"99a45164-9d30-455a-878c-a4cc85bbe910"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2011-09-29"@en . "1897-09-23"@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/1.0182347/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " '*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD; KV-' Volume IV. Na 52. NEW DENVER, 13. C, SEPTEMBER 23, 1897. Price. $2 00 Year. STocan's ^ospftaT. On August 15, .1895, Dr. J. E. Brouse opened the Slocan Hospital. It was then a dubious undertaking\" because of the scarcity of. working- Amines in this section and the small resident population, and for the firstly car lit was an up hill job to keep its doors open and .give to those who were its patients '-the \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDnecessary care and attention. Its record for the* first year was 68 hospital patients ap'd'325 outdoor patients. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD; Last year fhe hospital record\"eiccelled tha^of. tlie, i^revious year two to one.and the 'h^iobersof^utdoor patients more than doubled.\" In .1896-7 there were 145 inclooi\" or hospital patients and 692 outdoor patients.- ' M'a. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD:-.-,. , Dr. Brouse has made the institution a financial success but its success \"in tins respect is insignificant indeed as compared with, the success achieved in bring'iiur hack to health and happiness ; the hundreds who sought medical and . surgical aid. Of the total number of hospital patients treated surgical and \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDmedical, and many 6f them have been : critical'-cases, 218 in all, there have been nine deaths to record, five of which since Dec. 4,-1896. Three of these patients were at deaths door before they were taken to the hospital and died a few hours after being admitted. 'Of .the 21'8 indoor'patients 94.were surgical and 119 niedifcaT; and of the-119 medical cascsj35 were typhoid and 22 pneumonia, the rest comprising various ailments. So successful and convenient has the hospital been found that all the mines in the (division are subscribers. Incases of slight ailments the men are doctored at the mine, medicines being furnished by the hospital, but in cases of serious sickness the afflicted are brought at once to the hospital. So extensive has the hospital work grown that offices have been established at Slocan City, in charge of Dr. Gibbs, and at1 Sandon, in charge of Dr. Fold. Up to the present time the hospital building has not been what it ought, but Avas the best that could be secured at the time of its establishment. So successful has it been, however, that Dr. Brouse has been enabled to erect a new hospital. The. new building is one of extraordinary beauty of architecture and design; so commodious, so airy, so light and sunny and all so well planned for health giving. The ground plan of the main building covers\" 3*2x40 feet. It is two and one-half stories and in it are the offices, dispensary, private wards, operating room, linen closets, dining room and reading room. Adjoining on the south is a two-story wing'22xB2, for the surgical and medical wards, and on the rear a two-story annex for the kitchen and attendants rooms, closets, etc. Around the front and side of the main building extends an eight-foot balcony which is reached from both the medical and surgical wards on the upper and lower floors. In the basement is a large cold storage room and furnace room from which hot and cold air can be sent to any room in the building, the radiators enabling\" the attendants to keep the house at an even temperature at all times. No room in the building- has less than two large windows and the medical and surgical wards have eight. The ventilation of the building* is perfect. Over each window a ventilator lowers from the top and in the medical ward a large escape is placed in the ceiling, which permits a fresh air current at all times from the window tops to alike escape placed below the eaves. In the garret, which is a large, well lighted room, trap doors have been placed in the walls to enable easy access from the roofs of the wing ami annex in case of emergency. The building is hard finished throughout, large double doors open to the surgical and medical wards, and the stairway to the second floor would admit six abreast. It is lighted throughout with electricity and each bed is provided with an electric bell attachment. Speaking tubes are run from the upper hallway to the kitchen and dining room and a tripple-deck dumb elevator is provided to carry the food to the upper floor. Each floor is provided with bath rooms and there are four dry closets in connection, in which medicated oakum is used. Opening off of the hallway on the first floor is the doctor's office, the operating- room, dispensary, surgical ward, baggage room, linen closet, bathroom, dining room, and adjoining the latter the kitchen and necessary store rooms. On the upper floor are three private wards, the medical wards, rooms for the attendants, and, looking out upon the lake, the convalescents reading room. The building was planned and built by contractors Sutherland & Rae, who showed great experience in such work in utilizing every foot of space and in the excellence of the workmanship throughout. It is indeed a haven of rest and health for the sick of Slocan; every convenience and comfort that the mind can conceive has been placed in it, and its location, overlooking the city and lake beyond, is without equal. Dr. Brouse, after several years of hard, and ceasless work, has succeeded in winning for himself the encomium) of all, for the successes he has won in the sick'room as well as on the hospital just completed. It is the pride of the Kootenay and, as a private institution excels anything of the kind in. the country, 'lie has associated with him a staff of assistants that bespeak for the hospital a very successful career. Miss Maggie Stack, an experienced hospital nurse, has been engaged as matron, and Miss Lina- McKay is chef price is \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD115,000, of which $35,000 is cash and the balance at, two, four and six .months. This well known group of six claims and tractions is situated near the Idaho and has been operated for several months by its owners. Pete Larsen, J. A. Finch, W. Glynn and J. H. Moran, each of whom owned a quarter interest. The new company will take charge of the. mine next month, and will immediately construct a concentrator and wagon road. The mill will he erected on llowson creek at the end of the Idaho tramway. This sale is another evidence of how Slocan properties are appreciated by the moneyed leased the new Bolander cottage and has most, luxuriously furnished it for his estimable bride.\" AN EVKXING SCKN13 DKNVEK. IN SEW men of England. THli IBISX III* TO DATE. Latest Particulars of ^lio of Slocan.\" Great Ibex \"The sun has gone down o'er the lofty Ben Lomond, And left, the red clouds t\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDpreside o'er the scene. , \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWhile lonely 1 stray in the calm summer K-loamin' To muse on voting Jessie the'flowei1 of Dumblnne.' d' cusine. \"Mr. Martin T.> Welde has won the friendship of all the patients bv his success.as superintendent of the irtstitutidri^aiid \"Mr. Frank E. Shook, /j-^penser, will.-uev.er be forgotten by the sick and injiii-ecP'Ayho have been the objects of his kind and ment. . . generous ' treat- \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. Established in New Denver Under Very favorable Auspices. Saturday evening a large number of oitlssons gathered in the Clever Block to discuss the organization of an athletic club and reading room in New Denver, particularly for the coming winter. The meeting was most successful in every respect, and as a result of it more than fifty names are already enrolled as members of the New Denver Athletic Association. It took only a short time time to effect an organization, as there was no dissension everybody being- ready and willing to get to work at once in order to have, the club in running order in the shortest possible time. A: E. Fauquier was elected president, Win. Thomlinson vice, M. Duke Walker secretary, and Howard West treasurer. A committee was appointed to select the paraphernalia for the gymnasium, select a building and to select a building, and to receive membership fee from those enrolled. Another meeting will be held Saturday evening\" when organization will be completed and matters put in running order. Bartlett Bros, of Sandon, have tied up about 20 tons of ore from the Ibex mine at WhiteAvater, in order to secure payment on their contract for packing- Some time ago the Ibex company made a contract with Bartlett Bros, to pack 300 tons of ore agreeing\" to furnish 100 tons a month, or pay for the equivalent. At the same time they were profuse in the boasting about the mine, saying that after the 300 tons we.ie down they would have as much more ready, that they had a mountain of ore.\" The contract was let by Major S. B. Steele, of McLeod, president of the com- auylandisuperinteriaent of theNorthwest Mounted Police-F. Steele, Kaslo, treasurer and manager, and D. W. King, secretary. Bartlett's brought in a train of mules for the purpose, and got down SO tons the first month.; But they have been\" unable to get airy money.' They agreed to let the contract go if \"they were paid for. the first month's work. So to pro-.-, tect' themselves they rented, a\" warehouse, and as their mules came down with the last 20 tons, instead of putting it on the cars they put it in their warehouse, and set a man to watch it. They are now waiting a settlement without going to law. The story now comes out that D. W. King had Major Steele witii several of the mounted police to look at the mine last summer. These gentlemen are experts on Indians and bad men, but their knowledge of mines is limited to what they have heard and read. Under Mr. King's guidance they saw unlimited quantities of ore, assaying- great values. They were taken into rabbit holes at numerous points and shown the KtONDYKEKS HKA1M) FROM. On Sunday last, Alex. Smith, of the Surprise mine received a letter from J. L. Pierce, dated at Lake Bennet, Aug*. 29. In the letter Pierce states that he got across the pass without any great difficulty, and with the assistance of Indian packers had gotten all his supplies down to the lake where he had secured a boat and was to start on the trip down the river about Sept. 2nd. E- C- Coy, who left Kaslo about the same time as Pierce went by Skag'way and the White Pass and at the time ol writing was ten miles behind. Hib Porter, also a Kasloite was on the same trail and pretty well along but the letter does not definitely state his whereabouts. As it is only a six dav trip from Lake Bennet to Dawson al) will have arrived in the Klondyke before now and more news may be expected from that quarter in thenear future. fine ore in sight. They were greatly excited at the prospect,\" and anxious to have shipping commenced at, once. Major Steele's son, F. Steele, a resident of Kaslo and great friend of Kings's, was the one to get the police into\" the scheme. He has entirely lost his reason, and is under charge at present. How much money was obtained from the police is not known, but the men at the mine have not been paid. The pack mules were taken through the brush in all directions, picking up a few sacks of ore here and there. Half the ore packed down was thrown away at the station, ha\ ing* been found to run only S3 and $4 in value. Further developments are expected shortly. I doubt if the beauties of the Hills O' Bonnie Scotland of which poets have sung or the far-famed vistas of graud old Switzerland by painters portrayed, ever presented a ^grander, more lovely or beautiful scene than can be witnessed from the doorsteps and porches of the residences of New Denver on some of these early autumn evenings. About five in the afternobn the sun is just creeping down behind the Lowery Glacier, that nestles in the i crest of the mountain that looms over''the western shores of Slocan lake, throwing the' dark cool shadow of the mountain across the rippling lake and over New Denver, and up along the dark green and precipitous \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDslopes of the foothills to the east deepening their already dark shade, while casting a last good night glint on the summits of the Albion and Fidelity Buttes to the south.. Towering above the long line of shade the broad bosom and high peaks of Silver mountain rise in magnificent splendor, lit up by the wealth of light in the genial rays of the setting sun, bringing out in clear relief and exquisite harmony tlie varied colors of nature's graphic pencil. Away high up and around the peaks lie the broad bare slopes where the patches of unmelted. snow lingered long in the lap of spring, followed in summer by grassy oasis of living green, now already nipped by the early autumn . >oiuHain frost. These slopes have assumed all the delicate shades of the buff, the russet, and the brown. Lower down the bare and rugged rocky bluffs and mining dumps show the brown.and red and orange shades that indicate a mineral belt, hiding in the bosom of the mountain the rich and rare treasures of the mineral kingdom with bluffs and bands of lighter colored rocks running across the formation. Up and down the gullies and little ravines and along the sides of the deep ravines, interspersed and scattered among the strips and patches of the evergreen cedar and pine may be seen the beautifully tinted foliage\"in lovely canary and g*olden yellow of the poplar, the birch and soft maple and various deciduous shrubs, all in their glory of their first touch of Jack Frost, \"soon to be followed by the richer autumn tints of red and purple and golden bronze. This strikes the beholder at once as if the whole breast of the mountain were covered with glittering nuggets of gold the southern slope \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDast Canaan iN^Ws- \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"S'-iS^-^S\"- There is a considerable falling off this year in the freight traffic department of the Intercolonial Ry. ,/ The' Secretary of State, \"Mr. li. Scott, has contradicted the, -report that- he was offered the position ;of:' Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario. . .\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \" 'I.E. Bowman, for twenty-six years the President of the Ontario Mutual Life Insurance Company, died at his home in Waterloo, on Sept. ?rd, '-.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ' A young Englishman, who has been filling the position of farmhand around \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHamilton for the last two years, has fallen heir ,to a, fortune of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD49,000. Owing to an accident \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ttijj'ttwo of the pipes in Xachine Canal, -.by&jyhich the city of Montreal is supplied -with water, half of the supply has been cut-off. Cablegrams are being received from England almost daily, giving favorable reports of Sir Casimi'r Gzowski, A.D.C., who has been very ill at Folkestone. ..The oil well at Fredericksburg, Ont., after reaching a depth of 550 feet, has been abandoned, on the advice of a member of the British Science Association. Lawd! Did I hev that much? Never knew I had \"that much; gone ded crazj' if Ihed.\" V- ' A consignment of fresh fruit left Grimsby this week for Montreal, leaving that port on the steamship Merrimac for Bristol and thence by rail to London, Eng. This is the first time that fresh fruit has been shipped in cold storage. The British public will now have an opportunity of testing the excellence of Canadian fruit. \"Cymbeline\" has been Margaret Mather, and The most successful Fair ever held in Toronto, was closed on Sept. 10th, after running two weeks. The attendance on Sept. 6th, was 90,0000, the greatest on record. /.-.V a\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-.;,- Prof. Alex. McKenzie says that there is gold on the banks of the Saskatchewan river and he has left for that region, intending to make a careful examination of the land. Along the crest of FELL OFF THE SIDEWALK. Smooth, But Crooked. Ed.Cowen and J. C. McFadden came in with the, rush to Slocan City last spring* and started a paper called the Pioneer. After a time Ed.'s stomach became weak and he repaired to Sandon to feed it on ice cream while McFadden stayed with the plant and raked in the sliekles without paying* any to the creditors of the firm. \"McFadden left the country a few days ago to take a position on the Recorder in Anaconda, Montana. That paper \"will no doubt be pleased with having a dead-beat on its staff. Ed. Cowen, brilliant writer as he is, did not place the g\"Ood wishes of the Slocan people to his credit bv being connected with a fellow like McFadden whose bunco game was of the lowest grade. A man who would stain his honor for the few dollars that McFadden raked in around Slocan City is a fool, and if he misses the I' penitentiary he will end his days in some asylum for idiots. The people of Anaconda are welcome to him, Thos. Hyland came up from Slocan City Monday evening. At the corner of Eldorado and Sixth avenues he stopped on the sidewalk leading from the Windsor Hotel, and attempted to convince a gentleman there that he was all right.\" He leaned against the hand railing and it gave way allowing him to fall to the \"hard formation below, where the excavation was made early in the spring for the proposed new hotel, a distance of 15 or 20 feet. He struck on his shoulders and back, and was rendered unconscious. Bystanders picked him up and carried \"him to a room in the Windsor, where he was confined until yesterday unable even ro raise himself from the bed. He was removed to the Hospital yesterday and Dr. Brouse thinks that he will be out of dang'er in two or three days. The place where Mr. Hyland fell has long threatened the life' and limb of pedestrians and the. wonder is that more such accidents do not happen. The sidewalk at this place and also the walk on the corner of Sixth street and Belle- vue avenue ought to be provided with better safeguards. in bold relief against the skyline stands almost a single row of tall and symmetrical pines like a regiment of soldiers in single line, and we picture again in fancy's view Russells \"Thin red streak tipped with a line of steel,\"that held the heights of Balaklava and checked and broke the almost overwhelming* charge of the massive Russian squadrons. We can almost hear the wild ringing cheers of the Enniskilleners, the Greys and the Dragoons and the Lancers as they charge fhto the fleeing Squadrons and change the retreat into a rout. Fit types and forerunners were these of the stouthearted, brave and tireless pioneers and prospectors who first entered the heart of the Slocan overcoming and conquering all difficulties and laying at the feet of our Lady of the Snows its rich and boundless treasures. Washington- Tuvixg Tiiio Skcoxh. 1X.FOKMATI.ON WANTED. Toronto will entertain the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston for a few days in October. This company created quite a furor in England a short time ago. A pioneer of York County, Mr. Edward Wheler, aged 84, died suddenly at Stuff- ville, Out.. He helped to defend his country during the rebellion of '37 and remained in the army for many years. A prominent lumberman in Ottawa says that the outlook for the lumber trade is very blue, and. there will -rob- ably be a \"slump\" in prices in England, as \"the demand is light and the stock very large. Brantford wants to establish malleable iron and coupling* works in that town, and a deputation, headed by Mayor Elliott, waited upon Mr. Hay, the manager of the Grand Trunk Ry., to negotiate for that purpose. The Presbyterian Missionary to Hon- an, China, Rev. Murdoch McKenzie, will sail from Vancouver on Sept. 11th. He will be accompanied by Dr. Percy Leslie, of Montreal, who has received the appointment of Medical Missionary. Premier Hardy in a speech at Mark- ham, Ont., speaking of Mr. Tarte said : \"Whatever Mr. Tarte may have been, we know he is an honest man now; we know he has committed no dishonest act since he has been in the Reform ranks.\" The shareholders of the Columbia & Ontario Gold Mining Company held a special meetfng at Toronto, Sept. Sth. An offer was submitted to the members present for the sale of the property' which would net stockholders \2}-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD cents per share. A rumor is afloat that pany, with a capital of A HAPPY EVENT. Sale Of The Queen Bess. The Queen Bess group has been sold to C. K. Millbourne, who represents a company just formed in London. The The marriage at Kaslo hy the Rev. Powell of Arthur St. Clair Brindle to Miss Mable May Estabrooks took place Monday evening, and the happy couple are now spending a few days in Spokane before their\"return to their pretty little home in New Denver. Tlie happy culmination of years of fast friendship between the bride and groom is received with joy by their host of friends here, and The Ledge joins Avith them in extending congratulations, and wishing Mr. and Mrs. Brindle a long and happy union, and one that Avill assay high in the good things of life. Mr. Brindle has Old-timers in the Slocan will remember a Avoman commonly known as Fool Hen, who prospected in this section during 1S92. Caroline Miller was her proper name, and Charles .Miller, said to be her husband, cooked at the Idaho and other mines. On the 22nd of last February Miller murdered this woman at a saw mill town on the coast called Port Blakeley. Miller got twenty years for doing the deed. If Mrs. Miller's heirs Avill communicate Avith will learn of something tage. The Exchange Stocked Tiuc Ledge they to their advan- Through the agency Fauquicr the terms of sale made in July have and the prope.ity has be placed on the, London force; on the property will be immediately doubled and the company are confident that the Exchange avi\" of the. best, mines in the. district of Rashdall & the Exchange been alteaed ;n stocked and market. The he one The New Church The new Presbyterian church Avas well filled last Sunday, it being the informal opening The services Averc conducted by W. J. Booth, Avhile the choir Avith Mrs. Millward as organist rendered excellent music. a strong com- $1,000,000, hue arranged to take over the Bannockburn j mill and mine, annd also a number of | other mines in Hastings County. The work of development and milling will be pushed along rapidly. This week's Canada Gazette will contain the financial statement for the first year of the Lauricr regime. It Avill show a deficit of $585,789, and an expenditure of $1,200,000 more than the expenditure current current accont, of the last year of the Conservative reign. A trapper at Maple 'lake, near Min- den, (int., named W. II. Sawyer, was so badly beaten ank kicked by two brothers, Matthew and Thos. Thompson, that he died a few days latter, .lealousy is alleged to be the cause of the murder. Both Thompsons' IniA-e been arrested. Mr. Knapp's roller boat was launchep at Toronto this Avcek. This strange eraf} has been the subject of much speculation eA-er since its inventor submitted his plans to the public. $10,000 is said to be the cost of it. If the experiment is successful the voyage across the Atlantic Avill be shortened by two days. A Toronto policeman recognized in a neA\'-comer at Ids boarding house, a negro thief, for whose capture $500 was offered, and who had made off Avith $9,000 from the office of a tax collector in Washington, P.O. After the delinquents arrett, when told of the amount he had stolen he exclaimed, \"Good Shakespeare's- revived by Miss is now on the boards at Toronto. The production is superb and the scenic display is equal to many of Sir Henry lrving's scenic achievements. Mis\"s Mather plays the part of Imogen, a part made famous., by: Ellen Terry, Mrs. Sid- dons, Modjeska and other famous actresses.' A resident of Montreal is(in receipt of a letter from one of a party of prospectors, who. are enroute to the Klondike. It was written one day past Skagway and tells of the -difficulties encountered on the Dyea route, and also says: \"There are fully 2,000 people waiting* their chance to get through. Buffalo Bill's Wild West show is not in it. . . . . . . The name of this landing is called 'The Hottest Toavii'on Earth,' and it was named correctly.\" %\ .'\"'* -; \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.- A neAvspaper man, Mr. DickiiJsoh of North Bay, is in luck.,_ Last.Tnne he applied for a location on Wawa lake, about six miles from Michipicoten, and, under the provision of the Amended Mines Act, secured a free location of 40 acres, 10 miles from any known gold-bearing- veins. It Avas through this that attention was first directed to this region, as a possible gold-bearing country. Toronto's four hundred witnessed a Arery fashionable wedding this Aveek, when Captain Arthur Kirkpatrick, son of Sir George Kirkpatrick, Lieutenant- Governor of Ontario, AAras united in marriage to Miss Homer-Dixon, daughter of B. Homer-Dixon Esq.,Honorary \"Consul- General of the Netherlands. After the ceremony, Avhich Avas performed in St. James' Cathedral, a reception was held at the charming residence of Professor and Mrs. Goldwin Smith. At the recent meeting of the Pioneer & Historical Association of Ontario, held at their log cabin in the Exhibition grounds, Toronto, a resolution was passed to the effect that the goA-ernment of tne Dominion should be asked to not permit the old walls and gatesof the city of Quebec to be demolished, the Municipal Council of that city having issued an order for that purpose, but that they should be preserved to tell succeeding generations of the days when Quebec was a pledge of protection to this Avest- ern country. A copy of the resolution was sent to the Ministei of Militia and Defence. A clever attempt to escape Avas made by four convicts in the St. Vincent de Paul prison at Montreal the other night. Being on the sick list, they Avere confined in the infirmary, the doors of which are locked and guarded at night. About 11.g0 suspicious noises were heard and a. number of the guards Avere summoned and on entering the Avard found th\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD floor covered with debris, a hole cut in the ceiling, the \"trusties\" (convict attendants left in charge) gagged and tied to their cots, two of tlie prisoners on the roof, two others hidden in the ward, while other patients appeared to be calmly sleeping. The were quickly captured pending investigation. four guilty ones and the matter is CAI'Tl KKI) THli TRAIN. The town is full of men Avantinu1 Avork. Men avIio have been hired to this country by the C. P. H. agents in the east, \vho\" with stories of\" lack of harvest hands and the prospects of high Avages in Manitoba have induced thousands of men to come west. Many of the excursionists had barely money enough to pay their fare here,\" and are in a had state*, having to beg their living from house to house and sleep in the open air or in barns and stables in the toAvns. Manitoba has enough resident Avorkingmeu to handle her crop, and the effect of this great influx of labor Avil be the lowering of Avages, as many of the strangers are av ill ing to Avork for their board, or just enough money to take them homo in November. On Monday morning a number of them having bo-come desperate determined to go east Avhether the C. V. 1{. wished to carry them without tickets or not. boarded No. 2 and would not be put off. They were greeted by about sixty of their friends who had taken the train by storm at Brandon. The men Avere quite orderly, but determined that the (J. P. K. should make amends for bringing them out bv taking them home free. It is thought'that the C. P. K. Avill carry them east.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDRat Portage paper. THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., SEPTEMBER 23, 1897. Fourth Year , WHKX JOHNNY CAME A-COITltTINO V J AA'heu Joliimy-caniu a-courthi'r, 1 tluniirhi liiin over-bold. For I was hut n. you.nsr tiling And he- not vefv old. And though I liked him well enough I sent him on his way, With, -'Wait a hit. hide a bit, Wait a week and a day '.\" When Johnny passed me in the lane, And pleaded for n kiss, And viiwed he'd love me evermore For ^rautinirof the bliss; Although I liked it overwell, 1 ran from him away, , With, \"Wait n bit, bide a bit, Wait a week and a day !\" /, When Johnnv eamc a-courtin^, With. \"Jenny, be my wife V\" And vowed I never should regret, However lon^- my life; Although I liked it best o' all, 1 turned from him away, With. \"Wait a bit. bide a bit, Wait a week and a day !\" Oh. Johnny was a ninny: He took me at my word! And he was courting another The next thing that; I heard. Oh.-what a ninny was Johnny. To mind mo what I'd say. With, \"Wait a. bit, hide a bit, Wait a week and a day!\" Heigh-ho : I have my Johnny ; I gin him a blink o' my eye. And then he fell to raving For want o' my love he'd die ! I ne'er eould he so cruel, So I set tlie wedding day. With, \" Haste a bit, nor waste a hit, There's danger in delay.\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJeiiney E. T. Dowe, DON'T I'M-: All HAD MEN. a hig hand of Blackfeet Indians left the States and dashed across the border, on a horse stealing and murdering trip. There Avere 500 in the hand, hut twenty of the mounted police avIio ran across them did not hesitate to invade the camp and declare that they Avere going to arrest the leaders and drive all the others hack across the border again. The Indians started to shoAv. tight and at the same instant the police began to shoot and in less than three minutes their lightning* Avork Avith the guns made the reign of peace absolute. The leaders were sent to jail and that same day the others Avere started on the liomeAvard journey. Their uniform is sIioavv, consisting of scarlet tunics, with yelloAv strip, top boots and a helmet, in winter, however, this gorgeousness is covered with great fur coats and capes, fur caps and moccasins. They ride the small chunky native horse and few instances are on record where either man or beast has succumbed to the terrible cold or constant exposure.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMinneapolis Journal. MINERS' PKACTICAE- .lUSTICK. Death Follows the Stealing and Hacon. of Flour Canada's .Mounted .Police Are Body of Fighters. a Fine There is-bound to be trouble in the Klondike between the scores of rough characters avIio have invaded the gold district since June, and the Canadian -authorities who have assumed the giant task of maintaining order through the services of a division, of the mounted police. History is filled to the brim with laAV- less acts,\" committed in new mining districts, and in most cases the governing authorities have been content to let the miners Avork out their own salvation by vigilance committees' and the summary decisions of Judge Lynch. But right from the fall of the flag Canada is de- termined to attend to this Avork, and it is an experiment Avhich old miners are prone to look upon with considerable Avonder. They can see nothing ahead hut gallons of trouble for the mounted police. In the Klondike there is more than the natural antipathy of the -'bad man\" for huv and order as a producer of outbreaks. dVIen avIio have been there say that the! sectional feeling betAveen Canadians and Americans is getting fiercer all the time, particularly since the re- cont passage of the revenue laws by the dominion gouernment. There Avill be certainly many attemps by the miners to sneak across the boundary to avoid making payments, and the boundary lines are still unsettled. This fact, alone opens up many aArenues for disputes Avhich are certain to be settled by the gun. Dawson City is beyond the shadow of doubt in Canadian territory, as the Washington government concedes it to he 100 miles east of the 141st meridian, which is the boundary line. There are hundreds of claims, however, in close proximity to the line, and here iSAvhere the mounted police will have the most trouble. The differences betAveen lines set by Washington and Canada vary fromf-A feet to 300 in the gold district, and as the mounted police Avill, of course, enforce the Canadian idea, and the Americans stand like a rock upon the Washington idea, some pretty international scraps are looked for by those avIio ought to know. Canada's feeling toward the Americans is quite clearly shoAvn by the recent utterances of Dominion papers, favoring the exclusion of the American miner in retaliation for our alien labor law; and at the same time exulting in the reputation of the mounted police as killers. As the brunt of the whole trouble will fall upon the shoulders of these men, the mounted police will be the dominating figures of' interest in the Klondike the coming Avinter. One hundred and fifty of them and 350 horses have been sent into the gold district, and this number is counted to be sufficiently great to quell any disturbance. Three-fourths of the 1,100 men in the service are well educated and nicely reared, but they are not tenderfeet by any means. Many of them are the younger sons of \"English families of political and social influences, young men who have gone the. pace of dissipation at a tremendous gait and avIio have adopted this heroic road to reform. Others have entered the services out of pure love of advanture and have remained in it, fascinated by the Avild freedom and its rough life,\" unfettered by tlie conventionalities. That the force is an efficient one is proven by the single fact that, small as it is, it maintains the law in a territory of '270,000 square miles, or from the boundary line on the south to a point 300 miles north, and from the east to the Rocky mountains. Now its limits liiive been extended so as to include the Yukon mining iields. The headquarters of the force'is located at Regina, but there are. fourteen stations scattered between the Rockies and the east in charge of commissioned officers, of whom there are lifty-two in all. There is a fifteenth station now being established in the Klondike region. In addition to these stations there are innumerable shanties scattered over the entire, country, where man and horse can seek shelter at night. Many similiar shanties are being built in tlie Klondike districts, as the men Avill be kept on the go in the Avinter as Avell as in summer time. Tlie police Avork in squads of three and four, and are splendidly mounted. They are armed Avith Winchester carbine's, Enfield re\'olves and sabers, and are drilled as infantry, cavalry and artillery. It is a curious misnomer to call them police, as they are really soldiers of'the first class, and each trooper at a moment's notice, could take his place in either an infantry, artillery or cavalry regiment and be perfectly at home. Thev are accustomed to deal with rou\"*li characters and cheerfully go into a fight Avith the biggest kind of odds against them. They are a terror to the Indians and settlers along the border. many of avIioiii do a big smuggling business all the year around. The kind of fighting stuff they are made of was shown back in |.ss:>, when The body of an unknown man is rotting beneath a pile of stones reared within sight of the SkagAvay trail. He Avas shot hy vigilantes for having stolen a sack of Hour and 100 pounds of hacon. He sought the wrong locality for his depredations. , The penalty was SAvift and terrible\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa life for a sack of fiour and 100 pounds of bacon. There was no hesitation' in meting* out rough justice to this thief. He had stolen food\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDmore precious to these prospectors than gold dust. There Avas.no room for such as he, and he was removed suddenly and effectually. A profound impression has been made on the minds of the light fingered gentry infesting the croAvcled trail, \"riiey begin\"to understand that they are dealing with men of stern mettle. A party of prospectors had,after great hardships, packed their goods over the Avorst part of the Skagway trail. They had cached their supplies and Avere moving* their stuff by relays to the lakes. Some of the goods had cost $30 a hundred. One day, tAvo Aveeks ago, they missed from their cache a sack of flour and 100 pounds of bacon. They had taken no precaution against theft, believing that under such conditions as exist m that part of Alaska a man's property Avould be held sacred. Immediately upon discovering their loss, they notified the other miners in the vicinity. A meeting was called at once. Each gold seeker felt that his sack of flour might be the next to go and it Avas agreed that a food thief in their midst was as dreadful an enemy as a murderer. Food to these men was life. A committee of sixty vigilants Avas choosen by lot to search out the criminal and punish him. What was. the penalty to be? There Avas but a single verdict. Death. In a tent near the summit stayed a Frenchman knoAvn as Pierre. His surname Avas not known. He Avas Ioav browed and black eyed and surly, and suspicion was attracted to him by many circumstances. He had no friends and seemed not to desire them. At dusk of the day upon-which the loss of provisions had been made known the vigilantes climbed to the Frenchman's tent. They went silently, and near the tent paused. A light burned within and upon the canvass, like a puppet shadow, was cast the form of the Frenchman. He was stooping\" close to the ground. \"He's burying the grub,\" whispered one of the vigilantes to his companions. Leaving tAvo men outside, four iioav entered tlie tent. One was the prospector avIio had been robbed. Pierre started up at the appearance of his visitors. His movement for a gun was arrested by a sharp Avord of Avarning, and the Frenchman stood as though petrified, his eyes riveted on the muzzle of four re\rolvers. The Avas no need of reaching* further. In a rude hole dug from the hard earth in the center of the tent lay the sack of flour and bacon. Their owner recognized the marks and identified them as his property. Without a word the Frenchman Avas seized and, Avith stout, ropes brought along for the purpose,Avas tied hand and foot. He begged piteously for mercy, and his black Avhiskers stood out on a face pale as that of a corpse. He appealed to hearts of stone; there Avas no softening light in the eyes of his captors. They carried him \"out and to a pole before his fragile habitation they lashed him fast. All six Avithdrew a short distance, and at a word six shots rang out, sounding as one. Then the vigilantes left.. A life for a sack of flour and 100 pounds of bacon. The !limp form, bleeding from six Avounds, hung* there all night, and the next day it hung, and the next. Over the trail a short distance aAvay many men passed. When they looked toward the lonely tent and stiw its sentinel, they averted their faces and hurried by. Even the ihorses shied, seemed to feel the dread that hung in the atmosphere. The third day came and there Avas something more'than dread in the air. It Avas the sickening-stench of a putrify- ing human body. It Avas a horrible smell, that turned men's hearts to lead: Late on that third afternoon two men staved-in their journev to finish the work of the vigilantes. 'They unbound the carrion mass and lugged it further up the hill. They could not-wait to dig a grave, hut they piled stones high above the body, and nerhaps with a muttered prayer left it there to rot. The rock monument is there as a Avarning to others avIio, like Pierre, hope to reach the Yukon with no other outfit than a seared conscience, and all the kiAVs of Alaska Avill not have a more restraining effect than the smell Avhich is Avafted over Skagway trail by breezes from the rock pile. THE COST OF (iOI.D. facture, and years before the time of King Solomon, as ancient chronicles Avill prove. In the earlier centuries placer mining in Southwestern Europe and n the Ural mountains were Avell established, and there are statistics of gold mining in Asia Miner during all the early centuries. There is nothing, howeA-er, authentic in the AA-ay of figures previous to the discovery of North and South America, but siiice that time the world's production of gold per year is pretty well established. The really big discoveries are of this century, hoAvever, beginning in California in 1847; in Australia in 1854, and then in British Columbia in 185S, after- Avard followed by neAv discoveries in Queensland and .New South Wales, in the Transvaal in 1808, in Wiwatersraml in 1886, folloAved by the building of Johannesburg, and now there are frequent discoA-eries of the Metal not only in South Africa, but in many of the Western States. There have \"been no great placer finds, however, such as that in Alaska in recent years, and it is multiplicity of these placer findings and the ease with which the gold is obtained that has sent so many prospectors to the Northwest territory. The entire production of gold in the United States from 1700 to 1848 amouted to only $34,000,000. The next year alone $40,000,000 of the metal was* taken out of California soil, and since that period a total of $3,300,- 000,000 has' been-mined in the United States. After the great discovery in California in 1848 the product of the mines there ran up to more than $50,- 000,000 a year, but this was beaten by Australia, Avhere, in eight years, from 1851, a total of $500,000,000 was mined, or an average of more than $60,000,000 a year. One nugget found in the Australian gold fields Aveighing 146 pounds was shown to Queen Victoria in 1868. After the first ten years in California the gold output of this country became steady, as neAv fields in other Pacific coast states averaged the losses caused by the failure of older times to develop more of the metal. There are great losses in gold mining, and the mere statement that a sum lightly in excess of i $13,000,000 in gold was mined in California last year does not carry with it the significance that attends the cost of mining. To be precise in figures the Aralue of gold ore mined in California was $13,960,529 and the cost of getting it Avas $12,506,555. Of course there was a pi-fit on some mines and a loss on others, but this is the a\*erage, which sIioavs that mining, like many other industries, is at times very costly for capital. It really cost 90 cents to produce a dollar of mined gold in California last year. It cost $3.05 in Alabama and $5.56 in Wyoming to produce a dollar of bullion from the mines. In Colorado the total mined Avas $23,000,000 in round numbers at a cost of $13,500,000 so that it cost 50 cents there to mine a dollar of bullion. In Montana the cost was over 45 cents. In 1890 total Igold and silver mined in this country was $99,283,752, and the capital invested was $486,323,338 or $4.90 of capital for every dollar of bullion produced. Putting it in another Avay, there was only 20 cents of bullion produced for ever}' dollar of capital. The total expenditures in mining* this sum was $63,451,136. The amount of expense per dollar of bullion gold and sih'er was 64' cent. More than . three thousand mines produced less than $10,- 000 each. Only twenty-eight mines of the 6,000 produced over half a million each; fewer than fiftv produced between $250,000 and $50,000.\" It is estimated that 1,000 non-profit producing mines were worked last year, and that there were 1,266 idle or abandoned. California has I now first place in gold production, but | Colorado is close behind, and tlie two produce an aggregate of $27,000,000 of ijold per year. California being about $1,000,000 ahead of Colorado. The total production now in this country averages about $35,000,000 a year, although last year the production Avas $46,640,000. Antonio de Alvedo, a noted geographer of the last century, in Avriting of a visit- to California,said that all the ravines and plains contained gold scattered up and down. He gaA'e a gloA\ring accqut of the then little known country in 17S0, but no adA-entnrersAvent there to find the gold he told about. The Avhite population-'Avas not much .over 16,000 when Gen. Sutter and others made the first discovery in 1S47. In 184S the output of the California fields was $5,000,000. In the next fiAre years a total of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD260,000,- 000'was taken from the'gold'fields-of the State. From the period of the first discovery up to January 1st of last year, the total \"gold vield of California has been $1,301,000,0*00, hut in no year since 1864 has the total in twelve\" months gone above $28,000,000 in that State, and for the last feAV years the average has been $13,000,000 in gold. But what the Golden State has lost by the steady decline in its mines it has gained a dozen times over by the devel opment of its farm industries. The pro ducts of California farms uoav bring more to the State in a year than the gold (hidings ever did. Tlie estimated value of California farms last year footed up $740,000,000 of which 75\" per cent is free from incumbrance. The products of these farms and of the manufacturers, who thrive because of the prosperity of the farmer, mean more to California,and relatively to the United States, than all the gold finds of the last 25 years. The State has produced 60 per! cent of the United States product of gold, but in the meantime its real estate in cities, and on farms has outgrown in value the total output of the yellow metal. LOTS OF COUNTERFEITS. Washington.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe United States secret, service bureau is struggling with an epidemic of counterfeits. Hardly a day passes without the arrest of from one to half a dozen persons detected in passing spurious notes or silver coin. It is evident that there is a large volume of counterfeit silver certificates of last year's issue afloat and that the circulation is continually being diluted Avith that sort of material. When these certificates were first put out expert engravers predicted that counterfeiters Avould be tempted to resume activities, and the result sIioavs that they Avere not wrong in their prophecy. As Avorks of art these certificates may be very fine, but for purposes of money they Avere shockingly deficient in many'of the safe-guards which the department had provided against counterfeiting. Government detectiAres have been instructed to be on the watch for bogus silver dollars, the tip having been given the Treasury Department that a move was being made in some mysterious and unknoAvn quarter for the\" minting of such dollars on a large scale, the coins to have the same amount of silver as the genuine, and to be in exact similitude of the coin bearing the stamp of the United States mints/ Thus far the department has not been able to locate any of this illicit product, and it is not believed any of the bogus dollars of that sort are yet in circulation, but that is no guaranty that that the country may not at any time be flooded with them. At the present price of silver bullion there is a margin of 60 cents on every dollar privately minted. The Job room of The lxd\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD6 i^. Millions are Alined but, Murn K\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDM|uir\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMl to (Jet It. -Millions The earliest known coinage of gold that is authenticated was about 800 years lie- fore the Christian ere, in the time of Milletus, and it is very Avell-known that the Sicilians, 4O0 years before the birth of Christ, used the metal for coinage purposes. Long before that period, Iioav- ever, it, had been used in art and manu- Is the finest west of the Red River The Ledge carries the largest stock of Printing Stationery in Kootenay, and can do finer work than any print shop west of Lake Superior. There are offices that quote seemingly lower prices, but quality considered, The Ledge is lower than anv. No Chinese or blacksmiths employed. Send orders by mail, express, freight or -Sstfe- pack train, If you are in the Slocan metropolis call in and see our plant, but do not touch our bull pup's pup, or allow the cyclone caused by our fast cylinder press to blow your plug hat out of the rear tunnel. Come in folks when you have any job printing to do, or (sash that is too heavy to carry, and Ave Avill give you a profitable solution of your trouble. Come, gentle pilgrims, come. A And you will feel as though you were having a Holiday in Paradise. m^WkWkVk I The smoke from the ^\ IGAR Will be seen in many mountain saloons before the hills are much \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD~y*lxSZ\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD:;iltiur*.^ ..\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD,,..\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD,..:,-^^ Y Fourth Year. THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., SEPTEMBER 23, 1897. 3 GO 'LONG, CHILE! Say yo' lak t' marry me, Dat I'se got de style, . \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD An' am sweet as-sweet km be .\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Go 'long, go 'long, chile! Donan' yo' be a-talkin' so, Tou's a-loolin'me. I knoAv, Dis hyar niggah ain't so slow- Go long, go 'long, chile! Say Ave'll hab abrownstone front? Dat yer meks me smile. Meks-dis niggah sorter grunt\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Go 'long, go 'long, chile_! Brownstone front you's t'mkm' 'bout 'S ius a cave you's holler'd out Down de quarry, frontsn' sout'! Go 'long, go 'long, chile ! Say dat yo' has got some money Comin' aftah Avhile V Say yo' Avants me for yo' honey ! Go 'long, go 'long, chile! Dat ole ship's a-gwinet'sink, ' She'm gwine t' sink an' spill de chink; .. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Can't fool dis niggah, needn't t'ink\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Go'long, go'long, chile! Den you's in in lub wid Lizcr Jane\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD I kpoAv'd it all de aviIIc. Yo' said she's sweet as sugah-cane\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Go'long, go 'long, chile! She tole me *o dis aftahnoon \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD So yo' jus' mosey mighty soon, An' quit yo're trlflin' wid (lis coon\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Now go 'long, go 'long, chile ! \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJames Courtney Challis; TO KLONDIKE VIA ASIICHOKT, Arthur Jordan, avIio has received mention several tunes lately in the . Seattle and Spokane papers in connection Avith his proposed expedition to the Yukon country this fall, Avas in Kaslo Monday, leaving Tuesday for Spokane Avhereiie intends gathering a number of his party together for a start. Speaking of his proposed trip Mr. Jordan says: \"We will have a party of twentv men in the expedition which Avill leave Ashcroft in tAvo Aveeks. About, 50 or GO pack horses will be required as avc intend going in thoroughly outfitted for a hard trip and a long stay in the countrv. The trip from Ashcroft to Teslin Lake, a distance of 050 miles, is over a good Avell-beaten trail, Avhich has been in use bv the Hudson Bay Co. and placer miners for years. Plenty of bunch grass is to be found for the horses along this route, and the. country is bv no means a rough or rugged one so that the first part of the trip will be comparatively easy. From the head of the lake a distance of 180 miles is to he made in boats and from there overland to the Stewart river, whore the party intends wintering;, will be made on foot, the supplies to he handled on sleds or toboggans. The whole trip will not take over 00 davs, and though 1 do not promised the party any snap so far as the traveiling is concerned, I :eel confident, that avc Avill be able to make it all Avell enough, and in time to get in a <--ood Avinter's Avork on theStoAvartiriver *\"!\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ii (iio'o'inf,*s. M~r. .fordan is someAvhat of a pioneer in the Yukon country, having spent the four vears from '85 to '89 trapping and fur trading in the far north. Speaking of the expected famine he remarked that he now had a proposition before a Seattle svndicate to take to a Dock. There is another direction in Avhich the air-ship Avould be seriously defective, and this is almost ahvays 0Arer- looked, and that is in the matter of making landings. Being a large body, it would necessarily be unwieldy, and its motion in any direction could not be arrested in a very short space of time- therefore it could\" not make a landing Avithin a limited area. In a dead calm Effe\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDt of the Poisoning of a Dog: on n Project That \"Looked Promising, \"Just to show you how little things have affected some of my big undertakings, \" said the ex-boomer from Oregon, ' 'let me tell you how the poisoning of a dog was responsible for tlie whole history of a gas well in which I was ouco pretty heavily interested. \"About the time we moved on to the lauch near Drain, Or., my boy Charles was very much interested in chemistry and was devoting most of his spare time to performing a lot of experiments in an old book which he had on the subject. My wife became rather prejudiced against his experiments after he had frightened Ham Song, our Chinese cook, into hysterics by appearing before him one dark night with phosphorus rubbed on his face and hands, and I also began to fear that he might do himself some injury after I found a plant for generating laughing gas at work on my library table one afternoon. My feeling against chemistry reached a head, however, when my pet deerhound ate up one of Charley's experiments and died as a result. After that I refused to buy a new chemistry book or any more chemicals and banished all future research in that line to an old shack that stood over the other side of the cattle corral. \"It Avas some time after this that we began to discuss the possibility of there being deposits of natural gas under Drain, and half- a dozen of us undertook to make an investigation of the subject. We found large quantities of some kind of gas that bubbled up from the creek bed when we poked about Avifh sticks. We could fill a five gallon coal oil can with it in two or three minutes at almost every point we tried, and the gas burned Avith a bright yellow flamo that emitted considerable light and heat. When I got home the night after discovering these facts, I put my prioe in my pocket and groped my Avay down to Charley's shack to consult him on the subject of natural gas. \"'I guess it's only marsh gas you have found,' Avas his verdict. 'You see, for the last 30 years there have been sawmills on the creek above where this gas occurs, and the sawdust from them is probably decaying all along the creek bottom, and tbat produces marsh gas.' \"When I asked him for authority for his statement, he got out the old book that I had refused to replace Avith a more modern Avork and shoAA'ed me a paragraph stating that marsh gas was a product of the decomposition of wood under water. Then the next paragraph caught my eye. It went on to say that in boring a well, in some place I have forgotten, a large body of gas had been discovered, called natural gas, which was thought to be merely a natural reservoir of marsh gas. To a man in my state of mind this statement Avas conclusive. I took no notice of thefaot that the book had been published back in the seventies somewhere, but spent the most of that night in drawing up the papers of the Drain Natural Gas company. \"Inside of a month I had a charter and an incorporated company with one- half of its capital stock paid up and had made a contract Avith a man named Cor- bett to sink a well at so much per thousand feet. We had two so called experts go over the ground and published their reports, stating that the formation of the country was superior to that of Pennsylvania, and prophesying the discovery of oil as well as gas; Of course, a good deal of real estate changed hands while preparations to commence drilling Avere in progress. We located the well across the creek from Drain, plotting a toAvn site around it which we called South Drain. We advertised extensively and Avere just about ready to commence the stile of lots when Corbett began to strike difficulties. At the depth of 500 feet he ran into alternate layers of quicksand and slate that choked the drills by tumbling in above them, until avc had to.stop and case the well.. My associates began to withdraw about thi:- time, but in spite of the black outlook 1 did not lose faith. I bet my son Charlie a new chemistry book that we would srriko gas yet. I bought out the other interests in the South Drain town site and bluffed Corbett into sinking the well to a total depth of 702 feet, but it never produced anything except salt water. \"South Drain dropped back to its original value of $8.75 an acre, instead of $100 a lot, and when I undertook to fence it in and cultivate it the one solitary man Avho had bought a lot and built, on it got out an injunction restraining me from closing up the publio streets. Charley got his new chemistry and showed me the place in it that explained the difference between marsh gas and natural gas, and he is still in the habit of smiling Avhenever the latter is mentioned in my presence.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNew Vorlr Snn. An immense assortment of furniture lower than Coast prices, at Crowley's, NeAv Denver. Freight paid on orders to Sandon and all Slocan Lake points. AN UNHAPPY DUCHESS. Ca-*ily of York'and the Ravages of th\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Wsf of the Roses*. The wars of the roses Aviped out most of the nobility of England, though the plain people suffered little, and many well born mothers mourned husbands and sons slain in the wars. But feAV, if any of them, had such a succession of sorrows as one who might have seemed born only to enjoy the days of her life \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCecily, wife of Eichard Plantagenet, duke of York, and leader of the White Rose. ^ Cecily Nevil was granddaughter of \"Old John of Gaunt, time honored Lancaster,\" and so great-granddaughter of King Edward III; her father was Ralph Nevil, earl of Westmorland, her mother Joan Beaufort, the Duke of Lancaster's daughter. Cecily Nevil married Eichard Plantagenet when she was about 20 years old, in 1440, and they had four sons and two daughters, Edward, Edmund, George, Richard, Anne and Margaret. For 15 years no especial sorrows reached her; her sons Avere strong, her husband Avas the principal subject in the kingdom. But in 1455 the wars of the roses began with the bloody battle at St. Albans, on May 23, and the Earl of Stafford, the nephew of Duchess Cecily, was killed there. At Northampton, on July 10, 1400, her hrother-in-hiAV, Stafford, duke of Buckingham, was killed and the terrible fight at Wakefield on Dee. 30, 1400, robbed her at once of two nephews, a brother, a son and a husband. In the battle fell Sir Thomas Nevil and Sir Edmund Bourchier, nephews, and her husband, Richard. Immediately after the battle her brother Ralph, earl of Salisbury, was executed, and her son Edmund, earl of Rutland, only 12 years old, was murdered by John, Lord Clifford, in cold blood, in revenge,for the death of his father in battle. When sorrows came to Duchess Cecily, they did not ccme alone. Another nepheAV, Sir John Nevil, fell at Tow- ton, March 29, 1401. Then came a breathing spell, but in 14G9 Sir Henry Nevil Avas executed, and at Barnet, April 14, 1471, fell still other nepbeAvs \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJohn-Nevil, marquis of Montague, and Eichard Nevil, earl of WarAvick, famous as \"the king maker.\" On May 4, 1471, the battle of Tewkesbury, was fought, and immediately afterward Edward, prince of Wales, who, though a Lancastrian, had married the duchess' i niece, the \"king maker's\" daughter | Anne, Avas murdered by her sons, the i Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester. ' They kept the killing in the family, but it was killing just the same. Two years later, so that the duchess should not get unaccustomed to grief, her son-in-law,--Thomas Holland, duke of Exeter, who had had to beg his bread in exile, Avas found dead on the seashore at Dover, and in 1478 her son, the Duke of Clarence, was droAvned in a butt of Malmsey, his Avife Cecily having been poisoned previously. Her son- in-laAV, Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, had been killed in battle in 1477. Then there was a little respite for the poor duchess. In 1483 died her son, EdAvard IV, only 41 years old, the first one of her descendants to die a natural death 6ince 1455\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD2b years, in tne same year her two grandsons, Edward V and Richard, duke of York, were murdered by their uncle and her son, Richard, duke of Gloucester, Avho became king as Richard III, and in his turn was killed at BosAvorth field on Aug. 22, 1485, Avhen only 35 years old. Her son- in-law, Sir Thomas St. Leger, was executed in 1483, and a grandnepheAA\", a second Henry Stafford; duke of Buckingham, was executed in 1487. Except for a feAV small deaths, such as tAvo husbands of a niece, Catharine Nevil, and a grandson, John, earl of Lincoln, and a grandson, EdAvard, prince of Wales,\" the duchess lost no more relatives and died peacefully in 1495. Ail of these four but the Prince of Wales died by violence. Of her children, Margaret, duchess of Burgundy, Avas the only one Avho survived her. During the 40 years, 1455-95, she had seen 25 of her relatives die by violence and 3 by disease. But she herself did not rest even after death. When Henry VIII destroyed the monasteries, the Collegiate church of Fotheringay Avas razed to the ground, and the bodies of Eichard Plantagenet and Cecily Nevil, duke and duchess of York, were exposed to view in their graves. They lay so for soA'eral years, until Elizabeth, their great-great-granddaughter, queen of England in her own right, caused them to be reinterred, with tne solemnities befitting the funeral of tAvo such distinguished persons. So Cecily Nevil, mother of tAvo kings and grandmother of one king, having died, at last found rest.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNew York Sun. Photographs by Sugar Light. A scientist has discovered that light may be produced from sugar. He has succeeded in taking several photographs by the light supplied by sugar only. The sugar was first exposed to a direct sunlight for two hours and then placed in a dark room. Immediately on being placed'in the darkness the sunlight stored in the sugar began togloAV, faintly at first, but quite brightly after a few minutes. After about 20 minutes, during which time the photographs Avere taken, the light began to die away and gradually went out. The photographs taken by sugar light are quite distinct, though not as clear as an ordinary photograph. The scientist who made this discovery declares that hy exposing a sack of sugar to strong sunlight for two hours enough light could be procured from it to illumine a small house for the same period.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLondon Tit-Bits. The Windsor Restaurant Is one of the Best and Aged Cafes 1 of the Silvery Slocan. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD^\"Wfc' NEW It Avas in operation when i Was turned against tlie country, and, now thatlthe 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 THEIKUSH. Jacobson <& Co. 4^'*/%/%%/m/%^'%^%^-%^'-v%/*'\"V\"V\"*/%/\"^^ The Clifton House, Sandon. Has ample accommodations for a large number of people. The rooms are large^ and airy, and the Dining Room is provided with everything in the market/ Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers. John Bucklej', Prop. Discomfited. An amusing story is told of how the late Lord Fitzgerald discomfited a treasury official who was sent over from. Enghsrd to complain of the excessive expenditure for coal in the lord chief justice's court. He received the man and listened gravely and formally while the latter stated his errand and enlarged upon the importance of economy in the matter of fuel. At the conclusion of the discourse he rang the bell, and when the servant appeared said, \"Tell Mary that the man has coxae about the coals.\" OTEL SANDON, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtK ^K ?\ ^K -7^ ?ft Sandon, B.C. For four-bits you can purchase ancient newspapers at this office. 100 1 11C Newmarket C ejS\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD,') O \"\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 +> <%,- -<&, ^ <%> ^, ^ ^ going to journey seekers. the Klondike copy of THE LEDGE with It will cheer you to that mecca on the of gold *. <*\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. + ^*K~n*!m-r~m Six \"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD , l.L'.a Twelve \" -'.oo Thjike ykaks .'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \",.<\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' Transient Advertising, in cents per line lirst in sertion, 10 cents per line .subsequent, insertions nonpareil measurement. TO CONTRIBUTORS'. Correspondence from- every part of the' Kootenay District and eonVmunieations upon live topics ahvays acceptable. Write on both sides of the paper if you wish. Ahvays send something good no matter how crude. Get your copy in while it is hot. and we will do tlie rest TEURSDAY, SEPT. .23. 1897. THK C'AXAhlAX MINX PUOBLEor. Canada is today a country of unlimited resources, of unknoAvn agricultural and mineral wealth and one of wonderful possibilities. The vast area of the Dominion, almost un- knoAvn, extending- from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans and from the United States boundary line to the Arctic seas, giving it a larger area than Europe and even exceeding the United States exclusive of Alaska, gives it great importance, and its unlimited resources and vast mineral wealth makes it a country of greater magnitude than any of the semi-independent provinces subject to the British Crown. Even today, in her poorly developed condition, the value of her exports amounts to 115 millions a year; and, her imports amount to .nearly as much. Her vast oil fields and coal regions, her immense stretches of agricultui'al land, yet untouched, and her great forests where can be cut billions of feet of the finest timber obtainable, together with her explored and unexplored mineral belts that have produced and will produce wealth to astonish the world, all combine to make of Canada a magnificent country, and it requires no great -powers of prevision to forsee in it the home of millions of free, prosperous and intelligent people. But the people of Canada must IodIc more to themselves and their OAvn country for the means of development that; will eventually make her so great a nation. Nature has done much, but man has left undone a great deal that ought ere this to have been done, to send Canada on her grand career of advancement. It seems that Canada's one great reason of retardment has been, and is yet. her lack of legislation for Canada and Canadians, and until the Dominion government awakens to the necessity of legislating in the interest of its own people regardless, to a degree, of the likes and dislikes of other countries, the Mother Country not excepted, Canada will ever be 'what she is today, a poorly developed semi-independent confederation of provinces. But, when her legislators understand for j-lieniselves, and let the outside world understand, that Canada's interests must come first when new legislation is contemplated, and that Canada is rich enough in natural resources to provide homes for millions where there are thousands, and that she is big enough to frame her OAvn laAvs, so long as they do not conflict with those of the Mother land, then will our country start on her grand and glorious career. Today, as in the past, her greatest hold-back is in her not having an independent financial policy. Her national debt amounts to 318 millions, her total assets to 64 millions, leaving a net debt of 253 millions, on which she has paid 11 millions as interest. Instead of decreasing this debt is increasing year after year, because of the narrow, niggardly gold policy the country is trying to do business on. The present policy was adopted in 1871 since which time the net debt has increased trom $77,700,517 to $253,074,927 in 1895. In 1871 the federal parliament passed the act respecting the currency which gave to the provinces of the Dominion a uniform currency, the single gold standard being adopted. Provision was made that until otherwise ordered by Her Majesty's proclamation the gold eagle of the United States should be legal tender in Canada. The same act provided for a gold coinage for Canada, but Canadian gold coins have never been and takes it upon herself to mint a money of her 'iavii? Today she is a rag money country, pure and simple, i True, the Federal Parliament adopted ; the gold standard, but such a.stand- : ard Avithout the gold is a AA*eak one indeed. Canada's stock of gold is all ; of foi'eign coinage, and besides, is not I sufficient to more than redeem one- ; third the outstanding uncovered paper if it Avere all available!for that purpose. The report of the Bureau of Mints gives Canada's stock of gold j at 14 millions; her limited tender I silver at 5 millions and uncovered ! paper at 40 millions. The Aveakness ! of this policy can better be realized i when it is understood that Great i Britain (according to the same statistics) has a stock of gold to the i value of 550 millions, limited tender j sih*er 100 millions and of uncovered i paper 50 millions\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDonly 10 millions more than Canada, yet having a stock of gold 534 millions greater. There is no reason why Canada should not have her own gold and silver coin, minted at home at the same ratio as other , nations mint and subject to the same, requirements. Why her present stock of gold is not larger it is difficult to say. British Columbia alone has produced more than 60 millions in gold since 1858, and at least halt as much more has come from other provinces. Yet the fact remains that Canada's stock of the yelloAV metal is only 14 millions, the greater part if not all in the shape ot American eagles. What Canada's production of silver has been Ave have no reliable means of knowing, but it is certain that it will not fall many millions short of her gold product. Yet Canada is given only five millions limited tender silver. It is in uncovered paper currency that our country is \"rich.\" Forty millions of it to a gold stock of 14 millions, a silver stock of five millions and a population ot 5,000,000! Is this a safe currency system to build upon ? Why should not Canada have the privilege of coining her own money on a safe basis ? She' produces the gold and silver bullion and can very quickly erect a mint. Why should she be forced to send to the old country from her own mines the metal William Penn and his friends Avere no doubt rated sIoav. They had not the sagacity of Rockefeller for instance, in developing the country and controlling its riches for their OAvn-personal, use and benefit. The development of the country is the parrot cry of the monopolist in Canada as. in Pennsylvania^ to justify the introduction of cheap labor to degrade and starve out the nati\*es of the country. It has covered the United States like a pall Avith a net-work of trusts and monopolistic corporations whose millions are continually being piled higher Avhile a new form of legal slavery, 'which relieves the OAvner from the obligation of even feeding his slave, is taking or rather has taken the place of the comparatively benificent institution of the ante-bellum days. The development of the country is the cry for Chinese immigration and leprosy ; for .keeping alight the lamp American civilization by the introduction of over a million contract Poles and Hungarians into the United States in a few years. It Avas the beacon cry for cheap Sweedish miners and then cheaper Chinese, on to the rich flats and streams OAArned by thieving provincial politicians in Car- riboo. ek of.'Montreal; Capital (all paid up) $12,000,000.00 Reserved fund : : 6,000,000.00 Undivided profits : : 859,698.40 Sir Donald A. Smith, G.C.M.G. President. Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice President, E.S.Clouston, General Manager, A. Macnider, Chief Inspector & Supfc. of Branches. A. B. Buchanan, Inspector of Branch returns. W. S. Clouston, Assistant Inspector. James Aird, Secretary. Branches in all parts of Canada, Newfoundland, Great Britain, and the United States. New Denver branch - \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD- A general banking business transacted $ H.-T. BRAGDON, New Denver, B.C. A CHANGE OF HEAKT. that is there coined into monejr and shipped back to us for distribution in the channels of trade? At present silver is shipped abroad in bullion at 60 cents announce, and shipped back to us in coin at $1.33 an ounce. Thus Ave lose in the transaction just 73 cents an ounce. Is this a paying proposition ? But, some may say, Canada's silver if coined at home Avould not be legal tender. Why Avould it not be legal tender, at least as much so as now ? The same amount of silver would have to be put into a dollar as now, and the money be subject to the same requirements. It would, in truth, be limited tender, so long as the single gold standard is maintained but even limited tender money is better than paper money that is legal tender for nothing. There is much 'to be said in favor of a home mint for Canada and a financial policy of her OAvn, and from time to time The Ledge will discuss the question and endeavor to plant in j the hearts of Canadians the importance of Canada's having them. The proverb about rats deserting a sinking ship is exemplified, by the changed tone of the NeAvs-Advertiser of Vancouver towards its late patrons, the provincial ministry. Mr. Cotton, the proprietor \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDf that paper, sat through the long session of the legislature held this year Avithout having offered the faintest criticism-of the ministry or its doings, either in his place in parliament or in his paper. Noav that Mr. Cotton has discovered that Mr. Turner and his colleagues are not likely to stump the country with a view to re-election, Mr. Cotton has undertaken to hold a post mortem on the remains of Turner & Co., and the verdict ot the News-Advertiser is that the policy and program of the Turner ministry has been a thing of shreds and patches, full of \"sinsof omission and blunders of commission, botches here and there.\" We are told by Mr. Cotton's paper that the measures of the government were \"ill conceived and poorly wrought out,'' and forced through the house by a \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'machine majority,\" and the curious part of it is, that Avhile Mr. Cotton is not volunteering any news in all this, he posed as an automatic wheel in the machine majority. Mr. Cotton and his paper, in this neAv change of front, are of course liable to have this sudden conversion attributed to the prospect of no more government \"phat\" for Advertiser *' pi,\" but, nevertheless, Mr. Cotton can plead that a death-bed repentance even if it does place him in a peculiar pillory, is safer than none. Carry only the best lines of Watches, Clocks, and Cutlery in the Market. Heavy and Shelf Hardware, Mine and Mill Supplies, Pipe and Fittings, Paints and Oils, Builders' and Contractors' Supplies, Stoves and Kitchen Ware, Agents- for Canton Steel. I carry one of the largest and best assorted stocks of Hardware in AA'est Kootenay, and shall be pleased to quote prices upon anything required m my line. HOTELrS OF KOOTHfiflY THE NEWMARKET, New Denver, H. Stege Silverton Drug Store#HB^ Th/* 108 Bishopsgate St. 1 [[Ci [within] British L0ND0N-ENG> Subscription, ^.oO per annum Columbia. Review o Brokers, Mining Engineers, owners of Mining claims, Mining Engineers, Assayers, Journalists and others:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD DEVELOPING THE CODXTRY. The development of the resources of any country when conducted on equitable lines for the common good will be the measure of its prosperity. When the natural resources which nature designed to be the common heritage and contribute to the common weal, become the private property of a few, then we have monopoly Avith all its concomitants of discontent up to civil Avar. The present great strike of miners in the coal regions of Pennsylvania is an object lesson to Canada. We must admit that the United States is as rich as any country on earth in all natural resources of soil and mine, river and forest. It must be conceded also that the country is rich in capable administrators of public affairs, and possesesa high standard ot excellence in national education : and Avith all its riches of nature and scientific achievement and machine politics it is in a state of chronic discontent requiring the mobilisation of The outspoken criticism of government incapacity and mal-admin- istration by the Inland Sentinel has brought it under the ban of the administration and the fiat is that the Sentinal is to be punished by getting no more government printing, Avhich but confirms our impressions. of the Turner crowd that they have all along regarded the provincial treasury as a private political fund. Advertise in the 15. only representative IJ Europ\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD. A Good investment. C. Keview, The C. Journal in ST. JAMES. New Denver, Angrignon Bros. WINDSOR RESTAURANT. New Denver, A. Jacobson & Co, THE FILBERT. Sandon, HOTEL SANDON. Sandon, R. Cunning THE CLIFTON HOUSE, Sandon, John Buckley THE MINERS EXCHANGE. Three Forks, E. C. Weaver Blazer Cigars. AMOS THOMPSON, AV. D. MITCHELL Manager. Secretary. r. b. Thompson, Notary Public. it( minted. Silver coins Avere made ! the military-to suppress the clamor of thousands of workers Avho are really in a state of starving serfdom which would be a disgrace to Russia.. Could William Penn look down from the Olympia of the departed on flie legal tender to $10 by the same act. Canada has therefore never had a legal tender money of her own, and she stands today a financial dependency as much of the. United States as of Great Britain. This view of the question Avill be a new one to many, an I to many a distasteful one, but investigation will prove that such is the case. Is it, not, time, therefore, that; Canada, awakens to her condition FALLING OVER EACH OTHER. The manner in which the Vancouver city fathers, Board of Trade and a section of the coast press were recently falling over each other in their desire to do humble reverence to the great I AM of Canadian monopolists, Avould be amusing if not so utterly contemptible and degrading. President Shaughnessy expressed the hope that the \"good people\" of Van couver would reduce, if not entirely remit, the tax on C.P.R. property. HoA\r good of him ! The Avorking* men of Vancouver Avell remember how this grinding monopoly known as the C.P.R. would not hire a workman, A\rho Avas knoAvn to belong to a labor union, and all C.P.R. work in Vancouver, as elsewhere, Avas and is today done by \"scab\" labor. The people will learn shortly that they can run and control railroads as Avell as pay for them. The days when a feA\- pettifogging despotic schemers can sidetrack the people of Canada in railroads are numbered, and President Shaughnessy can take note of the fact. NEW DENVER, B.C. Mines and Mining Properties for sale. Abstracts, &c. Correspondence solicited. Agents for Phoenix Insurance Co. of London, Eng. HOTEL WELLINGTON, Three Forks, J. S Eeeder ASSRYE^S OP B. G. Silverton. LEVI SMITH, HOWARD WEST, New Denver. R. O Matheson, Proprietor, Silverton, 13 \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"w* J. M. Silverton. M. BENEDUM, AV. S. Dkkaa'ry Kaslo, B.C. H. T. TwiGG New Denver, B.C. DREWRY &. TWIGG Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyors. Civil and Mining Engineers. Bedford, McNeil Code. FRANK DICK, Slocan City. T IFE INSURANCE. The Ontario Mutual of Watreloo, Ont oilers a popular policy at moderate rates. Protection for your family. Provision for your own old age And a profitable investment. The Ontario Mutual Life\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDilth year. Assets $3,40-1,908. Pull information by application to W. D. MITCHELL, Agent, New Denver, B.C QM. W00DWORTH, M.A., LL.B. NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEYANCE]*, Etc., MINES and REAL ESTATE Slocan City, B.C. CERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS Fidelity Mineral Claim. Situated in the Slocan Mining Division of AVest Kootenay District. Where located: About two miles southeast of Now Denver, B.C. \"PAKE NOTICE that I, Alfred Driscoll, as agent 1 forF. L Byron, free miner's certificate No. 81M7!), L.'F. Holtz, free miner's certificate No. 7-UiS!t. anil A. S. Williamson, free miner's certificate No. 7!ii'.')7, 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, tinder section 37. must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this -'0th day of Sept.. 1807. F. W. GROVES, CIVIL and MINING ENGINEER, Provincial Land Surveyor. t. Underground Surveys. Surface ana Aerial Tramways. Mineral claims sur- Areyed and reported upon. Kaslo, B.C The Nakusp Sawmill Having- placed some new machinery in our Mill, we are prepared to fur. nish all kinds of rough and dressed Lumber and Shingles at Reduced Prices A . DRISCOLL, C. E., I\" ominion & Provincial Lacd Surveyor. PRICE LIST Rough Lumber, narrow, \" wide, Joist and Scantling, sized up to 18 feet long, 8'to 24 ' 21 'to 30 ' Flooring, T & G, 6 \" V joint Ceiling, J \"Rustic, Shiplap, Surfaced Dressed, A liberal discount on large orders for Cash, PETER GENELLE & Co $10 00 $11 00 to 12 11 .. 12 .. 13 .. 20 .. 22 ii .. 19 .'. U -.. 13 .. Kcno \"Mineral Claim. Several years ago avc, commenced advocating1 the establishing' of a mint scenes of his early manhood in Avhich j in Canada and Ave are pleased to see lie fondly hoped to plant the seeds of! the Canadian pi ess so much in favor brotheriv-love, Iioav Ids qreat manlv ! of it now. Wc Avould suggest that the i , heart must grieve at the han'OAving*! mint be built in Ncav Denver or some sight, of starvatioi. in the midst of; equally suitable place in West, Koot plenty. ' enay. TAK Situate hi the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. KE NOTICE that I. S. P. Tuck, free niner's certificate Xo. !I7,:-'.S2, acting as agent for AY. P. Iitissvl!, five miner's certificate No. 7'i2iiii, 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 the above claim. And further take notice that action under Section .'!7 must be commenced before the issuance of such, certificate of improvements. Dated this liiith day of August, 1,S'.J7. DISSOLUTION* OF I'AItTNEUSHIP. D R. A.S. MARS ,.^L. Dentist. Kaslo, B C Graduate of American Collet Chicago >of Dental Surgery rP!IK Partnership lierctufore existing [between 1 If,,hen Sanderson mill Nathan K.'Lay, is herein.- 11 is-,,I veil bv mutual ciii'.sciit. ' I'olSEI'T SANDERSON, NATHAN K. LAV. Trail. Sept. I;;. ''X'.-T. THE SILVERTON MINER'S UNION X No. 71, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDW. *E*\ *IVE. Meets every Saturday night. C. Me.NIOHOLLS. President CHAS. BRAND, Secretary. JJOWARD WEST, Assoc. R S M, London, Eng MINING ENGINEER, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ANALYTICAL CHEMIST, & ASSAYER. Properties examined and reported on for m tending purchasers. Assay office and Chemical Laboratory, Belle- vue ave, New Denver, B C. |\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD. E. PALMER, C.E. PROVINCIAL LAND and MINE SURVEYOR. P.O. Box 214. Sandon, B.C F. G. FAUQUIER, NOTARY PUBLIC. ku.sp, B.C. GAVILLIM & JOHNSON. (McGill) H ing Engineers & Analy-Chemists, ylocan City, - B O Chas. A. Stoess, Assoc. M. Inst. 0. E. M Ca u. Soe. C. E. CIVIL ENGINEER. Provincial Land Surveyor. Mining Surveying. Kaslo, B.C. Fourth Year THE LEDQE, NEW DENVER, B.C., SEPTEMBER 23, 1897. 5 ott f n Kootenay aa The oil and gas deposits in South East Kootenay are the property of the Kootenay Coal Company, -Montreal, avIio are the proprietors of the coal fields in'South East Kootenay known as tlie Ctoavs Nest Pass coal fields. These oil and gas deposits are in the extreme south east of East Kootenay, close to the international . boundary, and,are not confined to East Kootenay alone. They also exist in the extreme south Avest of Alberta, on the eastern side of the Rockies. These deposits are believed to extend beyond the boundary line and exist in the State of Montana. The deposits were not knoAvn until 1891. They Avere disco\*ered by the Stony Indians. This tribe of Indians live in the Morley reservation, near Banff,Avhich is intersected by the C. P. Railway. The summer hunting grounds of these Indians extend along the foothills and eastern slopes of tlie Rockies. Occas- ' ally they 'crossed, through the South Kootenay Pass in the Rockies and came out into the Tobacco Plains in East Kootenay. Rarely, however, did they do this, as they Avould be apt to come into conflict with the Kootenay Indians, whose hunting grounds Avere on the west side of the Rockies,. This pass is forty miles south of the Crows Nest. Its summit is seven miles from the boundary lino. These oil fields on both sides of the Rockies wore visited by Dr. Sehvyn, of the Geological survey of Canada, in 1.891,. and he gives a description of them, which is farm accurate, in the summary report of 1891. The deposits in Alberta are on the Cameron Falls Brook, some distance from its mouth. The brook empties into Waterton Lake, a large sheet of Avater in Alberta and right, on the international line. The oil is seen on the stream and . where there are pools there is no difficulty in skimming' off in a very short time a sullicient quantity to fill a bottle. Near whore the oil is found in a stream, a rocky reef of grey silicious dolomite crosses the creek and rises into a steep bluff on the left bank; on the right bank, seven or eight feet above the creek, a broad, thick timbered fiat extends for 150 yards to the base of tlie bordering mountains, which culminate six miles to the south west at the boundary monument, (5,000' feet above sea level. No Avork whatever has been done to test the nature of the oil sources. Dr. Sehvyn recommends the expenditure of a small outlay for some shallow sinking or boring on tlie fiat, above described, in order to fully test tlie. oil sources. So far as at present knoAvn these are the only oil sources in Southern Alberta. The principal deposits, however, are on the west side of the. Rockies in Kishneena and Sage Creeks, Avhich are tributaries of! done the fFlathead River. The Sage Creek joins the Flathead about ten miles north of the Kishneena. Crossing from the south, after leaving tlie pass, the first oil deposits are in the Kishneena Creek. These are found about four miles north of the 49th parallel and 'are where trail comes down to the level of the stream. At this place are the remains of a beaver dam. Here are ledges of dark-blue slate, dipping east by north. Lifting layers of this slate at aud beloAV the Avater, a quantity of dark-green circular patches of oil rise to the surface, and a precisely similar result followed by stirring- up the mud in the bottom of the pool. Oil is said, by the Stony Indians Avho frequent this region, to occur at other points. The Kishneena jofns the Flathead River in Montana, about four miles south of the international boundary. The beaver dam oil is of a dark-greenish-black and does not apparently differ much from that of Cameron Falls Creek. Prelimih- inary tests have been made here by sinking a shaft in the shales at the beaver dam pool and by boring on the sandy and gravelly fiat country about tAvo and a half miles noth of the boundasy line. The next deposits are in Sage Creek, which leaves the mountains that border its upper course in an north easterly direction up to the main watershed some twelve miles distant, aDd here, at the edge of the water, on the left bank, dark flinty shales like those at the beaver dam pool on tlie .Kishneena. Directly the layers of this rock are raised, the oil rises and spreads over the surface of the water in such abundance that a short time suffices, with the aid of a tin cup, to collect a bottle full. Less than half a mile higher up, on the right bank and on the opposite or Avest side of the valley, oil is again found issuing from the base of the bank \"r, drift, which has here filled the valley and causes the stream to make a sharp bend eastward to the base of the opposite mountain. Every stone on the bed of the creek on being' broken or rubbed gives out a strong odor of petroleom. The oil collected here differs entirely in appearance from those of the Camerion Falls or Kishneena Creeks. Some of it is of a light lemon-yelloAvybut most of it nearly the color of pale brandy and Avith a very powerful petroleum odor. In Sage Creek are also deposits of natural gas, large quantities of which escape from the cracks and crevices in the rocks. These escapes are easily lighted by a match, and a long* flame rises upwards. No tests have been made on these gas deposits to ascertain their extent, Forming the same conclusions from similar data given clseAvhcre, as in the Pennsylvania coal fields and gas deposits, these deposits should be of great extent. It has now been ascertained Avhat the Grows Nest coal fields are, and, following the same reasonable deduction,those oil and gas deposits should be of great extent and considerable valuo. Small as the work has been done on the oil deposits, sufficient has been prove their large extent and Kootenay is a purer and oil. The Sage Creek oil has been proved to be the purest that has been found. The company avIio own the lagest portion of these oil and gas deposits is about to undertake extensive development Avork upon them in the course of next season, Avhich Avill fully prove their \-alue and extent.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDEast Kootenav Miner A SUCCESSFUL EXAMINATION. Please, sir, said the little fellow, as he stood, cap in hand, before the merchant, I hear that you Avant an office boy. \" - Yes, I do. Do you think you could fill the place ? Yes, sir. Where do you live ? At home, sir. AVhere'sthat? On Steenth Street. Parents living? '\" Yes, sir. Any other relatives?- No^ sir. No grandmother ? No, sir. Nor grandfather ? No, sir. Uncles? J have no uncles, sir. Aunts ? ' No aunts, sir. Then of course vou have no cousins? No, sir. How does it happen that you have no relatives in New York ? They are all in England, sir. If that is the case, I think you'll do. You see, I have to be very particular in baseball season, for grandmothers, uncles and the like are apt to get very ill and die then. You may begin work tomorrow morning. You\" Avill have S3 a week. That's all.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHarper's Bazar. Slocan DESERTING THE FARM. A farm in one of the Western Hampshire toAvns Avas sold about 50 years ago for \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD2,000. The man avIio bought it built a new house on it at a cost of S1,000. At his death the farm was sold for \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD900. This purchaser built a neAv barn at a cost of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD500 and died after a feAV years, Avhen the farm of 100 acres, with\" new house and barn costing-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1,700. was sold for \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD000. The land is as pro- ducti\re as any in the Northampton meadoAvs. Where has the value of that farm gone to ? The man who once lived on it Avas telling the story Avhile sitting on the court-house railing the other day. He pas looking at the stores on Shop row. \"It has gone in there and other places like this,\" ho said. \"The farms have gone down in value and the value of the real estate in the centers has gone up. No one wants to stay on the farm and Avork\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe boys all want to get into the centers where there is less hard Avork and better pay. And I don't blame them a single bit.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNorthhampton (Mass.) Gazette. Weber Square Piano, excellent condition, for sale, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD150, or Avill exchange for diamonds. Box'22fi, Trail, B.C. ' to prove their large great richness. The surface indications are nearly all alike. Th eoil, which is petroleum, is not of the same character, that of East Mudge\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDYou Avould if you lived in a flat where the children are allowed to play out on the street instead of compelled to stay in the - house to do their running and yelling1.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDEx. NEW DENVER, B.C. An office of the Slocan Hospital has been opened at Sandon under the medical superintendence of DR. P. H. POWERS. Subscribers on presentation of their orders or tickets at the Sandon office Avill receive medical or surgical treatment and the necessary medicines tree of charge. AH 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. BOURNE BROS., DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, MINERS' SUPPLIES, DOORS, SASH, OATS, BRAN, iiTC. NEW DENVER, B.C. THE SELKIRK HOTEL SILVERTON, B.C. Is a new three-story hotel situated near the wharf. The house is plastered and the rooms are furnished in a manner calculated to make travelers call again. Mining and Commercial men will appreciate the home comforts of this hotel. BRANDON & BARRETT F.L0CAST0, New Denver. TOBACCONIST, NEWSDEALER, and STATIONER, Imported and Domestic Cigars, To- baccoes, Fruits and Confectionery. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD b * a Two 10x15 job bers; one a Gordon and the other an Excelsior, now called the Eclipse. R. T. LOWERY. To the inhabitants of New Denver and all Slocan Lake Points: Many have received BENEFIT from my Optical Depai'tment, Why not Yon? Vou %vlio Jiave tried common Spectacles in vain, and suffered from eye strain, causing Nervous Headache, Ktc. It will pay you to come to SAXDOX and have your eyes properly tested and fitted with suitable glasses. This is the only remedy when your trouble arises from Defective Eyesight, and should be attended to at once. I have one of the best trial cases made and can give you tlie best ser- , vice. Eyes tested Free. G. W. GRIMMETT, Jeweler and Optician, Sandon, B.C. Tlie ProsDectors' Assay Office Brandon, B. C, First-class brick on hand and shipped to any part of the country. GOETTSCHE & MAGNUSON,Props Tj-QRNISHED ROOMS By Day Mrs. A. J. Murphy. or Week. SIXTH STREET R. STRATHERN. Je-weler KASLO CITY, The only Practical Watchmaker nay District. Orders by mail attention. in the -eeeivc B.C Koote- promp ALL WORK- GUARANTEED Bobby\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPopper, what is a pessimist? Mr. Ferry\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDOne of them is the man who always buys a round-trip ticket to the races.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCincinnati Enquirer. Assay Price List: Gold, Silver, or Lead,each. S1.50 Gold, Silver and Lead, combined 3 00 Gold and Silver 2 00 Silver and Lead 2 00 Copper (by Electrolysis) 2 00 Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead -1 00 Gold and Copper 2 50 Silver and Copper 2 50 Gold. Silver and Copper 3 00 Platinum ft 00 Mercury 2 00 Iron or Manganese 2 00 Lime, Magnesium, Barium, Silica, Sulphur, each 2 00 Bismuth, Tin, Cobalt, Nickel, Antimony, Zinc, and Arsenic, each 4 00 Coal (Fixed Carbon, Volatile Matter, Ash, and percentage of Coke, if Cokinir Coal) : 4 0 Terms: 'Cash. With .Sample. June 20th. 1835. FRANK DICK, Assayer and Ai-.'ilvst 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 Printing1 Material. * Coi wirtheToronto Type Foundry Co.,Ltd. J.CCR0ME, Agent, C^fl Cordova Street, JZ'U VANCOUVER, B.C. wmmmmmwmmmmym&m^mmM NoW-oi^ t^e M&nket. Now oiq tl^e Market. Black Prince, Cold Blow, Alpine, Cameronian, Alexandra, Scenic, Situated ir? tf?e Heart of tl?e hxzrqoi} \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDiTeck Gold Mir?cs. Plenty of Good Timber. Tcuo beaatifal lakes neat* the Shores of liemon Greek A beautifully situated townsite, surrounded by (Sold Mines. Perfect Title to all property. Price of Lots from $50 to \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD150 each. Lucky George, Maple Leaf, Crusader, Howard Fraction, Sundown Fraction and many others. GE>NE>R:T\Lo HGBNTS. 6 THE LEDQE, NEW DENVER, B.C., SEPTEMBER 23, 1897. Fourth Yeap. LOVE'S ROSARY. 3 yHatte^- of vanity 6 When I heard that Maud Jeffriei was engaged to Jack Meadows, I took an early opportunity of congratulating them both, for they were both old friends of mine and charming people- especially Maud. She was an artist and painted very zealously in oil colors. She \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwas in her studio when I called. So I \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwent up to it and found her enveloped in a linen apron covered with the variegated colors of her palette. Sha was working at an unfinished painting, and bo absorbed in it that at first she did not hear me enter. When she did, she turned quickly. \"No, it's not Meadows. I'm sorry,\" I said sympathetically. \"Oh, but I'm yery glad to see you,\" she'answered. \"And you are just in time to help me. Do tell me what is wrong with this thing,\" and she pointed to the canvas. \"That is Meadows' privilege,\" I said. I offered her my good wishes and told her I was sure she would be happy. She blushed prettily and said, \"We are very happy now.\" \"But how have you satisfied your conscience?\" I asked. \"I understood yourself to the service you had vowed of your art.\" . \"Oh, but I will never give up my \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwork,'' she protested earnestly. ' 'Jack knows that. He wouldn't want me to. 1 think it is so wrong not to use one's gifts. Don't you?\" \"Certainly, and I'm glad Jack sees that. He must be very proud of you.\" She hesitated. \"I'm afraid he is not naturally very fond of art,\" she said, \" but I hope he will soon learn to love it. \"He is really awfully good about it,\" she went on. \"He is going to let ma paint his portrait, and then we shall hang it in our dining room.\" \"That will be delightful,\" I said. \"Look, here are some sketches for it,\" said Maud, drawing out some panels and charcoal drawings. \"Don't you think they are like him?\" I recognized Meadows in spite of the varying expressions Maude had given him and said so at once. She was pleased, and just then Meadows came in. \"I am just admiring the studies for the great portrait,\" I said genially. \"Ah, yes, they are only rough sketches. The thing itself will be quite different, won't it, darling?\" he said, with, I imagined, a shade of anxiety. \"Mr. R-aller thinks they are excellent likenesses, Jack,\" she said happily. He looked at me sharply, but I boldly repeated my opinion. A fortnight or so passed before I saw anything of Meadows or Maud, then I met Meadows. He looked worried, and when I asked him after Miss Jeffries he said shortly, \"I believe she is quite well, thanks.\" \"And how is the portrait going on?\" \"It's not going on at all at present,\" he answered. \"How's that? Is she dissatisfied with it?\". \"No, she's not,\" he said, emphasizing the pronoun. \"Surely you are pleased?\" said I. \"Look here, R-aller,\" he said, with a burst of confidence. \"That wretched portrait is undermining my happiness. It's no more like me than that poster,\" and he pointed to a flaming placard. ' 'I'm not a vain chap, you know, but I do bar beiug handed down to posterity looking like a criminal lunatic.\" \"But it can't be as bad as that? Maud Would never do you injustice,\" I said. \"Not intentionally, but she swears to the good likeness, though I can't see how she can. When I suggested it was a bit unflattering, she said she must paint what she saw, and that she could not tamper with the truth of art. I just laughed and said, joking, that there was room for a little more truth, and then she was hurt and said she had no idea that men could be so vain.\" \"And you left it at that?\" \"Yes, if you saw the thing you Wouldn't be surprised.\" \"I should like to see it,\" I said. \"Come along then. Maud is out this afternoon, her sister told me so. We Will go to her studio, and you can give me your unbiased opinion.\" So we went together and climbed up to Maud's painting room. The portrait, still wet, was on the easel. Meadows pointed to it in eloquent silence. I was silent too. It was so painfully realistic that it verged on caricature. \"Well,\" said Meadows, \"could you live in the same house with it if it were your portrait?\" \"One might get used to it in time, \"I answered. \"Yet she is fond of you,\" I said. \"Surely if you ask her to suppress it as B personal favor\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"She would only say it was my vanity,\" he answered gloomily. \"There ia nothing to be clone. She must choose between me and my portrait, unless\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"Unless what?\" I asked as he paused. \"You could persuade her. Tell her it doesn't do her justice, either of us justice. Do, there's a good fellow. She has no end of respect for you. \" I could not resist his appeal and promised to do my best. \"And surely that is she coming up the stairs now,\" said I as we heard footsteps. \"Yes. Well, speak to her now,\" said Meadows. He left me alone in the studio as \"Maud entered. She greeted me with a weary smile and glanced directly at the portrait. \"You have been looking at it?\" she asked, mechanically taking up her palette and brushes. \"Yes,\" I said, and she seemed to expect me to say more. \"It's a good likeness, isn't it?\" she remarked nr\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"'1*\" \"It is too flattering,\" I answered, sitting down opposite it. She looked at me suspiciously, but my face was full of innocence. \"Jack doesn't think so,\" she said. \"But he is so absurdly vain,\" said I. \"Not more than other men, I suppose, '' she retorted. Her back was toward me and I could see her listlessly dabbing at the background of the portrait. \"Yet you say he is not satisfied with that painting,\" I said. \"What fault can he find?\" \"Nothing definite; but he wants me to alter it.\" \"However painful it may be, you must keep your art pure. It is true that in the noble cause of realism you have accentuated his worse points\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"No, I haven'tr,\" she said with some heat. \"I honor you for it. Very few girls would have had the courage to treat the portrait of a lover in so bold a way, even to the suggestion of caricature.\" \"But you said I had flattered him,\" she cried. \"Truth is the highest flattery,\" I answered seutentiously. \" And if Meadows be not high minded enough to see it you will not regret his loss.\" \"His loss? What do you mean?\" she exclaimed. \"I saw him just now. He does not appreciate your noble self sacrifice. He said if you had really loved him you would not have pointed out his homeliness to the world. He seemed to feel it a good deal.\" \"Homeliness! He is beautiful!\" she cried indignantly. \"Really, my dear young lady, you can't say that with that almost speaking likeness in front of us,\" and I pointed to the portrait. With a sudden movement she smudged a brushful of paint over the face on the canvas. \"What are you doing? Are you mad?\" I said. \"No, not now.\" \"But remember the fine technique.\" For an instant she paused\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDbut only for an instant. Then she took some more paint and rubbed it violently over the portrait. I saw Meadows looking round the door and beckoned him in. \"Your portrait is done for,\" I said. She threw down her palette. \"Jack! Look at it!\" she cried, with a laugh that seemed to catch in her throat. There is now hanging in the Meadows' dining room a portrait Of the master of the house. It is not at all a good painting, but Jack gazes at it with satisfaction. It is by his wife, and when her friends suggest that she has flattered her husband she smiles. Once I saw her looking at it rather sadly and I asked her if she were regretting the one she had destroyed. Perhaps it was an indiscreet question. She shook her head. \"No, sometimes I think I acted hastily, for it really was good,\" she said. \"But surely this one is, on the whole, better?\" said I. \"Jack thinks so,\" she answered, and she sighed.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-Westminster Budget. fi-wtet aames, the rosary of my evening prayer, Told on my lips like kisses of good night To friends who go a little from my sight, And 9>:nc through distant years shine clear and fair. So this dt-nr burden that I daily bear Nightly God taketh anddoth loose mo quite, And soft I tink in slumbers pure and lijjht With thoughts of human love and heavenly -care. But when I mark hew into 6hadow slips My manhood's prime and weep fast passing friends, fc.nd heaven's riches making poor my lips, And think how in the dust love's labo* ends, tlien, -where the cluster of my hearthstone shone, \"Bid me not live,\" I sigh, \"till all be gone.\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDG-. E. Woodberry in Harper's Magazine. THE BIG POLICEMAN. \"lee or No?\" A pretty story of how Henry M. Stanley wooed and won Miss Dorothy Ten- nant, though coming to us from private sources, has been made sufficiently public to avert the charge of undue personality. Miss Tennant, it is well known, was the original of Sir John Millais' famous picture, \"Yes or No?\" It seems that Stanley had asked the question, and the reply was \"No.\" The great explorer went to Africa again, and after several years returned to London, to find himself the most talked of man of the day. The thought of Miss Tennant was still uppermost in his mind, and he resolved that his first visit should be to her home. In his impatience for the morrow he turned over the cards and notes with which the table was strewn, and selecting one haphazard decided to while away the time by attending a certain reception. The first person he met there was Miss Tennant. They greeted each other formally, but later in the evening Stanley retired to a small anteroom, to find that Miss Tennant had likewise sought solitude. A somewhat embarrassing silence ensued, broken at last by the woman saying, with the manner of one \"making conversation:\" \"Do you find London much changed, Mr. Stanley?\" \"No,I haven't found London changed, and I've not changed either,\" returned the explorer, with his usual intrepidity. \"Have you?\" \"Yes, I've changed,\" answered Miss tennant softly. A few days later Millais received a note from his former subject, beginning: My Dear Sir John\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe momentous question hns been at- last decided. It is a joyful and triumphant \"Yes!\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDYouth's Companion. When She Listened. \"Listen!'' he hissed. \"No.,: she answered, and turning upon her heel brusquely she left him there filono. For she was a telephone girl by profession, and it was not her wont to listen to anything unless she was sure it wu\"* none of her business.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDetroit Journal. Jap Oddities In Eating. The Japanese preserve their potatoes in sugar, pickle their plums and salt cherry blossoms to infuse as tea. They eat candy and other sweets at the same time with their soups, fish and vegetables. The more noise they make in the \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDhewing of food the greater is the compliment to the host. The big policeman felt unusually pleasant this morning notwithstanding the fact that a disagreeable rain was falling-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDmean spring rain, which had mixed itself up with a cold rain in such a manner that when it came dashing around the street corner it caused profane pedestrians to say words which would look ill if printed, and the \"other kind\" to say \"My goodness,\" or something equally relieving to pent up indignation. Looking down, the big policeman saw a little woman, attired in some kind of gray stuff and with big pathetic eyes, standing beside him, and somehow she seemed frightened at the crowd, the passing vehicles, the clanging street car bells, and the constant passing of the cars themselves. She was white and shivering, and her garments, wet through, clung about her in a hindering fashion, which kept her from rapid movement, and as she stepped close beside the big policeman he felt a curious desire to take her up, much as one would take up a child, and carry her to a place of sjifety. She hesitated a moment and then she attempted to'go forward, but, alas,-whether the rain blind ed her or she just then remembered that she was in haste and must at any risk go on her way, she attempted to cross over the track just in front of a swiftly moving car. In vain did the gripman shout, in vain did the bell ring. The little gray clad figure fluttered on and the crowd just behind her, feeling that a tragedy was about to be enacted, was hushed into instant silence. The big policeman also comprehended the awful danger of the woman and his teeth came together with a snap andyhis fine eyes flashed as he sprang after her, his hand outstretched in a frantic effort to reach, grasp and pull her back. The car was almost upon him, the noise of the grinding wheels filled his ears, he knew, as men know whose wits are ever on the alert, that it was risking his life for the life of a stranger, but a mighty effort, the flinging of his body forward, and the deed was done, the woman was drawn out of the reach of the cruel wheels; but the big policeman's left leg gave the passengers in the car a sickening jar as the wheels passed over it and the tragedy for the crowd had been furnished. Nobody noticed the woman, who, unhurt, mingled with the crowd and went her way, but had they done so.they would have seen her crying behind her veil and every now and then clutching her fingers together as if in mortal misery. And she was miserable, poor little Marie Denton, who was only a dressmaker's assistant aud who had lost her mother, her only known relative, only a few weeks before. She had cried so much in the little room she called home at night that sleep went away from her and she wks so exhausted when morning came that- she could hardly eat her meager breakfast, and it was late when she started for the down town establishment where she was employed. It was this thought that impelled her when she tried to cross the street and which had resulted in such a disastrous fashion for the big policeman. Marie remembered that his glance had fallen upon her kindly, and while she had made no effort to push her way to where ready but tender hands were caring for the brave fellow who had risked his life to save hers, yet she registered a vow in her heart that she would never rest until she had told him how grieved she was at his hurt and how much she appreciated his heroism. He might hate her for being the cause, but Marie was a brave little woman when her duty confronted her, and she knew as well now as later on that she must do what she could to atone to the poor fellow who was enduring the torture of an awful hurt. All day she worked in silence, but she saw the picture of the kind eyes ever before her, and she resolved that she would buy an evening paper and in tlm account of the accident would ascertain the name of the man who at one hound was raised to the dignity of a hero kud who was a hero, too, as great as my of those whose names were blazoned on fame's banner. What if he was only a policeman- and the saving of life was in the line of his duty? No man is \"\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\u00BDquired to risk his own life to save t.'at of another, and as Marie remembered that, save a bruise or two, she had escaped without injury while her rescuer was suffering, and all for her sake, she whispered low to her heart uot. \"the hero,\" or \"a hero,\" but \"my hero.\" And she blushed a little as she said it, but somehow it was so much like music to her that she did not drive it away, but kept it near her and around it wove dreams. When she started home in the evening, from the lirst newsboy she came across she bought a paper and with rare good fortune finding a seat in the car which bore her homeward she quickly unfolded the paper and began to scan the headlines. There were big, double headlines on the first page, but there was nothing about the affair which was of >uch vital interest to her, and she turned be paper over, and\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthere it was, \"The Deed of a Hero,\" and the big ooliceman\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwhose name was William gmitb, nothing but plain William Bmith\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwas much praised for his noble rleed in ' 'saving the life of a foolish woiuan\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand here Marie nodded her head in assent:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand the \"story\" went on to say that, \"while he would not lose his leg, yet the officer would be crippled for life,\" etc. But what Marie wanted to know was where the hurt man was to be found, and this the newspaper story failed to tell beyond the fact that he had been taken to a hospital. Marie sighed and puckered her white forehead into a frown, while she thought of a \"way,\" and then at the next corner she climbed off the car and waited for a policeman. She asked him if he knew where Officer William Smith, who was hurt by a cable car that morning, had been ttfW'eu, but the policeman did not know anything about the accident, and he did not know Officer William Smith, and, being a gruff fellow aud tired of the mud and other disagreeable things which follow a rainy day, he added he \"didn't care.\" Marie was also tired, and it was past her dinner time, but she went on until she found another wearer of the star, and to him she put the same query regarding Officer Smith. This time she was given the desired information, and she boarded another car, with a heart which held in it a determined purpose. The next morning she wont to work as usual, but when it was time to return home she asked her employer for a \"day off,\" and because of tho unusual request readily secured permission to be away tho whole of the next day. That night when Marie reached home she carried somewhere next to her innocent heart a crisp, new $1 bill, and this she placed inside of her worn little pocket- book. Yes, she meant.to do it\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDshe meant to buy some flowers and some fruit and take them to her \"hero,\" and that night she did not feel so lonely as she had doue when she remembered that her mother was lyi\"*g in the grave far from her own sunny France, for a new interest had taken possession of her, aud a new purpose had been evolved in her brain through a sense of justice. She carefully brushed the pretty brown hair tho next morning and tacked a little fresh lace in her collar and mended a very small hole in her best gloves before putting them cu, and then, when she was quite neat and very, very sweet, she went forth in search of flowers. She bought a single pink rose \"*nd a few ferns aild a half dozen white carnations, and then she bought a tiny basket of pinkish green grapes, and she was ready to find the hospital. 0 It was a long ride, but not a very long walk, and finally Marie, with her heart fluttering like, u bird in its cage, found herself in the presence of the man who but yesterday was strong aud well, hot who today was as helpless as an infant. His eyes did not shrink when Marie stood beside his narrow cot, but looked at her with the same kindly light which they had worn when sho stood beside him at that fatal crossing, and th-*re was a strange sweetness in the thought which came to Marie that at least-he did not hate her for the misery she had brought upon him. She began to say in a hesitating fashion how sorry she, was for the accident, but, as was said, she was brave in what she considered her duty, and presently she grew calm and, with only the encouragement of the kindly eyes, went on and confessed that she meant to do what she could to atone for her heedless conduct, and that she \"had begun by bringiug him some flowers and a bit of fruit.\" The big officer held out his hand to the little woman, and without any hesitancy she placed hers in it, and a kind of a compact was thus sealed. He said in a gentle way he \"was glad he saved her life,\" and when she had promised to come again and had gone the flowers were laid against the mus- tached lips, and there was a feeling in the big heart for the little woman that was very tender and very sweet. Well, of course the little woman came again, and of course the big policeman was glad to see her, and as the days weut on the old story was again new for these two people, who had been so near to death together, and when the blessed day came that Officer William Smith was released from the hospital almost well and not so very lame, either, it was understood that there was to be a wedding, by which Miss Marie Denton was to become ''Mrs. (Officer William Smith.\" And, sure enough, the wedding came off in due time, and the big policeman's chief was present, besides many of his brother policemen, and among the gifts was a gold medal, which was bestowed on the groom in a neat speech by the chief and whiob bore the inscription, \"For bravery,\" and there is a pretty little home in one of the quieter streets which bears upon its simple brass door plate the name \"Smith,\" but at which nobody thinks of asking for the big policeman for all that. He has a rival\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa pretty, pink cheeked, round, rollicking baby, which the neighbors, as well as the silly parents, call the \"little policeman,\" and Which looks enough like the big policeman to be called \"a chip off the old block.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDRosa Pearle in Chicago Tribune. TRADES THAT KILL. Oewnpatiozts Tbat Gradually Destroy tiha Xives of the Men -Encased In Them. People are afraid to travel by land or sea and take out all sorts of accident policies, but there are many legitimate occupations or trades that kill as certainly and steadily as the most ill reg- nlated steam engine. An old writer eaid that human life was the cheapest thing on earth. Strange to say, says an English trade journal, you cannot frighten the workmen who know how dangerous is their trade, and not even higher wages will tempt them from such death traps. Lead, in the form of bullets and shot, is a deadly, dangerous thing, but it is also death dealing to all who use it in their work, as house painters, gilders, calico printers,, type founders, potters and braziers. Mercury is a foe to life. Those who make mirrors, barometers or thermometers, who etch or color wool or felt, will scon feel the effect of the nitrate of mercury in teeth, gums and the tissues of the body. Silver kills those who handle it. and photographers, makers of hair dyes and ink and other preparations ere long turn gray, while a deadly weariness subdues them, and soon they succumb. Copper enters into the composition of many articles of everyday life, and too soon those who work in bronzing and similar decorative processes lose teeth and eyesight and finally life. Makers of wall paper growpalo and sick from the arsenic in its coloring, and matchmakers lose strength and vitality from the excess of phosphorus used in their business. JMtric acia is usea t>y engravers, oj etchers in copper, by makers of gun cotton and those who supply our homes with lovely picture frames. Its fuinei are poison to the human,lungs and soon destroy them completely. Ammonia kills the soapmakers; workers in guano grow deaf; hydrocyanic acid deals death to gilders, photographers and picture finishers, while zinc is a fatal foe to calico printers, makers of optical glasses and meerschaum pipes. Mankind is by nature brave, and very few are deterred from action because of supposed danger. If the great builders and engineers of the world wGuld stop and ask, \"How many lives will this undertaking cost?\" it is probable that the. world would be without some of the greatest triumphs of modern thought. Everyday life and common occupatiens are full of silent courage, and all- around are workers who die in the harness and are true heroes without knowing it. TIME'S TEST. - -or l*' o lovers there are\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI know them well\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Who learned the lesson love comes to teach, Whose eyes are bright- with rhe old, old light, Whose hands seek each for each. And this love of theirs seems a thing moat rare, For each of the loveru has silver hair. His face is melle-w with passing years, But with never a line that is hard or bleak. Her face is a rhyme of the olden time With a tinge of red in her cheek. And I deem thin more than passing fair, Since both of these lorers have silver hair. \"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDet time go by, hut love may Inst, As true as ever true love *\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDay be. May theirs be th\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD smile that'll tor awhile Shall wait for you and mo! All, sweeter would seem life's toil and care It there were more lovers with silver hair! Port of THOS.AB.RIEL CUSTOriS BROKER, Real Estate, Mines & Insurance. Nakusp, B. C. J.R&B.GameroH Formerly of Winnipeg. Furnish .Clothing \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD: in the :\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD . - Latest Style \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD: of the :\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' Tailor's Rvt. Sh\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPB at THitEE FORKS & SANDON Dealers in Hardware, Tin and Graniteware, Miners' Supplies, Paints, Oils, Glass and Putty, Doors &\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Windows. 9 SBaCa ASLO HOTEL Family & Commercial. L arge And Comfortable Rooms Fitted with every modern convenience. Special protection against fire. Rates $2.50 and $3 per day. COCKLE & PAPWORTH, Proprietors. Rosebery The theC. northern connecting1 point of P. R. on Slocan Lake. Rosebery Has the only Slocan City.' safe harbor north of To Prospectors and Claim Owners Japanese Looms. According to reliable statistics, there were in Japan in 1896 949,123 looms in operation, distributed among 660,408 different establishments, giving an average of less than 1 yz looms for each establishment. This average shows that the weaving industry of Japan is still to a very great extent a home industry and is far from having reached that degree of centralization which it has in this country. The number of persons employed in the weaving industry of Japan last year was 57,850 males and 985,016 females, and the total estimated production for 1896 was 96,187,235 yen, including silk cloth amounting to 46,471,401 yen; silk and cotton amounting to 10,281,272 yen; cotton cloth amounting to 37,083,757 yen, the balance being hemp and sundries.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDry Goods Economist. Mining Properties of all kinds war ted for English market. Send full particulars to Mining Broker, RICHARD PLEWMAN P. O. Box 7\"-G, Rossland, B. d r-v.'! \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- DR. A. MILLOY, Room 17, Black's Hotel. Sandon. Baby carriages, fancy upholstery and furniture at Crowley's.\" \" f Rosebery It is at Rosebery where the beautiful Slocan steamer ties up over night and where the employees can bring their families. Rosebery 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. Rosebery Men are.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDnow grading and clearing thetownsite, and several buildings are about to be erected. Rosebery Is destined to be the distributing centre for the Slocan. Rosebery Will become the great Concentrating City of the Slocan, having abundance I of water and being easy of access to the Mining Centre. . Watch this. Rosebery Terms, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD cash; balance three and six months. For full particulars apply to A. M. BEATTIE, General Agent. Fourth Year. THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., SEPTEMBER 23, 1897. THE LITTLE OLD CLERK. The little old clerk is thin and gray, And his <;oiit is shiny at every seam. His hut iiclungs to a long past day, And his boots are parched 'neatli the blacking's gleam. \"Shabby genteel,\"' or scarcely that, The passoisby dub'him, with vulgar scorn, .Thai- liulu old clerk in the napless hat, The laded coat and the boots so worn. The little old clerk from ten till five, With a slight icspite for a meal between, Sits wri'.ing on in a human hive, -\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' liicbusiest bee 'niong the drones, I ween. Smai t ;, iia;y fellows in well made suits (His follow clerks) sneer, with a scornful eye, At the laded coat and the old patched boots And ask him if better he cannot buy. The little old clerk takes his napless hat . From off its peg when his'toil is o'er, Brushes the coal iliat ihoy all sneer at, Then, with patient smile, passes through ih\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD door. Twenty long years he a elerk lias been In that o'lice dim, yet no higher goes. Many placed oyer his la ad lie's seen, The old clerk's passed by in his shabby clothes. Tlie little old clerk in the evening's gloom Enters his collage, with anxious eyes. Some simple blossoms brighten the room, A crippled form on the sofa lies. As a sister's lips to his own are pressed (.The one for whom shabby through life he goes) He thanks God that hewith her lovo is blessed, The little old clerk in his faded clothes. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDElsie Harrington in Chambers' Journal. DISAGREED. A. The trial I refer to was held last summer, and was more or less irregular from tho beginning. The cause of it was an ordinary swimming hole light, to which, I believe, no specific reference is made in tho statutory laws of Indiana, but young Harvey tore the other boy's clothes, which was not fair, and so the victim's mother set the machinery of the law in motion. It was a hot afternoon, and the men who were lingering in the shady places around tho little town were very glad of some excuse, however fragile, to keep them from work, and tho real fact was that every man in town wanted to be on the jury, although to hear them protest one might get an entirely different impression. Asb'uiy Summers was playing croquet with thrco others on a vacant lot between two store buildings. \"Why, I can't go,\" he said to tho oonstablo who approached him. \"I've got business on haod. Why don't you pick up some of these fellows that have nothiuR to do?\" \"Oh, come aloiig, Asbury!\" said Doc Miller. \"Tm goinf*,. We'll get through in an hour.\" \"Well, if wo could finish that soon I wouldn't mind it,\" said Asbury, and he wentalong. They secured a jury in very short order and went in to trial. Tho case seemed simple enough. There was very little evidence to hear, and it was not contradictory. It was simply a plain fight, and the Myers boy had got the worst of it, as was shown by a few scratches on his face and his torn clothes. It was a plain case. There was no doubt that young Harvey was guilty of the assault. The deputy prosecutor, in the absence of a lav-.yt-r lor the defense, stated both sides of the case fairly, and the jury retired\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDor, to speak precisely, the squire and the audience went out, leaving the jury in possession of the courtroom. As is usual, the jury discussed the points for a few minutes in a noncommittal way and then took a vote. They Btood seven for conviction and five for acquittal. After the first veto the lines were sharply drawn and the real argument began. The crowd under the window couldn't really get much satisfaction out of the debate, because the jurors seemed to be all talking at once. Only once in awhile they could hear the voice of Asbury Summers in a declaration something like this: \"You can talk till next week if you want to, but I'll never vote to convict. It's against my principles. I'll give you to understand right now, gentlemen, I'm a 8\vimmin hole man.\" Within an hour things quieted clown somewhat in the courtroom. The jury took another.vote, in which they stood just the same, and then they began to realize that they were in for it. The orowd below understood from outward signs that there was a hitch somewhere, and they lost interest to some extent and straggled off. Later the people, lingering in little groups on the corners and at front gates, wondered what was the matter with the jury. The constable opened the door slightly now and then and peeped in. When everything had got quiet in tlie town the deputy prosecutor, with two other men, came up the stairs and beckoned to the constable. \"How are they getting along?\" he asked. \"Seems to be a square stand off.\" \"Let's have a little game of cinch in my office till they make up their minds. \" So the constable went back, and, opening the door slightly, looked his charge over. Three or four were propped back against the wall asleep and one was lying on the table. The others were sitting with their feet in the three outside windows. He tiptoed back and said he guessed everything was all right. At midnight the jury took another vote, and then most of them went off to sleep again. Asbury Summers looked out into the hall, and, seeing that the constable's chair was vacant, he beck- cned to Doc Miller and one of the letter of the law men, who were the only others awake, and they slipped out, closing the door softly. \"It takes you fellows a long time to make up your minds,\" said Asbury to the letter of the law man. \"I believe you are trying to starve us to death.\" '' I guess we get as hungry as you do,\" he answered. ' 'My house is the nearest. We'll there and get something to eat.\" So the thrc.;- went over to Asbury's and got a lunch, and in about an hour they strolled back smoking. The town had gone to sleep. As they turned the corner they heard a footstep down toward the creek, and after they had ws.ited a short time the Harvey boy\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD the defendant\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDcame up. \"Hello!\" he called. \"Has the jury agreed yet?\" \"Just about,\" replied Asbury. \"There's a few little details to arrange, but we have decided to hang you tomorrow at 10 o'clock.\" \"Oh, now, tell me,\" urged the boy. \"Run alcng home, Ludovic,\" said Asbury, \"and don't monkey with the jury. We're still delibeiatin.\" When the boy was gone, they sat on a big box and talked until time hung heavily on their hands. \"How would it do, fellows,\" said Doc Miller at length, \"to wake up the jury and take another vote?\" \"Good idea!\" answered Asbury. \"And I've got a way to wake 'em,\" continued Doc. ' 'We will use the hose.\" There was a well at the curb just in front of tho stairway with a force pump in it. The hose, which two or three merchants used for sprinkling the street, was coiled up at the curb. They took it and made tho coupling and carried the nozzle end around the corner under the courtroom windows. Asbury held the nozzle pointing upward while Doc and the other man applied their strength to the pump handle. The jet of water mounted higher, and higher until it was above the windows, and then, with the precision and care that a woman bestows in watering her flower beds, he trained tho stream into the first window, and then the second and the third. Two of the sleeping jurymen at a window recovered their presence of mind after their shower bath soon enough to look out and see Asbury before he had made good his retreat around the coiner with the hose, but tho canes and other articles they threw went wild by several yards. When the runaway members went up stairs, the jury were thoroughly awake, and they took another vote, with the same result\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD5 to 7. The argument was resumed with vigor, and the constable, who had come back, was invited in out.of politeness and permitted to take part in the discussion. At 3 o'clock they took another vote, and the constable, not being allowed to participate, went back into the deputy prosecutor's room to sleep. Doc Miller was getting restless. ' 'You can do as you please about coming to a verdict, \"he said, \"but I've got to go and see so:.>ie patients in the country. You fello-.vs can take your time for it. I'll be back about noon.\" And an hour later they saw him driving away. The old squire was out early. The foreman saw him walking up the street and called him from a window to come back and give them some further instructions. \"When we started in,\" said the foreman, when the old man came into the room, \"we had 12 jurymen. Now we can't count out but 11, and we can't come to a verdict either.\" \"Where is Dec?\" asked the squire. \"He's gone a big circuit into the country and said l.e would be back at noon.\" \"You don't say? '.If that ain't nerve! Well, I'll guarantee he don't run away from another jury.\" \"But it was the constable's fault as much as anybody's. He went off and left us.\" The squire was a comparatively new man in the administration of law, and the situation was becoming entirely too complicated for him to unravel. He went away to consult the deputy prosecutor. In a short time he came back and called the foreman out. \"You didn't come anyways near to an agreement?\" he asked. \"No.\" \"You think there's no chance of coming to a verdict when Doc gets back?\" \"No. Every man has made his mind up. The vote is always the same\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD7 to 5.\" The squire pulled his beard thoughtfully. \"Purty badly mixed up scrape, \"he said. \"I can't for tlie life of me see any way out of it, only to dismiss the case. Here come the boy and his father now.\" Mr. Harvey was disappointed on learning that there had been no verdict. \"Squire, \" he said, \"we've got work on hand that's prissin, and I wish we could stop this thing right where it is some way.\" \"Yes,\" assented the magistrate. \"I wish we could get it off our hands too.\" \"How would it do,\" suggested Mr. Harvey, \" for Ludovic to step in right now and plead guilty and pay it off? It wouldn't come very high, would it?\" \"Oh, no,\" said the squire eagerly\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD here was a happy solution of the difficulty. \"I'd be as easy as I could on him.\" So the case was closed on that basis. The law was satisfied and the dignity of the court was maintained, although it had looked squally for \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwhile.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDChicago Record. NOTICE. Licence Authorizing an Extra Provincial Company to Carry on Uusiness. T go Likes and Dislikes. A woman was heard to make the assertion the other day that \"in nine cases out of ten we like people because they like us, or dislike them because they have failed to appreciate us. \" It is something of an admission to make, and yet to a certain extent it is true. We cannot help being influenced in our opinions of others by their evident opinions of us, for the person who is interested in what we say, who defers to us and enjoys our society, naturally appears to us in a favorable light. On the other hand, the man or woman who Vever notices us, who takes no pains to frmoeal his or her indifference or dislike, need not expect to receive our hearty good will and esteem. It shows a touch of self conceit on our part, and yet it is human nature. Sometimes, however, we misjudge others by this feeling. We take unreasonable prejudices against people, and perhaps by our very actions cause them to dislike us, and then blame them for it \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPhiladelphia Times. \"Companies Act, 1897.\" Canada,' 1 Province of British Columbia, f No. Sl',7. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHIS IS TO CERTIFY, that \"The West Kootenay (B.C.) Exploring and Mining Company, Limited.'' is authorized and licensed to carry on business within the Province of British Columbia. The head office of the Company is situate in Scotland. The amount of the capital of the company is \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.*.<>.000, divided into 50,000 shares of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1 each. The head office of the Company in this Province is situate in Silverton, and David Bremner, whose address is Silverton, \"West Kootenay, British Columbia, is the Attorney for the company. The objects for which the company has been established and so licensed are: (1.) To adopt and carry out, with or without modification, an agreement between Alexander Hamilton Bremner, stockbroker, Glasgow, of the first part, and Henry Forrister, stockbroker there, as trustee for and on behalf of this company, of the second part, dated 12th March, 1897, providing for the purchase by the company of certain mineral claims, mining rights, and others therein described, including the mineral claims and mining interests in the \"Exchange\" group, \"Bachelor\" group, and \"Wakefield'' group, all in the SlOcnn Mining District of West Kootenay, British Columbia, with the. plant, houses, and others, and the whole other rights and appurtenances of the said mineral claims and others, all lis referred to in the said agreement: (i) To acquire, explore, open and work claims or mines, and to raise, dig and quarry for gold, silver, minerals, ore ami coal, earth and other valuable substances, in British Columbia, or elsewhere, and either absolutely or conditionally, and either solely or jointly, or with others: (.')) To carry on in all its branches the business of a mineral or mining company, merchants, agents, storekeepers, farmers, stockmen, graziers, carriers, transport agents, builders, contractors and brickmakers, and to carry on any other business or businesses which may seem to the company capable of being conveniently carried on in connection with the above, or calculated to develop, enhance the value of, or render profitable the property and rights of the company: (\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1.) To acquire from time to time, by purchase, lease or otherwise, such lands, mines, works, ouildings,easements, machinery, plant and stock-in-trade, and also any concessions, claims, licenses, patents, trade marks, monopolies, rights, privileges or authorities of and over mines, mining rights, land, mineral properties, water and other rights in British Columbia or elsewhere, as may be necessary or convenient to enable the company to carry on its business, and that either absolutely or conditionally, and either solely or jointly with others: (5.) To acquire by purchase, concession, lease, hire, charter or otherwise, or to erect, construct, carry out, maintain, improve, work, control and superintend any roads, ways, bridges, machinery, works, houses, railways, reservoirs, water-courses, tramways, aqueducts, wharves, furnaces, mills, quarries, pits, crushing works, hydraulic works, electrical, chemical, and mechanical works, factories, warehouses, steam or sailing ships, boring,, hauling or other machinery, appliances or engines, and. other works and conveniences which may seem directly or indirectly conducive to any of the objects of the company; and to contribute to, subsidise, or otherwise aid or take part in any such operations, whether the same belong to the <\"-om- pany or to any other company or person: (0.) To search for, win, get, quarry, reduce amalgamate, calcine, dress, refine, and prepare for .market auriferous quartz, silver, minerals, ore, diamonds and precious stones, coal, earth, and other valuable substances, and generally to carry on any metallurgical operations which may seem conducive to any of the objects of the company: (7.) To buy, sell, refine, manufacture, and deal in bullion, specie, coin, precious metals, minerals, plant, machinery, implements, provisions, goods, draperies, and things capable of being used in connection with any of the operations or works of tho company, or required by workmen and others employed by company, or which the directors for the time being may think fit to deal in or dispose of in the districts whore the company's works or any of them may be carried on: (8.) To purchase, subscribe towards, and erect churches, halls, dwellings, hospitals, or other charitable or other institutions or conveniences for work people: and to make donations to such persons and for such objects as may lie thought conducive to the objects of the company. (U.) To establish, manage, and assist chemical and assaying laboratories for analytical mid testing purposes, particularly for analysing and testing tho valuable substances specified or referred to in this article, and generally to carry on, and promote the objects of mineralogists, metallurgists, and amalgamators: (10.) To acquire, carry on and undertake all or any part of the business, property, and liabilities of any person or company carrying on business similar to that which this company is authorised to carry on, or possessed of property or rights suitable for any of the purposes of this company. (11.) To enter into partnership or into any arrangement for sharing profits, union of interest, reciprocal concession, joint adventure or otherwise, or amalgamate with any person or company carrying on, or about to carry on, any business similar to that which this company is authorized to carry on, or any business or transaction capable of being conducted so as to directly or indirectly to benefit this company. (IB.) To acquire any invention capable of being used for any of the purposes of the company, and to acquire any letters patent, brevets d'invention, privileges, monopolies or concessions of an analogous character, whether granted by the United Kingdom of Great Britain or British Columbia, or by any other country, in respect to any such invention. (1.1.) To acquire and grant licenses to work and use any inventions which the company is authorized to acquire: (11.) To sell, lease, mortgage, abandon claims and rights, dispose of, give in exchange, turn to account, or otherwise deal with all or any part of the property and rights of the company, including the sale or other alienation, and the granting of powers to work any mines, claims, interests or rights of the company on any terms which may from time to time be deemed fit: (15.) To sell the undertaking, property, and rights of the company, or any part or parts thereof, from time to time, for such consideration as the company may think fit, and in particular for cash, shares, stock, debentures, debenture stock, property or secureties of any other company having objects altogether or in part similar to those of this company. (16.) To buy. sell, and to make profits by dealing' in claims, mines, lands, properties, rights and interests, arid to develop and work and otherwise turn the same to account, and for this purpose to determine how much of the proceeds of sale or realization of any such claims, mines, lands, properties, rights, and interests are to bo deemed capital, and how much profit, and to distribute any such profits among the members in cash or otherwise: (17.) To promote, form, and be interested in any other company, syndicate and partnership from time to time, whose objects shall include the acquisition and taking over of all or any of the property and liabilities of this company and to transfer to any such company any property of this company, and to take or otherwise acquire, hold, or dispose of shares, stock, debentures, debenture stock, property, or other secureties in or of any such company, and to subsidise or otherwise assist any such company: (18.) To invest and deal with any moneys of the Company not immediately required for carrying on the business of the company, upon such secureties and in such manner as may from time to time be determined, and to realise, vary, reinvest, or otherwise deal with such securities as may from time to time be determined: (10.) To lend money to any person or company, and on such terms as may seem expedient, and in particular to any person or company having dealings with this company, and to guarantee the performance of contracts hy any such person or company. (20.) To remunerate any person or company for services rendered in or about the promotion, formation, establishment, or registration of the company, or placing or assisting to place any of the shares, capital, or any debentures or other securities of the company: (il.) To draw, accept, make, indorse, execute, issue, discount, and negotiate bills of exchange, promissory notes, cheques, and other negotiable or transferable instruments: {ii.) To borrow or raise money in such manner as the company shall think fit. and in particular by the issue of debentures, debenture stock, mortgage bonds, perpetual or otherwise), preference, or other shares of stock, charged upon the whole or any part of the proiierty. assets or revenue of the company (both present, and future) including its uncalled capital: (2;J.) To sell, feu. improve, manage, develop, lease, mortgage, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with, all or any part of the landsi property or rights of the company: (a.) To procure ihe company to be registered or recognized in British Columbia (or elsewhere, as may from time to time be determined.): (25.) To do all or any of the above things in any part of the world, and in particular in British Columbia (and in Great Britain), and as principal agents, contractors, or otherwise, or by and through trustees, agents, or otherwise, and either alone or in conjunction with others: (i(j.) To distribute amongst the members any of the property of the company without conversion into money, or any proceeds of sale or disposal of any property of the company: (27.) To do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects. ,y. Given under my hand and seal of office, at Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 4th day of August, one thousand eight hundred and mnety-8eve.ii. [r..s.] S.Y. WOOTTON, Registrar of Joint Stock Companies. \Elkliorn 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 J. agent for J. W. Stewart, free miner's certificate No. 77,of)8, intend, sixty days from tlie 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 HJtli dav of July. 1SD7. PASSENGER EACH DAY. TRAINS EACH DAY \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Between - CERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS Yuma, Aurora, Suburban and Xiglit Hawk Fraction Mineral Claims. NOTICE Situate in the 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, E. M. Sandilands, free miner's certificate No. 8r>121, intend, 00 days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for Certificate of Improvements, for the piirjKise 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 July 24,18!)7. E. M. SANDILANDS. Official Administrators' Act, Schedule A. In the County Court of Kootenay. In the Matter of Francesco di Michele, deceased, and in the Matter of the \"Official Administrators' Act.\" Dated 28th day of August, A.D.. 1807. TTPON reading the affidavits of James Ferguson U Armstrong, William Thomlinson and Arch angele di Michele, it is ordered, that James Ferguson Armstrong, Official Administrator for the County Court, District of Kootenay, shall be Administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of Francesco di Michele, deceased. And this order hep ublished in the New Denver Lkpui* for two weeks. J. A. FORIN, Judge. .[SKAI..] Trail and Rossland On the-*\"** Golfflin j_peri ffy. Run Made in one Hour. LAND IJJXJISTItY ACT. Irene Mineral Claim. 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. 80121, as agent for A. H.Blumenaucr, free miner's certificate No. 01895. 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, 18!)7. [L. 1817, G. l.J Snowflake 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. TAKE NOTICE that I, Edward H. Apple- whaite, free miners' certificate No. 120G A, intend, sixty days after date hereof, to apply to the Mining 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 If APPLEWHAITE. RICHMOND, STAR VIEW AND EMPIRE NO. MINERAL CLAIMS. In the matter of an application for a Duplicate of Certificate of Title to Lots il 'and 28 Block 18; Lot is, Block 10: Lots 21, 25, and 20,Block 20; Lots 5, 0 and 7, Block,'15; Lots 7, 8,11 and 12, Block 3d; Lots 5, 0, l!) and 20, Block 15; Lots 10 and 20, Block 47; Lots 17 and IS. block 52; McGillivray's addition to the Town of New Denver, B. C. -VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that it is my i\ intention at the expiration of one month from the date hereof to issue a duplicate of the Certificate of Title of William H. Smith, to the above lands, dated 29th May, 1801, and numbered 18208 A. HENRY S. MASON, Acting Registrar General. Land Registry Office, Victoria, B C, Sept.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 1897. NOTICE. \"VfOTICE is hereby given that Iintend, 60 days. L\ after date to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase 1G0 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, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD T T, HENRY STEGE. New Denver, Aug. 23,1897. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: Three- quarters mile s. e. of town of Sandon. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPAKE NOTICE. That I, R.E. Palmer, acting 1 as agent for George Gooderham, free miner's certificate No 75189, 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 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 29th dav of July, 1897. R. E. PALMER. NOTICE. ATOTICE is hereby given that 00 days after date *v T I mteila\"t0 anl>Iy 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, thence south 53 chains, thence east 30 chains, thence north 53 chains, to point of com. mencement and containing 160 acres, more or les3. Dated 20th August, 1897. R. H. H/ ALEXANDER. No. 0 Leaves Rosslaud at 7 a.m.: Connects m 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 Steamers for the north ot Trail. No. 5 Leaves Trail at 5:45 p.m.; Connects with Steamer Lytton at Trail. F. P. GTJTELIUS, Gen'ISupt. Trail, B.C., June 4,1S07. CANADIAN PACIFIC _RAILWAY. The Quickest and Cheapest Route East or .West. Steamer leaves Nakusp every morning\", making close connection at Revelstoke with trains 'or all points East or \"West. 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, Pass. Agt, Vancouver, B. C. Dist. BLACK COLT MINERAL CLAIM. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: Joins the Hinckley on the south; a relocation of the Montana. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPAKE NOTICE, That I. C. A. Stoess, of Kaslo, X B C.. acting as agent for the Hinckley and Black Colt Mining Company, Limited, free miner's certificate No, 81,050, 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 17th day of July, 1897. INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION & TRADING CO., LTD. ta On Kootenay Lake and R-'ver. Great Eastern \"Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: Adjoining the Madison and about 1' miles southeast of Town of Sandon. TiAKE NOTICE that I. Robert E. Palmer of 1 Sandon, acting as agent for Price Eaton Co., free miners' certificate No.07435 intend 00 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. selO Time Card in Effect July 12th, 1897. Daily Except 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.rn Ar. Northport 12:15 p.m.; Rossland 3:40 p m.; Spokane, 0 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. ft' NEW SERVICE ON KOOTENAY LAKE. Lv. Nelson for Kaslo, etc, Tues., Wed., Thurs.; Fri., Sat.; 9:30 a.m. Ar. Kaslo, 12:30, p.m. Lv. Kaslo for Nelson, etc., Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri.; 5 p.m. Ar. Nelson, 9 p.m. Wakefield Fraction Mineral Claim. Lot 1810. Situate on north side of Four Mile Creek, about 4 miles east of Silverton, Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. \"TAKE NOTICE. That I, Alfred Driseoll. as I agent for Frank Culver, free miner's certificate No. 83,014, intend, 00 days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvemonts, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under See. 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this flth day of August, 1897. BONNER'S FERRY and KOOTENAY RIVER SERVICE. The Alberta awaits the arrival of the International before leaving for Bonner's Ferry. Lv. Kaslo, Sat..0.30 p. m; Ar. Boundary. Sun. 0 a.m.: Aj. 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. GEORGE ALEXANDER, Gen'l Mgr Head Office at Kaslo, B.C. Kaslo. B C, July 18,1897 Nelson & Ft. Sheppard Red Mountain RAILWAYS The only all rail route without change f cars between Nelson and. Rossland nd. Spokane and Rossland. Only Route to Trail Creek and Mineral District of the Colville Reservation, Nelson, Kaslo, Kootenay Lake and Slocan Points. Daily, Except Sunday. Leave. 9:10 a.m. 11:00 \" 8:00 a.m. NELSON ROSSLAND SPOKANE Arrive. 5:45 p.m. 3:40 \" 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. Kaslo &Slocan Ry TIME CARD Aurora Fractional Mineral Claim. rpAKE NOTICE that 1 miner's certificate Situated in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: West of the Ruth group.within one mile of the town of Sandon. I, H. B. Alexander, free No 77002. intend, sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining Crown grant of above claim. And further take notice that action, under Section .!!7, must be commeneed before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this -.'4th day of .luly.1897. Cazabazua Fraction Mineral Claim. Oct. Oct 9 \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ,., . From Montreal California, Allan Line Parisian. \" Carthaginian \" Labrador .Dominion Line Vancouver, i; From New York Umbria. Cunard Line Etruria \" Campania. \" Majestic. White Star Line Teutonic il .._ St. Paul, American Lino St. Louis. \" State of Nebraska. Allan State Line South wark. Rod Star Line Sept ii) Noordland. ;- Subject to change without notice Trains run on Pacific Standard Time. Lot 1809. Situate on north side of Four Mile Creek about 1 miles east of Silverton, Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPAKE NOTICE, That I, Alfred Driseoll, as 1 agent for Don.dd Bremner. free miner's certificate No. 8-1,99!), intend, 00 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 Sec. 37 must he commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 0th day of August, 1897. Yuma Fraction Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD West of the Ruth group, within one mile of the town of Sandon. TAKE NOTICE that I. R. W. Gordon, free miner's certificate No. 8!i\">''0, 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 tiike novice that action, under section 37. must lie commenced before tlie issuance of such certificate of improvements Dated this 24th day of July, 18!J7. Cabin -sij. sr>!i, si;o. 70 .-j.soand upwards. Iiitermcdii-te s'iO and upwards. Steerage .\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa5..'i0 and upwards. Passengers Ticketed through to all noiius in Great Britain or Ireland, and at Specially low rates to all parts of tho European Continent! Prepaid Passages arranged from ail points. Apply to H. DOUGLASS, agent. New Denver, or to\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD WILLIAM STITT, General Agent, C. P. R. Offices. Winnipeg LELAND HOUSE Makes it one of the Largest and most Comfortable Hotels in Kootenay. MRS. D. A. McDoug-ald. jst^.k:tts*p, - - bo. FEED J. SQUIKE Nelson, B. C. Merchant Tailor. Leave 8 00 A.M. \" 8 3G '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \" 9 3G \" \" 0 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 Whitewater \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' Bear Lake '* McGuigan \" Cody Junction \" Sandon Leave CODY LINE. Arrive, 3 50 \" 3 15 2 15 \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' 2 00 11 1 48 1 33 1 12 1 00 P.M Leave 11.00 a.m. .\" 11.25 \" Sandon Codv Arrive 11.55 a.m. 11.20 \" ROBT. IRVING, Traffic Mngr. GEO. F. COPELAND, Superintendent THE STEAMER W.HUNTER Will leave NEW DENVER, afternoon upon arrival of from Sandon, every train FOR SILVERTON, SLOCAN CITV and ALL INTERMEDIATE POINTS. Will leave SLOCAJST CITY at 7 a.m. every morning except Sunday Full Line of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDuitino\s and Trouserino-s al\"*avs on hand. Powder carried only on Fridays. Time Table subject to change without notice S. T. N. CO.. Ltd., June 1,1S97. 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. THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., SEPTEMBER 23, 1897. Fourth Year MINING RECORDS Showing the Rapid Development of the Slocan. LOCATIONS OF THE WEEK Assessment Work Done on Claims and Transfers of Mining: Properties. The following is a complete list of the mining transactions recorded during the week in the several mining divisions of the Slocan. Those of New Derive- were as follows :\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD LOCATIONS. SKrx'15\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDGrouse, Carpenter. W Henderson Skit 15\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMinnie and Ethel, Wilson, John McKenzie: Fair View, same, CF Nolle; Klond.vkc; same, R S Campbell; :Mazeppa, 'same. E Von Homeyer; Selkirk and Kent, same, .John Thorn- burn. Skit 17\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDC'& K, Sandon' creek, \V H Brandon. Skct 18\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMaria, i Eight Mile, A V Smith; Sundown, Fennel. Pat Barton; Conder, Four Mile, F G Fauquier; Pure Gold,'Eight Mile, C H Aher- crombie. , \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Surr 20\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMidwight, Eight Mile, Perry Altaffer, Dan J McDonald, David Fairhairn; Highland Boy, Glacier Mountain, Chas Fogarty; Naoma Fraction,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCarpenter, The Dominion Mines Co; International Fraction, Payne Mountain. \"V Parkison. Skit 21\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDRoma. Four Mile, Alexander Ruppels; Africa, same, Chas Sampson; Otto K B, Carpenter, XV D Keating. ASSESSMENTS. Skit 15\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPalmita. Valkyrie. Skit 10\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLake Shore, Kelpie Hidden Treasure, Red Fox. Skit 17\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDRover, Setting Bull, Constant, Night Owl, Dawetless, Drum Luinmon, Cody, Slocan, Tooth Pick Fraction, Deerslayer, Bay Slate, Carrie, Peoria, Hill Top. Sept 18\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDIron Mask, Sultana, Medium, Ada Bell, Daylight. Skit 20\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDwight, Cordova,Ptarmigan,Willa. THANSFERS. Seit l(i\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNoonday, 1/10, Fourth of July, 1/10, and Gray Eagle, 1/5, Geo E Milligan to Byron N White Junglcr,\"-, John Vallance to \"iV L Smith. Christie Fraction,!, M McWilliams to F L Christie. Sept 17\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCopper King, J, R S Bean to \Vm R Beattie. Seit 18\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDApio, s, Kate Terril to Rol.it Jones. Seit 20\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMorning Sun. B M Walton to The Byron N White Co, Aug ii), .'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD200. SLOCAN CITY DIVISION. I .^jfininiiiiiHiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnminiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiinirinHiiiiiiniij^ 11 NEWS IN PLACE j |%/Jllll!llllllillllllllltllllllllllllllllllillllll!llilllllllllllllllllllllilil\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDlliillllll^ Phil Perkins is building* a. residence in New Denver. Ed. Shannon has his residence on Sixth street nearly ready for occupancy. Henry llahon, ;of Vancouver, is hav\" ing* a look at his properties on Four Mile. The Comstock is the name of the company formed to work the Thompson g-roup. The latest novelties in Ladies Capes, Jackets, Dress Goods and Millinery at Mrs. Merkley's. Geo. W. Hughes, one of the owners of the Idaho will make his home in Xew Denver this fall. Bruce White has rented the rough cast house just erected by George AVharton on Sixth street. power find emolument, while Canadians in dozens are left without employment. Is Sir Oliver's hands tied? Or where has he hidden the Provincial zeal which led him to denounce these invaders of courtesy and right-as \"a hostile nation?\" Has John Charlton and his Yankee colleagues THEIR CURIOSITY EXPLAINED. power to suppress our beloved Sir Oliver?\" flnm. \"a f \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD o...P\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDt Perish the thought. Truculence is not i \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD,. * ?\eat A lady who is a city missionary became very much interested in a very poor, but apparently respectable Irish family named Curran, living* on the top tenement-house in the \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*: WM. BENNISON, JNO. COVER. H. E. COVER. Old Man, Adela, LOCATIONS. Seit 13-Riro, W J Elliott. Seit 2\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTransfer, M Markeson ; Golden Gate and Headlight, J Cadden. ASSESSMENTS. SeptIO\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHetty, Lucky George, France, Haido, Tando, Montezuma, Enterprise Friction. Seit 10\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCentury, Boulder; International. Seit 11\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBondholder. Pinelog, Little Club,True Blue. Seit 13\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCrusader, Pilot. tbaxsfeks. Seit S\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCharming Widow, JRadcliff to Dunlop. Seit 0\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJ Orillia, C F.Nelson to T Reid. Same, R Covington to T Reid. Humming Bird, W McLeod to Sinkham, haniel .and T Sproat. Sei-t 7\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSnowstorm i, N E Holmgren Markeson. Hopedall \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD?,, S J Collins to g Newwinder. Silver Bow i, J A Foley to H De Render. Same, J McCarthy to 3 A Foley. Seit 12\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDButte, J Kononlski to E J Robie. AINSWORTH DIVISION. EB Du- to M LOCATIONS. E SErr 3\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCopper Crown, E Patton ; Orior Patton: Surprise, J Archie; Blizzard, T L Kennedy; Hootalinkwa, Fred Nivin and J N Bell. Sett [14\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDImpcrlant Fraction, John Kraff; Joker, G XV Taylor; Lake View, A AMcKinnon; Ainsworth, same; Albany, E S Blanchard; Little Ossie, Chris Kaffelsoii); Jumbo, E D Dumas; Sparr, Alex Green; Eclipse, Odricht& Green. Seit 15\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLake View, I N Horton; Victor, J Beaman; Ajax, A Perkins; Grissle, Swan John. Seit ^1G\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDGallon, A H Buchanan; Bismuth, same; Liverpool, JulB Sargent; Globe, G Koons; Mary, same. Seit 17\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDKlondyke, John Munro; Ferdinand and Dumfries, E Geo Warren and^Lorne Becher. ASSESSMENTS. Sept ll\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSuperior, Vigilant, No 5, Silver Bell. Sept 13\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCorean, Gowlingate. Seit 14\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDYankee Girl No 2, Lost Lead, Last Rose of Summer, Three Friends, Summit, Montana, Silver Dollar, Blizzard. Summerset, Hudson 's Ba y, Boston, Climax. Sept 15\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDalveen, Huntingdon, Home Rule, Big Jam, River View, Goodwin, Last Link, Hazel C, Nancy Hanks, Fresno, Combination. Sept ilG\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBaltimore, Charleston, Carbonate King, Lucky Hit, New Duluth, Nancy Hanks, Vanderbilt, Eureka Sept 17\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDApendix, Acme, American, No 5, Montrose, Big Job. transfers. Sept 11\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSilver Bell, Silver, No 5 J, No 6 J, No 2, Silver Champion 4, Pick Up i, Jas S Whit- taker, E E Chipman, A W Goodenouffh, Hugh McKay to Geo P Benet. Sei'T 13\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSilver Bell J. Golden Bell, Premium Award. Oliver G Seward to G Swan Anderson and P O Erickson Skylark, R Chamblet Adams to B C Coy. Silver Bell J, Nels Martin to J Finch, S300. Seit 1-4\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDKingston, option, Wra Matheson and J A Gibson to J Archibald, $1,500. Corean, option, Root. Shiel and Wm Matheson to J A Michael. $5,000. Inez D, J R Hardie to E D Dumas. Seit 15\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSybil .'-, Melton Mowatt to S P Beeler. Standard and Total Wreck seized by Deputy Sheriff Nelson. Nellie\",.! Hetheriiigton to J LaMoure. Nellie J, J Hetheriiigton to S A Scribner. Seit 16\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Lucky Hit, W W Warner to G Koons. Cariboo, J B Sargent to London Mining Co, $100. Seit 17\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDGranite and Little Diamond, H E Porter to L Larson. Eldon and Ecton, Eldon Gold and Silver Minin Samples of ore from the Fidelity mineral claim have been sent to Spokane to be \".placed on exhibition at the fruit fair. Bourne Bros, have torn out the office in their main store room to make room for their mammoth stock of goods. Tlie change is a great advantage to them. James H. dime and John Lang-staff have bought a plant and will start a paper called Tlie Topic at Trout Lake City. May the Lord be good to .them. Development on the Mountain Scenery on Eight Mile creek shows a ledge of 12 feet in width carrying galena, carbonates and heavy quartz mixed with galena. This property has the appearance of a fine concentrating proposition. Little Otto Estabrooks was, playing with some children in the rear of his parents home Thursday afternoon and had two fingers and thumb blown off at the first joint by the explosion of a percussion cap. \"The little ones had found a part of a box of the dangerous explosives and were having a bushel of fun with them when the accident happened. H. 0. Alexander while on a trip across the lake Sunday had the thumb of his right hand badly shattered with a rifle ball and had to have the injured member amputated close to the hand. With some friends he \"was out for a day with the grouse, and was resting the butt of the rifle on the ground with his thumb over the muzzle. By some means the weapon slipped, the hammer hitting on a rock causing the gun to be fired with the above result. in him. At Bruce Mines in this district contractors are blasting trap rock and shipping it for street paving in the United States, and we are credibly informed that the bosses of the works\", engineers and drillmen are citizens of the United States, to say nothing about the crews of the three vessels employed in transporting the rock. To use a forcible Liberal phrase \"It is time for a change,\" or Canada may repent and hurl from power men who hesitate to enforce the behests of the sovereign people.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAlgoma Pioneer. AINSWORTH. WHITEWATER. < Eugene Eyl, K &. S. lineman is building* a house on C Avenue. George Irish is building* a barber shop next to Niven. & Bell's store. Jim Kee has bought I. M. Wrights house and will carry on the laundry business. I. M. Wright will erect a new building on C Ave. in which to carry on a bakery. The Hillside shaft is now down 25 feet and looking better with every foot of depth. Charlie Scheel has good ore on the Porcupine claim and intends doing some extensive development. Steve McCready and wife, nee Miss Gates of Yakima, have taken up their residence in Whitewater. The happy couple were greeted on their arrival by a good natured shiv- eree of the old fashioned style. Mr. & Mrs. McCready are the recipients of many congratulations. The Whitewater mine will double its output this month, shipping 33 cars for the 30 days of September. There are now 65 men on the payroll and this number will be considerably in creased. It is a fact patent to ail acquainted with this property that it is in a position to become one of the heaviest shippers in the country. Since work was commenced on the mine no ore other than that removed in actul development work has been shipped. Isaac Waldron has taken contract for another 400 feet on the long crosscut <\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDn the Whitewater Deep mine. The calculation is to tap the Whitewater vein 400 feet below any present workings on the ledge. With the completion of this tunnel another will be commenced on the flat, close to Bell Bros.' sawmill, within a few yards of the K. & S. track, and run probably 1,200 feet to tap the ledge still lower. The Whitewater Deep consists of five claims, the property of Barbarian Brown and others, under the management of W. A. Boss. The work is being done on the Fresno Fraction. - ak;o.ma wants th>* aukx laav kxkokcei). Co to D E McVayal note. Tacoma. J Christenson to R S ade as security for payment of KASLO. Go to kinaws. Long and exceedingly bitter lias been tlie degradation endured by Canada at the hands of the United States, and deep and high is the shout for retaliation upon the merciless aggressor. Liberal ante- election vows pledged the Tarty, from the Premier downward, to the deliverance of Canada or the enactment of a | law and as harshly adinisnistered as that j of tlie ungenerous'assailant. Nearly two ! years of ofiice have rolled by, and, not- j withstanding that Parliament has kept | its pledge, the Government has utterly failed io enforce the power put into \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD their hands by the representatives of the ! people. Whv '.' Are they afraid to i strike back? 'Or have the United Sta- ! tesers taken such a twist on the I Government's nasal organ as to defy re- i taliation ? | Canadians are leaving their homes in j scores to seek employment in other 'lands, while citizens of the aggressive i Republic, hold high carnival and sit in I Canadian otlices in definance of all law, j right and decency. Lumbermen and : T. , .\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD i supplies are sent from the United States corduroy and tweed suits, in^ the Canadian forests to cut, haul * I and raft our timber to their own coun- ' try, and none to say them nay. Right here in Algoma District the humilating spectacle is open to all. The towns, the\" woods, on shore and afloat citizens of the United States hold place (Our Own Correspondent.) Dan Bongard has purchased the Gold Dust Saloon from J. W. Smith. Graham Campbell, Victoria, was in town for a couple of clays this week. Miss Eastman and Mrs. Trenery, Three Forks, were in Kaslo Sunday. Walter E. Jones will open business in John Keenan's Block as dealer in electrical supplies in about two weeks. Mrs. Alex. Sproat and Miss Esta- broks came over from New Denver Monday. Arthur St. Clair Brindle arrived in town the same day. All registered at the Slocan. See Hoben's and ulsters. Hats and Neckties for gentlemen at Mrs. Merkley's. T.-HJ. Hoben's for good Mac- t [From Our Regular Correspondent.] D. F. Strobeck and I. N. Knight left Saturday last for a newly discovered gold district on the borders of California and Oregon Operations on a large scale will be under way on the Tariff mine shortly. A large amount of .'development work has been done on the property and up to date no ore other than that' taken out in development has been brought to the surface. The owners, Branen Bros., intend building a tramway and with the completion of the repairs on the Pilot Bay smelter the Tariff will become one of the heaviest shippers in the Hot Springs camp. Active development work is now under way on the Tain O'Shanter, situated opposite Ainsworth. This property was purchased by the present owners a number of years ago, but up to the present time no great amount of work has been done on the claim. . Dick Irwin now has charge and a force of four men are at work driving a 350 foot tunnel to tap the ledge at a depth of 200 feet. Surface work already done on the ledge shows some very promising specimens of yellow copper with good gold indications. A very strong lodge of the Independent Order Foresters has been organized in Ainsworth. Jas. IL Falconer, official organizer, held a very successful installation meeting on Monday evening, at which the names of a large number of applicants for admission to the order were presented. On Tuesday evening a dance, which was one of the most pleasant social events of the season,was given by the members in honor of the new lodge. On Wednesday evening the officers were elected. It is expected that the new lodge will have a membership in the neighborhood of 70. SCIKNCE AND DISCOVKRY. slum district Every time she visited the Currans the missionary was annoyed by the staring and the whispering \"of the'other women living in the building. One day she said to Mrs. Curran : Your neighbors seem very curious to know who and what I am and the nature of my business with you. They do so,\" acquiesced Mrs. Curran. Do they ask you about it? Ihdade\"they do, ma'am. And do,you tell them*- .Faith, thin, a' oi do not. What do you tell them ? . Oi just tell thim you are me dressmaker, an'let it go at that. UV TIIK Sl'ASJI'ti Branches\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Everett. Wash. 3!) Upper Brook St., London, Memhers of the Rossland Stock Exchange and Board of Trade. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ' Cable Address\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"Benxisox.\" Moreing and Neal, Cloiigh's (new and old), Bedford McNeill. and ABC Codes\" WM. BENNISON OL GO., ROSSLAND, B.C. DEALERS IN .AND MINES MINING SECURITIES \"What are the wild waves saying?\" Their a breeze bronchi hack this sound: \"We can'i fret a word in edgewise, With so many women around.\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDChicago Record. When in Vancouver stop at the Manor House., ' f I have received my stock of. Fall and Winter Goods and invite the people of the Slocan to call in and inspect them. M. A. WILSON, The reliable Slocan Tailor, Williamson Block. New Denver, B.C E solicit correspondence with parties having* meritorious mining properties for sale, and beg* to say that we have, connections in the principal cities of Canada, England and the United States, and are in daily receipt of inquiries for developed mines and promising prospects. tf 18 YEARS EXPERIENCE In active mining operations and reduction of ores, and a knowledge of the different mining districts of B.C. enables us to furnish reliable and competent information pertaining to mines and mining matters. References given. Rhinometers are devices to measure the amout of air a man breathes through his nose, in order that his doctor may compare it to the amount he should take in that way. Newfoundland has issued a series of Cabot postage stamps to celebrate the 400th anniversary of his discovery. One of the designs \"used are portraits of Cabot and Henry VII. and scenes of Newfoundland life. Konakry, on the west coast of Africa, has been reached by a French expedition in three weeks from the Niger, for the second time. This establishes the advantage of the route by way of Fula- Djalon, \"and surveys for the road are beino- hastened. Parson's Produce Company CAN Mining & Milling Co. Rand & Wallbridge, Mining and Stock Brokers, Sole Agents for Sale of Treasury Stock. FIVE MILLIONS IN PROFIT. New York.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe annual report of the Anaconda Copper Company of Montana, the largest stockholders'of which are J. B. Hag-gin and Marcus Daly, has been made public. For the year ending June 80 the receipts were 822,940,393 against S16,94o,697 the year before. The profits amounting to 85,136,048, an increase of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD878,133 over the previous year. Dividends amounting to S3,000,- 000 were declared, against 8750,000 the vear before. Box and Kitchen Stoves for sale, ply at the Hospital. Ap- t A full line of rubbers and socks at Hoben's. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Wholesale dealers in Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Apples, Poultry and Cured Meats. The largest handlers of these {roods in Western Canada. All warehouses under perfect system of cold storage. Full stock carried at Nelson, 13. C. For prices write or wire P. J. KUSSKIdL: Manager of Nelson Branch Pin- son's Produce Company McMillan & Hamilton, Wholesale Grocers. Agents for B.C. Sugar Refinery and Royal City Planing Mills. NAKUSP, B. C. Our Nakusp branch Is for sale. Address to Box 296, Vancouver, or Box 23, Nakusp. c. s. RASHDALL. Notary Puhlic. FAUQUIER. RASHDALL & FAUQUIER MINES & REAL ESTATE. NEW DENVER, B.C. MINING INTERESTS BOUGHT, SOLD and BONDED. INVITED Complete lists of claims for sale. Abstracts of claims, conveyauein CORRESPONDENCE PURNITURF ir Q I carry the stock\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe largest in the Slocan- Kootenay, in show rDonis space. 3,000 feet of floor covering J. A. McKiimon & CRcra Silverton, B. C. Furniture for a Mansion or Cottage at om One hundred dozen of chairs to select from direct from the factories at prices low as the lowest. D. M. CROWLEY, practical up holsterer, with a staff of mechanics, can make anything to order. Ship goods to any part of the District. Their store is the largest in the Slocan countrv. im^^i^a^^^jv^p^t^^^fit^^ Linton Bros' book store. iSSSaSEHBSaKQEB SKaEararasBML. CALGARY and SLOCAN CITY. Note the address: Above the Ledge office, Sixth Street. New Denver, Freight pnid on goods to Sandon, Slocan City and all Lake points. s.a.\"w iviix-ir Opposite New Denver, is now in operation. Orders Address letters to New Denver. promptly filled. Books, Stationery, Wall Paper, Sporting Goods, Fishing Tackle, Pipes, Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobaccoes, Mineral Glasses, Mining Laws & Maps. A new stock of Gents' Furnishings. Special lines in halbreggan, Carpets. Hats, Floor and Table Oilcloth and Linoleum. Also the latest styles in Dress Goods end Trimmings: in silks and velvets and buttons: Sheeting and Pillow Cotton. Other articles too numerous to mention. Afillinery the latest style always on hand. MRS. W W. AlERKLY. E.Parris& CoM SLOCAN CITY and TEN MILE. A full line of Prospectors' and Miners Supplies at Ten Mile Store."@en . "Preceding Title: The Nakusp Ledge

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