"70c830d9-6efb-436d-9c6d-85e6360798af"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers Collection"@en . "2011-08-15"@en . "1892-12-08"@en . "The Tribune was published in Nelson, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, and ran from November 1892 to November 1905. The Tribune was published and edited by John Houston, an outspoken journalist who would later embark on a successful political career, which included four terms as the mayor of Nelson and two terms in the provincial legislature. Houston had established the Miner in Nelson in 1890, and, after leaving the Miner in the summer of 1892, he established the Tribune to compete with his former paper. In August 1901, the title of the paper was changed to the Nelson Tribune."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xtribune/items/1.0187673/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " East &nb \"Iilest Kootenay Have Better Showings for Mines than any other Sections on the Continent of America. (Capital an& Brains ,. Can Both be Employed to Advantage in the' Mining Camps of East and West Kootenay. FI' RST YEAR.-jSrO. nelson imiT.si. Columbia, tj.iji.sday, December, s, 18.2. PRICE TEN- CENTS. WILL THEY BE PROGRESSIVE? OR WILL THEY DONE FOR DO AS YEARS THEY PAST ? HAVE That is, Suspend Opei-atlng Railways and Steamboats During the Winter Months, Simply Because the Volume of Traffic is not as Large in Decemuei*, January, February, and March as it is in Juno, July, August, and September. The closing of navigation on the Columbia, rive*', between lie*vol.stoke and the Upper Arrow hike, at this o.ti'ly date, is a i'aet that should be brought to the notice of every Board of Trade in eastern Canada, to the end that their members should know the truth a.s to tho difficulties which ham per business men in the Kootenay Luke country. The people iu the mining camps in the southern half of .Vest Kootenay have, for the last three years, suffered great loss, simply because the Canadian 1 .icific Railway Company would neither give them connection with, the main line of the Canadian Pacific nor allow them any connection to the south, other than by pack animals. Public opinion in the east was Avorked with the sentimental cry, that if our people were given an outlet to the south their trade would all go to the towns and cities in tin* United States, and the eastern press appeared only too willing to bolster up the selfish and untrue contentious of Lhe railway people. If the commercial bodies and .bo press of eastern Canada had simply declared that this section of the Dominion was entitled to the same facilities of ingress and egress allowed other sections, the Dominion government would not have dared deny the legislation asked for by the men who were ready and willing to give us railways that would be operated the year around ; railways, toe*, that would give us direct connections with all the commercial towns and cities in eastern Canada. Today hundieds of tons of freight, consigned to merchants on Kootenay lake, are sidetracked ab Revelstoke; freight, too,-'that is badly needed by people who are working hard to develop an industry that will ore long be one of the most important in the province, if not in the whole Dominion. Tho re would be less cause for complaint;, and little for alarm, if the railway people would only show that they understand the conditions that exist here and make an effort to help us through our difficulties. But they seem to lack business sense and are wholly without kindly feelings for a people 'whose patronage'they so eagerly seek at certain tinies each year. Were, they good business men, and not a crowd whose highest idea of business is the manipulation and sale of lots in worthless townsites, they woidfl use every effort to '.operate, the twenty-eight miies of railway between Nelson and the mouth of Kootenay .-river. Avhere connection can be \"made the year- round with tlie steamers .'that run'to-tlie south and connect with the Spokane & Northern railway ; an effort that Avould cost but a small outlay in money and one .that would surely result in great good to 'the railway''company. The effort would only require the building of a .spur, less than a mile in length, from the main line-to the steaniboatJand- ing. All the necessary materials are at hand, and if not they can be easily 'procured from the Spokane & Northern, whoso northern terminus is now at North- port, less than lifty miles south of the steamboat landing. The building of this short spur would do away with the wagon transfer, which i.s both costly and tediously slow. The steamboat company, for once, is alive to the situation and willing to take chances that the traffic during the winter will pay operating expenses. That they are not taking any groat chances is evidenced by the fact that the business already guaranteed i.s ample to keep one boat fairly busy during tlie four months of winter. These guarantees are from mining and business men who are .only too willing to increase their output of ore and iiiereJiaiuli.se shipment.-., one. tlicy know that they can depend on communications being kept open. The owners of the Freddy Lee guarantee 1500 tons of ore, tho owners of the Idaho .00 tons, and the owners of the Blue Bird 500 tons. To this guarantee can safely bo added 500 tons more from.smaller-mines in the Kaslo and Slocan districts. The merchants in Nelson, Kaslo, Pilot Day, and Ainsworth are nearly all in need of goods now, and now at Revelstoke, a, telegram from Nelson to general superintendent Abbott at Vancouver remaining unanswered up to the time Tiik Tmmrxi1\" wont to press on Wednesday night. It is supposed, how- over, that the freight will bo forwarded round'by the coast. A?i Alternative Routo. While the route' by way of the Columbia, river is an easy one to keep open, if the railway people could be made to see it. there is an alternative routo by way of the valley of the Kootenay from Bonner's Kerry. To make the latter route feasible a. sleigh road would have to bo built for a distance of lifty-five miles. The following from the Bonner's .Ferry Herald of the*: .rd instant shows what is being done in tho matter: ''The advantages of a winter road from Bonner's Ferry to Kootenay lake have hitherto been pointed out by the Herald. Wo are pleased to state that parties ha ve vthis week started a movement on foot to make the project a success. It is probable that some little work will be required to open Lhe road, such as cutting it out in places. Tho businessmen of this place would do well to contribute liberally, if need be, to whatever expense is required. They will more than make it back in the increase of business resulting therefrom. It would bo the only route open this winter to tho mines on Kootenay and Slocan lakes, and a good deal of trade would be sure to pass through here. A largo quantity of ore would also find a winter market. There is a fine opening for somu enterprising stage man. He could get a good thing for carrying the mails to say nothing of the passenger and express business. For the infor- is estimated that enough cuticle has boon torn from shins on street stumps to make leather binding for every volume iu tho Kaslo Good 'Will Society's reading-room. O ye oppulent townsite owners, who loll in your easy chairs in the distant cities by the coast side revelling in tho wealth poured info your coffers from tho sale of town lots, will you not sot aside enough to purchase a. stump puller and hire some muscle and brawn to operate it, and from our avenues and streets remove those stumps? or will you allow our citizens to continue to bo battering rams? A HURRIEDLY BUILT TRAIL mation of the public, we will state that the distance to the lake by the winter I'oad would not be to exceed fifty-five miles. As the lake never freezes tho stage line would connect with steamers for all points on Kootenay lake.\" SLOCAN LAKE. it is safe to estimate the tonnage required by them at 500 tons. This amount of freight, to say nothing of the passenger traffic, would surely pay, as a gentleman, who is pretty well posted on transportation companies and their charges, estimates the following as the pro rata of the different companies interested : Ore from Kaslo or Ainsworth to Nelson by boat, $1 per ton; from Nelson to the mouth of the Kootenay by rail, $2; from the mouth of the Kootenay to Northport by boat, $2; from Northport to. Spokane by rail, $2.50; from Spokane to Tacoma or Croat Falls by rail, .*f.0..0. Total, $1...50 per ton. The local rntss now charged on merchandise aggregate over $20 a ton between Northport and Nelson, rates which would surely be remunerative, even if the tonnage handled be no more than 500 tons. The estimated cost of the spur and operating the railway foi' four months is Jess than $0000, for which the company Avould receive* fully $12,000 from freight and passenger traffic. Nothing is yet known as to what the Canadian Paeilic will do with the freight News Items li-roni New Denver and Four Mile Creek. Bill Springer reports between four and five foot of snoAv at the .Freddie Lee. Work i.s progressing most satisfactorily. Tho traniAvay is in successful operation. The owners of the Vancouver and Mountain Boomer claims on Four Mile crook have started a tunnel on tho latter claim. There is already about fifty tons of ore on the Vancouver, Avhich will be shipped, via Nakusp, as soon as teams can be procured from the outside. Hugh Mann is now at Calgary, and expects to drive the first team over tlie Nakusp road by the first of January. The steamer W..Hunter is making trips from New Denver to the head and the foot of the lake: She is paying expenses.. TJie recent lieavy wind storms played havoc with tlie trail up Slocan river, but Tom Mulvey, Charles BroAvn, and W. S. Murray removed all obstructions and the trail i.s now iu first-class order. Doubtless this will prove the easiest way to reach tlie Slocan Lake country during .he-winter months. A sleigh road could be put in between Slocan Crossing and Slocan City for a few -hundred dollars. Nelson merchants and the owners of the last named townsite might still iind this suggestion worthy of their attention, aud assistance. Patrick Clark lias bonded a two-thirds interest iii the Rico group of claims for $50,000; of the amount $-1000 was paid down. The postal arrangements for New Denver are very bad, the mail both in and out being most uncertain. If the post- office department cannot make arrangements to have a weekly mail, why not admit the fact and let private enterprise undertake it. The time is fast ch-awing near when the second instalment on lots in New Denver, bought at the government sale, Avill bo due. Perhaps it would be more satisfactory, to both the purchasers' and the general public, if the government made an official announcement as to the ownership of the unsurveyed portion of the town- site before the payment referred, to becomes due. There is no snow at New Denver and less than two feet at Three Forks. That has Opened Up a Mineral District of Great Promise. Probably Mr. Kellie, the member to tlie legislature from West Kootenay, got more censure for lii.s haste in building the trail from the head of Kootenay lake up Lardo river to Trout lake than has Mr. Fitzstubbs, assistant commissioner of lands and works, for not building frails and Avagon roads in other sections of the district. Time has proved tJiat tho censure was unjust in the ono case, and it may prove likewise in the other. Tho trail up the Lardo attracted attention to that section of the country; and once tlie attention of prospectors is called to any section, it is not long before the more ad- A*enfurous ones imagine''the el dorado they have so long searched for is at last discoA'ered. Hundreds of prospectors, disappointed in not finding what they searched forin the Slocan Lake country, struck out early-in tlie summer i'or tlie Lardo Hi ver country, and the mountains on that stream and its many tributaries were soon pretty thoroughly prospected. While if i.s yet too early to make accurate statements as to the merits of the finds, many of tliem are knoAvn to bo good showings for mines. Tlie veins are large and well defined on the surface. The ores are of good grade, running well up in silver and gold and carrying a high percentage of lead. Tho claims on the oast fork of Uealey creek carry galena ores that run from (K) to 120 ounces in silver, while claims farther north ancl Avest carry ores that assay as high as $200 in gold to the ton. On the south fork of the upper Lardo are claims with veins that in place, show fully thirty feet of clean ore, aud on the north fork of the same stream are veins almost as wide, the ore from which assays all the way from ninety ounces up in sih*er as well as fair returns in gold. Good-placer ground is also found on the Lardo and Duncan riA*ers, sonie of Avhich have been worked off and ou for the last twenty ypars, tlie yield therefrom being as high as $20 a day to the man. Thu Trihum. in its first issue referred to the bond ing of two claims on Healey creek, and this week can state that the bonds were made to T. E. Jefferson and others of Spokane, men avIio are interested hi good properties in Slocan district. All tlie country i.s easily accessible from the trail mentioned in the beginning of this article, ancl next summer boats will, no doubt, run to the head of Kootenay lake, Avliere a town named Lardo is being built. of Nelson have secured the Reid <.- Robinson group ofclaims on Four Mile creek, on Slocan lake. No work, however, will bedono there this winter, but active operations will begin, in the early spring. Those claims show surface evidences of grout minora I bodies below, and are highly spoken of by mining men who have examined them. Chadbourne Ac Jowott's is tho only English syndicate operating iu Slocan district so far, a syndicate Avhoa.ro mo novices in mining, having handled the famous Drum Lummon, tJio Empire, and others in Montana, and the wonderful De La i\Iar in Idaho, mines that cost money and have produced millions, every one having been dividend payers. The success of this.syndicate in Slocan will doubtless attract tho attention of other Eng- 1.-.-U. nining people\" towards tho many ad- van ta.ges'of the'Koptehay Lake country. SAMPLING WORKS more expert civil servant is in the employ of the Dominion government than post- office inspector Fletcher, who sees to it that the people of British Columbia and part of the Northwest Territory have all that they require in the way of postal facilities. He even wont so far to accommodate them early'last summcras tonpen a postoffice at New Denver; but, unfortunately, forgot to inquire as to the route over which its mails could bo forwarded during the months iu whicii steamboats and railways are not operated in Kootenay. Tiik 'Tkibuxk merely requests ?>Jr. Fletcher to look into the matter, to the end that mails will be occasionally dispatched to and from tJie only postoflice in the groat Slocaii mining district. STOPPED BY SNOW. THE FOKCE TO BE DOUBLED WHICH WILL RESULT IN A LARGER OUTPUT OF ORE FROM A Mine Already Famous, Although Pew Months Have Elapsed Since Was First Stuck in it. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Only a a Pick A A Stump Puller Wanted, record of the mishaps which have overtaken citizens of Kaslo on account of coming into collision with stumps in the streets on dark nights would require too much space, but to impress on the town- site people the necessity of importing a stump puller, a few striking incidents are here given. A prominent merchant on Avenue A, while going from Front ^street to Jiis place of business, caught Jiis foot on a root and Jiis proboscis, which is an unusually large one, came violently in contact with one of these objectionable stumps. The stump was not injured, but the public knows how that nose looked, for days afterwards, done up in black court]liaster. Another instance: A Kaslo editor Avas going from prayer meeting (or some other place) to his office, his mind filled with beautiful thoughts which were to appear in cold type and shine on the editorial page of his sheet the next issue, when; alas, against a stump ho goes Avith his left eye\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwindow to his soul\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand such an eye as lie had the following day, and for ii week after. He looked as though he had,, tried to interview a Kansas cyclone, an irate mother-in-law, and an army of delinquent subscribers all at the same time. Of theshins that have been skinned and ribs sprung on account of coming in contact with these stumps, it would make a stoic weep were they enumerated. It Opium Seizure. Bonner's\" Ferry Herald, 3rd: *\"'.'James E. Dolan, the custom officer at this port, made another opium seizure last Thursday. This time fifty-seven pounds of the contraband article was found. The officer located it iii the warehouse of the Spokane, at Galena lauding. How it came there is not known. It Avas found tied up in an old gunny sack. The officer named probably has his suspicion as to who smuggled the opium'in, but is reticent about the mutter, it is thought that a great deal of opium has been smuggled through hero the past season. It is next to impossible for our regular officers to stop it. The smugglers have them spotted and know just when and where andJiowto dodge them. The only way to catch the offenders is by special'detectives. Bonner's Ferry, Spokane, and Ka- lispell are the principal headquarters for the men connected Avith the different branches of the smuggling work.\" Is the Route a Feasible One? The opinion i.s generally held by engineers and others who have been through the mountains to the east of Kootenay lake, that there is no feasible route for a railway north of the one down Goat river. Now that the Lardo country i.s attracting attention, the opinion is expressed by prospectors that there i.s a feasible route across the mountains by following an old Hudson's Bay Company trail that loaves the Duncan river aud'comes out on the \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDmost nortlierly fork of the St. Mary's river. But what is the; use of discovering feasible routes for railways that can only bo built Avhen the Canadian Pacific gets a good ready\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwJiicJi Avill bo in the dim, dim future. An English Syndicate at Work. F. M. Chadbourne, the representative! of a London, England, syndicate who are doing considerable work in the Slocan district, was in Kaslo during tho week attending to the shipment of supplies to the Great Western group. The tunnel on tin; Great Western is now in 150 foot, and the latest report is that a fine body of ore is in sight. The greatest difficulty Mr. Chadbourne has had to contend with is getting in supplies to the property, but he says he will have them there if fie has to purchase an outfit himself. The Great Western will bo actively worked all winter. Mr. Chadbourne and Mr. Jowett Would Be a Paying Enterprise in the Kootenay Lake , Country. One of the most pressing needs of the Kootenay Lake country is a local market for ores, ancl no one thing goes farther in that direction than sampling works. A sampling mill is not a reduction works by any means, biro .imply macJiinery for tJie crushing and sampling of any quantity of ore, so its value can be determined by the ordinary process of assaying. TJie equipment of a worlcs of the kind consists of motive power to propel machinery made up of a.rock bieakor, Cornish rolls, automatic sampler, and generally a grinding machine to pulA'cri/.e the sample to a pulp. The'ore is fed info the crusher, from which it goes to the rolls, Avhere i i.s crushed still finer. As it passes from the rolls an appliance is so arranged as to take a small quantity of the ore from the main stream and deposit it us a sample of the amount run through, if the quantity crushed is a large one, the sample will also be large, necessitating \"quartering\" or cutting down, which is done by thoroughly mixing the mass and dividing it into four equal parts. If the sample is stiil unnecessarily large the process is repeated fill the required bulk is obtained. Tho remaining part is then ground to a powder, thoroughly mixed, and, as a general rule, placed in a number of small bottles ancl sealed for the assayor whoso duty is to determine the metallic value. Works of this kind at a shipping point do aA\*ay with the necessity of a producer following his ore te the smelter and Avaitiiig an indefinite time for returns. For instance, a 100-ton lot can be sampled one day and the mine owner have his money for the same the day following. Another satisfactory feature is, that the ownor of the ore can see everything done with his' product and knows that he is getting fair treatment. The establishment of a sampler would bring agents foi' the many different smelting -works-'to the lake country to bid on and purchase ore.' Certain kinds of ores are worth, more to .some reduction works than others, hence an ore buyer can afford to pay more for one'particular kind than the representative of some, other concern could. These matters:are regulated Avhen a sampling- niill is in operation, otherwise the mine owner is at the mercy..of the purchaser. A /prospector developing a claim cannot do so .to advantage unless he can turn liis ore into cash from time to time as small quantities are mined, as it is often unprofitable for Jiim.to do so if he has to ship itto distant points and a wait returns. The writer has seen a.s many as thirteen dilTerent ore buyers bidding on ore at sampling works in a cam]) not near so extensive us the one of which Kaslo is now the outlet. The manner of operating is generally as follows: Each bidder receives a sealed bottle of the pulp. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Helms it assayed, and at once hands in his bid at so.much per ton. -Tho owner of tho ore considers these tenders, and makes a sale to the one which is the most satisfactory, it matters not how many local smelters there may be in a country, or how many in a single camp, for that matter. The'sampling works are a necessity, just the same. With a works of the kind described, low grade ores that would not othcirwi.se stand shipment are often made profitable, for the simple! reason that tho purchaser can mix the ores he buys, the low Avith he high, and ship a uniform grade to the smelter he represents. 'Work to be Resumed at the Poorman, The a. vera go Nelson man begins to believe that the only mines likely to be worked in the near future are located in other districts than tJie one in which Nelson i.s situated. But the average man is to be agreeably disappointed. Word comes from the outside that arrangements have been completed with the Husseys, who own a controlling interest in the Poorman, which will result in tin; early resumption of work at both the mine and mill. About forty men will lie employed, and a.s the ore is free gold, the price of silver or the duty\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD on lead does notcutany figure whatever in its working. Quick Dispatch. The first carload of goods shipped in bond from Hamilton, Ontario, for the lake country was delivered at A.iusworth to IT. Giegerieh in thirteen days from the date of shipment. The goods came over A Dea,l on for Several Big Prospects in the * Lardo Country. Revelstoke Star, November 20th *'C. F. Blackburn, mining geologist of Seattle: Edward Blewott, mining capitalist of Seattle, and Mr. Pearsoll. the discoverer of the Monte Christo mining district, Washington, in company with Thomas Downs of Revelstoke, were passengers on the .steamer Marion last week for the Lardo. Mr. Blackburn had brought tJie two gentlemen here from Seattle to examine some of tlie big gold and galena lodges in the Lardo, with a view to getting Mi*. Blewott interested in these famous prospects. But. unfortunately, a ho_A\"y snowstorm Jiad been prevailing in the mountains for .several (fays, and after getting within two miles''of one of the big lodes they were obliged to abandon the undertaking, a.s the snow was four foot deep, making it impossible to give tho property the thorough examination contemplated.- Mv. Blackburn, especially, was very much disappointed, a.s there was no doubt of the deal going through had the snow permitted an examination. The gentlemen returned to the coast last Saturday night. Mr. Blewott is tlie owner of some of the richest gold aud silver mines in the State of Washington, besides being one of the promoters of the branch railroad to Monte Christo, now under construction, and the large smelting works now being erected at Everett, on Pugot Sound. Mr. Blewott lias promised to come again as soon as the snow permits next spring and examine the mines in tho Lardo. Being a practical mining man and a niillionuire he will soon grasp the situation, and no doubt a number of the Lardo claims will change hands and be extensively worked. In the meantime, Mr. Blackburn is in communication with .some Boston capitalists avIio will arrive here next spring Avith a view to purcliasing meritorious properties, ft is very likely that two large deals will yet be consummated this Avinter. An Old Wood-Riverite Dead. Bonner's Ferry Herald, 3vd : **C. B Fox, a member of the secret service under the treasury department at Washington, was found dead at the Bonner house last Wednesday morning. He has been here about three weeks working up a ease against the opium.'smugglers.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD It avu.s he who gave major Barnes the'tip by means of which he .was able to make his recent 'capture. Fox concealed Jiis identity Avhile in Bonner's Ferry aiid Avent by the name of Levi Young. He had been 'dissipating heavily of late, and was addicted to the use of .morphine, and it was probably from an overdose of the drug that he died. The coroner's jury said it was heart failure caused by an excessive use of stimulants. Fox came to Idaho as register of the land office at Monfpelier; then engaged in nier- chandising at ilailey; was afterwards clerk of Alturas eountv, aud, in 1800, clerk of the state senate ot Washington. He was about 10 years of age, and in many respects was a brilliant man. fie leaves a wife ancl four children in D.C.\" Washington. Boom'ng a Townsite. Already there is some stir about the townsite of Lardo. A. M. Wilson i.s therewith a force of fifteen or twenty men building a road to connect with the government trail. Sunday last the steamer Ivaslo was chartered and Frank Fletcher. A. II. Buchanan, F. M. .McLeod. S. II. Groon, T. .1. Lendriini. A. E. Hodgins. and a-number of others visited and inspected the townsite. A. II. Buchanan has consented to act as trustee! for the owners of Lardo and will sign all agreements and execute all deeds of conveyance. the Great Northern to Bonner's Ferry. A Request Without a Sinister Motive. The civil servants of the government are so often requested to take action requiring the expenditure of money that they soon become expert in detecting requests which have a sinister aim; and no Will Ship a Carload of Ore. The owners of the Mile Point claim, in Ainsworth district, will ship a carload of ore to Great Falls next week. The tunnel is in about fifty foot, twenty-five feet of the distance in ore. the vein now being be No mine in the whole lake country is so favorably situated for shipping ore. a fully five feet wide!. The ore that wil shipper! samples ir>0 ounces to the ton. Siwash and a wheelbarrow easily a carload iu a few hours at a point it can be loaded on steamboats. UKllllg where Smelters Now Pay the Duty. Formerly the duty on ores shipped from this section to smelters in the I'nifed States was paid by the mini! owner, the value being ascertained by the collector of customs at Bonner's Feirry or at Little Dalles. This often caused vexatious delays. Now the smelters give bonds that, they will make correct returns of the value of all dutiable ores sini'lted by them, and they' pay the duty, charging the amount to the shipper of the ore. Jim Ward nor was iu Nelson ou Tucs-'.. day, on his return to Spokane from a trip to tho Freddy Leo. Ho reports the gravity trannvay Avorking to perfection. ' Its'- construction ancl Avorking are simple in. the extreme. The trannvay .is a sort'*of ~ toboggaii slide Avith a drum on which 'To'\" wind rope at the upper end. To the rope are attached boats, Avhich slide on the snow, the loaded boat sliding down pulling the empty one up. Mr. Wardner took a seat in a boat on tlie trial trip, ancl had a mishap. Something got Avrong with tho rope, avJi'icIi caused the bout to stop so suddenly in its elowiiAvard career that Jim took a flying lea]) in the air, landing about sixty feet away from tlie slide. Ho' would not have cared for the mishap Jiad not a representative of his Great Falls partner being present to witness it. The force of men ut the mine will be increased from fifteen to thirty at once, Avhicli means that tho present output will bo doubled. Before leaving Nelson\" Mr.' Wardner ordereel five turkeys to bo sent up to the boys for their Christmas dinner. It is understood that the final payment on the mine will be made at Spokane on tho KStJi instant. Mining Notes. . 1 .ussoll BrotJiers, a wealthy firm of Kansas City operators, have become interested in the Noble Five, the group of claims that did so much to advertise Slocan district, and another effort will bo made to get supplies in, so that Avork can bo carried on during tho Avinter. it is the intention to crowd development Avork next season. William E. Childs of Spokane is prepared to begin work on the Alamo group, iu Twin Lake basin and quite near the Idaho mine. This property is under bond to Scribnor, I.rumhcllcr <.*_ _ lclutosh, Spokane capitalists, the consideration being $-J0,000. Five men will bo kept at work through the winter. The first shipment of Freddy Lee ore (.100 pounds), via the Kaslo route, avus dumped at the steamer landing on the 1st instant. Arrivals of teams laden Avith this ore will soon be.of daily occurrence. The ten and a half tons of Dardanelles ore shipped to Tacoma yielded -IS. ounces silver and 5(5% lead per ton. Gun any mine in uuy country beat.this . Ore from the Blue Bird is being delivered on the wagon road, near Bear creek, at the rate of fifty sacks a clay, it i.s dragged five and a half miles on' rawhides; an animal clraAA-ing seven sacks, which average MO-pounds ouch. .John 1*. Piggott and Lane C. Gilliam bonded the Solo and White Elephant claims from Pound ..Winchester on Monday last'for\" $15,000. Men will bo 'put to work developing Avithin a week. These claims are situated oil the oast side of Lidelle creek, about two and ,one-half miles from the wagon road and eighteen iniles from Kaslo. Samples recently assayed from the .pay streak of the Solo gave from 102 to i05 oune*es silver and 02 to 77 per cent load. The ore also carries gold. M. Wallace, .superintendent of the Neosho, in Ainsworth district, reports work progressing favorably on that property, tho drifts being in good ore. * Morrison Ac Virden have a contract to run a 50-foot tunnel on the Tain O'Sha liter, a mine on the east side of \"Kootenay lake about a mile south of Hendrvx's Blue Bell. John H. Cook is daily expected at ivaslo with a force of men to work the Silver Bell, a claim in Slocan district in which he! is interested. A representative of the 'Groat Falls, smelter was in the lake country this week. As soon as navigation opens in the spring ore can be shipped from any point on Kootenay lake to the smelter at Groat Falls. th\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD:.-. W ... \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD**-,. 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GrOILtlD SILVEB X__I__1__A_-I_) 200 Lots Will be Sold Locally After Sunday, 11th Inst. At $120 Corners, and $75 Inside. TERMS, One-Third Cash, Balance in 3 and 6 Months. (The Nagle-Davies Crown Grant.) The Gateway of the Lardo-Duncan Mining The Head of Navigation at the North End of Kootenay Lake. - The Terminus of the Government Trail The Only Flat Land Not Subject to Overflow and the Only Harbor at the North End of Kootenay Lake. These first 200 lots and streets will b< cleared free of cost after which price, will be advanced t< indemnify vendors foi cost of clearing an< other improvements. 9 Managing Agent, \" -___ Stone Block, KASLO, Be Co It; PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. TIIK TKIIH'N'K is published on Thursdays, by John Houston & Co., mul will be mailed Lo .subscribers on payment of O.vi* noi.1,.1/1 ji yc.'i*. _*. sjiibscriptiun taken for less Uum ii ve;u'. UFA'(.!..MI AlJVKKTI.Sf.-MKN'T.- printed ;i(. Hie following nit.es: One incli, f.'Ki ;i your: two inelies, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1*0 ii yo.-ir: l.liree iiiohen SSI ii yunr: four inches, $!W! ii ye.-ir; five inches, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD11)3 ;i year: six inches mid over, iit the nit.e of $1.50 mi inch por iiionth. \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\N..II''..T ADVKR'I'I.SKMKNT.S 20 cents u line for lirsL insertion anil 10 cents a line for each additional insertion. H rtb, marriage, and deiit.h notices free. I-OCAI, Oil I'KAIHXC* MATTN It NOTICKS 5(1 cents a line each insertion. JOU l'IM.TIN'0 at. fair rates. All accounts for job printing mid advertising payiible on the lirsl of every iiionLh; subscription, in adviince. A I) DI i. k, _ S all communications to Tin-\" TUIIiUXIO, Xelson, U. C. PARTNERSHIP NOTICES. TiriO L'N'I-KKSICfXI-'I). doing business as blacksmiths under the lirm name of Harvey & Keefer, have dissolved copartnership from iind after the date ..given below. All accounts due the lirm are payable to Georgo 11. Reefer, who will settle all firm debts. J. A. HAUVJ.V. GKUItGK IT. KIOKFICR. Dated at Xelson. H. .., the 21th day of October, ISitt. TITK L'XDKH.SICJXI-'n have formed a copartnership, under the lirm name of John Houston & Co., to carry on a general publishing and printing business, also buying and selling real estate and mineral claims ou commission, at, Xelson, Hritish Columbia. W.'J. MACK AY, C. V. DAKK, JOHN\" HOUSTOX, Dated at. Nelson, Xovember 1st, 1S_*..'.'..'. POR SALE. only connection tlie .oart has in the Avinter js to tlie south, and tho business would, for that reason, be diverted from tlie main line of the Canadian Pacific. Under the charter and by the \"provisions of the ;ict granting the bonus of land, the railway company was required to equip and maintain a line of steamers on Kootenay river and lake. This requirement has not been lived up to, i'or the company has nota single .steamer on Kootenay lake, nor even an interest in one. The company should be compelled to maintain and operate its railway in the Avinteras Avell as in the summer, or, on failure to do so, be compelled to return to the province and the Dominion the land and money given to aid its construction. A .TO-FOOT improved lot on Kast liaker struct. Xelson. Price S'iOO: half cash, biilauce in six 'and twelvemonths. Apply to John Houston &; (Jo., Nelson. TWO ..FOOT unimproved lots in block 2. Kaslo. Price SI 100 cash. Apply to John Houston & Co. Xelson. A SO-FOOT unimproved lot on Kast. Maker street, Xel- son. Price $2.-i('(): half cash, balance in three, six and nine months. Apply to John Houston & Co., Xelson. A '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD('-FOOT unimproved lot on West Baker street, Xelson. Price *. _iMj0; half cash, balance in three and six months. Apply to John Houston & Co., Xelson. A.-XI-I-'OOT -improved corner lol. on ICasfc Maker street, Xelson. Price ?1000 cash. Apply to John Houston & Co., Xelson. IOO LOTS in the Migelow addition to Xew Denver v-*v-/ Prices from f.\"* to S_ THE SITUATION IN A NUTSHELL. six and twelve month: Xelson. .200; half cash, balance in \pply to John Houston & Co., FOR RENT. CD--J A _ lONTIf\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Log cabin on Hast Baker street, _*.!- *P*~' son. Apply to John Houston & Co., X'elson. $10 Xelson. A MONTH\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDStory and a half bouse on Josephine street, Xelson. Apply to John Houston & Co., $10 A .MONTH\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDOlliees in Houston block, corner Bilker and Josephine streets, X'elson. Apply to John Iloiit-lon _. Co., Xelson. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. DI.aBAI*. .1.1 .\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-Physician and Surgeon. Rooms:. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD and I Houston block, Xelson. Telephone 12. \"DAXI'AIJ, H. 1CK.M1', M.K.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDKxaiiiines and reports -*-'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD on mines iind prospects. Twenty years' continuous experience. Independent of any mine or works. Xot interested in the buying or selling of mines or prospects. Kaslo, B.C. NOTICES. NOT1CK is hereby given that the power of attorney made by James K. Robertson in favor of li. Forrester Dalv has been revoked. Victoria, B.C., 2*'nd Xovember. IS'.rl. FOR SALE-SEWING MACHINE. \"-fid-O W-l-'- I-L/'IICIIASIC a brand new singer sewing *P^AJ machine with all latest attachments. Apply at Tiuiti.'Ni-: ollice. Cost -js.-\".. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDhi. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDrtbttni. THi;i:.SI)AY MORNING I)I-*C KMHKK 8. IS!)*.' When monometallists argue in opposition to silver that it is a \".heap,\" \"depreciated.\"' money, they argue -what i.s not true. Here are one or tAVO fundamental principles Avhich must not be overlooked: With a single standard Avith /silver degraded to the condition of a commodity\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD it Avill necessarily share the fate of all other commodities. When gold is scarce and -high everything else is (compared Avith gold) plentiful and Ioav.; \"Goldbugs \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDpretend to'believe that silA*er is clieap because there is too m^ It is nonsense. There never has been\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDnever can be\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDsuch a \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDproduction of silver as to depreciate its value. Will goldbugs argue that land is chea]) because there is too much of it, \"when Ave have .less land per capita than ever before? Does any moiio- metallistever remember to have seen such a thing as \"cheap\" sHver Avhen it Avas coined on an equality Avith gold? If silver had suffered over-production it Avould be cheap as compared Avith other products; but it is not. It is only chea]) as compared with gold. And in this regard everything is chea,]). Silver has Hot depreciated because of over production. It has not de- 'preciated at all. Gold has become so scarce and high that everything else, by comparison, is low. Demand fixes \-alue. Partial coinage of .silver, makes partial demand for silver. And Avhile there is only a partial demand, silver producers 'will only receiA'e a partial price. That is the situation in a nutshell. The monometallists know it. Their talk of free silver, depreciated money, and cart-wheel dollars is only claptrap to deceive the ignorant. If the result of the Brussels conference is not the rehabilitation of sih*er, the conference will have been for naught. RATIO OF ILLEGITIMACY. pear to have little influence. AVc must seek the real factors in race and heredity, legislative restraints upon marriage, social usage, and other like circumstances.\" (Notary Public) AND REAL ESTATE AUCTIONEER and COMMISSION AGENT l'-El'KUS-XTfXG The Confederation Liife Association, Thcl'huiiii.. Kire Insurance Coinpany, The Provident Fund Accident Company; *-' ALSO, - The Sandy Croft Foundry Coiniiany, near Chester. England, imikcrs of all kimls of mining machinery, air compressors, rock breakers, stamps, etc. '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'-. No. 1 JOSEPHINE STREET, LOTS FOR SALE IN ADDITION \"A\" Adjoining the government townsite of Xelson, AT $125 and UPWARDS, with a rebate for buildings ereeted. The best residential property in Nelson. Value sure to increase. ' Apply to -:- W. A. JOWETT,-:- Mining and Real Estate Broker, Auctioneer and Commission Agent, Agent for Kelson and AVest Kootenay District, or to IN'N'KS & RICHARDS, Vaneouver, li. G. In what is locally known as \"Four Mile,\" on Slocan lake, are some of the prospective! great mines of Slocan district. The Alpha group, the Reid & Robinson group, the Mahanl claims, the Anderson group, the Grover & Stevenson group, and more than fifty singlef locations are in the camp, all carrying ore that assays up in the hundreds of ounces per ton. At the mouth of Four Mile creek is a splendid site for reduction works, where, if erected, smelter would be within easy distance of all the mines in Slocan district. The owners of tl land at the mouth of the creek have had a part of it surveyed for a townsite, and as anl inducement for the erection of reduction works will place in trust, as a bonus, one-half of alii sums received from the sale of lots up to $50,000. Smelting men, looking for eligible sites! for reduction works, should investigate this proposition. For further particulars address! JOHN HOUSTON & CO., agents for the townsite owners, Nelson, B. C. Lots in the Bigelow Addition to New Denver are now in the market. These lots are asl desirable, for either business houses or residences, as any in the New Denver townsite, as the f Addition fronts Slocan lake and is less than 500 yards distant from the New Den ver Post- office. The only safe harbor for steamboats is in front of this addition, and a wharf for the) steamer \"W. Hunter\" will be built from the proceeds of the first sale of lots. Lots will be] given free to business men and prospectors who will agree to erect business houses or residences thereon within a reasonable time. Lots now on sale at prices ranging from $50 to $200. Terms, half cash balance in a year. Gall on or address GEORGE A. BIGELOW, 16 East Baker Street, Nelson, B. G. BRANCH OFFICE. A bniiM-b ollice of Tin: Tuiut'Ni:, with .Air. It: II. ICemp in ehuige. ha- been opened in Kn-.lo. Mr. Kemp is authorized lo receipt for suhseripl ions and contract for advertisements. Prospectors and uiinenwiiors are re'iuesled to give b iiu in foi million regarding I heir claims and mines and any such informal ion will receive his careful at ten- fion. VIOLATING ITS CHARTER OBLIGATIONS. Hef'ore I.nilding tlie railroad from Robson on tlie Columbia, river to Nelson on tlie west arm of Kootenay lake the Canadian i.icific liai'lway Company 'was granted a liberal bonus in land from tlie province and the usual cash railway subsidy from the,Dominion government. If Tim Tin husk is not mistaken, the province has passed title to the granted land and the Dominion has handed over the full amount of the cash subsidy. Notwithstanding this has been done, the railway remains incomplete, in that it has not been continuously operated. Last Avinter the road wtis not operated for months, and the present indications are that it will not be operated this. This is not because the road has not been a. profitable feeder for the main line of the Canadian Pacific railway, for it is within bounds to state that its cost lias almost already been repaid from the business that it has brought the parent company. Then why is the railway not operated in tho winter as well its in the ..tuniner. Simply because tlie The People of Ireland the Most Virtuous in Europe. A table of statistics of illegitimacy in Europe, published by Dv. Albert Lef'fing- well, shows the Irish to be the most virtuous of all the peoples, the ratio of illegitimate births among them being 2(5 in evevy 1000. TJie Knglish rate-is '18, and the Scotch S2 per KM). Thus we may roughly say that for every child born out of wedlock in Ireland two are born in England and three in Scotland. In Europe tit large, Ireland is closely followed in its place of honor by .Russia with the low rate of 28 per I(XX)', and by Holland, with the rate of .2 per KXX). the Italian and .I'Yench rates tire respectively 7*1 and 82 per 1000, comparable with the rate in \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDScotland. Among the countries that show the highest proportions of illegitimacy tire Sweden, .Saxony, Bavaria, and Austria, in which the rates range from 100 to MO per 1000. Austria, is at the opposite pole from Ireland, and takes the lowest place in morality among the l_ti.op.aii nations, with a, rate of .1.-10 per 1000. The incpiiry into the causes of these varying rates of illegitimacy raises complicated and interesting problems. The causes generally supposed, to be principal factors in the matter are poverty, ignorance and the contamination of great cities. Examining the influence of these, Dr. Leffingwell finds it very slight, in Ireland the loAvest rates are in the poorest counties. Russia, with one of tlie lowest rates, is one of the poorest countries; and the author affirms '\"there is nowhere such uniform relation between the indigence of a people aiid the prevalence of illegitimacy as to justify the hypothesis that this phase of moral delinquency in any district or country can be accurately described as caused by its poverty. As little can the influence of great cities account for the prevalence of illegitimacy. Education and creed ap-, '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD .-JLit (NOTAltV 1'UltUC.) Stone Block, KASLO. MINES AND REAL ESTATE I lock my wallet on 10th December. Buyers, get your agreements, quick, from B. H. LEE, Kaslo, or me. Success phenomenal. Situation immense. Tinkle, Tinkle! the silver-laden sleighs, along Hector street, day in and day out. All kinds of business men wanted. Final advertisement. G- M. SPROAT, Nelson, Dealer in Townsites. SOU-: AOKNT KOIt TIIK Town of Watson The bush ions c-cnli . for the Kiislo-.louui miiio; MA.N'AC'...; AOKNT I'OU X__A_._RIDO- Till! ko}* to the Ki'eitt Liirdo nnd I'uiicun River C.'iunps. \v. j. \vn.so.\\ M*. l'KI!I)UI*. Wilson .&. Perdue. Nelson and Kaslo. Will coiil.nicl to supply iniiiiiiK noiiipiuiies and sl.cmii- boals wilh fresh incuts, mid delivcM- same at any mine or liindinx in the Koolenay Lake country. NELSON Office ancl Market, 11 East Baker St. ICASLO MARKET, Front Street. FURNITURE _ PUIS I & J. TAYLOR, Lots can now be secured in this most desirable portion of the city. Lots 50 by 125 feet for sale. Corners $75; inside -$50. Terms, One-Third down, One-Third 9 months. One-Third 6 months, jas. Mcdonald & co. JOSEPHINE STREET, NELSON, - - - Carry full lines of all kind.-' of J< iirnituru for residences, hotels. and olliees. . Mattresses made lo order, and ut prices lower than eastern and coast manufacturers. TIIKY AUK ALSO AOKNTM l*OI{ Evans Pianos and Doherty Organs Slocan Trading & Navigation Company, Ltd. \"TORONTO SAFE WORKS;\" : Toronto, Ontario, Families wisliiiitr to liuild residences canohlitin lai'Ker lols if desired. A line stream of wider on the land, available for household purposes. For further particulars apply to jbl __^_._rsriD_E]_RSO-isr. MA.Vl'KACT. KHItS OK FIRE-PROOF BURGLAR-PROOF The company's AI jiassetiKer and freight, steiunei1 W. HUNTER .1. A. KSTAW'OOI. Master will make regular trips duriiiK* the wilder season from New Denver to the head and the lower end of .Sloean lake. At the head of lhe lake passengers can lake the trail for Nakusp, on I In: Columbia river, _) miles distant; and ut. the lower end pack and saddle animals can always hi! obtained to convoy freight and passengers to Slocun OoHKintf, on the ('oluinl)ia& Kootenay railway,.'_ niilcn distant. Kor rates apply on hoard. Nov.Hibo. l.*.!*, lay*-*. W. C. M.IC1NNON, Huv'y. VAULT DOORS. FRED. J. SQUIRE, ff\ere\)3i)k O3I-0r \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD BAKER STREET, NELSON, HAS O.V DI.SI'I.AY A I'Ul.I. ItANUK OK Plain and Fancy Worsted Suitings, Scotch and Irish Tweeds and Serges. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAM. AND WINTKIt flOODK .VOW ON HANI). PBICBS TO STJXT T__C__ _?I_VE3_S Stone's Building-, KASLO CITY. General Agent. OFFICE, Victoria, B.C. WORKS, Nanaimo, B.C. MANUFACTURERS OF lasting and Sporting Powder. WlfOr-TCSAMO dioalkus is \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD- SAFETY FUSE DETONATORS. Branch Office and Magazine at NELSON. ELECTRIC BLASTING APPARATUS. G. C. TUNSTALL, Jr., Nelson Agent. Nelson Livery Stable J-assouKers and hiiKKiif,- transferred to and from the railway depot, and sleamhoal landing. Krcijflit hauled and job leainine; done. Stove wood foi- siilo. WU-SON & YVIIXIAM.SON J'UOI'HIKTOIW J BANK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. _*TOTICB. Ml*. Oranffo V. Holt has been appointed acting agent of of till! Hank's llranoli at. Nelson, vice I{. Forrester IJiily, who is no longer in tho Hank's service. WM, C. VVAltl), Vi-toria, I*. C, November l.-illi, 18J'& _1aim/;or. _^ \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-.#-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD P _-_x**\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDr.\">. iJL\" \"i.-ift_'.i.t \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD^_^a \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'.\"'-.'s-lij \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-:. -'-VI THE TRIBUNE: NELSON, B.C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1892. NEW PROCESS- FOR TREATING ORES. AGENT 1 I the Capital, Rest, all paid, up, - Sir DONALD A. SMITH Hon. C! HO. A. IlllUMMONI),. l-:. a. ci-Ouston, $12,000,000 6,000,000 President Vice-1'resident General _ lanager stretch of- fre.-ili water, to an oarsman's eye. in the world. O'Connor was there again a year ago with Hanlan, and in 1.91 and last; summer rowed double races with Hanlan as a. partner. N _sr__XjSO_Nr _3__,__.isro__: W. Cor. Baker and Stanley Streets. mtW-lll-'K in LONDON (England), NEW YORK CHICAGO, and in the principal cities iu Canada. Uuy and sell Sterling lOxchango \"and Cable Transfers (.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDKANT (.i.M.MKI1. IAI, A.\'l> TU.WHLI.HIIS' (Jltl'l .TS, available in any part of Ihe world. [>i'Ai-*Th! ik.s-.ki>; coi.mixtions .maiu:; ktc. . SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. I (.AT I-\" OK INTKKKtjT (al present.) KOUI! I'erCenl. ANK OF RITISH COLUMBIA (Incorporated by Knyal Charter, Capital (paid up) \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD600,000 . (Willi power to increase.) Reserve Fund - \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD220,000 . , i_i*.'.) $3,000,000 $1,100,000 Branches 'Xelson. ti.C. Victoria, H.C... Viincouver, H.C. Nanaimo, H.C. New W'estiniiisLei1. H.C. K'aiuloop: .B.C. j San I'V.-iucLsi \. Seat I Ic. ni, liiUi., le. Wash. 1'orllanil, Ore.. , Vacuum. Wash. HKAD OK I1'I CIO: (JO Lombard struct, LONDON', Knt;. Ag*ents and Correspondents CAN ADA\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHank of \"Montreal and braiK-hos: Canailian Jimil*. ol' Commerce and branches; Imperial Hank of Canada and brunches. Commercial Hank of JNIaniloba; and Bank of Nova Scotia. UNLTKD STATES\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAyehts Hank Montreal, New York: Bank of Montreal, Chicago. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT., Interest, at the rate of 1 por cent per annum will be' allowed on all time deposits at present. A CHAMPION DEAD. One of Canada's Great Oarsmen, Who Was Seldom Defeated. . William O'Connor', the clia'ni])ion -oarsman ot! America, Avho-diedweok before last, .was borii in Toronto, May -Mfch, 1803., He stood 5 feet 9 inches, and in racing con- pounds. He,began his ..ditiou.weighed 1(5-1 career as an aintiteur, and first came into prominence as a member of the Don Amateur IIowing Club of Toronto in 1882. In the following year he won the junior singles, in the Canadian Association regatta at HainiHon, and in 1881, having joined the Toronto Rowing Club, with his partner Con 1-iiright, he won the senior doubles both fit.the Canadian and,United States national'regattas. Iii ].(\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD).-> he and Enright again Avon the Caiuidiaiidoubles, but were ruled out a.s_ doubtful .-unatours by tJie National Association, lie entered the ranks of the professionals in the year :i.S;., when he challenged S. Hit'/ for\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD $ 1000 aside. Hit/, declined to row, and in the same year O'Connor met and defeated II. Stone, of Minneapolis. Then in 1887 O'Connor beat Albert liamiii, but in his race, at l.uiTalo, his boat was .swamped and Kdward iianlan won, O'Connor taking third place, well up. lie defeated Peterson in a single-sculling race in March, 1888, at Han Francisco, anil-'the California sports went broke. .On August 1.11i he boat George Lee in a, .match.on Toronto bay. He now challenged Teenier to row for the championship,' . au.d while that sculler wtis making np his mind he rowed in a race at Sturgeon Point, defeating .bike Gaudaur, G. \V. Lee, and II. l3. Wise.- Teenier' and O'Connor at length came to terms, and on November 24th the Toronto man won the chanipioii.ship of America, on the Potomac at 'Washington City, the tinie being 20*:.j. lie next traveled to England and in September, 1889, was beaten on the Thames by II. E. Searle of Sydney, New South A Vales, who died soon after. O'Connor was not satis- lied with that beating, but on returning to Canada resolved to visit Australia'. This lie did, and on April 1 Ith, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD I \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD<)(), he was twice beaten by .lames Htaubury, who was the last man Searle won from previous, to making his ill-fated journey to England. O'Connor returned home a disappointed man to become the proprietor of his late brother's hotel, lie was still champion of America., aud, being the last man defeated by Hearle, was virtually, until Stnnbury 'conquered him, the champion of the world, although hisclaini Avas disputed. O'Connor visited Seattle in May, 1889, and rowed on .Lake Union on Decoration day with Lee, Hanim, tind Pot- erson. O'Connor never lost an opportunity in his travels'to speak of Lake Washington,' near Seattle, as, tho linest Husbands That Are Not Henpecked. Tho laws of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico are simple, but admirable and are thoroughly enforced. Crime is practically unknown and for occasional lapses the offender is induced tp.jail by handcuffs more civilized than our own, since'it fits about the neck, and the culprit can neither be tortured by it, nor reach nor pull back upon his captors. The gentleness .of officials and laymen' is always notable. A resistor is never clubbed nor choked iur-o acquiescence, but is overpowered without a scratch. A drunken vagabond once shot a woman in Isleta ancl (led. A posse with rides pursued and soon overtook him. He intrenched himself and was ready to shoot the first who should come nearer. Instead of silencing him with a bullet as there was perfect justice in doing, Auguazil ordered him dislodged with stones. A deft throw stunned him and Jie was captured, with one unimportant bruise. This is a typical case. The social corner-stone is not tho family, but the clan. Husband and wife must belong to dilTerent gontes, and the children follow her clan. In other words descent is from the mother and not from the father. The Pueblo had invented a\-oman's rights before any Caucasian acquired that social insomnia, and it remains one of his fundaments. He lias \"never used his wife as a pack beast, lie i.s not henpecked, but just, and even finds no shame in \"toting'' the baby upon his back all day Avhen he has no more essential duty. The spheres of the sexes are clearly doiined. but manfully. The woman is complete owner of the house and all it contains save his personal trinkets, and she has no other work to do than house work, tit which she is no sloven. Should her husband ill-treat her, she could permanently evict him from home and would be upheld in so doing. The nuin tills the fields and they tire his; but. after the crops are housed, she litis equal voice in-thoir disposition, The live stock is of course his, but he Avill seldom sell an animal without consulting his wife. The family relations are A*ery beautiful. . A Great Strike Declared Off. The great strike at Carnegie's Homestead steel, works has been declared off after a live months' struggle, Avhich for bitterness Avas probably never equalled iu America. The army of strikers finally decided to give up the fight. This action was taken at a meeting* of the lodges of the Amalgamated Association at. Homestead. The vote stood 101 iii favor of declaring the strike off and ninety-one against it. The officials'addressed, tlie- members and in -plain Avords told them the strike was lost, and advised them to take 'steps to better their condition. The remarks met with considerable opposition, but when the A'ote was taken it showed a. majority of ton in favor of declaring the strike off. A member of the advisory board said he had been trying to get the strike declared off for some weeks, as he knew it was lost, and it would ha ve been better for the men, as a great many more would have gotten their, places back. Those who cannot get back are in a bad fix, tis the relief funds will be stopped and many hundreds of .them have nothing to live on. Tlie people of Homestead, especially'the business men, are highly_elated over the fact that tho strike is oIT, for if it had continued much longer it would have ruined the town. Many business houses foil into the hands of the sheriff since the strike has boon on. The strike tit ono time involved nearly 1 (),()()() men, and the loss iu .wages wiil roach, it is said, in the neighborhood of .*p2.()()0.()(H). Then there is the immense loss to the firm which cannot be estimated, but which conservative people think is at least double the amount lost by the men in wtigos. To this can bo added nearly half a million dollars paid to the state troops, and the costs to the county of Allegheny for the riot, the treason charges and other causes growing out of the strike. At least thirty-five deaths, directly or indirectly, were caused by the strike. in respect of both these powerful drugs, the horse can say Avith lady Macbeth: \"That which liath made them drunk hath made me bold.\" However that may be, we confess we view with some alarm the possibility of such formidable \"pick-me- ups\" becoming fashionable among human athletes. By the scientific use of the imagination it is easy to form mental pictures of pugilists Avho ha.A'c .just received a \"nasty blow\" in some tender part of their anatomy finding balm for their wounds in the Gilead of the morphine syringe, or of oarsmen who are \"going to pieces\" being braced up for fresh efforts by injections of ether or strychnine, or of \"'pumped out\" runners getting their Avind again by recourse to tlie oxygen bottle. Caffeine and all the newest heart stimulants would, of course, be kept \"on tap\" ou every avoII-regulated ground. The presence of an experienced doctor ..Ml then be a.s indispensable at athletic contests as it is at duels, and a new and highly promising form of specialism Avill be opened to an overcrowded profession. ON THE FENCE Drugging as an Aid to Athletics. British Medical .Journal: There is an aspect to the groat military rifle which seems to have escaped the notice of most persons, and that is the novel application of drugging to sport which it exemplifies, il! it does not inaugurate. Wo read that lieutenai. Von Mikles and some other riders, both Austrian and German, only succeeded in bringing their lame and overridden mounts-to the winning posts by tlie aid of hypodermic injections of morphine, supplemented in one or two instances l>y the exhibition of heroic doses of brandy. Now the injection of morphine would appear likely to increase the suffering of the miserable horses by adding to the pain of fatigue a-forced struggle against the soporific effect of the morphine. As to the brandy, we know that as regards the human subject the experience of tho athlete as well as of the medical world i.s opposed to the use of alcohol when great and continuous exertion has to bo undergone. Perhaps, however, On All Great Political and Economic Questions Except That' of Silver. Senator Stewart of Nevada was recently asked by a reporter for a San _ Yancisco paper how he would stand on tJie subject of tariff reform in the United States son- ate. \"The tariff.\" replied tlie senator, \"i.s ti matter of small consequence compared with financial questions. I'm for free silver, and as to the tariff, I stand where Lincoln stood as to slavery wlien he Avrote that if the union could be preserved without destroying slavery he was for preserving the union that way, Jjut if the union could not be saved without the abolition of slavery, then he was an abolitionist.\" \"But sup]lose a tariff reform proposition comes up independently altogether of silver; how will you vote\".\" \"On the merits of tlie proposition,\" replied the senator. \"But for or against protection?\" \"As you are a ware,\" continued the senator, impressively, \"we have only half as much coin iu reserve today a.s wo Jiad eighteen years tisro. Then avo possessed #.;V.00,()0(j, now we have but$17,000,000, all gold. TJie banks have discarded silver as a, basis, and. silver is reduced to the position of credit money. Everybody ought to-know \"that the business of the world must bear some relation to credit and reserve, and here we see it standing like a pyramid upended, the annex resting on that little pedestal of gold. What is the consequence? Things keep going from bad to Averse; prices have fallen 40 per cent in eighteen years, and are still on the down grade. Every man avIio is not it lender -wakes up each, day -poorer than Avhen lie went to bed.\" \"But Avhat is your attitude on the tarilF.\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"Tariff- legislation, even if wholesome in itself,\" replied senator Stewart, promptly, \"is not adequate to relieve the state of tilings 1 have described. Until this sih-er question is settled, and it never will be until it is settled right, no party can remain in \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD power more than four years. They Avill give the people sonic \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-wrong explanation of what alls theiii, and when it is afforded the opportunity to try its cure it'\"will be found to be useless. Until the country shall JniA'e a plentiful supply of money these things 'cannot mend.\" \"Will you A'ote to removethe McKinley duties?\"' . \"Sir,\" said the senator, \"I shall be a high tariff man, or a low tariff man, or a, free trade man, according as my position may _affect silver. All other questions sink into insignificance beside the money question.' 1 shall use my vote under all circumstances toward securing free coinage.\" \"That is to say you are, as to the tariff, seriously on tho fence.\" \"Well,\" answered Mr. Stewart, \"I'd hardly like to put it that way. But,\" he added, \"on the fence is good Aiiierica.ii language after all and expresses my position exactly. I'm for silver first, last, and all the time, you understand.\" An Invention Which May Revolutionize Smelting Industry. .'John Cooke of Silverton, Colorado, is. the inventor of a noAv treatment^ for silver ores. The ore'is first crushed and ground into a flour as line as the flour used in baking. The powdered ore is placed iu roasting ovens and heated to a red heat, thus driving off till substances that can be vaporized by heat, and it comes from the ovens iu apparently the same form in which ib went in\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthat is', pulverized ore. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNoav conies the interestinig part of the process. In the mill are found eight huge vats, arranged in pairs. These vats being upon a stoop incline, tho first pair sit, as it were, ou ti stop, the second pair on what might be called a second stop, witJi the tops reaching tJie bottoms of the first pair, and so on for the four pairs. .Just above the first pair of vats is found a large bin of salt. The first pair of vats i.s filled with Jiot water and salt, making a. hot brine to AvhicJi otJier chemicals are iiddod, which chemicals are unknown to anyone except Mr. Cooke himself, in each of the second pair of vats is found a pair of canvas* bottoms arranged, with a space between them. Ou the upper canvas bottom the roasted ore mentioned above i.s thrown and tho chemically prepared brine is run in from tJie vats above wJion the chemicals used in' tlie solution break up the combination in the ore iu such a way as to allow tin element of the salt to unite Avith the silver, wliich coin- pound being readily soluble, runs off in solution to the next pair of vats beJow. These, tlie third pair of vats, are supplied \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD AvitJi large plates of copper. Aveighing 250 pounds each. This copper has an affinity for the silver compound wliich it immediately attracts to its surface. The silver, Avhich has a white appearance, can readily bo seen collecting on the copper. 'When till the silver has Idccii collected from the solution, the'copper plates are removed and the silver scraped from their surface. Near tJie third pair of vats is found it press where the si Ivor compound is pressed into bricks. Outside of the mill is a neat brick building, resembling an assay office, where the bricks are refined and the process is completed. Going back to tJie vats, tho solution from the tJiird pan, after all the silver has boon attracted out by the copper plates, is run into a fourth pair of vats and from there pumped baek into the first pair to be used again, tJius allowing of no waste. P00DI\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD:-: D0(, F^taiirapt, Next Door to the Madden Hotel, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD NELSON, B. C. CHARLES PHILLIPS, - - Proprietor. JOHN JOHNSON, Prop. Extensive Improvements low Completed. The only restaurant, in Nelson Hint keep-* open AND NIGHT, __T68 _*]____ ALL ROOMS REFITTED and- Refurnished. -Finest Wines, Liquors and Cijjar-* in the lUnrket- _T THE IIAII, PRIVATE BOXES FOR LADIES. Lucky and Unlucky Miners. Georgo Konnery, \"I.eace River Dick,\" and Dutica.ii Mel. irmiad, throe veteran niiners, arrived at Victoria, from Lone crook,.Omineca district, last week. They have $K',()()() for their season's work taken from a spot discovered last year, and the clcan-up includes one nugget of pure gold running over $200. Another miner whoso expedition litis not boon so successful is AVilliain Molkie, tin export and prospector' of Baker City, Oregon. Thirty years ago his brother, now dead, was a miner in this province, tind during the course of a. trip over the Queen Charlotte islands, .stumbled upon a silver ledge of unusual richness. Ho gathered a few specimens and returned for machinery and men to work tlie find. Then sickness seized him, tind on his deathbed ho gave the secret of the mine's location to his brother. The latter had never been able to afford search till now, and a month ago Jie started to find the claim, lie found the landmarks given verified, but was driven homo by cold before? reaching the ledge. He will start again next spring, and in the meantime **.Molkio's lost ledge,\" which is famous among the pioneer miners, must boar tho old name. Beat's a Resemblance to Our Earth. On tJie authority of tlie late Richard A. Proctor, so far as telescopes and physical researches have yet led, in size, in situation and destiny, in the length of her seasons and of Jier rotation, in the figure of her orbit and in the amount of light and heat sJie receives from the sun Venus boars a more striking resemblance to the earth than any orb within the solar system. In fact tJiero is no other pair of planets between which so many antilogies can be traced tis between Venus and tJie earth. Uranus and Neptune tire similar in many respects, but they differ in tit least as many. Jupiter and Saturn are, in a sense, brother giants of the solar system, \"while tlie dwarf orbs, Mars'and .Mercury, present many striking points of similarity, but between none of these pairs can avo trace so many features of resemblance as those which characterize the twin planets Venus and Terra. Had Venus a moon like the earth we might doubt whether, in the Avhole universe, two orbs exist which are so strikingly similar to each other. Indeed, it is by ho means certain that Venus has not a moon, Montaigne, I-odikier, Horrebon, Monthaven aiitl others having seen a body near Venus 'which presented a phase similar to that of 'the'-planet, precisely as a satellite would have done. Venus has a'\"day of about twenty-eight hours- and twenty- one minutes and a year of 224 days and seventeen hours nearly. The distance from the sun is something less than three- fourths of that which separates the sun from Us. 'It is clear that merely in tho greater .proximity of Venus to the sun there is little to render at least a large proportion of her surface unhabitable by such beings as exist on our earth. In her temperate and subarctic regions a climate -which we should find well suited to our reciuironionts might very well exist, while the polar regions might correspond to our temperate, zones tind be the abode of the most active tind enterprising ra.ee existing upon her surface. On-the whole the evidence we have points A'ory'strongly to Venus as the abode of living creatures not unlike the inhabitants of the earth. Big Winnings at Faro. As faro is a. game that can now bo indulged ii Vat Ivaslo, the following will bo of interest to the boys who occasionally take ti whirl at it: \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'-Al\" Smith, whoso fame as a- sporting man is international, made the greatest play of his life in New Vork last week against a'faro bank. He won $22,*100, $20,000 of it being tit one sifting, and yet he is not satisfied. He went to the gtiin- bling house kept by Darden r- WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS GROCERIES A SPECIALTY. THIS WEEK'S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. C icgcrich, Ainsworth and ICaslo\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDGeneral nierehan- II. disc, John I,. RotiUIaok, ICaslo Bank of Hritish Columbia. Richardson & Ilealoy, Nelson -and loans. Province of Hritish Columbia\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNotice court, of revision and appeal. .Simpson __ West, Hear Lake City\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDApplication hotel lieen.se. Owner, Nelson\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Sewing machine for sale. I'own lots in Lardo. and ICaslo\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDReal estate of siLting of for LOCAL NEWS AND GOSSIP. There was a time in Kaslo when a dollar bill looked bigger than the lithographed maps of tJie town, or a mineral eJaim talceti ii]) under the law of '92. But a great change has been gradually evolved in the past few weeks. Ji*ivst, it was next to impossible to find anyone Avit.li less than a #50 bill; but since I_. E. Coy returned from Tacoma -with a grip filled Avith oris]) notes ou -which three figures are engraved, tlie people of that booming burg scorn to handle anything else than $500 bills. The customs collections at the port of Kootenay Lake amounted to over $3000 last weetc. Yet, when asked to give tlie people of this section adequate mail facilities, tlie Dominion government blandly has been received and fyled,\"and nothing smiles and -writes, \"Your communication more. No ice was encountered in Kootenay river by the Nelson on her Monday's trip. The cold sua]) Tuesday night, however, probably closed the river. The poles for the Kaslo extension of the telephone company's lines are all in, and tJie work of stringing -wire -was commenced on Wednesday. Most of the wire for the extension, however, is.at Revelstoke, tind tJie \"work will necessarily be delayed. \"Bill\" Hunter, one of the pioneers -who settled at the mouth of Carpenter creek in the early 00s, was in Nelson on Monday and left next day for home, going by tho \"way of tlie Slocan river trail, which is pronounced in first-class condition\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDprobably because so few travel over it. On Sunday next there will be an excursion from Kaslo to the new town of Lardo, at the north end of Kootenay lake. The steamer Ainsworth has been chartered for the occasion. On the down trip Wednesday the Ains- . worth was delayed several hours by the breaking of an eccentric rod. A coal oil famine i.s threatened in Kaslo. Tlie merchants of that healthy young \"city\" have plenty of the illuminating fluid somewhere en route. Mr. and Mrs. Scott McDonald are comfortably domiciled in one of the Wheeler cottages at Ainsworth. Rev. Mr. Rogers of Nelson has been appointed to conduct the examination of public school scholars who wish to enter the high school. The first examination will be held on the 21st instant, at the close of the present school term. Formerly applicants had to go to.Kamloops, which worked a hardship on scholars resitting on Kootenay lake. TJie Kaslo Transportation Company started its stages on the 3rd instant, making daily trips to Bear creek. Commencing next week they Avill run through to Bear lake, but will probably only leave Kaslo every other day. The company, so far, have had all the passenger trail ic they could well accommodate. W. II. Walbey, who has been canvassing* Nelson for Williams's directory, Victoria, reports haying collected 571 names for thtit publication. The Aldous stock of groceries was purchased by J. Fred. Hume Ac Co., and the latter firm is now prepared to stock the whole lake country with baking powder tind chromos. Tlie first Canadian mail for a month of Sundays reached Nelson on Wednesday af tern .on, and was received with pleasure by \"remittance\" men and cursed by those who received sight drafts and other evidences of indebtedness. Bonner's Ferry Herald, 3rd: \"l.llis Williams has brought an action against the Columbia Ac Kootney Steam Navigation Company to recover $300 damages for alleged injury to a boom of saw logs he Jiad anchored in the river above Galena, landing. His complaint alleged that the steamer Nelson intentionally ran into the boom tind a Howes the logs to floatjdowii the stream, The matter will be called up for trial on the 7th. A question as to tJie extent of one's riglit to use the river for Jogging wMJ. be decided.\" A former citizen of the United States, but who is now one of tJie queen's own, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDfired forty-six shots tlie other day at Kaslo, not as a departing salute to the country which he quit cold, but in honor of the arrival of tlie first shipment of Freddy Lee ore over the wagon* road which was built mainly through his enterprise and pluck. Captain G. F. Hay ward has been appointed freighb agent at Kaslo for tho different steamboats plying to that point. A first-class man should have a bettor wharf on which to transact business. John Keen, chief engineer of the projected Kaslo & Slocan railway, returned to Kaslo last week from Victoria. He is now out at Spokane on business connected with the building of tJie road. G. B. \"Wright is back from Spokane, and is making efforts to induce the Canadian Pacific railway people to keep the Nelson- Robson branch in operation during the winter in connection with the steamers on tlie Columbia and the Spokane Ac Northern road. The first firemen's ball in Kaslo was attended by one of tho town's best known young hotel men, as a matter of course. The following morning at daybreak he was in the rear of his hotel, witli a ball programme in one hand and the hotel cow's ear iu the other, and was heard to say in a polite and mellow maimer: \"O, do d;inee tJiis set with me.\" John B. Wilson has 'purchased lot 1, block S, coruei' of Front and Third streets, Kaslo, for $1500\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD$00 per front\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtlie highest price paid for realty in that town. D. P. Kane was the man that received the $1500. Michael Flathcrty, a pioneer prospector, and Con Dougherty, a favorite cook, are the latest arrivals at Kaslo from the Coeur d'Aloncs. The roof is on the Episcopal church at Balfour. Tlie building is 25.-10 feet with three 10x12 rooms annexed. The funds were furnished by a lady resident in England; the work of construction is being done by Hillyer Ac Perkins. Mrs. Brennand, wife of the late James Brennand, started for her old home tit Castle Rock, Colorado, on Sunday. She wtis accompanied by her father, Charles Wood house, who has been at Kaslo since the death of Mr. Brennand. W. J. Hennessey, J. G. McGuigan, and T. J. Road ley, all of Kaslo, went out to Spokane ou Sunday ou mining business. \"Bob\" Wixon, -who litis had a contract for improving the yards surrounding the government buildings at Nelson, is once more open for employment. Tlie government job was not a. remunerative one, iind \"Bob\" prefers to work for the telephone company. Thomas Johnson, tJie promoter of the proposed big tunnel at Ainsworth, is expected in next week to take another look at tlie ground. The Nelson Sawmill Company,s \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDmill, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtwo miles south of Nelson, runs part of tJie time in cutting orders for Kaslo builders. It i.s the only mill in the lake country, in operation, that has any number of logs ou hand. Among other mining men who arrived at Kaslo from the outside on Monday night were J. E. Boss, S. D. Porter, W. II. Morrill, and \"colonel\" Russell. Lane C. Gilliam of Spokane is up in the Slocan district hunting for a prospect that can be developed into a mine by an outlay of capital. A rumor to the effect that G. O. Buchanan has disposed of his saw tind planing mills at Kaslo is in circulation. The plant is one of the most complete on Kootenay lake, and the timber limits that will go with the mills comprise several thousand acres of the finest timber in West Kootenay. The Wilson & Perdue outfit were only a day and a half in driving the band of beef cattle from Kaslo to Three Forks. Nineteen head were slaughtered at Three Forks tind four head at New Denver. This firm will, hereafter, keep all the mines and camps in the Kaslo aud Slocan districts'supplied with fresh beef. Captain Gore, purser Patton, and others of the crew of the steamer Lytton, were in Xelson on Saturday, and reported their hist effort to reach iievelstoke a failure because of an ice jam in tlie Columbia, at a point about fourteen miles south of the town. Assessor Gil'fin and his chief clerk are busy mailing notices of assessment for the year ISO. to the taxpayers of the district. All who believe their assessments too high will have an opportunity to have their wrongs righted before Mr. Fitzstubbs, judge of the court of revision and ap- peal, on Saturday, December 31st. A. E. Burton, who, along with the Mc- Arthur boys, litis been at work corduroying .stretches of the Kaslo wagon road, was at Nelson on Tuesday. He reports the wagon road practically completed to Bear Creek, which is about five miles from Bear lake. A sleigh road will be made from the creek to the lake. TJie snow at Bear creek is about three feet deep. II. Giegerich says he can now be honestly paragraphed as the \"most prominent merchant in Ainsworth\" since \"judge\" Bob Green has decided to remove to'Kaslo. A pretty steamboat race occurred on Kootenay Jake on Sunday. After it avji.s over the captain of one of the boats was heard to exclaim: \"Blank it! I believe the only boat Ave can betit is the Idaho when it is towing a barge.\" Snowed in in the Big Bend. Revelstoke Star, November 20th: \"G. Laforme intended returning from Big Bend with his ptick train, but it is hardly likely that any communication can be had with the cam]) until next summer, as the snow on the mountains is quite six feet deep, and iu many parts of the trail there are passes which are dangerous at all times. There i.s quite a little colony at the Bend this winter, and they have ample .supplies to last still spring. There is also plenty of hay for tlie horses and cattle, and though cut off from the rest of the world tliere i.s nothing to prevent their having a merry Christinas.\" _vr__;i_o_E_:____sr_:s Stoves, and Tinware. Plumbing and Tin-Roofing^ a Specialty. Stocks full and complete in every Department, and the Public will find it to their advantage to inspect Goods and compare Prices. John A. Turner, ger. East Vernon Street, Nelson. School Report. * Below are given in order of class standing the names of pupils of Nelson public school for month of November: Class V.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDW. _ to. torris. J ray Robinson, Robert -McLeod, Gertrude Robinson, Jasper I .mir. Class III.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDEtta Muir, Mabel Col well, Julin Corning. N'elson Kuclmn.-in. Class II.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDRay May. John Duliamel, Loo Ruehanan. Sammy Stucky, Mary Brown. Class I.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMan Corning, Sadie Stuart, Robbie Bell. Harry Farley, Oscar Robinson, Willie West, Jennie Stuart. Average attendance, IS; I .mctualitv. 7G; Number enrolled. 21. STKLLA KANE, Teacher. W. I TEETZEL & C CHEMISTS and A huge and complete slock of the leading lines of \",S7vr\"_E__:OX__E_!S___\.J_,_E] _A-_T_TZD __.BTA.II_. ^.RO-JSTT STEEET, KASLO. oots, Shoes, tories, flardwape, Iron and Steel. SUPPLIES. Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Perfumes, Soaps, Brushes, And Toilet Articles of Every Description. Cor. Baker and. Josephine; Streets, Nelson, B. C. Buy the Best Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines. We buy direct from the manufacturers. Make your purchases from the undersigned and save agents' commission. Twenty-five per cent saved by doing so. BUY THE BEST HIGH GRADE WATCHES, Precious Stones, * Silverware, Clocks, and Tableware of all kinds kept in stock. We Sell Karn Pianos and Organs. We Sell Mason-Risch Pianos. We Sell All kinds of Sewing Machines. Central Office of the Kootenay Lake Telephone. T. J. ROADJ.ICV. MATHKW GUTIIR1K. CI. W. KrCHAltDHON, Nelson. J. Hi:ai.i:v, Kaslo. Bickabdson & Bealey REAL ESTATE FINANCIAL\"-:- AGENTS $10,000 TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY. West Kootenay Electoral District. ^ A Court of Revision and Appeal, under the \"Assessment Act 18S8,\" and amendments, will be held at the Court House, Xelson, on .Saturday, the .'list day of December, 1892, at the hour of 10 in the forenoon. x. kit:, stum us, JikIkc of the Court of Revision and Appeal. Nelson, December(Jth, W.Y2. APPLICATION FOR HOTEL LICENSE. REAL ESTATE AND MINES. Commission Merchants ancl Insurance Agents. Desirable Kaslo Property on Easy Terms. A Long List of Kaslo-Slocan Mining Properties for Sale. Assessment Work Done and Abstracts Furnished Outside Parties. Conveyancing. OFFICE __J_T T___:___ STOITE _3TTII_IDI_NrG-3 FROITT STIE.DEIST, E_ASLO. THE KASLO W :- TRANSPORTATION -: LL _RTT_Isr ZD_A_IX_-^- STAGES NOTICB is hereby given that the undersigned intend to apply before the government, iikoiiI, at, Xelson for TO TERMINUS OF KASLO WAGON ROAD, RETURNING SAME DAY. Freight forwarded with care and despatch to any point in the Kaslo- Slocan District. First-Class Saddle Horses for Hire. STAGE LEAVES KASLO at 7 a.m. sharp every morning, Sunday included. RETURNING LEAVES Terminus of Road at 3 p.m. \"I. . a license for a hotel at Hear district. Jjiku (Jit \V GORMAN' W'Kaf, Item1 I_ik o City, Doe. Ut, 1802. ,y, West ICootenay /. SIMPSON. S-A-.N'T--- CI___.-_rS IS COI_CI_STC3- And intends sending his supplies iu advance to TURNER BROS. No. 2, Houston Block, Baker Street, NELSON. Music, Stationery, Toys, Books. J\"G_E_ _P_A__R_E__IIIsr NELSON, B.C. Plasterer, Bricklayer and Stone-Mason. Contracts taken for work at all points in West Kooteimy. HOTEL PHAIR. Until the opening of nav gation in the spring, the Hotel Phair dining-room will be closed, (.'nests ean procure meals at. the Poodle Dog Restaurant at, .-id cents por meal. Rooms in the hotel can be hud at the rate of $1 for transients; special rates for rooms rented by the week or month. 10. K. PIIAIR, I'roprictor. Nelson, II.C, December 1st, lift.. f I \ I"@en . 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