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A ��� ��� ���I THE PAYSTREAK f y i^fl BOOK IV. SANDON, JANUARY, 20 1900. CHAPTER 15 HAPPEN1MGS IN BRIEF. Hugh McGee and family have gone to Spokane. C. D. Hunter went to Rossland on Wednesday. Mrs. Funk closed the Balmoral restaurant on Tuesday. 0. B. Nelson, who kept tbe Klondike hotel, has gone to Rossland. Constable S. A. Kelly ol Nelson arrived yesterday over the K. A S. A meeting of the executive of the Mine Owners Association was held yesterday. Mrs M. L. Grimmett went east on Thursday, accompanied by her little son. Geo. Wannan left on Monday for Sooth Africa, going via New York and Liverpool. John Keen, assessor and collector, advertises that the provincial tuxes are due. Dig up. 11. W'. I) Cope I a nd, representing the Williams1 Directory, of Victoria, sized up Sandon this week. Mrs. Jas. Valla nee and child went east on Tuesday. Mr. Vallance accompanied tlu m to Nelson. The Junior Hockey Club gave a dance in Virginia hall on Tuesday evening. Kith, which was successlul financially and socially. Five hotels failed to take out 1 censes on Jannarv 15th. Thev arc The Denver, The Star, Klondike Hotel, White House and Central. Ed. Atherton was in Nelson this week viewing the scene of the recent conflict. He says he found John Houston in no ���way downcast, at having been elected mayor* of the white pants city of Kootenay. Sir Charles Tupper, who reached Ottawa on Tuesday, says that on his western trip he made oil speeches and spoke on an average of two hours at each meeting. He was merely practicing for the coining session. At the meeting of the Ii. 0. L. on Tuesdav evening the following officers were elected : llarrv Nash, W. M ; David L Averill, D. M.; Albert Karr, Chap.; I). J. Robertson, Ree* Sec; Win. Todd, Treas ; Albert David Past W. M.; Brinsley Walton, Lecturer. K. P. Prttipiece is on Ills way to Ferguson, B. C,, with a r.ewspipor plant. He will have a sheet out in that embrayo metropolis by Feb. 15th. Mr, Petti piece has been con nected with the protest) in Kootenay and Alberta for several years and Ferguson will lose nothing by his p "escnee. Among the many sufferers from the present soft weather is the Beatrice mine in the Lardeau country whence just now it is impossible to haul the ore owing to the state of the mad*. Messrs. H. G MeCulloeh and C. (>. Bl'lggs, the superintendent, are now in Nelson and intend to go out to the mine as soon as a frost set?) in. The plans and specifications of a branch line of the C. P. R up Ten Mile Creek through Camp Mansfield down Kaslo Creek to Kaslo, have been forwarded to Montreal, and this line will certainly be built next summer. The new road will paas near all the properties in Camp Mansfield and within a mile and a half of the Mollie Gibson, to which point an aerial tramway can easily be constructed. -Nelson Miner. Owing to the lack of warehouses and the lack of teams to haul it away the merchants of Greenwood are unable to take care of the freUht consigned to them, with the result that 188 cars are tied up there. This is causing immense inconvenience as under present conditions the sidings can only conveniently accommodate 50 cars. Mr. F. W. Peters has gone to Greenwood to try and straighten out the tangle. SLOCAN MINES. Bar silver is 5'.>4 cents at New York. The Rambler sent down two cars of tire during the week. The week's shipments from the Cmeen Bess amounted to 150 tons J. C. Williams is applying for a crown grant for the Portland No, 5. Tne Pa\ne shipped 105 tons of ore this week. This is the ore which has been held at the ore house, pending settlemen tof traffic charges. Importing Aliens. The first serious move on the part of the Association in their efforts to break the strike was made on Sunday night last when Messrs. Hand and Wood of the Payne, and Geo. W. Hughes of the Idaho Mines, escorted a party of 23 Finnish-Swedes to the Payne mine. The men come from the iron milling country of Minnesota and it is presumed that they were employed personally by Hand and Wood. They were brought in by the Bonners' Ferry route and were rushed up Irom there by special boat ami special train, arriving at the Payne at midnight on Sunday. Their coming was not unknown to the Miners' Fnion and quite a party of miners was in waitilu at the train to talk to them but manager Hand hustled his importation into the ore house and locking the door, refused to allow any conference. Some lively talk ensued between Messrs. Hand, Hughes and Wood, and the compliments of the Season were pass ed in the most forcible phraseology, after which the strikers dispersed and the Swedes were sent up the tram to the mine. The only attempt that has been made to influence the gentlemen from Minnesota was on Thursdav, when n party of Union miners made their way up the trail to the Payne mine through eight feet of snow to try to have a talk with them on the situation. They were met by Pat Dwyer, foreman of the mine, C. H. Hand, super intend ant, and others, accompanied by Magis trate Lilly. As the men dispersed no warrants were served. The men imported are Finnish Swedes. They were employed in the iron mines of Minnesota, and are not acquainted with mining as it is understood in B.C. According to all accounts they are a disreputable looking lot of individuals, poorly dressed, gaunt and impoverished. They brought no portmanteaus with them and the Payne company has Uiad to supply them with blankets. Theirintelligcnce is notapparently of a very high plane and none of them have ever been heard to talk English. Rumor has it that they are to be followed bv others of the same class, but up to date no later arrivals have been recorded. This is the first time that the Ass >��� elation has succeeded in getting men in and getting them to work. Should these men be allowed to remain at the mine it is probably that more will follow. What this means to the business men of the Slocan is too obvious to need mention. Outside of a few firms, who deal direct with the mining companies, the business of the camp depends solely on the men employed iu the mines. It the citizens of this camp are to be displaced by foreigners of the lowest typo the loss to the business men of the camp will be Irrefarable. The pro cedure of the Association in this matter has been open to censure and their manner of treating the men and their contempt of the public Interest will bring them into disrepute. B> deliberately ignoring the Alien Act and bringing these men in against law they have placed themselves in the light of law breakers. It is about time for Canadians to waken up. If these mine owner* are to I be allowed to fill the camp with these low class foreigners, whose presence will be a Continual menace to the pence ot the district, and displace our own citizens aud drive them out of the country, it is about time to enquire by what right they hold that privilege. If the Dominion government is sincere in regard to the Alien Act and means to protect the miners and business men of the district its time to act has arrived. Do Not Want the Lai�� Changed. Victoria, B. C, January 19. ���A petition was received from Silverton asking that no amendment or change be made to the clauses of the present mineral act, commonly known as the Ei.'ht Hour law. and that the same be retained in its entirety and duly enforced. Latest Erom the Front. CtJRLANA, January 20.���No change in the situation. In a slight skirmish, Hood's rough oiders (Fng.) routed Von Grhermerht (Boer) from a weak position on Curly river, Gi'hernieiht badly wounded escaped to a kopje, where he was found all "curled" up. Hood, Anonymous Literature Not Wanted. We have received this week one poem and three roasts, all unsigned, for publication in this paper. The poem is intended for a josh on the band, and will receive publication when the author subscribes his name to the document. The roasts are, one on tbe Payne company, one on C. H. Hand, and one on W. L. Hagler. There is no probability thai these would be published, even though they were signed, but unsigned the never will. When this paper chooses to roast C. II. Hand or the Payne company for importing Swedes, or VV. L Hagler for using bad language it will do so of its own accord, and will not resort to the anonymous style. UNION SECRETARY ARRESTED. W. L. Hagler Taken in for Unlawful Assembly. Warrant Secured by C. H. Hand. Matrere Becoming Slightly Interesting. W L. Hagler, secretary of the Sandon Miner's Union, was arrested yesterday by Provincial Constable S. A. Kelly, on a warrant sworn out by Carl H. Hand, superintendent of the Payne mine. The charge is that of unlawful assembly. The case had a preliminary hearing before W. II. Lilly yesterday and the prisoner was put under bonds of 11000, in securities of ��403 each by W. J. Thompson and John Buckley and $200 bv Hagler himself. The case will come upon Wednesday at 10:30 a,m. CITY COUNCIL. At the regular meeting of the city council on Monday evening the following accounts were recommended for payment: Alex.Crawford, expense to Nakusp for purchase of tea in.. .$15.05 Slocan News 1.25 Newsoine A Co 26.40 Hardware for stable, etc 23.70 Paystreak 12.00 Communications were read from D. J. Robertson regarding pauper funerals and from D. C. McCrae applying for position of chief of police. Mr. Robinson's letter was declared out of order and D. C. McCrae's letter was received and fyled. The report of the police magistrate was received and fyled. The report of the returning officer declaring that no nominations bad been made, was received. The financial statement for year 1891) was presented by the city clerk, and was received and fyled. A Netc Field For Prospecting. Buller has crossed the Tugela with 35,000 men and the latest despatches indicate that the big scrap is now on. Prospecting for lead placers in the neighborhood of Ladysmith should be a profitable occupation next summer. There is plenty of lead thereabout but at present they pave a disagreeable method of passing it around. Mrs. Spencer's dancing class is a great success. Over 40 pupils were in attendance one evening this weck_ THE PAYSTREAK, SANDON, B. C, JANUARY 20, liXX) Journalistic Enterprise. Wc are a firm believer in the maxim "Live and Let Live", we ardently favor reciprocity, and try to live up to the golden rule. We therefore make the following generous offer : We will make any ordinary gentleman a colonel, a professor or a prominent and influential citizen, just as he may prefer, in return for a two- gallon'jug of whiskey, at least 27 years old. We will publish any original poem half a column in length for a cord of good wood; canned goods, baled hay, coal or ore samples taken same as wood in proportion to market value. Old maids made young, charming and frisky for two dollars' worth of anything we can eat, drink or wear or bet on the black jack game. Politicians and lobbyists at Victoria made honesi and truthful for $7.50 a month, strictly and un- deviatingly in advance Your home made com mod ious for two dollar's worth of chewing tobacco, or palatial for a poll tax receipt. Babies made cherubs for fifty cent's worth of gum; iron stains made the biggest ore chutes on record, a pack mule made a pedigreed steed, a doctor made a distinguished practitioner and a barber made into a tonsori.il artist at the same rate. Mine managers made prominent capitali-ts, agents distinguished financiers and scabs made good miners at reasonable rates. Townsites, bogus mining stock and wild cat mineral claims taken in part payment. The above liberal terms we offer those who have not heretofore re ceivvd the editorial appreciation they may have felt they deserved. This is a splendid opportunity to secure the same at most advantageous rates, so please come carlv and avoid the crush. We mav state that we offer these special inducements in order that, we may get squared up, sentimentally as well as financially, by the latter end of this century. We want to know where we a>e at, so that we may adapt ourselves to the rapidly changing Conditions and commence the new century with a clean sheet and a fumigated conscience. Others may offer to do more for less money but you may put them down as fakirs and humbugs. We do legitimate business. "Boys," said General Sherman, in his famous address to the cadets��� "boys, they tell you that war is all glory, but let me tell you it is all lull." The Japanese government has made the camphor trade of Formosa a monopoly ; so that the government has the say whether or not the moth shall corrupt. Japan owns over half of her rail ways. She made a net profit last year of ��2,70J,000. The Fenian invasion has probably been called off on the strength of the report that whiskey costs as high as ��10 a bottle in an ordinary campaign. There may be considerable doubt as to what century we are in, but looking at the policy of the Laurier government and Sir Charles Tupper would suggest that it must be about the fifteenth. There are many warm controversies across the line as to whether or not the framers of the American constitution favored expansion and the annexation of outside territory. Some day some citizen will meekly inquire if it makes any difference whether they did or not. The United States trunk lines are preparing to meet the change conditions that will be brought obout next season by the deepened ST. Lawrence canals. The New York Central,we are told, have decided to provide special rolling stock to facilitate the handling of the seaboard grain business. Speed and a lower rate are necessary, Last year trains of eighty cars, with f>0,000 bushels capacity did the work. Within a year the New York Central will send out 100-car trains, made up of specially constructed cars, holding 100,000 bushels. Powerful freighting locomotives of the most modern type will be put in commission and grain will be handled at two-fifths of a cent a ton per mile. Leo Tolsti says: The governments and the leading classes, realizing in the very depth of their souls that the solving of the land question means the solving of all social questions, which would deprive them at once of all their special privileges, and that this question is the question or the day, make it appear as if they were greatly disturbed over the welfare of the people, and while they introduce savings banks, inspection of factories, income tax, and even the eight hour working day they very carefully ignore the land question; and with the aid of a politico-economic science which is devoted to their interest, and will prove anything they want proven, they insist that the expropriation of land would be useless, hurtful, nay even impossible. New Zealand is far ahead of the other colonies of Australasia, and, in fact, of any other country in the world, in its treatment of the unemployed. It has a well-considered plan in actual operation, by which the unemployed are yatedred up in cities at government labor bureaus, and are forwarded to one point and another, where they are wanted on government railroads and other public works. At these points they are not kept in camps to be scattered again when the work is through, but they are assigned farms, and their work is so arranged that they work alternately for the government and on their own land. The government advances them funds to clear their land and to build themselves homes. In all parts of the colony the penniless out of-work is bv this system converted into a thrifty land owner. Once a son of Erin came to New York and went through the usual stages of evolution. First he was a corporation laborer, working with his pick and mattock in a ditch ; then he became a policeman and worked not at all, but acquired influence, and took cess ; then he entered the inner ring of Taminan v and became a contractor. He died wealthy, but all throngh his life he and his wife were tender of allusion to his humble beginnings. When Murphy was dead and the casket reposed in the drawing room his widow came down stairs to see the floral tributes. "Ah,"she said, "the Gates Ajahr isbutiful! An'that Broken Colyum ���how touching! An' the bleedin' heart, swately pretty ! An' the pillar of ," But here slje came across an anchor. "I wonder now," and her eyes snapped, "I wonder who the divil sint that pick !" THE BAZAAR A Snap for Everybody While it Lasts. We haoe a lot of China and Glass ware at The Bazaar. Also a lot of Stationery, Including Writing Tablets, Boxes of Fine Linen Writing Paper and Envelopes to match. Lead Pencils, Pen Holders, Ink in all size receptacles from a small school bottle up to quart jars. These, along with a number of other articles, are being- closed out at actual Cost. Call in and take advantage of an opportunity which seldom presents itself in Sandon. The Bazaar Opposite the Post Office .��������- r FACTS ABOUT ZINC. ��� THE PAYSTREAK, SAKDON, B. C, .lANCAUV 20, lixid Comparatively few people have any idea of the growing importance of /.inc in the industrial arts and in general manufacture Everybody, of course, is familiar with the employment of zinc for stove mats and in the form of gal- van i/.ed iron, but the many new uses to which tins metal has been put have escaped general attention. It is a fact, however, that not one other metal can be named the consumption of which has increased so rapidly and persistently, and which has entered into such a multiplicity of industrial employment* as zinc has within the decade now Hearing its close. To mention a few of the more important new uses of zinc, and to show the extent to which its consumption has in- creased:--In 1890 8,700 electric engines and motors consumed zinc in the manufacture of electricity: in 1898 141,000 engines consumed zinc. Inl89J 250,000 pounds of zinc was used for monumental and statuary work In cemeteries; in 1898 fourteen times this amount was used for the same purpose. In 1 sf���."> the consumption of zinc for ornamental fronts for buildings in cities had in creased to twenty times the amount consumed for that purpose in 1890, and very recently it has come, into popular use for fresco walls and fretted work in domes. Zinc is the coining material for ceilings and interior wall covering' pressed into strips the thickness of stout paper, colored or stamped with, suitable. designs and cemented together at the edges in invisible seams. These new wall coverings will endure for a generation, for the metal will not corrode or oxidize, and can he cleaned in a simple and inexpensive, way. Zinc is used in the manufacture of German silver, brass, babbit metal,galvanized iron roofing (which has an endurance over six times greater than ironi. in bath tttbs, cisterns, wash tuhs, washing boilers, sinks, cooking utensils of nearly all descriptions, telegraph wire, fence wire; for steam, water, and gas pipes, in refrigerators, refrigerator cars (into the construction ol* which zinc enters as a prime factor, and the car builders being among tbe largest consumers of the same); zinc forms the material for furnaces, mantels, toys, cartridges, locks, and of the new and durable button of all colors and designs; it is used in the manufacture of paints, Penning of metal?, cyaiilding of <>fold, and iu the coating of fence and telegraph wires. think, a tax upon real estate, that is land and building!, but it is a tax upon site value alone. It is not a revolution or rebellion, or a war between nations or classes. It is not even a war by a domestic nation in behalf of a foreign class. It is the most natural kind of evolution. It is a transcendant conservatism It is not confiscation, nor is there about it the tincture of what the superficial critic pictures to his. own mind as confiscation. It is rather a respecter and promoter, not only of the right of the. people, the nusses, the nine out of every ten,hut of every tenth man as well. The Sl7���� of South Africa. If you were to take the United States, from,the Atlantic to the Pacific, and j from the northern to the southern houn-! dary lines, and increase the area three- i fold on the continent of Africa, you would still have enough land for the Republic of France, the entire German Empire, all of Austria Hungary, the. kingdom of Italy, all that is left of Spain, and, of course,a few odd corners, j in which the British Islands .could he' stored without any difficult?. This may glVd some idea of the enormous extent of that wonderful country Within the memory of this present generation it was practically unknown to the world Now we find it so full of riches and possibilities that the great nations of Europe are each year sacrificing thousands of lives that they may extend their boundary lines. Five thousand miles is the Length of this great continent, and at its widest part it is 1.100 miles. It is the only one of the continents which lies equally to the north and south of the equator. FROM THK CRIMSON VELDT. New Denver LMgs. Doomed Paul: "Jouby, sit mit me, und I vil readt you mit der latest news." [Jouby sits.] Paul reads: "Nelson, Jan. 12. Der vas von pig pattle yesterday. Der pioneer brigade und der labor corps led by Houston made a grandt attack on der army of white bants und cod-fish plueploods, and after many hours drove deiu into der consomme. Der light was hot, but above all der din der roar of der street cars could be heard, und many a victim fell mit der mud. Vhen derflagofdruce vas run oud, Fletcher vas found under der snow vildly singing, 'Oh, vydodey calls me Dinuis.' John Handsuni Houston vas found pitting on a pile of slot machines in a veldt mit clover, holding a plack jack mit each hand, und der pees dropt honey on him und sang, 'Ve arc der Peoples,' 'Seven Come Eleven,1 'Come vera der Miner lies a'Sleeping,' 'Vere, oh vere vas Davie Carley Gone/ und adder musics. Der Irish und Scotch vas banished padh, vhile in many a pack yard der dead marines could be seen silent and spiritless. In der sortie at Kaslo, McAnn raised Kane, und not a gun vas fired at Sandon." Paul: 'How you like dot, Jouby? Hand me dot pottle mit schnapps on der inside." Jouby: "Dot vas allridt, put ve hef no more dime today to read mit dem news." Paul: "Vy so?" WHAT IS THK SINtJI.K TAX? The law and custom of the day is to tax three things, personal property, buildings and land values. There is today a'strong tendency toward the ex- j einption of personal property on account of its mercurial character, leaving all taxes to rest on two things, buildings and land values. There is also today a rapidly growing sentiment in favor of the exemption of buildings (immovable personal property) and the taxing not three things nor two things, but one thing only, namely, land values. This is the single tax���natural taxation, and it is all there is of it. It is not a tax upon land areas, hut upon land values, site values, the largest areas having often the smallest values. It is not. as jnaijy sthoughtlessk j INCLUDING: Office and School Desks, Letter Files and Cabinets, Church Chairs and Lodge Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Oil Cloths, Linoleums, Carpet Felts and Stair Pads, Carpet Sweepers, Bedding and Toilet Sets, Plate Mirror S ocks ���all Sizes, Window Shades, Cornice Poles, Lace and Tapestry Curtains, We carry the Furniture in stock. D.J. Robertson & Co., Sandon. INCLUDING: All kinds of Coverings, Mattresses and Upholstered Goods made to order on short �� notice, Glass, Room and Picture Moulding Framing Made to oixler, Refrigerators, Baby Go Carts and Carriages, Tents and Awnings, Sewing Machines In short, any- tling for comfort. Jouby: "Pacause his nobs, Bobs, has arrived in it der Cape and I see der end. Ve vill soon pe mit Fletcher." Paul: "Jouby, you mast not pe so depressivied in your spirits. Ve hef much to pe dankful for dose dimes." Jouby: "Vat tor?" Paul: "Veil, ve don'dt hef to read mit der Nelson Miner, nor listen to Joe Martin, nor live at Rosebery. Neider do ve hef to bay enny C.P.R. freighdt pills. Ifve did Jouby, va could not carry on der var. Oh, my dear Joub, ve hef much to dank onr Dutch Ixird for. Let us now go oud to a kopje und look'mit der var some more." Led Astray by a Satchel. Some time ago one of Marshall's most charming young ladies slipped and fell on the stepping stones in front of her father's house and sprained her knee. It grew so bad she thought it necessary to call in a physician. She had formed a dislike to their family doctor, so her father suggested several others, and finally it was decided to call the spruce young man with a homeopathic case that passed the house every day. They kept a sharp lookout, and when he came along called him in. The young lady modestly raised her skirti and showed the disabled member. The little man looked at it attentively and then said: "That certainly is quite serious." "Well,'' said she, "what shall I do?" "If I were you," he whispered, "I would send for a physician; I am a piano tuner." Took Their Coffins Home. Calvin McPherson and wife, living near English, Crawford county, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at the resilience of their daughter, at English, yesterday, at which were present many of the childreii and grandchildren, says a recent despatch from Indianapolis. Later in the after* noon Mr. and Mrs. McPherson went to an undertaker's and selected their coffins and had them placed in their wagon to be taken home They are both past seventy. In explanation of the pur* chase of the coffins, Mr. McPherson said: "We just thought wed have 'em ready, as it won't be long till we'll need em. Concerning I.raU Value*. The new method for settling for lead values in ores, which took effect last week in all the syndicate smelters���and necessarily in those outside���is an important gain to the miner, remarks the Denver News. Instead of following ths present brokers' quotation, which is purely arbitrary, the settlement each week will represent the average cash quotation of the week preceding. Had this been hitherto in force, the week's settlements would allow $4.72% per 100 pounds, and not $4.45, the arbitrary quotation. The difference would reach 27J per 100 pounds, or $5150 per ton The brokers' quotation is not at all consistent with the present condition of the market for lead. Pay the printer and !>e honored. 1 THE PAYSTREAK, SANDON, B. C, JANUARY 20, 1900 The Paystreak. U tamed every Saturday In Sandon, In the heart of the greatest White Metal camp on earth. SobscrlDtion ��� ... fs.ooayear Strictly In advance. Address: Thk I'aybtkkak, Sandon, B.C. Wm. MacAuamb. SANDON. B. C, JAN. 20, 19C0 l��OG8 HAVE THE PREFERENCE. The women of France and the women of Quebec have different ideas in reference to replenishing the earth. In France no babies are wanted, and the wives of that decaying nation use every known device to prevent conception. To such an extent is this carried on that France will soon be a sixth-rate power in Europe. In the French province of Canada the reverse is the order of the day, and unless the women change their ways we will have over 70 millions of French Canadians in a little over the end of the twentieth century. In the cities of the United States t' e wives of the parvenu rich haye taken a leaf from the code of France and are doing their best to keep down production. Many of them, especially in New York, find more enjoyment in coddling the son of a female canine than they do in nursing a miniature of themselves and husbands. A Chicago writer describes the dog darlings of Fifth avenue in the following vigorous language: "New York's four hundred, the delightful band of which Ward McAllister, a southern cad, was so long the director, runs now to dogs in place of infants. Any person walking along Fifth avenue of a sunny winter morning will see five hundred nurses out with dogs to ten that are out with babies. In the parks ffne carriages whirl by, but in them are no baby faces, lace encircled, rosy and smiling. The muzzles of poodles are thrust out from the laps of women lolling on the upholstered seats. "Perambulators" roll up and down the sidewalks in the quieter parts of the city, but the patient women shoving them along do not stop and pant, 'uddled on soft pillows, snuggled into gaudy costly blankets are pugs and Japanese poodles and spaniels and long-bodied, stinking, bench- legged dachshunds. In every uptown mansion there is a dog which is a household pet. The dog show is one of tbe swell functions ot the year. In their homes these worthless brutes sleep upon cushions of down, covi red with silk and edged with costly lace. Daily they are sponged with perfumed water. Their blankets are embroidered. They wear jeweled collars. Their slobbery, unclean mouths are pressed a hundred times a day by rosy lips. In the Fifth avenue neig borhood are several "dog tailors," who are growing rich off their fool women patrons. These fellows cut dog blankets to fit after | careful measurement, select colors which will be becoming to Fido and discuss gravely tbe latest fashions in dog furnishings. They make to order dog astrakhan overcoats, lined with pink, yellow, green, blue or brown satin. They manufacture fur collanfor these infernal substitutes for infants. Dog shoemakers make patent-leather shoes for the curled and scented darlings to wear upon sidewalks when the weather is cold. To out-fit a seventy-cent dog, the property of a mush-brained million- heiress, costs from $300 to $500, there being at tbe same time 10,000 starving men and women within a mile ot the dog's palatial home. Children are kept in the nursery, but the miserable, undersized, overfed pup, or canine adult, is permitted to run all over the house, its frantic maid following it about, not daring to chide it, but imploring it in a thousand endearing terms to be "a good child" and not "a naughty, naughty 'itty dirl" or 'ittv man," as the sex of the thing may determine. Jumping into the silken lap of its mistress, the "itty dirl" or "itty man," is hugged, kissed, fondled, slopped over ad nauseam. "New York women of that walk in life which is misnamed tbe "upper" not only refuse to bear children, but refuse to have anything to do with the children of others. Most of all do they refuse to adopt children. The secretary of the Children's Aid Society does not look to the grande dames for help. The hundreds of waits that come under the society's care in a year are gradually placed in comfortable homes, but these homes are almost invariably outside of New York city. 'A dog is so much less responsibility and so much more pleasing in every way,' says Mrs. Vanastorbilt. 'Why should I be troubled with the legitimate, or ille gitimate, brat of a common woman?'" ONLY IMAGINARY. New Denver Ledge. We hear a great deal nowadays about the great damage that the labor trouble in the Slocan has done in the way of preventing capital from coming into the camp. It is true that capital does not care to do anything when the labor question is unsettled, but the inertia is only temporary. When matters are amicably adjusted capital will come in freely, if the African war does not interfere with its flow. Capital is too greedy to stay away from a rich lunch like the Slocan. Even as it is, more capital has been attracted to the Slocan this year than at any time in its history. Two companies with more than fifty millions of dollars at their back are now operating in this section of the country, and they do not say a word against paying $3.50 for eight hour shifts. This will be startling news to the many carpers wbo sit with their hands crossed and sputter blue ruin from the bottom of their rotten souls, The Cceur d'Alenes, in Idaho, had a much more serious labor trouble than we have had in the Slocan, and this is how we find matters over there; During the first half ot 1899, the value of documents filed for record in the Cceur d'Alene district amounted to $586,058.84, and for the last half $1,486,752.85. The increase over 1898 was over 200 per cent. If Idaho can show such a record after its recent experience with dynamite, bull pens and martial law, where will the Slocan be at when the present bloodless contention has become only a memory? Echo answers, "Out ot sight and still a'climbing." SLOCAN-KILO DEVELOPMENT CO. The following very encouraging announcement recently appeared in several of the Eastern newspapers: "The Ontario Government has just issued a charter to the 'Slocan Kilo Development Companv, which owns 20 valuable claims in the Kootenay district. The company is capitalized at $7,000,000, and the venture is regarded as one of the largest mining undertakings of the year. In addition to its claims in Kootenay the company proposes to operate in Ontario. The provisional directors are Senator Miller, New York, and Mes sers, James McNaught and A. Mc- Kinney, New York; II. Melville, Boston; and Charles McGee, Ottawa. Arrangements have been perfected for the erection of a 100 stamp mill in the Slocan, and as the men at the back ofthe project are all well-known capitalists, the undertaking promises to be crowned with success." This is the company known as the Warner- Miller syndicate, which recently has made such extensive purchases of mining property in the Slocan. The Payne has reached the Scandinavian stage of its existence, a de cided improvement over the era ot macaroni.���The Ledge. SONG OF THE HWOKD. Weary .and wounded,and worn, wounded and ready to die, A soldier they left,all alone and forlorn, on the field of battle, to die. The dead and the dying alone would their presence and pity afford, Whilst, with a sad heart and terrible tone he sang the Song of the Sword: 'Fight, tight, tight! though a thousand fathers die! Fight, tight, tight! though a thousand children cry! Fight, fight, fight! while the mothers and wives lament! And fight, tight, fight! while millions of money are spent. "Fight, fight, fight! should the cause bo foulor fair, Though all that's gained is an empty name and a tax too great to hear; An empty name and a paltry fame and thousands lying dead; Whilst everv glorious victory must raise the price of broad. "War, war, war! fire and famine and sword; Desolate fields and desolate towns and thousands scattered abroad. With never a home, and never a shed, whilst kingdoms perish and fall; And the hundreds of thousands are lying dead���and all for nothing at all! "War, war, war! musket, and powder, and ball��� Ah, what do we tight so for? Ah! why have we battle at all? Tis Justice must be done, they say��� tbe nation's honor to keep; Alas, that Justice should be so dear and human life so cheap! "War, war, war! misery, and murder, and prime Are all tbe blessinirs I've seen in thee, from m,v youth to tbe present time Misery, murder and crime���crime, winery, murder and woe! Ab! would that I bad known in mv younger days the horror* which now I know!'' Weary,and wounded and worn-*1-wound- ed and ready to die, A soldier they left.all alone and forlorn, on the field of battle to die Tbe dead and the dying alone would their presence and pity afford. And thus, with a sad and terrible tone, he sanjr tbe Song of the Sword! A bad smash up occurred Sunday on the Crow's Nest road, near Creston, tbe cars jumping the track in rounding a curve. Three men were injured. F>. BTJRjNTS <8o CO, DEALERS IN MEATS AT y SANDON, ROSSLAND, NELSON, KASLO, PILOT BAY THREE PORKS, SLOCAN CITY. THE PAYSTUKAK, SANDON, B. C, JANUARY 20, 1900. THE VOICK OF CONQUEST. I hew my pathway with the Sword, Slay Peace and say I throttled Crime, King round with flame the Savage Horde, Weave crimson in the robe of Time. I search for gold and gleaming gem, Seise fairest islands of the sea, Find simple folk and fling to them From cannon mouth���Humanity. I seek tbe realm where dullards dwell, I make each brutish weakling feel The good there is in shriek of shell, The blessings wrought by fire and steel. With saber stroke and thrust of lance I shake the regions of Content, And teach the hosts of Ignorance The sweetness of Enlightenment. What matter if Death's pride be War, Or Weakness be the slave of Might? Is progress not a conqueror, And Power another name for Right? What matter if I crush the free, Or if ten million men be slain? Ami not lord of Destinv��� The Anglo-Saxon god of Gain? ���H. Bash ford, in S. F. Examiner. TELLURIUM AS It TKLLURIOK��. Note* of Interest and Inatructlwii to the Prospector. [Compile.! l>y Wm. Tliomllnson.] On account of the reported occurrence of tclluride oiea around the headwaters of Kettle river, between Vernon and Fire Valley. we����t of Ihe Lower Arrow lake, the following notes, compiled from the U'st authorities, may prove instructive and of value to prospectors:��� TELLURIUM. Tellurium is one of the elementary substances. It is a rare element, and when found is generally combined chemically with other elementary substances, as silver, gold, lead, mercury, bismuth, and sulphur, forming compound'', called tellurides. The element, tellurium, itself is of little economic value, but is interesting for the reason that it is the only element with which gold combines chemically in nature; and on account of it? association with the other substances above mentioned. When first discovered, in Germany, 1782, tellurium was mistaken for silver ore. When scientists examined it, they were much puzzled with it, and finally decided it was a new element, which they named tellurium, from the Latin word���tellus, tbe earth. The principal properties of native tellurium are: bright lustre, silver-white color, greyish streak and powder, hardness 2 to 2.5, is somewhat brittle, fuses easily, volatilizes and can he distilled at high temperatures, golden yellow vapor, crystalizes readily but may occur massive, when strongly heated burns with a blueish-tfreen Maine and gives off thick white smoke, is soluble in nitric acid. TBLLUBIDB8. Sylvanite.���A tellunde of gold and silver, named sylvanite because found in Transylvania. A good specimen gives about 28.5 per cent gold, 15.5 par cent silver and 56 per cent tellurium, but its composition is variable. It may vary silver 1 to 15 per cent, gold 25 to 45 per cent, tellurium 45 to 56 per cent. The sylvanite found at Cripple Creek, Col., averages about 25 per cent in gold. It has a bright metallic lustre; color, steel grey to silver white, but sometimes pale or brassy yellow. Hardness, 1.5 to 2, brittle, fuses easily, and tbe tellurium volatilizes, leaving a globule of gold and silver. It is usually found massive, but sometimes in plates or bladed crystals. When the specks or crystals of sylvanite are arranged in the gangue rock, almost like Hebrew writing, the ore is called graphic tellurium. Prof. A. Lakes, in describing the specimens of telluride ores in the state museum at Denver.Col., uses tbe following terms: "Bronze colored sylvanite in foliated plates or scales, bronze colored tellurides, glittering little plates of tellurides.magnificent glittering plates of tellurides crossing each other, hair-like network of telluride minerals," etc. Calaverite���A telluride of gold, named calaverite because found in Calaveras county, Cal. It also occurs at Cripple Creek. Its composition is gold 44.5 per cent, tellurium 55.5 per cent. It is of a bronze yellow color, resulting from the blending of the silver white tellurium with yellow gold. It is usually found massive or without crystals. Petzite.���This.likesylvanite, is a telluride of gold and silver, but contains more silver and less tellurium. Its usual composition is gold 25.70 per cent, silver 42.36 per cent, tellurium 34.16 per cent. Sometimes petzite is found containing more silver and less gold than the a'oove percentages. It is the most abundant of the tellurides, and occurs at Cripple Creek, Republic, Wash., and several other places. The ore has a metallic lustre. Its color is steel grey, but as it often tarnishes to an iron black, the color of a fresh break or fracture should l��e observed. Hardness 2.5 to 3 per cent It may be slightly sectile, and is usually found massive without crystalization. It fuses easily before the blowpipe, the tel lurium volatilizing and leaving a globule of gold and silver. Hessite���A telluride of silver; contains silver 62.8 per cent, and tellurium 37.2 per cent. It has a metallic lustre, lead to steel grey color, blackish powder, and it is malleable and seulile like lead. It fuses easily with soda before the blow p'pe and uives a silver globule. When part of the silver contents are replaced by gold, it may he classified as petzite, to which it is closely related. Altaite.���A telluride of lead, first discovered in the Altai mountains. It contains lead 61.8 per cent, tellurium 38.2 percent. Hardness 2.5 to 3.5. It is of tin white or yellowish color; is sectile and fuses easily. It is usually found massive, but occasionally in cubes like galena. It tarnishes to a bronze yellow, therefore should be judged by a fresh fracture. Tetradymite.���A telluride of bismuth; usual composition bismuth 52 percent, tellurium 48 per cent, but sulphur and selenium are often present in small quantities. Color, pale and metallic grey; hardness 1.5 to 2. It fuses easily and volatilizes, and it may be found massive, granular, or in flexible leaf-like plates, slightly sectile. It occurs in the gold mines of Virginia and Georgia. Nagyajjite, or Foliated Tellurium.��� Thisisa very mixed telluride, having variable quantities of sulphur, iron, lead, silver and gold in its composition. It contains from 6 to 9 per cent gold. Its color is blackish-lead-grey. It is very soft, hardness 1 to 1.5, and usually occurs in flexible leafy forms, but may be found massive. It may be mistaken for a form of graphite, but as nagyagite fuses easily in a candle flame, and gra phite is practically infusible, no mistake should be made on account of the resemblance. Coloradoite.���A telluride of mercury, often mixed with other telluride ores. Mullerine.���A rare gold bearing telluride of lead and antimony. i Kremerite.���A rare telluride of gold, occurring at Nagyagin. to the deliberate machinations ef American transport company agenda, A WORD TO THK WISE. It would be well for the mine managers of Kootenay to profit by the experience of other camps. It is a costly policy that gives labor to foreigners in preference to native born Canadians. If the Silver-Lead Mines Association succeeds in opening the mines with scab labor, and foreigners at that, the association will have been a curse to the community. It might save a few dollars now, but the loss will follow later. Take the case of the Coeur d'Alenes for example. There foreigners were taken into the mines to such an extent that they out numbered tbe Americans and captured the labor organizations. The result was that trouble reigned in the district. Of the 528 prisoners shut up in bull-pen at Wardner after the dynamite outrage, 396 were foreigners and only 132 of American birth. Since the trouble was ended and the mines resumed operations, the district has been Americanized, and of tbe 2073 men employed in the mines in November 1357 were of American birth; 97 were Germans, 209 Scandinavians, 61 Italians, 98 Canadians, 38 Austrians, 15 Scotch, 86 English, 36 Irish, 24 Welsh, 45 Russians and 7 French. The Slocan mines should be Canadianized. Canadian miners are the best of workmen. They are cheaper at |3.50 a day than foreigners will be at $3 or $2.50.���The Ledge. The Yukon San is doing a good work in repeatedly sounding a strong note of warning against the booming: of Cape Nome. That paper���without regard to the recently added com plexities of judicial decision, which makes all titles to foreshore gold claims doubtful���significantly points out that a Mr. Shepherd, agent for the North American Trading and Transportation Co, at St. Michael, Alaska, sent circular letters far and wide, booming Cape Nome as early as February last, though only $1,600 worth of gold had then been taken out. It is confidently asserted by the Sun that much of the exaggeration of Cape Nome gold possibilities is due KOOTENAY RAILWAY & NAVIGATION CO. Operating Kaslo & Slocan Railway, International Navigation A Trading Company. KASLO & SLOCAN RAILWAY. Schedule of Time. Pacific Standard ���Time- Passenger train for Sandon and way stations leaves Kaslo at 8:00 a. in. daily, returning, leaves Sandon at 1:15 p. m., arriving at aslo at 3:55 p. in. INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION & TRADING CO., operating on Kootenay Lake and River. 8. 8. INTERNATIONAL. Leaves Kaslo for Nelson at 6:00 a. m��� daily except Sunday. Returning leaves Nelson at 4:30 p. m��� calling at Balfour, Pilot Bay, Ainsworth and all way points, Connections with S. F. & N. train to and from Spokane at Five Mile Point; also with str. Alberta to and from Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. S. S. ALBERTA. Leaves Nelson for Bonner's Ferry Tuesday and Saturdays at 7 a. m., meeting steamer International from Kaslo at Pilot Bay. Returning, leaves Bonner's Ferry at 8 a. m. Wednesdays and Sundays. LARDO-DUNCAN DIVISION. Steamer International leaves Kaslo for Lardo and Argenta at 8:45 p. m. Wednesdays and Fridays. Steamer Alberta leaves Kaslo for Lardo and Argenta at 8 p.m. Sundays. Steamers call at principal landings in both directions, and at other points when signalled. Tickets sold to all points i i Ca ada and the United Statas. To ascertain rates and full information, address- Robert Irving, Manager. S. Campbell, Kaslo, B. C. Freight and Ticket Agt., Sandon. SANDON BOTTLING CO M. W. DAT. Proprietor. Manufaturer of all Kinds of CARBONATFD DRINKS Syphons, Gingei Ale, Sarsaparilla, Etc., Etc Sandon, B.C. Patronize home industry when you want the best Hunter Bros. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Groceries, Dry Goods, MEN'S FURNISHINGS, HARDWARE, CARPETS, BOOTS & SHOES, TINWARE, LINOLEUMS, HATS & GAPS, CROCKERY, WINDOW SHADES, CLOTHING. We carry the best lines that money can buy, and, buying in large quantl ties, save you the extra profit, Sandon Rossland Greenwood Grand Forks ^h^b^^^^^N THL PAYSTBSAJL SAXDOX, B.C.. JAXCAB1 2 ItK wrw DKXVER ITM��. J. A. McEM.ua Id ba�� gone u> M>yie to rork. Txie cro**-col tunnel being driven on lb* Frifrcx*. has encountered tint iedge a: a distance of 35 feet. ��>d tbe surface tbe ledge ebowE carbonate* and galena. P.. F Gre*-u write* that the <rovem- A short drift oo tbe ledge will reach a meat cannot provide anv fir*- protection for New f>envtrr Tbe Earl of Ava. recently dead in -��-������.'.l Africa. -i*~:i: a -non vsa&on in New Denrer l*�� year. Pa WW k Craddock. of Trail, .axe (m Sunday a shack io tbe centre of putting up a SUOP store building at B -an City caught fir*-, and the town BreeawnadL had a narrow escape from extinction. Corporal E. M. Lindsay shot hhnarlf Too*. Avison ru presented with a , dead at Retina because he was inedi- handtome parlor suite. Monday even- j ca!ly unfit to go to South Africa point angler the ore showing on tbe scr- Esea. I>TEBC*JTI>0 COSCE>TB*TSS. ing, by his brother K. of P.'s. in iionor of hi* recent marriage. la*- Knigbts of Pythias have decided to celebrate the third anniversary of ���.-.- r e-tiv'.;-L::j-rj; '.-ire with a fall, to be given on Feb UiA. Th" Miner* Union have arranged tbeir big ball for Thursday. Feb 1. It ! Price Eillson.Opposition member from one of tbe Yale*, ha* decided to resign and go to South Africa a* a scoot. The Camp McKinney Mines,Limited, operating in the Boundary, have had their stamp mill and properties seized by the sheriff for debt. On Sunday the tug Kaslo. while lying burned is to be a masquerade, and suit- may be ��� aj ^e dfy:k at Nelson, wa obtained at Muilitts fruit store. Sup-< rapt. Lean was in command, and saved per will mt served at tbe St. Jame-. j tne bull bv scuttling. The tug. when The committee is sparing no effort to make this affair a huge soccer It is a pleasant contrast to note the in Greenwood last fall U> Billr Simps new. cost ti ��� I Dan Bongard sold bis hotel business difference in the actions and speech of such men as Krnest Mansfield, and the of Ne!��on. He is now running a sawmill at Kettle Falls, and expects to cut chronic non-working agitators OppaoiBg a mjiJi0D feet of lumber this season the eight-boar law. The manairers of I tne mines that are not working are not referred to in this, for they are observing the good taste of saying nothing, even if 'hey are not pleased with the way things are going. It ia tbe man who ie ever ready to paint things in the darkeat hue and keeps blue-ruin on tap. that makes the contrast. Mr. Mansfield is a man of knowledge and foresight. He has millions of dollars back of him. and must know how tilings are going. He is asking no questions, but when he sees a I Lruring 1880 there were recorded in the Ainsworth division IB2 locations, A~L transfers. <*'< certificates of improve- menf. and 97��j assessments. In lieu of assessments $27j0 in cash wa- paid in at Kaslo. SLOCAM CITT WJCWI IN I'.KIKF. W H Moat, of Vancouver, spent several ��lays in town this week, on his way to Grand Forks M. Cameron is building a stabie at property that pleasee him he ukes it up I Lemon Creek siding, and wiil move and put* men to work. His time is too j some of his pack train there valuable to be spent in discussing the j Everything is now readv for the big propriety of this law or that: l.ke a man; ba���in*tbe Mufiic Uall. on Thursdav of business he accept* the conditions i nigfct and a,j who attend (.an ^^ ':'"'-: ���-" :: a: J'~ ": ion enjoying a good time. The Arlington has four carloads of ore ready to ship, and this i- now being it mVOCAM MINKKAI. PI.OAT. The K. A >. report* an increase in or.- shipments. rawhided down. The ore ha> been ta- j ken out in development only It will ! he a rood time for the camp when the Neven men are employed running the i i ��� _ l- i , ... .., Arhngton can ship regularlv. long drift on the Snrerite. Tbe force on the Heather Bell has been Inrrfssnd to four men. "-toping will commence shortly on the HIS DHKAM. Hartney group, and rawhiding trill follow. The tunnel on the CapeUa i- in46 Papa 'at the breakfast table���Willie, my boy, why are you looking so thoughtful? Are you not feeling very well:' Willie very seriously,���Yes, papa feet, with the ore chute still carrying, j but I had a strange dream this morn- It is expected the lower * I rift on the | 'nK- Marion will cut into the ledge the end nf the week. Work on the Neglected, situated close to town, will be resumed on Monday, two men being employed. Seven men are employed at the California. The lower tunnel will be driven ffiO feet to catch the ore at great lepth. It is now in 100 feet. Ore ui being peeked down from the Hartney this week. A car load ship- Papa���Indeed! What wa- it? Willil���I dreamed, papa, that I died and went to heaven; and when Saint Peter met me at tbe gate, instead of showing me 'the way to the golden streets, as I expected, he took me out into a large field, and in the middle of the field was a ladder reaching up into tbe sky and out ol sight. Then Saint Peter told roe heaven was at the top. and in order to get there I must take the big piece of chalk he gave me arid ruent will f>e made at once, to be followed j a|0wly climb the ladder.writing on each thinking afseaseffciag to write ou tbe second mug. I looked up inf. Hal and saw vou coming down. Papa���And ��ha: wa- I HI���tig a" ��� ;- for. pray.' Willie-That s just whai I asked you. fapa. and you told BM J9M P��J | for more chalk! CUUBO THK -HAPT. After thirteen weeks of e\i-tence the Phoenix News ha- climbed the - and flung itself over the dump of oblivion Before going uff shift i: made these remark-:��� "Phoenix wiil be alar.- I - it at ��� tent all lines of business are done Thi- i- especially so in the news- paf��er business. T;. - _ ��d living for one, aad but a bar- existence for two With a population nf betvei n four and five hundred. Phoenix hasi h te -. five _���-:.-: -: n -. two dmz stores, three rtathHM - '��� ifarnish _���- -teres, two tailors, two ihoemak three livery rtal - f-ur barbers, three doctors and two lawyers. The anmber of men working for the n n ._��� : sniei :. Greenwood camp i- about sj?>. or a payroll of >--���' ' ���" ��� nth." t'wrtunc tor the lio.r.inr. There is a fortune awaiting the iu- vei t<��r who can discover a successful method for the preservation ol egg*. The lone and severe winters render It - taftely essential to j reserve eggs, il they are to be had during tbe seal i The principle involved in preserving eggs is the preservation of theuioril agenoas coating,which naturally covers the shell, and which prevent* the et." trance <-f the germ ���>. decomposition When ;tii- ciatin.' i- rem rred, the e_'_r begins \-> beeom ��� "st lie,1 and tbe pro cess of decay naturailv begins The u��. of lime and sail a- means of preserve never entirely successful, does n ���'��� preserve the protecting covering'on tbe shell, and no process can be successful unle��� it does this. Experiments nave shown that water glass come- more nearly beingaperfect preservative than anything that has hitherto been employed There is always danger of the bursting of the shell of an egg that is thus preserved when in hot water, hut this disadvantage may be overcome bv carefully piercing it with a needle. The question will naturally arise, if the pre serration of the surface of the shell in its natural condition is ail that is neces sary to preserve the ^gg. why could i' not be coated with some preparation that would answer the purpose? it could be. Vaseline will preserve it and might he used un a small scale, hut it would require too much time, and con- sequently expense, to use tbi- meaus extensively. It should be within the power of some inventor to discover some simple aud cheat) method of preserving eggs, and thereby not only gain a fortune, but also bestow an inestimable benefit upon the human race bv placing within the reach of all a necessary article of food went through to the gulch below and was wrecked. No one was hurt Billy Barnfather was tbe engineer, with Con- r McKay ��n charge ti tbe train. Bic Copier Deal. The big copper claims at White Horse, shore Benuett, have been sold to Loudon capitalist-* for #.'.������ 00,1 [{ j. tsserted by one of the part owner* in Vane uver. Tbi- is one of the b g gest deals ever record*! in We-urn via Mr. Bowker. of the B A. (. . bad a buying option on thepeapecty, has been in Ix��ndou some time neg liat- mg the deal There are twenty claims in the White H r-e jt< up. and the v��r- koas earners pooled their Interests l.iioknt I pon Aiufrir��'�� Lurernr. brnest Mansfield *a�� i" New I> la<t week f-.r the purpose of examinin.' the Moflie II Ighea. He leaves oa Fri day for Lond m. Mr Hanafiwld ha- in- rested eonstderabie saoner for hi-companv in the Slocan daring the pa-i year, snj - very popular with the ters Hi- company will e\|*end a million dollars ipon claims and development iri the Sloes ind other j^rts of West Kootenay. Thojrareei dentlr id afraid of I fhl how law and know ��� go -i conntrj when they seeii ���Tne Ledge N>\�� Intention*. by several more in the near future. The ore chute in the Marion stope widened to eighteen inches this week. This property is developing well and promises to be a re ular shipper shortly. rung some sin that I had committed. Papa i laying down his newspaper)��� And did you finally reach heaven, my son? Willie���No. papa: for }n<t a-; I was l?rok*r Th , rh a Trestle. No mail arrived from Nelson on Monday owing to an accident on the Columbia & Kootenay road. The early train from Nelson cot mixed up with trestle No 63, smashing things up generallv and delaying traffic for a day." One car Bel >w i- a list of new invent ��� - ��� Uy patented by various inretitor*, through the agemy of Messrs Msrkm k Marion. New i'ork Life building, Montreal: Canada���N E Lister, WesthVW I ������ tie. N B . devii e for HurfaHng or gi ing railway tracks '-raid Page. I' St. Charles, \\ mti ��� a "npp ul; Samuel Vassnt, Joli��*tti��,grsi igrind r-: Joshua Fletcher, Vancou%*er, stump nuller. United <\m<-���C. A. 15 1�����- jardin-.St Andre de KamiMir i-ka.le - power-; W. S I'i-her.F! ederit t .n.-t . . for use in polishing boots; K Parent, Moutreal. si -: N. V. Marcbaiid, M treal, kodak UTan srale in Kn����l��iol. The schedule of Wages in force in the Roasland camp last rear was as follows: Machine miners, ^ ���*>-. in shafts, $4 to ��1 ">'��: shovelers and car men. ?���_��� 50; tim- bermen. S3, $:J.."��i�� and *i: mechanics machinists fO.dOtotl; engineers, $3.- 50 and $8 for nnderground eight hour work The present shift is eight hours for all underground work Surface work is ten hour-, including time for dinner. lii< r.a��c in |��rlce of Silter. Renewed boring <d silver by the In dian government, the London Statist says, can not he much longer delayed In consequence of ruj ee coinage requirements, end this will lead doubtless to a marked Improvement in the price of silver During the l^om of 1887 Sault Sre Marie was said to have a fair chance to be a second Chicago. Now a exiiu- panv is spending $7,500,000 there in the erection of mills and the people dub the town a second Slieftield. Smelter talk has again broken out in Kaslo. THE PAYSTREAK, SANDON, B. C, JANUARY 20. 1900 A TRIBUTE TO DRY CODFISH. She wroto her daddy to Portland, Maine, from out in Denver, Col., And she wrote, alas ! despondently, that life hud commenced to pull ; And this was u woful, woful cuse, for she was u six-month's bride, Who was won and weil in the State of Maine' by the side of the houndidg tide, And, ah. alack! she wan writing haok that she longed for Portland, Maine, Till, ob, her feelinge bad been that wrenched she could hardly stand the strain. Thonghher bnbbydear was still sincere.she sighed the livelong day tot a good old snuff of the seaweed and salt from the breast of Caseo Hay. And she wrote, she sighed, she said she cried. and her appetite fell off And she'd grown as thin as a belaying pin with a terrible hacking cough : And she tort of hinted that pretty hooii she'd start on a reckless seoot And hook for home in Portland. Maine, hy the wry fhortesl route; Hut her daddy dear was a man of sense who handles fish wholeitflle. And he sat and he fanned himself a while with u big broad codfish tail : And he recollected the way he felt when he dwelt in the World's Fair whirl. Heslapdedhis head: "Cy halo-.'' he -nip." know what ails that girl." And he went tu a ten-cord pile of eo I and he polled the hlggcst o'lf - A )ib>shapfld critter, broad's a -.ail. thn e feel Irom tail to siiont��� And he pasted a sheet of postage gtamps from from snont clear down ti> tail, I'nt un a quick delivery stamp and sent the cod by mail, she unelled it a-coming two blocks off. on the top of the postman's*pack j she rushed to meet him, and soared him blind hy climl Ing the poor man' - hack. Hut she got the lish. hit out a hunk, ate postage stamps and all��� And u happy wife, in a happy home, lives out in Ben ver, Col. Uncle Sam lias Troubles of his Oiun. The United States has 65,000 men fighting in the Philippines, and when one district, is conquered, and the troops proceed to operate elsewhere, the conquered district becomes un- conquered at once. It is a serious war, though we hear only occasionally of its details. Here is a table which gives tlu; losses in the Philippines since August 8, 1898: Killed 364 Died of wounds and accidents .. 20.'} Died of disease 7<*nJ Total deaths 1,350 Wounded 1,892 Grand total 3,242 Our neighbors have their troubles also. A Provincial labor convention was held in Vancouver last week. Its object was to consider the advisability r>f the Provincial government adopt- ng the law of compulsory arbitration in caseb of industrial dispuutes. The convention decided to petition the Setnlin government to make the act workable and arbitration compulsory. A resolution favoring the eight-hour day was passed, Certiflcate of Improvements. NOTICE. WELLINGTON, CHAMBERS, EUEEKA AND JAY GOULD MINERS. CLAIMS. Situate in the Slocan Miniri Division of West Kootenay District. W here located : On the North Slope of the South Fork of Carpenter Creek, ahove the Town of Cody Take Notice that I .1. H. dray, acting as agent for Mrs. L. Helens. Free Miner's ('crti. flcate No. 34896a j Bd. Becker,F, M. 0. No 18188 ; John dhlwell, F. M. Q, No. 18181; F. A Deverenx,P.M.0.No. 68846A; 0. L. Proton. F.M. ('.No. 10884A j O. T. Stone. F. M. ('.No. lOefi&A and J. R.Gray, F.M.C. No.88146a, intend sixty days from date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for tbe purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under Set tion .17, must he commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements Dated this twetty-first day of December 1809 J. H. Gray. Certificate of Improvements. NOTICE. TIPTOP ANDCODYSTAR MINERAL CLAIMS Situate in the Slocan Mining Division ol We.^t Kootenay List-riot. Where located On the South Fork of Carpenter Creek. Take Notice that I. A. H. Docksteader. aoting as agent for Biggerstaff Wilson, Free Miner's Certificate No. 88870a, James Albert Lindsay. Free Miner's Certificate No. 86666, B. C. Riblet,Special Free Miner's Certificate No. Till, and John Docksteader, Free Miner's Certificate No. U16J8S Intend sixty days from date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder lor a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above oluim -. And further take notice that action, under section .'17. must he commenced hefore the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this Sotb day of November, 1888. A H. DOCK8TKAOER. SANDON MINERS' UNION. [Western Federation of Miners.] Meets every Saturday Evening at 8 o'clock in Miners' Union Hall. Pres, Gko. Smith. Vioe-l res, How AMD TllOMI son. Fin Sec. W. I.. RaOLKK. SANDON MINERS' Hospital. UNION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Subscribers, (1.00 per month Private Patients (8.00 per day. exclusive of expense of physician or urgeon and drugs. .1. D. McLaughlin, President. W. L. Hagl.hr, Secretary. DR. W. E. GOMM, Attendant Physician. MissS. M. CHI8HOLM, Matron. Grant Cox, Wm.Donahok, J. V.Martin, Wm, Garhitt and V. H. Muri>hy, Management Committee. I. O. O. F. HAMMOND BROS. CO.. Ltd. SANDON. PACKERS and FORWARDERS Sleighs, Cutters, Teams and Saddle Horses for Hire. I SILVER CITY LODGE NO. 30. Meetings every Friday Evening at 7:80 in Crawford's Hall. Visiting brethren are cordially invited to attend. REV. AM SANFOHD. Vice-Grand C. E. LYONS, ALBERT DAVID, Secretary. Noble Grand. A. F. & A. M. ALTA LODGE NO. 89. Regular Communication held first Thursday in each month iu Masonic Hall at W P, M. Sojounn Ing brethern are cordially invited to attend Thomas BROWN, Secretary Tired Eyes Cause Sickness lievau.se the eyes tire easily some folks say they are not well. In most such eases there is Eye Strain. Neglected Eye Strain is tnire to produce Sickness. lie Wise, Have your Eyes Examined, Know their exact Condition from an expert G. W. GRIMMETT, Scientific Optician. I Folliott & McMillan. 0*0*000*000*0000 Contractors and Builders. Dealers in Dressed and Rough Lumber. 0000*000000* Sash, Doors, Blinds, etc., Made to Order at Lowest Possible Prices. Mine and Dimension Timber always in Stock. Plans, Estimates anil Specifications furnished for all Classes of Building. SHOPS OPPOSITE C. P. R. FREIGHT SHED, RAILROAD AVE SANDON. mmmk%%wm wk mmmm ^* ***: MINERS' HOTEL WATERLAND A WESTERBERG Proprietors. SAX DON, li. C. Headquarters for Miners. Well stooked bar in connection. First class accommodations. Hoard by the ilav or week. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY AND SOO LINE. DAILY DAILY M. L. GRIMMETT. L L. B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. SANDON, B. C. F- L. CHRISTIE, L. L. B. Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Notary Public. The Direct Route From KOOTENAY COUNTRY To All Points EAST WEST First Clas Sleepers on all Trains from REVELSTOKE A KOOTENAY LANDING. Tourist Cars pass Medicine Hat Daily for St. Paul. Sundays and Wednesdays for Toronto, Fridays for Montreal and Boston. Same cars pass Revelstoke one day earlier. DAILY TRAIN 8:00 Lv. sandon Arr. 16:30 SANDON, li. C. Established ik��o. E. M. SANDILANDS. Slocan Mines. SANDON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Mining Stocks bought and Sold. General Agent for Slocan Properties. Promising Prospects For Sale. CONNECTIONS. Daily to Points Reached via. Nakusp. Daily except Sunday to Points reached via Rosebery and Slocan City. Tickets Issued Through and Baggage Checked to Destination. S. A. COURTNEY, Agent, Sandon. E. J. COYLE, W. P ANDERSON, A. G. P. Agt., Trav. Pass. Agt Vancouver, Nelson. Be sure that your ticket reads via the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY THE PAYSTREAK, SANDON, 11. ('., JANUARY 20, 1900 The Mine-Owners' Protest. Victoria, January 17.���In the legislature today Martin of Rossland presented the petition signed by twenty-three of the principal mine- owners of his district protesting against the eight-hour law This petition, nearly a column long, sets out how they were taken by surprise by this legislation, when they should have been allowed to be heard on the subject before its passage, and that it was a great surprise to the working miners. The petitioners narrate the pleasant and profitable relations hitherto existing between owners and workers, and continue : "Speaking in the light of experience during the months that the law has been in operation, your petitioners state as a fact that it will be impos sible for all mine-owners to continue to pay the rate of wages for eight hours of labor that they have been paying for ten hours. The expense of carrying on the work in the mines that are at presented operated are so great tnat the same has become burdensome and unremunerative. The necessary alternative will be a reduction ol wages, and upon such reduction, speaking in the light Of experience, your petitioners are afraid consequences will ensue that will greatly retard the progress of mining in the Kootenays. "Your petitioneis desire to emphasize the fact that large sums of Brit ish and Eastern Canadian capital were invested in the mines and mineral claims throughout the Kootenays before the passage of the law in question, and your petitioners submit that it is unfair to those who invested their money that the\ should be discriminated against, as thev h ive been by the passing of the eight hour law. "Ymir petitioners submit that the law complained of is unconstitutional, as the same is imposing an unwarrnt- ablo rsstrictriction upon the right to contract, that the privilege of contracting is both a liberty and a righi which has been enjoyed by British subjects from time immemorial, and that any legislation such as that complained of, which prevents the making of contracts, is an inter ference with the freedom of contracting between workman and employer; and further, that, the passing of tbe law In question is an unfair discrimination against the industry of metalliferous mining, and deprives persons employed in metalliferous mining of the privileges allowed to and enjoyed by other persons under like conditions in other mines. "The petitioners, therefore, ask that such action be taken by the legislature of British Columbia as will grant a restoration of their rights by either the repeal of amendment of the section complained ot." Assessment Act and Provincial Revenue Tax Act. WEST KOOTENAY DISTRICT. SLOCAN RIDING. Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the statutes, that Provincial Revenue Tux anil all taxes levied umler the Assessment Act, are now due for the year lOitO. Al] the above named taxes collectible within the West Kootenay District, Slocan Riding, are payable at my ofUoe. Kaslo. Assessment taxes are collectible at the fol. lowing rates, via: If paid on or before June 80th, 1900: Three-fifths of one per cent, on real property. Two and one-half per cent, on assessed value of wild land. One-half of one per cent, on personal property. On so much of the income of any person as exceeds One Thousand Dollars the following rates, namely, upon such excess of income when the same is not more than Ten Thousand Dollars, one percent; when such excess is over Ten Thousand Dollars ami not more than Twenty Thousand Dollars, one and one- quarter of one per cent.; when; such excess is over Twenty Thousand Hollars, one and one- half of one per cent. If paid on or alter July 1st, 1900. Four-fifths of one per cent, on real property Three per cent, on the assessed value of wild lauds Three-fourttu of one per cent, on personal property. On so much of the income of any person as exceeds One Thousand Hollars the following rates.* namely, upon such excess when" the same is not more than Ten Thousand Dollars, one and one-quarter of one j>ercent,: when Bach 6X0638 is' over Ten Thousand Dollars and not more than Twenty Thousand Dollars, one and one-half of one per cent., when such excess is over Twenty Thousand Dollars, one and three-quarters of one per cent. Provincial Revenue Tax, 3.00 per capita, JOHN KEEN, Assessor and Collector. Kaslo. B.C.. Kith January, 1900 Pure Teas Pure COffee BELIEVING that the people of Sandon-as elsewhere���appreciate i, good, clean, wholesome fTD J\ of excellent llavor, put up in neat, fcastv.pnek ajres of A and I pound L c"*Hnd at a very n-asonaMe^ price. I |WVfl Certificate of Improvements. NOTICE. -PORTLAND No. (ft.) MINERAL CLAIM." Situate in the Slocan Mining Division ol West Kootenay District. Where located : About three-quarters of a mile from the "MONITOR No. 2" Mineral Claims, near Three Fork-;, in the Slocan Mining Oivis ion of West Kootenay, B. C. TAK8NOTICE that I, E M. Sandilandd, acting as agent for J C. Williams, Free Miner's Certificate No. B. 20&I9, issued at Sandon, B. ft, Deo. 7tli. 1839, administrator for E. 8 Williams, Free Miner's Certificate No. A.33319, issued at Sandon FeY 85th, intend sixty 'lays from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvement) for the purpose of obtaining1 a Crown tirant of the above claim. And further take notice that action. tUldei section 37, most be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements Dated this thirteenth day of January, 1!��00 E. M. Saxiiii.xi>s. 1SI lP 00. TO PACKERS & FREIGHTERS. --21 Pack Mules, --(> Work Mules. --4 Saddle Horses. The advertiser is prepared to sell these iinimals in one lot or in lots to suit the purchaser. These are ex cellent mules, in good condition, well broken. They can be seen at Sugar Loaf Ranch, Kamloops. The advertiser can also furnish if desired a pan-joes, s eighs or wagons. Reply to T. GRAHAM, P. 0. Box 7G5, Vancouver. Gales' Barber Shop and Bath House, The Best In Slocan. RECO AVE. SANDON. ges ot a aim i poui��� secured the agencv for the famous QAI,AHA TEA (Wmpies of which have been sent to you.) OAL/AUA IDA Thero |�� no mistake about the true value of this commend it as a delightful beverage. rpp/l and I can safely iv Our celebrated Blend of Mocha and Jaoa Coffee has no Equal in Sandon and all those tcho haoe used it cannot say too much in its praise. ALL LINKS OF PINE GROCERIES ON HAND. H. G1EGER1CH STOVES! STOVES! WE HAVE THE FINEST LINK OF Coal Heaters EVER DISPLAYED IN SANDON. STnett8for Cole's Hot Blast Heater. lb Our claims for CROW'S NE9T, equally well. Kindly call am this Heater are that it is adapted to anv kind of coal LETHBRIDGE, or ANTHRACITE, burning all kind inspect our lines. H. BYERS & Oo. DONALDSON Has some Beautiful Albums, Souvenirs of the Payn8 md Slocan Star, Stationery, Calling Cards, Ladies Card Cases, Ladies Pocket Books, All First Class Goods which will be Closed Out Cheap. "BOBBY" BURNS MUST BE CELEBRATED As the Brotherhood of St. Andrew is not going to cele brate "Bobby" Hums' Anniversary (January 25th) bv heir annual gathering this year, the SANDON BRASS BAND will give their dance that owning instead of the 14th of February, as announced last week. Dance in Virginia Hall January 25th. Tickets, including Supper, $1.50- Every preparation will be made to make this a pleas- ant evening for those who attend. Come and Enjoy an Eneving with the Band Boys and Celebrate Burn's Anniversary Laboring Men Attention. Beware of all agents and advertisements for the employment of men in the Slocan country. The trouble between Miners and Mine Owners is not yet settled, and you are requested to stay away. You will be duly notified when matters are adjusted. EXE( UTlVE C< >MMITTEK, Sandon Miners' Union.I The FILBERT CIGAR Stoi Cigars, Card: B Tobaccos, Smokers' Sundries, and JAS. WILLIAMSON. Pipci Chipv
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