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTt must be very trying to be as near-sighted as Mr. Se'hks is. Harold\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDOli. it is\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDvery. He watched a fair bather for half ah hour the other clay before he found out that it was his wife. Smith\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWhere is Pulsifer now? Brown\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHe's.over in Snortville; got a big establishment there, doing* business on the Square. Smith\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWell, he has improved since he left Austin. When he was here he didn't do business on the square by a blamed sight. He failed three times inside of two years. Applicant\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDIs this the place to apply for a pension? I'm an old soldier, sir, and up to the present time I haven't asked: the Government to give 'me a cent. Now I want assistance. Pension Agent\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDYou want a back pension? Applicant\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCertainly; that's where I was shot.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTid-Bits. CERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS Pay Rock Mineral Claim. Situated in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: North Fork of Carpenter Creek, about six miles above Three Forks. rpAKE NOTICE that I, Thomas Sinclair Gore, J_ agent for Edwin Smith Graham and A. Helhners, free miners certificates Nos. 80480 and 81380, intend, GO days from date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD And, further take notice/that action under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of Im provements. Dated this 30tli day of Sept, 1897. T. S. GORE. Fidelity Mineral Claim. Situated in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: About two miles southeast of Xew Denver, B C \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"PAKE NOTICE that I, Alfred Driscoll, as agent 1 for F. L Byron, free miner's eertificateNo. 81979, L. P. Holtz, free miner's certificate No. 74<589, ana A. S. Williamson, free miner's certificate No. 79237, intend sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claini. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 20th day of Sept., 1897. '*. RPASSENGER U TRAINS EACH DAY. EACH DAY T DIXIES'S IN IT. Oh. Dixie Ian'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDshe ain't forgotten. Seven cents en eight fer cotton, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD. Pick away, Pick away, Pick away down South in Dixie ! He see wheat rise ter a silver dollar, En cotton 'low dat he'll up en foller ! Pick away, Pick away, Pick away down South in Dixie ! Ef cotton rise en rise fum seven, Take dis worl' in de place er heaven, Pick away, Pickaway, Pick away down South in Dixie! \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAtlanta Constitution. IN THE FIELDS. \"[s there a man in all the audience,*' demanded the female speaker on woman's rights, fiercely, \"that has ever done anything to enlighten the burden resting on his wife's shoulders? What do you know of woman's work?' Is there a man here,\" she continued, folding her arms and looking over her audience with superb scorn, \"that has ever ggot up in the morning, leaving his tired, worn-out wife to enjoy her slumbers, gone quietly downstairs, made thc tire, cooked his own breakfast, seAvn the missing buttons on the children's clothes, darned the family stockings, scoured the pots and kettles, cleaned and filled the lamps, swept the kitchen, and done all this, if necessary, day after day uncomplainingly? If there is such a man in this audience, let him stand up. I should much like to see him.\" And far back in the hall a mild-looking man in spectacles, in obedience to the summons, timidly arose. He was the husband of the eloquent speaker. It was the first chance he had ever had to assert himself. The Lover\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDYou won't marrv me then? The Girl Graduate\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI cannot. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD He\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDYet you admit that I am not re- pellant to you ? She\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDYour magnetic force is tlie reverse. He\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI have wealth and a career. She\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe former suffices. He\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI am called-er-ahem-good-looking* She\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI have sized you up. He\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI am willing to lie at your feet like a She\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-I detest dogs. He\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI would do anything for you\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD She\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMy managerial ability inspires me with confidence. He\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAnd you won't marry me? She\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHow can I, Stupid? Get me a minister or any old chap that knows how to tie the knot and I am\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDyou are mine. (The lovers had falls off because of a sudden joyous cranial inflation)\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJester. Carpets, floor cloth, rugs, mats, curtains. Bedroom sets in ash and oak. Lai*gest stock in Slocan-Kootenay. CROWLEY, above Lkdgk Office, New Denver. Freight paid to all Lake Points and Sandon. Halton Chief Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: North Fork of Cariienter Creek about six miles above Three Forks. **AKE NOTICE that I, Thomas Sinclair Gore, agent for Edwin Smith Graham, free miner's certificate No. 80,480, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certiiicate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above-claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of Improvements. Dated this 30th day of Sept., 1897. . T.S. GORE. O. K. Mineral Claini. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. AVhere located: North Fork Carpenter Creek, about,six miles above Three Forks. rpAKE NOTICE that I, Thomas Sinclair Gore, JL agent for Edwin Smith Graham and A. Helhners, free miner's certificates Nos. 80480 and 81830, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certiiicate of improvements, for thc purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before thc issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 30th day of September, 1897. - T. S. GORE. Millie Mack Mineral Claim. Situated in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On Blue Grouse mountain, on the south slope near the summit. -UKE NOTICE that I. J. A. Kirk, acting as _ agent for The Kamloops Mining and Development Company, limited liability, free miner's certificate No. 97*^800, intend sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice, that action under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 21st dav of July, 1897. , _^_ J. A, KIRK. Wolf Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On Blue Grouse mountain, one'half mile north of Cariboo Creek. 1AKE NOTICE that I, J. A. Kirk, acting as agent for H. C. Sharp, free miner's certificate No. 83,892 and C. C. Woodhousc, jr., free miner's certificate No. 3103 A, intend GO days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 19th day of July, 1897. 7. A. KIRK. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' Elkhorn Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On the left bank of Miller Creek, about half a mile from its junction with Carpenter Creek. TAKE NOTICE, That I, J. H. Gray, acting as agent for J. W. Stewart, free miner's certificate No. 77,098, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the mining recorder for a certificate \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under Sec. 37, must be commenced before 'the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 16th day of July, 1897. War Eagle Mineral Claim. Situated in the Arrow Lake Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On Mineral Creek, a tributary of Cariboo Creek. TAKE NuTICE that I, Geo. Alexander, free miner's certificate No. 74000, and as agent for H. B. Alexander, free miner's certificate No. 77002, S. E. Manual, free miner's eertificateNo. 78270, and F. G. Fauquier, free miner's certiiicate No. 78379, intend sixty days from* thc date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under Section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 10th day of September, 1897. TRAINS - Between - Trail and Rossland in k Weston ffy Run Made in one Hour. On the.'*-****-* No. 6 Leaves Rosslaud at 7 a.m.; Coiuieoos in the morning with Steamer at Trail. No. 3 Leaves Trail at 8:15 a.m.; Connects at Rossland with Red Mountain train for Spokane. No. 2 Leaves Rossland at 11:00 a.m. No. 1 Leaves Trail at 12:30 p.m.; Connects with C.P.R. main line Steames from the north ,.. at Trail. No. 4 Leaves Rossland at 3:00 p.m.: Connects with C.P.R. main line Ste&i&bra. for the north ot Trail. No. 5 Leaves Trail at 5:45 p.m.; Connects with Steamer Lytton at Trail. F. P. GTJTELIUS, Gen'l Supt. Trail, B.C., June 4,1897. T Cube I/ode Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On top v of divide between Sandon and Cody creeks and about one mile from mouth of Cody creek, rPAKE NOTICE .That I, A.R.Heyland, acting as l agent for Alonzo D. Coplen; free miner's certificate No. 77,224, intend, GO days fromthe date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under Sec. 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 28th day of September, 1897. T Silverton Drug Store Dealing With A Deaf Witness. \"Uncle\" seventv Several years ago, while Antrim county. Mich., was in a primitive state of civilization, a breach of promise suit came before the Circuit Court at Elk Rapids,. The plaintiff, one Eliza J. Spooner, alleged that William Smith had trifled with her young* affections seriously much. He had, by promise to marry, induced her to give up one Samuel Jones, who was also an admirer of hers, and who, under the smart of her refusal, had since joined himself in the holy bonds of matrimony to Lucy Skinner, and in consequence, was now out of the market ; which the suing party claimed had blighted her fondest hopes, and cast about S125 worth of gloom over her future. The plaintiff's witness was Dave Bagley. He was over and very deaf. One of his peculiarities was to ahvays answer a question, and it made no differance whether he understood it or not; his reply was ready. The lawyer for the defence was a little asthmatic/choleric man named Somers, and this was his cross examination of Uncle Bagley: \" Mr. Bagley, you\" have taken a solemn oath to telf the truth. You say that upon a certain night you saw Eliza J. Spooner and William Smith\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe man now before you\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtogether. You also said that they were seated upon Mr. John Spooner's back porch. Now you will please state to the jury the exact date of this occurrence.\" '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Lizzie Jane Spooner was a set-tin' on Bill Smith's lap, an' he\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\" \"No, no. Hold on!\" interrupted Somers, sharply. \"Answer mv question directly and unequivocally.\" \" Bill had his arms around her a hug- gin her,\" pursued the old man complacently. The defence glared angrily at the witness, and then glanced around the court room. Everyone wore a look of supreme felicity that was little calculated to soothe his ruffled temper. Turning to the witness again he said emphatically, \" You do not seem to tlTTr-E GRINS. years, bigger. At a watering* place in the Pyrenees the conversation at table turned upon a wonderful echo to be heard some distance off on the Franco-Spanish frontier. It is astonishing, said an inhabitant of the Garonne, as soon as you hav e spoken you hear distinctly the voice leap from rock to rock, from precipice to precipice, and as soon as it has passed the frontier the echo assumes the Spanish accent. A peasant, who regularly attended the market in the neighboring* town, on seeing the children ofthe orphanage walking by in procession was heard to remark : \"How strange ! I have now been coming to town for the last twenty and those brats never get any They're just the same size as when my father was alive. Dr. R. is the jolliest of mortals. There.never was a practitioner who took the death of his patients so cheerfully. Yesterday he called to see one who was down with pleurisy. The concierge stopped him at the door: \"Monsieur died during the night.\" \"Major ! that suits me to a T. I happen to be awful busy this morning.\" Paul, what text did I preach from this morning ? Paul\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDGod is no respectable person. Papa\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNo, my son, it was, God is no respecter of persons. Paul\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWell, Papa, if He doesn't respect anybody else He must not be very respectable. In a western school, not so very long ago, a little fellow was called up to read for the County Superintendent, who was paying- theschool a visit. The hoy was a good reader in all respects but one; he gave absolutely no attention to punctuation marks. When he had finished the Superintendent asked: Willie where are your pauses? Willie dropped his book and held up both hands. Here they are, sir. I have seen in Islington -church yard an epitaph on an infant who died aetatis four months, with this seasonable inscription appended : Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCharles Lamb Letters. Mary Ann\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLor' Jemima, what a dear little heagle ! Jemima\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDIt ain't a heagle; it's a howl. Keeper\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDYou're both wrong, ladies ; it ain't a beagle hor a howl; itTs a \"awk. Drugs and Stationery, Toilet . Articles, Sundries, Trail Blazer Cigars. R. O. Matheson, Proprietor, Siiverton, .C. Independence Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On Blue Grouse mountain, about one mile from the .forks of Cariboo Creek. rpAKE NOTICE that I, J. A. Kirk, acting as JL agent for C. C. Woodhouse, jr., free miner's certificate No. 3103 A, intend, sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under Section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 21st day of July, 1897. J. A KIRK. Yuma Fraction Mineral Claini. Situate in the Slocan Minim? Division of West Kootenay District. Where' located:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD West if ill**-. Rntti !>rotip, within one mile of the town ul' Sandon. TAKE NOTICE that I. R. W. Gordon , free miner's eertificateNo. 89539, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements Dated this 24th day of July, 1897. Irene Mineral Claim. Chicago Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mi.iing Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On top of divide between Sandon and Cody creeks and about one mile from mouth of Cody creek. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPAKE NOTICE, That I-.A.R. Heyland, acting as 1 agent for Alonzo D. Coplen. free miner's certificate No. 77,224, intend. (iO days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder, for a certificate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of tlie above claim. And further take notice that action under Sec. 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 28th day of September, 1897. Noonday, Grey Eagle, and Fourth of July Mineral Claims. CANADIAN PACIFIC _RAILWAY. The Quickest and Cheapest Route \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD East or West. Steamer leaves Nakusp every morning, making cl ose connection at Revelstoke with trains ^or all points East or \"West. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kooteiicvy District. Where located: On the east slope of the valley of Cody creek, about three miles from Cody. \"TAKE NOTICE, That I, J. H. Gray, act- 1 ing as agent for. Byron N. White, free miner's certificate No. 74,260, intend, 60 days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for Certificate of Improvements, for the purjwse of obtaining Crown Grant of above claims. And further take notice that action under Sec. 37 must be commenced before issuance of such Certificate of improvements. Dated this 8th day of September' 18u.i Before you travel get information from C.P.R Agents as to time and rates. It will save you money Apply to nearest Railway Agent or to H. DOUGLAS, Agent. H. M. MacGregor, Trav. Pass Agt, Nelson, or to E. J. Coyle, Dist. Pass. Agt, Vancouver, B. C. Situated in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located : Near the town of Sandou. TAKE NOTICE that I, E. M. Sandilands, free miner's certificate No. 86121, as agent for A. H. Blumenauer, free miner's certificate No. 61895. intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. . And, further take notice, that action under Section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of said certificate of improvements. Dated this, 18th day of August, 1897. NOTICE. \"VTOTICE is hereby given that Iintend, 60 days. Dl after date to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase 160 acres of land, (more or less) situated on Glacier creek, on the opposite side of Slocan lake from New Denver, and commencing at a post marked -'Henry Stege's s. e. corner, thence 40 chains west, thence, 40 chains north, thence 40 chains east, thence 40 chains south along the lake shore to place of commencement. Located Aug. 23,1897, HENRY STEGE, New-Denver, Aug. 23,1897. & \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Nelson & Ft. Sheppard Red Mountain RAILWAYS INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION & TRADING CO., LTD. Nakusp awmill Having placed some new machinery in our Mill, we are prepared to fur. nish all kinds of rough and dressed Lumber and Shingles at Seduced Prices [L. 1847, G. l.J Snow-flake Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. . Where located: About two miles easterly of the town of Cody and adjoining the Greenhorn mineral claim. rPAKE NOTICE that I, Edward H. Apple- 1 whaite, free miners' certificate No. 1206 A, intend, sixty days after date hereof, to apply to the Minim? Recorder for certificates of improvements for the purpose of obtaining Crown grants of the above claims. And further take notice that action as under Section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 1st day of September. 1897. EDWARD H APPLE WHAITE. Keno Mineral Claim. ta On Kootenay Lake and R'ver. PRICE LIST: Rough Lumber, narrow, Siooo \" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' wide, $11 00 to 12 .. Joist and Scantling, sized up to 18 feet long, 11 .. 8 ' to 24 ' 12 .. 24 'to 30 ' 13 .. Flooring, T & G, G \" \" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' 4 \" V joint Ceiling, J 20 .. 22 .. \" Rustic, 19 .. Shiplap, 14 .. Surfaced Dressed, 13 .. A liberal discount on large orders for Cash, PETER GENEIXE & Co NOTICE. \"VTOTICE is hereby given that 60 days after date Dl I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase the following described lands situated in the Slocan Mining Division, West Kootenay District, on Fennel creek, (a Branch of Four Mile creek) and about seven and one-half miles from the town of Silverton: Commencing at a post on the east side of Fennell creek marked \"R. H. H. Alexander's northeast corner,\" and running west 30 chains, then ee south 5:i chains, thence east 30 chains, thence north \"i3 chains, to point of com. mencement and containing 160 acres, more or less. Dated 20th August. 1897. R. H. H. ALEXANDER, Situate in the Slocan MiningDivision of West Kootenay District. TAKE NOTICE that I. S. P. Tuck, free miner's certiiicate No. 97,382, acting as agent foi-W. P. Russell, free miner's certificate No. 76266, intend sixty days from date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of tho above claim. And further take notice that action under Section 37 must be commenced before tho issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 26th day of August, 1897. Time Card in Effect Oct. 1st, 1897. Daily Exeent Sunday. Subject to Change without notice Close connection at Five Mile Point with all passengei trains of theN. & F.S.R.R. to and from Northport, Rossland and Spokane. Through tickets sold at Lowest Rates and Baggage checked to all United States Points. Lv. Kaslo for Nelson and way points. 5:45 a.m Ar. Northport 12:15 p.m.; Rossland 3:40 p m.; Spokane, 6 p.m. Lv. Nelson for Kaslo and way points, 4.45 p.m. Lv. Spokane 8 a.m.; Rossland, 10:20 a.m.; Northport, 1:50 a.m. The only all rail-.'oute without change fears between Nelson and Rossland nd Spokane and Eossland. Only Route to Trail Creek and Mineral District ofthe Colville Reservation, Nelson, Kaslo, Kootenay Lake and Slocan Points. Daily, Except Sunday. Leave. 9:20 a.m. 12:00 \" 8:00 a.m. NELSON ROSSLAND SPOKANE Arrive. 5:35 p.m 2:50 \" 6:40 p.m. Kaslo and Close connection with Steamers for all Kootenay lake points. Passengers for Kettle River and Boundary Creek connect at Marcus with stage daily. KA8L0&SLOGAN RY TIME CARD NEW SERVICE ON KOOTENAY LAKE. Lv. Nelson for Kaslo, etc, Tues., Wed., Thurs.; Fri., Sat.; 8:30 a.m. Ar. Kaslo, 12:30, p.m. Lv. Kaslo for Nelson, etc., Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri.; 4 p.m. Ar. Nelson, 8 p.m. Subject to change without notice Trains run on Pacific Standard Time. Leave 8 00 A.M 8 36 '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \" 9 36 \" 9 51 '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 10 03 \" 10 18 \" 10 38 Arr. 10 50 Kaslo South Fork Sproule's \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Whitewater \" Bear Lake \" McGuigan \" Cody Junction \" Sandon Leave Arrive, 3 50 P.M \" 3 15 \" 2 15 \" ;! 2 00 \" \" 1 48 \" 1 33 \" 1 12 \" 1 00 \" DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. THE Partnership heretofore existin\"* between Robert Sanderson and Nathan E. Lay, is hereby dissolved bv mutual consent. 'ROBERT SANDERSON, NATHAN E. LAV. Trail. Sept. 13, 1897. Great Eastern Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan MiningDivision of West Kootenay District. Where located: Adjoining the Madison and about l.J miles southeast of Town of Sandon. TAKE NOTICE that I, Robert E. Palmer of Sandon, acting as agent for Price Eaton Co., free miners' certificate No.97435 intend 60 days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under Section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements \" R. E. PALMER, P.L.S. Dated this 10th day of September, 1897. sel6 BONNER'S FERRY and KOOTENAY RIVER SERVICE. The Alberta awaits tho arrival of the International before leaving for Bonner's Ferry. Lv. Kaslo, Sat.,4.00 p. m; Ar. Boundary, Sun. midnight; Ai. Bonner's Ferry. Sun., 10.30 a.m. Lv Bonner's Ferry, Sun., 1 p.m.; Ar. Boundary. Sun., 5 p.m.; Ar. Kaslo, Sun.. 10 p.m. Close connecton at Bonner's Ferry with trains East bound, leaving Spokane 7.40 a.m., and West bound, arriving Spokane 7 p.m. The last trip this season on thc Bonner's Ferry route will be on the 0th and 7th November after which date thc Bonner's Ferry service will lie discontinued. GEORGE ALEXANDER, Gen'l Mgr Head Office at Kaslo, B.C. Kaslo. B.C., Oct. 1,1897 IB Lines. Aurora Fractional Mineral Claim. Situated in thc Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: West of the Ruth group, within one mile of the town of Sandon. TAKE NOTICE that I, H. B. Alexander, free miner's certificate No 77002, intend, sixty days from tlie date hereof to apply to thc Mining Recorder for certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtain ing Crown grant cf al*ove claim. And further take notice that action, under Section .'(7. must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 24th day of July, 18117. From Montreal California, Allan Line Parisian, \" Oct. 2 Carthaginian \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' Labrador,Dominion Line Oct 9 Vancouver, \"' , From New York Umbria, Cunard Line Etruria \" Campania. **' Majestic, White Star Line Teutonic \" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD St. Paul, American Lino St. Louis, \" State of Nebraska, Allan State Line Southward, Red Star Line Sept 29 Noordland, \" Cabin :?\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD''\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD, -f*50, sTJO, 70 .\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD80 and upwards. Intermedin te \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD30 and upwards. Steerage 82.r>.50 and upwards. Passengers Ticketed through to all points in Great Britain or Ireland, and at Specially low rates to all parts of the European Continent. Prepaid Passages arranged from all points. Apply to H. DOUGLASS, agent. Now Denver, or to\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD WILLTAM ST1TT. General Agent, C. P. R. Offices, Winnipeg CODY LINE. Leave 11.00 a.m. Sandon Arrive 11.55 a.m. \" 11.25 \" Cody \" 11.20 \" For cheap railroad and steamship tickets to and from all points, apply to S. CAMPBELL, Sandon, B.D. ROBT. IRVING, Traffic Mngr. GEO. F. COPELAND, Superintendent THE STEAMER W.HUNTER Will leave NEW DENVER, every afternoon upon arrival of train from Sandon, FOR SILVERTON, SLOCAN CITY and ALL INTERMEDIATE POINTS. Will leave SLOCAN CITY at 7 a.m. every morning except Sunday Powder carried only on Fridays. Time Table subject to change without notice S. T. N. CO.. Ltd., June 1,1897. G. L. ESTABROOK, Master. Hotel Vevey Dining Room and Bar. First- class in every respect. Rooms well furnished. Trail open to Ten and Twelve Mile creeks. Pack and Saddle Animals to hire. ALLEN & CORY, Proprietors. Vevey, Slocan Lake, B.C. 8 THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., OCTOBER 28, 1897. Fifth Year MINING RECORDS Showing the Rapid Development of the Slocan. LOCATIONS OF THE WEEK \ssessment Work Done on Claims and Transfers of Mining Properties. The following is a complete list of the minihg transactions recorded curing the week in the several mining divisions of the Slocan. Those ofTNew Derive- were as follows:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD LOCATIONS. Oct l\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDR A M, Granite creek, John Garrchar; Illinois, Houson creek, C VV Greenlee; Perseverance, Carpenter, 11 Brook. Oct 20\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMississippi, Wilson. E .1 Tracy aiid J H Hoyd; Grand Prize, same. Lee Ward; Words-' worth, Carpenter, Wm Asbv.-orth; Evangeline, same, Thus Knight. Oct 21\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNevada, same, Ole Larson; Chandos, FcuiielhGeo C Clarke; Shelby, bet Four Mile and Fennell, John T'Moore. .Oc 1*23\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCheck Mate, California Hill, Lorenzo Alexander; Tiptop Fractional, Best Basin, Chas AIcGibbins; Edna Earl, Payne Mt, M. E Hall and CM Wilson. Oct 2>-Snow Drift, 'Carpenter, Frank Hen driekson; Red Fox Fraction, Surprise basin, C M Getbin^. Geo Henderson, A W Wright, J K \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Clarke, Alfred Robinson,Chas McGregor. ASSKSSMKNTS. 0<;t iu\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCosiuoplitan, Black Hock. Oct 20\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDKnoxville, Mountain Queen, Polo, . Nettie Fractional. Oct 21\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFranklin Fractional, Evening* Star Fractional. Oct 22\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSilver Standard, Giant, Charlotte, Herbert, Baltimore, Rosedale. Oct 23\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDChambers, Eureka. Wellington, Jay Gould. Oct 25\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDliuchera, lono, Cascade, Spray, Silver- ton Fraction. CEHTIl'ICATK 01-\" IMI'HOVEMENl'S. OCT 10\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAjax, Treasure Vault, Autoinc. Oct 21\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWakeiield, Cazubazua, Ottawa No 2, Robertson, Jenny Lind, Beaver. Oct 25\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMarch. THANSl-'KHS. Oct 15\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJ I C A. \V H Robertson to Lee Coombs, Oct 7. Kelso, Cazubazua Fraction, Kilmirc Fraction, Donald Brainier to West Kootenay (B C) Exploring- and Mining* Co., Sept 21 Oct 19\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDEureka, Mineral Hill.', Bruce White to JSC Fraser, Octit, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD7,0 JO. Flood Fraction, F A Wood toE II Thomlinson, Oct 15. * Lone jack \", CJ Porter to same, same. Rattler i, David Whitely to Jack Aylwin, Oct 111. Bonanza King Fraction, Noble Five Fraction, Evan E Ward to The Noble Five Consolidated Mining & Milling Co, Oct 18, .-10. Knoxville Fraction .World's Fair Fraction, F C Baker to The Noble Five Consolidated M & M Co, same, same. Maud E Fraction, G B McDonald to same, same, same Oct 20\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Vancouver Fraction. -Win Lewis to The Vancouver Group Minining Co, Oct li). , 53 StOCAX. CITY DIVISION. Oct 15\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDClondike, A P McDonald. OcrlO\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLake, S T Walker. Oct 18\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDVenus, John Tinling; Acme, same. Oct 10\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMidnight, Edward Murphy; Three Friends, J W Sinclair. Oct 20\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAnnie B, Elmer J Felt. ASSESSMENTS. Oct IS\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPara. Oct 20\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDKootenay Pass,Pontiac. XKANSKKltS. Oct 15\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDColumbus No 5 \, Ernest Harrup to J T Beauchesne, siau. Somerset. Louis Hickman to Hugh Sutherland, $3'.io. Columbia No 5 i, J Beauchesne to same, $250, Oct Ki\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTwo Friends i, Cornelius Murphy to Edward Murphy. Charming ,Widow *,-. :Jackson Radeliffe to T Henderson, North Star, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD}, Henry Roichart, Jackson Rad- clitt'e and E B Dun lop to T Henderson. Rawhide i, Henry Reichart and E BDunlop to same. Lone Dutchman ii, J'C Butler to same. Tom Boy l,K B Diiulop to same. Oct 18\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDExchange. Victoria No 4, Skucum and Silver Plate, James Morrish to Sir Charles Tup- ]ier and Caldwell Ashl'orth. Oct 10\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDEagle Brand |, X J Hubcr to S G De- war Mic Mac J, James E Tattersall to J G Dewar, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD100. Oct 20\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTrenton and Last Chance No 11, Walter Clough and Peter Swan to Jainc Cran. Quebec, A R Johnson to Win Harrison. AINSWORTH DIVISION. the hills being- difficult, lor various reasons. There may be workable veins of gold, quartz above the placers and there may not. There are vague reports as the the existence of some, buc it does not follow necessarily, either in the Yukon or elsewhere, that where there are placers there are workable lodes. A placer deposit of gold or tin is a natural concentrator of mineral that existed in solid rock. The erosion of wind and water acting through im measurable time has worn down the earth's surface in many places to a marvelous extent. In this kind of disintegration stable minerals like gold and cassiterite, which are of much greater specific gravity than their original matrix, were concentrated in water courses, just as they are now concentrated by men in sluicing. But nature has concentrated millions and millions of tons of material where man has to concentrate comparatively few. The discovery of such a natural concentration, an illuvial deposit, does not, however, imply that its source will be found, or if found, that it will be workable, because the original lode may have been eroded entirely, and therefore no longer in existence ; the placer gold or tin may have come from a dissemination in a great mass of rock which it would never pay to mine, or from innumerable veinlets which were never exploitable ; or the auriferous debris may have been carried far from its original source by glacial action, so that no connection between placer and lode can be established. It is not to be inferred from these suggestions, however, that there are not cases where placers have led .directly to mother lodes. .Numerous instances can be cited where they have done so, and vice versa,. The conclusion is simply that no general rule can be laid down, and the existence of rich placers does not in itself imply the existence of rich, or even workable \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDveins. The placers of Breckenridge. Colo., were discovered at the time of the Pike's Peak excitement (1859) and have been worked more or less ever since, producing a good many millions of gold. Their origin from lodes near by can be traced with reasonable certainty, and some of those lodes have been worked profitably, but the production of. the lodes has not yet been a tithe ot that of the placers. At the head of French gulch, which was very rich, there is an immense auriferous dike intersecting the slate country rock. The dike itself is generally low grade, but in the joint planes of the slate adjacent to it there are veinlets ot exceedingly rich ore in which the wonderful specimens of wire and crys- taline gold for which Breckenridge is famous are found. Both the dike and the veinlets in the slate have been worked, but so far neither of them profitably. There was a similar experience at Leadville, where the mines which were discovered at the head of California gulch never yielded what the wealth of the gulch Vottom was thought to indicate. In these instances nature in long eras effected probably a rich concentration of gold from an immense amount of very low grade material. COKlMl.PT.iOX C1IAKG JKD. tried to get him to quit the game long enough to tell me what the situation was, so I could proceed intelligently and with some system. He dismissed rue rather curtly with the assurance that lie would see me in two hours. When tlie two hours were up I went back to his room and he was opening jackpots with the same interest lie displayed at first. I sat. behind him and told him of what appeared to me to be some dangerous inroads the opposition were making on him and urged him .with all the force at my command to get to work and checkmate his enemies. \"Finally he turned on me impatiently and said:* 'These fellows are the best poker players 1 have run against since the war, and I would not quit this game while 1 am loser to be sent back to the United States senate.' 'How much are you loser ?' I enquired. The Senator counted his chips carefully, and then said : 'I am 35 cents behind now and was only 20 cents behind when you came back. You have bothered me so much with your talk that. J. haven't been able to keep up with the game as I ought to. The sooner you get out the sooner I'll get even. Then I'll see what my enemies are doing.' '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe game went on all .that night without interruption, and it was nearly breakfast time before the Senator got even. He showed up.in the dining-room, looking as fresh and vigorous as if he had had a good night's rest, and devoted the entire day to, straightening out the senatorial tangle. At night he got the same'party in his room,again, and they resumed their game witli the\"! eagerness of gamblers playing for high stakes. 1 learned afterwards that during the entire series of'games not as much as $5 changed hands.\" KKMKMliEB THIS DATK LOCATIONS. Octks\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Boadicca, C H Ellacott; Burnt Hill, A R Macdonald, Henry Rose, J S Hicks and 0 Stein: Red Dish, same. Oct Hi\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDZephyr, Richard George; Corleonc, W B George; Mountain View, C F Olson. Oct l'O\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMountain View, Bryan, Harvey, General. Oct 21\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDStewart Fraction, Rose Fraction, Reindeer, Japan, Grant, Delaware Fraction, Merry England. Oct; ai\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMabel T, Howser, Electric, Laird, Harriet C, Concentrating:. ASSKSSMKNTS. Oct Hi\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHera, Heba. Oppollo, Big Four. Oct l<)\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFree Silver. Oct 20\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJoint A, Little Willie, Little Johnnie. Oct 21\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDUranus, Noon Hour. Black Diamond. BlueGrou.se, .Morning Star. Oct 22\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWake Up Jim, Red Star,Maggie, Alma CKItl'II-'lCATE 01-* l.Ml'KOVE.MKXTS. Oct id\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSilver Bear, Easter, Maud S, Last Link, Nancy Hanks, Hazel C and Fresno. THANSKKKS. Oct 18\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMonarch and Silver Fox \, H Klapach to L .\"Peterson. Oakland \, 0 Hjerkness to B Wicks. Oct ifi\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAlton and Lucky Three, James Harris and E R Shaw to L L Patrick, ii'OO. Oct 20\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Bell h, J Robertson to W A Ross. Paris Fair J, J M Martin to 11 O Ross. Jumbo .'.-, J Matson to Matt Oledo. Jumbo }. Matt Oledo to J Hudi. Oct 2l--Porniission of Gold Commissioner that work for Crown grant be done on Lincoln, Celebration and Death's Head. Gecko and Laura -1/5, E Bloomlield to J B McArthur, Dodie M?>, If Ralph to same. Frank R -I//), same to same. Bump Mi>. E Andrews to same:. Teddy S, Clara and Chicora l/'/l, J R II Stovel to same. Corona and Trilby \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD!/.!,(; B Corbould to same. Ptarmigan. Svengali, Tally, Merry England. Muriel -l/fi, E Andrews to same. Talisman l/ri, H K Livingston to same. Col. J. Thomas Scarff, Chinese inspector for the southern district ot New York has sent to the secretary of the treasury his resignation. He says in his opinion, based on four years of practical experience and close observation, the U. S. Chinese- exclusion act is a farce and has resulted in the corruption of the treasury department. Colonel Scharff is an ex-officer of the Confederate army and a fighter. He was appointed Chinese inspector in 1883, under the Cleveland administration, and immediately after his arrival at New York preferred charges against customs officers, whom he accused of assisting in the smuggling in of Chinese. He has never succeeded in bringing about the dismissal of any of the men he has accused. He says his failure in that direction was caused by the influence of the Canadian Pacific railroad in high quarters. He says fraud yet exists, and that he has good reason to believe that men in the employment and confidence of the government are making $15,000, a year each from the illegal importation of Chinese. The corruption, he believes, from evidence in his possession, girdles the continent. Chinamen who have no right-to go into the states are admitted all along the Canadian border, at the port of New York, at Seattle and other points along the Pacific coast. ' On the evening of Thanksgiving' day a grand concert is to be given in Clover's Hall, under the joint auspices of the Kew Denver Brass Band and the Knights of Pythias. Elaborate preparations are now being made for the event, which will be tlie most striking of any yet held in the town. The best of vocal talent in the vieinty, together with several well-known finished artists on brass instruments, have been procured, so that the> program will be choice and strictly up to date. Kemember the event and keep the evening clear of any other engagement. The wagon road from Burton City to Mineral City has been completed and most of the'subscriptions paid in. The cost was about 83,500, of which the Government put up 8-1,500. Furnish elegantly and cheap, Parlor sets in rugs and plush, New designs in fancy chairs, couches, etc. At lowest prices at Crowley's New Denver. Endless variety of Pillows, Beds and Mattresses. Stranger (out west)\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSee here. I want you to arrest those two men over there for forcing me into a game of poker with them and then swindling me. Policeman\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDY'r askin* far too much, stranger. I can't arrest them gents. One's the honored mayor of this 'ere city, an' the other's the chief of perlicc,. Hats and 'Neckties* for gentlemen at Mrs. Merkley's. An immense assortment of furniture lower than Coast prices, at Crowley's New Denver. Freight paid on order to Sandon and all Slocan points. Sec Hoben's corduroy and tweed suits and ulsters. Carry only the best lines of Watches, Clocks, and Cutlery \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD in the ! arket. ge, \"Mining and Stock Brokers, Sole Agents for Sale of Treasury Stock. I carry tlie stock\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe largest in the Slocan- Kootenay, in show rDoms covering* 3,000 feet of floor space. Furniture for a Mansion or Cottao*e at Finnicus\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1 tell you a man never appreciates his wife till he gets in trouble. Cynnicus\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThat's so; it's a big satisfaction to have some one. to blame for it. ottoei A full line Hoben's. of rubbers and socks at Business Stand to rent with two rooms up stairs, on Slocan avenue, New Denver. Also Restaurant business and outfit for sale. Applv to Thompson, Mitchell & Co. Ic.OD? Goods called for & Delivered AUNDRY One hundred dozen of chairs to select from direct from the factories at prices low as the lowest. D. M. CROWLEY, practical up- 7 holsterer, with a staff of mechanics, can make . anything to order. Undertaking a Specialty. Note the address: Above the Ledge office, Sixth Street. New Denver. Freight, paid on goods to Sandon, Slocan City and all Luke points. ere ers And each has his own 7M individuality. Each one believes he has a corner on the best method of \"^ o-ettino- business. In this respect Ave are no exception to the rule. We believe we have found the key to trade getting. It is simple enough, too. Our method is to get We are now in a position to give thoroughly sat- \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDO u isfactory service and solicit vour patronage. We make a specialty of the finer lines of Cambrics and Linens, etc. All business cash on delivery. Work Done on Short Notice. C. M. NESBITT, Pro)). a'S Rates furnished Hotels, Steamboat Companies, etc. on application. VA Dorada, Ave. The Newmarket Hotel, in New Denver, has been enlarged and all the rooms plastered. New carpets and new furniture throughout irmke the house a marvel of comfort and elegance. With 28 rooms, and its beautiful situation amidst the finest scenery in America, this hotel is unsur passed in all Kootenay. II. STEGE, Prop- \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*& l^l^l^ r^J^JS^JtSS3ili^i^k>.':l!S3iXSSl!Xii3i!JlS}^ ,'T7^^v3EtoJB3a JB5>,g-SgAi*'n^^ ffiTV mUSRbABa the best of customers we make >j low as it is just what our want; then our prices as possible and make money, and then\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwe hustle. And, best of all, we please our people, withS^ goods, prices and service I beg to Sandon, B. C, Oct 21, 1897. To al) whom it may Concern-. This is to certify that as I am i 5, j the opposition made a big demonstration I to frighten him. He hurried from j Washington to Nashville and assumed j personal control of his forces. The papers iSpect tllCSG Of OUT OWI1 mail said so much about the light being made i on him that I became frightened, quit | ufacture. mv business and went up to Nashville to | help him out. When I arrived there! j WALKER BROS. & BAKER hurried to his room House and found him 108 Bishopsgate St. [wiiliin] The British L0ND0N'ENG* Suhsi-rii\" r\" Columbia* Review Has often been electrified by the wonderful bargains offered from time to time by people with something to sell, but it remains for Suhsi-ription. Js.'./iO jinrannum (i Brokers, Mining; Engineers, owners of Mining-* claims, Mining Engineers, Assay urs, Journalists and others:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD extra wool mattresses for the winter trade. Nice ones. See them. You can see and .judge for yourself what kind of repairing we can do when you in- Advertiso in the IS. C. Keview, Tlie only representative IS. C. .Tournal in Kuro-pc. A Good investment in the Maxwell playing poker. I j Furniture Dealers and Repairers, Undertakers anil JTCiiihalmers. eJ'3\"*\7\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD7'3l-3I' KASLO CITY. B.C to exceed all such propositions. For the sum of $5.00 \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDany kind of a five that will be recognized in monetary circles\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwe will send The Ledge to anv address in America for one year and a box of 50 Trail Blazer Cigars. Ponder over this, gentle and refined reader, and send the $5 before this magnificent chance fades into the oblivion of past opportunities.. . R. T. LOWERY. \ T^UKXISIIED ROOMS Tlie only Practkiil Watclimaker in llie. Kootenay District. Orders liy mail -eceive ]ii'oinp attention. ALL WORK GUARANTEED Mrs By Day or Week. A. J. Murphy. SIXTH STREET cfiaaj i First-class brick on hand and shipped to any part of the country. Goettsche & Magnuson, Props"@en . "Preceding Title: The Nakusp Ledge

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Frequency: Weekly"@en . "Newspapers"@en . "New Denver (B.C.)"@en . "The_Ledge_New_Denver_1897-10-28"@en . "10.14288/1.0182330"@en . "English"@en . "49.991389"@en . "-117.377222"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "New Denver, B.C. : R.T. Lowery"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/"@en . "Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives."@en . "The Ledge"@en . "Text"@en .