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BOOK III. SANDON, SEPTEMBER 23 1899. CHAPTER 52 HAPPENINGS IN BRIEF. The new band uniforms make the boys look like "do Prince Vales." Mrs. R, Cameron left on Tuesday for Chippewa Falls, Wis., to visit relatives. Hamilton Byers has returned from the east with hit- bride and has taken up his residence in Nelson. Mayor Hamilton of McGuigan vis- itoil Sandon on Tuesday evening, returning home by the overland route. Jas. Dimmiek went to Rossland Wednesday to complete negotiations for the sale of sonic Trout Lake properties. The city clerk's office was moved yesterday from the Virginia block to rooms adjoining F. L. Christie's office. H. Byers & Co. are building a eoal shed on the C. P. K, right of-way, from which they will handle Crow's Nest coal, Silver lias at last broken away from the o.i cent mark where it has been stranded for several months. It was 59| yesterday. Gra,nd Master Welsh of New Westminster was in Sandon yesterday visiting the Silver City Lodge of ihe I. O. O. F. W. H. Lilly has fitted up an office next to his house, to which he will attach his shingle as notary public, justice of the peace, etc. A. W. Nicholson is taking views and gathering data for a magazine article to be published in an eastern periodical, probably McClures. The report that Mr.* Cliffe is to be cotne legal adviser to the finance minister is not literally true. Mr. Cotton has not yet accepted his services. Wm. Beatty, who has been, doing development work on the Omega for the Reco company, went to Windermere this week to take charge of the Sitting Bull mine. David W. King, the most versatile mining man in the Slocan, was Up from New Denver mi Tuesday east- big poetic glances at the city's lights and shades. The Sunshine mine in Trout Lake has been shutdown, No explanation's have been made by the management. There are. large bodies of shipping ore iu sight. Win. Hunter of Silverton is men- tioriea as a probable opposition candidate should the Cotton-Semlin government fail to hold a majority when the house meets, The Toronto lacrosse club will send a team to New Westminster J10 play B.C. teams during the fair. This is the first visit to the Province Vv any eastern team. The K. A S. Company has a crew 'it work building snow sheds at the Lucky Jim slide, which in other years has made railroading difficult and dangerous in its vicinity. Instruction from headquarters SLOCAN MINES. were received by the local authorities to stop all gambling;': As there was no mention made of petit larceny the j There are four men working police are at a loss to know what is i underground at the Sunshine referred to. The railroads of the United States will abolish the tree pass after New | Bess Year. Henceforth the poor newspaper man will have to do his travelling on the truss rods or by the side- door Pullman, Six men are at work on the long Mr. T. P. Lindsay and wife, of the firm of Lind tunnel recently started on the Queen The Noble Five is soon to be reorganized under British Columbia laws. store, on the south side of Reco aven ue. J. S. B. Weller is doing development work on the Bird claim above e ,.- ^J-n^'' Pa^'lE% g1'?" Cody for Jake Ivelsen. cers, Spokane, spent a few days in .�� r ;, Sandon this week. Mr. Lindsay is] A contract has been let on the No. interested in some Spring creek-p> tunnel at the Slocan Star. Four claims to which he made a visit of | men are working on it. inspection; Tne ivanhoe compressor plant has The particular brand ot weather been hauled up to the mine and will which is being served up to the j he in working order in a few days. Slocan just at present is superior to | Tncrc arc sti||'��� several cars of anything else m ide and alter the | machinery at Kaslo for the Ruth mill. Puget Sound variety of humidity The compressor should be along which has been prevalent all sum- next week and will be put up immediately. At an extra meeting on Tuesday evening the board of public works was authorised toexpend ��150 on the sidewalk. A resolution was adopted providing that the next meeting be held in the court house. The Ioanhoe Mill. iner it is particularly acceptable E. S. Clouston. general manager of II. Byers A Co. shipped an ore car the Slocan next week. Clouston makes an annual pilgrimage to the west to keep in touch with the spirit of progress and to shake the fossils out ot his comprehension. Nelson curlers propose having their rink enlarged to accomodate bon- spiel play. When completed it will equal the Rossland rink. Sandon curlers are prognosticating oil the advisability of building a vault in which to store the numerous gold and silver trophies which they will win this coming winter. There are few more touching scenes these placid times than to "'see George McPherson and Murray the Bank of Montreal, accompanied- and track.dowh to 'the Marion mine, by a parry ot Montrealers will visit New Denver, this week. The Marion, under the management of David W. King has been under development for only three months hut al- Vead / has ore enough in sight to lift the bond, pay all expenses of development and leave a handsome dividend for the owners. In a 60-foot tunnel on the lead ore shows all along from six inches to a foot wide. Two cars are already on the dump but no shipping will be done until rawhiding commences The ore will net nearly 13000 to the Car. There aiv approximately 200'men at work, in the minestribuary to Sandon just now. The crews are something as billows: Payne 40, Rambler- Cariboo25, Lucky Jim 2.">, Silver Bell lo, Ivanhoe 12, Vulture 10, The difficulty with regard to obtaining the site for the Ivanhoe concentrator has been cleared up and the Minnesota Silver Company has seccred the property they wanted from ihe IC.& S. The location is below the town on the west side < f the gulch close to the C. P. R. track. A few men have been put on to clear the ground and commence grading. THE LUCK OF THE MINE CAMP. Hoto one Stroke too fete Cost Three Men a Fortune. Buyers, garbed in a railroad gait and draped with a sense of aridity, . .. . ,, , ,. v ,, .,��� ,,.',., . .. Aiax riactoih Keco b, JMOOle rive loading dynamite ...to a box car { Chance-/, Ruth No. 2 Mr J 1, Voo,l. was so impressed ^ ^ ^ with its pathos as to take a P>o to of �� <^{ .���- j Ch, * the group pack .miles included g ��d "^ % ^ , Underfill which will be exhibited In the 1 oval .,- R K Lee 2 AlJ Whitewater 12 Art (rnllery alongside the Man , ���Jen aw wolMduff0n the Jackson and W ith the floe. i ft feW Qn prQsReCts. Fifty > men are The rumor was current in town?!working on prospects adjacent to vesterdav that four men who had-. New Denver. The Ruth also has 20 been hired in Ottawa to work at the. men on their payroll, building the Payne had arrived in Silverton. It concentrator and doing surface work is said that the men were met at at the mine, and the Ivanhoe has lo Revelstkoe and posted on ��� the situa- men making trails and grading the tion, whereupon they altered their i concentrator site. destination. Thisis the first Intimation so far of men being imported to i take the place of strikers in Slocan mines, although rumor has had them ! ilroves several CITY COUNCIL. on the way in times. large At the regular meeting os the. city council on Monday evening the following accounts were recommended for payment by the finance committee and accepted by the council : .1137 32 . 2o.r>f) With, this issue, the P.vystukvk completes the third year of its use- [Sandon Water & Light Co fulness. Tho.uh It has experienced Miner8' Union. Hospital... the stringency which the slump in p j ftobertsoil silver and the stampede to Klondike j jimmJr Review temporarily created, it has never p j_ Christie pinched out, but while other journals ��� j A Milck have suffered ihe humiliation of hay- j standard Publishing Co. ing to take, down their signs it has gone right along doing business in the old stand and when the present season of inactivity gives way to one of progress it hopes to be the most enterprising journal in the most prosperous camp in the free and silvery west. . 10,00 . 20.25 . 50.00 . 15.00 . 50.00 Thomas Brown was appointed city auditor at a salary of $100 per annum. The board of public works was requested to enquire into the matter of constructing a sidewalk from the The conclusion of the Bosun-Fidelity deal has made public a romantic story of a fcrtttne lost and found by one stroke of the pick. In the words of the New Denver correspondent of the Spokesman-Review it i�� as follows : After much trench digging and prospecting huge boulders of clean galeila wi-ro encountered in the vicinity where the first lind was made by the original locators of the Fidelity, Messrs. Williamson, Holtz aid Byron. This ore float was foliowid up the hill from the Bosun workings auc into one ot the open cuts made by the original holders. There, scarcely six inches from the face of the open cut a body of ore four feet across was uncovered. The dirt was hardly of sufficient weight to cling to the ore body, in fact, it is said, there are pick marks upon the ore made by the tornior owners. Had they worked another half shift in the open cut thev would have encountered the ore"." The Fidelity is now in the hands of the Bosun company and Manager Sandiford has men at work opening up what promises to be one of the biggest ore bodies in the Sioean. Sport Royal. There will be a game of football on the Three Forks recreation grounds tomorrow afternoon between Sandon's invincible aggregation and the Three Forks Anarchists. Marquis of Queerutbftf y rules will be observed and players with hob-nailed boots barred. Wm. Lawson referee, John S. (Justy kicker and Andrew (irier- sonjosher. Those who wish to see this great game may leave on the, 13;30 expivss via the C. P. R. and should be able to walk home in the evening. Positively no admission will be charged and no pink lemonade will be sold on the grounds. All are invited, especially rooters. No one should miss seeing this game as it may be the last opportunity tu witness anything so wildly exciting Bartlett hotel to the Slocan News until the snowslide season opens. ���;>.'<�����.''- ���������'��������� ��� '-.���.���.������������:���������.. The paystreak. iOOOOOoauwvvvw.. Government Ownership of Railways. vraTnnroTroTjnrBTnnnf Is this the Coming Political Issue in Canada. �� LJUJUUUUUUUUUUUULJULJUUU^ Notwithstanding the statements I to the contrary through, the, ���� nf the Liberal party, it is now tan iy ��cfe rain that the LaWier' f^*��t will appeal to the people within tne nexVfew months. Already jjrenu- SfsTilean5S SwXkSw Alaskan boundary ;1 both pa, alf he prHCtices known to politicians a re beiiw used to whip into line that ubkiui ous bodv of dissatisfied follow- ^t��\nbivariably threaten .to qui iquitous and absurd transportation policy in the world. With the single exception of Alexander Mackenzie, whose judgement, though discredited when it might have been of great benefit to the country, has since been vindicated In almost every point, we parliamentary ers who invariably threaten to quit the government just when an election is pending ; railway subsidies ami other financial measures which are made to supply the campaign funds necessary in Canadian "practical" politics were rushed through in the last days of the session; already campaigners are out stumping in Ontario and the Maritime Provinces and all things indicate that the government will call for a general election not later than next spring. In the light of these circumstances it is interesting to review the political situation and surmise the probable tactics of each of the great party "machines" in the forthcoming struggle for supremecy. Canada since confederation has been treated every tour years to a battle of the "ins" and the 'outs", with no radical planks embraced in the platform of either party, which only differed from each other in the intesity with which they endeavored to prove their own Integrity by reviling that of their opponents The pending campdign, it seems, will be of tne same order. The Laurier government has adopted while in power the whole policy of their predecessors in office ami with a similar protection tariff have carried on precisely the same nature of useless expenditure and public wastefulness as characterized the regime ol Macdonald and Tupper. The Conservatives are clamoring for return to office in order that they may continue these methods ot administration, on which they claim a copyright, and are loud in their denunciation of the Liberals tor assuming the o tlicy of Conservativism while playing the nde 11 Liberalism. Previous to the election of'% free trade was preached by such prominent Liberals as Laurier, Cariwrlght, Blake and other great leaders of the opposition, but in their scheme of government such practical politicians as Blair, Tarte, Sifton and McMullen are tound to regard It only as a pretty academic theory and to relegate it' to history along with other ante-election promises. We therefore find that both these political organizations, so far as a trade policy is concerned, are embracing similar doctrines, and although tariff reform may be preach td trom one end of the country to the other we have choice only between a government in power that will do nothing and an opposition clamoring for power which will promise nothing. Free trade as an issue in Canadian politics is dead. Aside from the tariff question onlv one great issue confronts the people of Canada���the trantportation problem. This country has had, under different leaders and different ad- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ leaders of both parties united in a potlatch policy which needs only to be continued to land the Dominion in insolvency, To the past Conservative administration can be accredited the expenditure of over two hundred and fifty millions in land and money for the purposes of providing transportation facilities. Of this !$80.0U0,<J00 has been used to build canals. The balance, 40,000,000, acres of land' valued at $75,UOO,(XX) and $100,000, 000 in cash, has been distributed lavishly as bonuses to railway promoters and charter hawkers who have ridden to affluence on tne neck the public. Over and above these amounts nearly another hundred million in provincial and municipal bonuses and guarantees has been given to subsidy hunters. For all these expenditures, or rather sifts, Canada has one asset ���the Intercolonial liailway. To the Liberal party which so loudly derided these acts while in opposition the people looked fur some relhf. But a caretul review of their acts while in power does no1 in dicate that they are in any way an improvement on their predecessors, but rather, in their subserviency to the corporate influence of the C P. R. and the Grand Trunk and in their eagerness to part with the country's lands and money to pirates and charter mongers, have outrivalled they who inau.'Uiati d the present villan- ��tts system ot building railroads for privcite profit with public funds. The Ramv River bill which gives, in all, $14,400 n mile for bui ding a $12, 000 road; the Crow's Nest deal, which alienated from the people $50, OOO.OJO worth of coal lands to private interests, and the infamous Yukon Railway scheme are in no wise better or worse than the acts which gave the Canadian Pacific 22,000,000 acres of the choicest land in Canada and ,HJ,00J.000ot the peoplescash without exacting a cent in return. The favoritism sh����wn by Sir John's government in refusing to grant the Nor theru Pacific a charter into Manitoba is equalled only by the subserviency which prompts the present administration to refuse Corbln a charter into the Boundary. To read the signs of the times aright is to conclude that the days of the subsidy shark and the land grab ber are numbered. Independent members and independent journals throughout the Dominion are declaring for a better policy and government ownership of railways is everywhere spoken of as the only logical means of relief trom a system which through the rapacity of its promoters I has become too burdensome to be borne. From a large class of the people who do not embrace so radical a propaganda as the nationalizing of the public highways comes the de- Inland for a business method in dealing with these promoters, and on all o pes {nitrations a continuance ot what I aides Is heard the request for better lrpr?Sbiy the most wastelul, in-�� (PugeSmn) �� �� E. R. ATHERTON CO. Limited, | We haoe just unpacked a Fine Lot of Boys Suits at prices From - - $3.00 up, Boys Ooercoats 3.50 Boys Odd Pants 1.00 Also a lot of good Wool Stockings and a large assortment of Boys' Underwear. SLSLBJLSLSULSLSLSLSLSLBJLSULS& *^Water Proof Coats -* Our stock of Light Water Proof Overcoats and Cape Water Proof Coats is complete and the best that can be procured. We have just received also a lot of Brown Duck Coats with a soft, durable rubber lining: just the thing: for rain or snow. JLJULJUUUUUL5UUUUUUUUI. ^^ Men's Suits^* Before giving your order for a Suit of Clothes call in and see the lot of All Wool Suits, made up in the latest styles and patterns, just received, and more to follow, at prices that cannot be beat anywhere. We wish especially to call the attention of men who prefer cheap shoes and cheap clothes to the fact that you can save money by buying these goods of us, we care not where you get prices. , A 0 z o r a E. R. ATHERTON, Co., Limited. IIIHIM* OPPOSITION MEMBER SECEDES. C, W.Clifford, M.P.P. for Cassiar, in THE PAYSTREAK, SANDON, B. C, SEPTEMBER 23. 1899. a recent interview with a Victoria Times representative, said that if the government was to be attacked and its existence threatened because of the eight-hour law, he was prepared to support it, on that measure at any late. "I am an old miner," he added, "and I think I can do as much in eight hours of ordinary drill work as in ten. The day resolves itself naturally into three parts, eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep and eight hours for recreation. Any company which is in a position to pay ��3.50 for ten hours' work can pay the same for eight, and if they have to close down on account of the two hours' difference, it is only a question of time when they would close down anyway. Yes. I am as strong a supporter of the eight-hour day as ever." Mr. Clifford's action makes it certain that a majority of the legislative assembly will support the eight-hour law, no matter what the uncertainty might be in connection with other questions. There is a somewhat curious statement made to the effect that in the Lardeau mines, where there is little work done underground, the working day is generally of but eight hours. The limitation need only apply to underground work, and if the Lardeau owners voluntarily make it apply to all work,their action is rather significant. MARION IS ALL RIGHT. The Marion is developing in a most satisfactory manner and is rapidly acquiring the appearance of a mine. The main drift, commenced under the management of Dave King, is in close to 100 feet, without a single break n the ore chute, though it is somewhat wavy. The ore is now being left standing in the drift, but there are two carloads now piled on the dump for shipment. The iirst payment on the bond falls due November 4th, and present indications point to its being met. Manager King has returned from a week's visit to Rossland, and he is more enthusiastic than mountain. a contract from the Wakefield to put in a Finlayson wire tramway,with a dailv capacity of 240 tons. F. C. Wilmer, of Victoria, took a look at the Silver Bell last week. He is now examining some properties on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Private advices received here state that H. T. Bragdon, formerly of this town, has made a clean-up of 1810,000 at Republic, through effecting a deal on a property. The Wakefield has awarded the contract for its concentrator to White, Rogers & Co., of San Francisco. The plant will treat 100 tons per day and will be installed at once. A big strike has been made in the No. 5 tunnel on the Madison, 300 feet from the mouth. Four feet of shipping ore is showing in the breast, which assays 509 oz. silver and 75 per cent. lead. W. W. Warner will finish his contract on the property this week NEW DENVER ITEMS. dress:-632,640, Samuel W. Butterfleld, Three Rivers, Que., log sawing machine; 632,446, Charles S. Davis, Freeman, Ont, wire splicer; 632,367, Alfred Robinson, Abercorn,curd agitator; 632,- 540, Robert W. Sampson, Que, puncture closer for pneumatic tires; 632,287, W J. Walsh, Hamilton, telephone number and address annunciator. ever over New Denver's big Silver SLOGAN MINERAL FLOAT. Last week the Idaho shipped 180 tons ol ore, Hh' Willa has temporarily closed down. Th ��� ore shipments last week totaled :^i'i tons Eighty tons of ore was shipped by the lyne Last week. Several prospects round the town are betog developed. Six inches ol hltfh grade ere has been jatruck on the Essex. me Lucky Jim is s !"f zinc o hipping 600 tons re to England it Is stated the Blue Bell mine, at Pilot t . *!,y. is to resume operations. fhe No. 5 tunnel of the Payne is now howing four feel of clean or." Wnrl s "ii tln> ]1111o- imniel ol tin l;iiuv was commenced I- rida\. ' ""mv inches ol clean ore has !l'"v,'i',,d in the second worldii, Sunshine Ii assays upwards In silver. . i he Last Graders Strike Ore. Frank Bourne, wife and son, visited NTew Denver last Saturday. John Hector, of Nakusp, has purchased an hotel at Selkirk City. Mark Manley spent a short time in the Lucerne of America this week. G. Noel Brown, formerly of the Queen Bess, will spend the winter in England. An effort is being made to organize a social assembly club here for the winter months. H. McCutcheon, customs officer at Nakusp, has been removed to the Boundary country. Charles McNicholl has gone to the Hot Springs in Arkansas, where he will spend several months. Geo. Garrett has shown his faith in New Denver by purchasing the Wallace block, on Sixth street. John Wereley has harvested his apple crop. The yield was not very large but the quality was excellent. Tommy Struthers, who has been laid up in Calgary with the typhoid fever, is recruiting his strength by sojourning in Rosebery. Phil Munro left on Thursday for Montreal, to be gone six weeks. It is likely he will open a grocery store here upon his return. Thomas Duffy, one of the former owners of the Noonday, will leave for the east next week on a three months' visit to Chatham and other places. The payroll around Rossland was $150,000 in August, The people of that burg should be rich enough to take New Denver's leading paper and pay for it in advance. Rev. Mr. Procunior, formerly Methodist minister at Kaslo, will be ordained to the priesthood in the Anglican body, at Nelson, next Sunday, by Bishop Per- rin, of Victoria. Mr. Procunior is stationed at Fort Steele. Canadian Patent*. The graders on the Molly Gibson wagon road have uncovered several likely veins of mineral. Two of them were cut in a big iron-capped bluff. One of these assayed $25 in gold, while the other carries good values in galena. It is predicted that contractor Hawley will be made independently rich by these finds Centre Star Stocued. It is understood that the Centre Star mino at Rossland is to be placed on the market. It is capitalized at $3,500,000. One-half of tbe stock will be offered to present holders at $1.50 a sbare, each War Eagle holder being entitled to purchase as many shares of Centre Star at that figure as he holds of War Eagle. The latter has been selling lately at $3-60. Four-sevenths of the War Eagle stock is held by the Gooderhara-Black- stock syndicate. SLOCAN ORE SHIPMENTS. Total shipped July 1 to Dec. 31,1898, 17,994 tons. January 1st, 1899, to Sept. 16: Week Total Payne 80 5,356$ Last Chance 2,245 Slocan Star 548 Sapphire 83 Coin Ajax Sovereign Reco Ivanhoe Treasure Vault Trade Dollar Liberty Hill Madison Wonderful American Boy Idaho MlneB 1��> Queen Bess. Wild 111'.'I! S nil Below will b S ates patents ventbrs. |v for this paper jl Ihe iy M of200 j Marion, solicitors of patent Montreal, w io n lollll'l a llnl Ol l i ranted to I anadian lis list is prepared espe< Marioi New V Life builduu in i & i In 11.1 ild Goose Monitor Whitewater 53 Jackson 88 Bell Wellington Antoine Rambler Dardanelles Great Western Bosun Marion Capella Fidelity.' Vancouver Wakefield Emily Edith Comstock Noonday Enterprise Tamarac Black Prince Chapleau 18 40 80 180 11�� 112 50 S 15 28 20 840 1,441 15 260 2,105 644 30 11 65 421 100 48 540 20 3 3 320 580 60 120 400 710 20 15 15 Total tons.. 310 17,587$ Whitewater Shipments. During August the Whitewater mine milled 3,850 tons of ore, producing 128 ton8 of concentrates. The approximate profit on the month's working was $3,- 750. From the smelter returns were received amounting to $8,250. The ore milled was from the dump, and consequently poor. A mining- man from Victoria dropped into Sandon the other day, after an absence of many months. He, thinking that the Sandon club was still in bloom, dropped into the old quarters and sat down. He thought thing's had changed, and after reading a masaztne for a short time, he called for Ed. No one replied, and the mining man commenced to search for the decoction room. He ran up against a sign to nurses, and immediately fled the scene, realizing that evolution had changed the haunt of congenial spirits into a haven of rest for those wounded by disease or accident. A Victim. "I was injured, ma'am, by the bursting of a magazine," said the wayworn tourist who was eating a cold luncheon in the kitchen. "In the war?" "No, ma'am," he answered. "In New York city. The silent partner refused to put up for it any longer. I was one of the editors. Sale Postponed. Sheriff Tuck has postponed the sale of Frank LoCasto's interest in the Slocan Chief No. 10 and the Kootenay Queen mineral claims, until Thursday morning, September 21st. The claims are on South Kaslo creek and have fair showings. The sale is being held to satisfy a judgment of $245.86. Suit Against the Le Roi. Suit has been entered at Victoria for $602,620 by L. F. Williams and other shareholders in the Le Roi against the B. A. Corporation. The trouble grows out of the sale of the Le Roi to tbe B. A. C. in June, 1898, and the claim is on 262,000 shares at $2.30 a share, HotelSandon The pioneer house of the City First-Class in every particular i.'il.l. t. nf Nelson, has receive* 1 j their Inventors lie tree ;niv .iu- Jtf. Cunning, Proprietor. Sandon THE PAYSTIIEAK, SANDON, B. C, SEPTEMBER 2H, 1899. The Paystreak. Is issued every Saturday iu Sandon, In the heart of the greatest White Metal camp on earth. Subscription ��� ... f��.ooaye��r Strictly in advance. Address: Thk Paystreak, Sandon, B.C. Wm. MacAdams. SANDON. B. C, SEPT, 23, 1899. SHORT OF BABIKS. New Denver Ledg*. To judge from Zola's writings, babies are getting scarce in France and its men and women more devoted to Maltusianism. He deplores the fact and sees rum in the distance for that great republic unless the people change their ways and produce more children. It is a sure case that the country will wind up in the consomme it something is not done in the matter. Legislation or patriotism are the only remedies for this growing menace to the land of champagne. There is plenty ot material in France. All that it needs is a chance. Zola makes the following eloquent appeal to the mothers of France: "Oh mothers of France! gire us more chil dren, in order that France may pre serve her prestige, her strength, and her prosperity; for it is necessary that France s- ould live. France, the fountain head of the emancipation ot the human race, the future source of all truth and justice! . . My wish for France is that this deficit of lite might cease, that lite should be regarded as ot the good goddess, the immortal one who gives eternal victory. I would wish her to have a powerful and natural literature, virile and clean, characterized by an honesty that fears neither facts nor words, restoring to honor the fruitful marriage, and creating vast monuments of solidity and peace, for the mounting flood of future generations. And I would wish that a n<nv social order might spring from it, brave men and brave women, families with a dozen children apiece, to proclaim the joy of humanity in the face of the sun." Zola, it would do your heart good to come to British Columbia and see the crop of babies. In Kaslo, New Denver and many other camps ot" this wonderful country, we have babies till you can't rest. They are the finest babies in the world, and ii signs do not fail, their shadows will never grow less. COTTON >VA*i I'OSTKI). Several members of the Mine I tamers' Association, resident at Nelson, and headed by.I. Roderick Robertson ami H. E Croasdaile, interviewed Finance Minister Cotton in that city. Thursday, on the question of the eight hour law They stated their objections t'> the law and asked that it be suspended until a commission could be appointed to take evidence on its effect on the mining industry. Mr Cotton replied that tne mine manay*'rs would be in no position to give evidence upon the eight hour law until they worked the mines under it. He suggested that they should give the law a trial before they condemned it. The deputation advanced the economic working of the law, Mr. Cotton replying by asking what the increase in cost would amount to per ton upon the ore mined. This they could not answer. He added that since the law came into force, reductions had been made in the smelting charges, more than offsetting the alleged increase of cost of mining, which fact the deputation did not oppose. It was then urged by the managers that the legislature had imposed heavy charges upon the mining industry, but the finance minister produced figures which showed that the aggregate of the mineral tax from all the metalliferous mines of the province did not exceed $40,000 per year. This represented the total sum levied upon all the metal mines of the province, and was in reality less than the taxes paid by some of the farming districts along the Fraser. Mr. Cotton said that the government could not and would not repeal the eight hour law, and mrther, that they would see to its enforcement. Not only would the present government uphold the law, but any government which might succeed it would do the same, because the people of British Columbia would not elect a legislature committed to the repeal of the law. MOTHER'S ALL RIGHT. The Chicks of the Empire are flapping their wings, And training their beaks for the fight: A cluck, and the brood to her bosom she brings A-flutter, but mother's all right. It isn't an eagle���a Frank, or a Buss��� That feathers should frill at the sight. Then why in the yard all this flurry and fuss? Don't worry her. Mother's all right Wouldst peck at the African beetle or worm She going to crunch���but a mite? Nay, nay. though its got quite a thick epiderm, Don't clutter so. Mother's all right. ���Adelaide Critic How They Won. In the Gambling World, by Rouge et Noir. two brothers, Russians, are recorded as having played at Homburg and won about 500.000 francs. One of the brothers for some time watched the play, without staking, and noticed the frequent recurrence of the same figures He discovered that it was due to the fact that in cleaning the roulette the servant was obliged to press heavily on certain parts which tool; a polish with difficulty. Through this some parts of the brass were depressed in a manner imperceptible to the eye. but palpable in its results. The rolling ball was diverted from its legitimate course by these inevitable indentations: hence certain numbers were sure to win repeatedly during the day. while others never turned up. On this knowledge the brother acted. When they had gained L0,000 francs a day.they iraveup play and did not return till next day Hence their final success: but theirs was no svstem in the usual seii>e. A writer in a London tailoring magazine complains that tailors themselves are seldom well dressed. MUCH IN LITTLE. Many insects hear and breathe with the same apparatus. There are three newsy little American papers iu Manilla. The London Mail calls the Philippines ���'the jewel of the far east." In South America there is a race of cats which does not know how to mew. Nearly all skin diseases are supposed to be caused by microscopic insects. The pantries at Windsor Castle con- lain gold and silver plate valued at $7,- 500,000. The American Bible Society has sent 3,500 Spanish New Testaments to Santiago, Cuba. If a man were to leap in proportion t > his size as far as a flea, he could jump 76 miles. It requires over $300,000 a year to run the crystal palace in London, and it barely pays itself. Over 100 persons disappear in London every year without leaving the slight est trace behind. At the Strozzi palace, in Rome, there is a book made of marble, the leaves being of marvelous thinness. TABLE TALK. Frogs are eaten the world over. In temperate regions the Indians eat grasshoppers. They also eat rattlesnakes, as do the Africans. It is said the Arabs first made butter. They were carrying milk in skins on the backs of camels and the steady jogging churned the fluid into butter. Eggs have always been eaten since time began. The eggs of land fowl, tortoises, crocodiles, ostriches, sturgeon and emu. all form articles of diet. One-half of all the coffee used in the world is consumed in the United States, or nearly twice as much as Europe, which has five times the population. An old lady, who is very much of a bore, paid a visit to a family of her acquaintance. She prolonged her stay, and finally said to one of the children: ���'I am going away directly. Stanley, and I want you to go part of the way with me." "Can't do it. We are going to have dinner as soon as you leave." replied Stanley PEOPLE TALKED ABOH. Richard Mansfield smokes a clear made especially for his private use.�� Dr. Nansen never wears an overcoat in latitudes south of Greenland, Tolstoi never uses a whip when driving. "I talk to my horses," he say,, "j never beat them." Lord Rosebery, it is said, knows more about practical farming than any other person in England. It is stated that William Blackmail,. as much money by his books as Rm|. yard Kipling made by his. Mr. Balfour is one of the fastest speakers in the house of commons, uttering an average of L60 words per minute. The King of Italy, though the head of one of the greatest wine-producing countries in the world, is almost an abstainer. Andrew Carnegie is growing rapidly bald. His hair has always been tindnit what now remains of it is growinj scantier day by day. Like Admiral Schley. Admiral Sampson is something of an artist, ami many of his letters home during the Spanish war were illustrated with marginal sketches of considerable merit. Sable Island DUaupeariug. To those who regard the world a> already finished .and quite rounded nit, the announcement that Sable Island, 85 miles east of Nova Scotia, is sinking, comes as a somewhat startling piece of news. But as a matter of fact, this island, which has become so noted a menace to trans-Atlantic commerce that ii is known as the ocean "grayeyard. has been steadily sinking for the last 100 years. It has decreased in length from 40 to 28 miles, and naturally, a* it grows smaller .the fury of the sea make* a bigger impression upon it and hastens its disappearance. Within another century it may be but an ocean reef, and thus pro\'e a greater danger than ever to ships. _____ In the Caroline islands the people have a perverted taste for a eertainkind of clay We seldom rind people angr*tefol*�� long as we are in a condition to rei lei them services��� Kochefoucaul-' DEALER IN M E AT S xx.. AT SANDON, ROSSLAND, NELSON, KASLO, PILOT BAY THREE FORKS, SLOCAN CITY. THE PAYSTREAK, SANDON, B. C, SEPTEMBER 23, IS99. RALPH SMITH'S OPINION. Ralph Smith, M.P.P. for Nanaimo and one of the leading labor men in the province, was in the Slocan laet week viewing the situation. This is the way he sizes it up :��� I desire to make eome slight reference to the present difficulty in the mines of the Slocan district. This is made necessary by the many false statements constantly being published reflecting upon the miners in this trouble. It has oeen said, and is believed by many people, that the operators offered $3.25 to the miners after the passage of the eight-honr law. I take the entire responsibility of asserting that this is altogether a mistake. The miners'association has never been approached by the associated operators at all. Notices were posted at the mines stating that the wages would be $3 per day after the 1st of June, actually a few days before the enforcement of the eight hour law. The mine operators re- tused to recognize the authority of the miners' association at all, and then the miners very properly considered themselves locked out. There was only one operator who approached the miners at all fairly. This was from the Slocan Stai, an operator not a member of the Mine Owners' Association, who offered $3.25 to his men. The men refused the offer, but allowed members of the union to go to the mine at the manager's request and make it secure, pending a settlement of the general question. I desire to say, also, that when the offer was made by the manager of tbe Slocan Star, the men refusing, they requested him to try for one month at the old rates, implying at least that they would be willing at the end of that period to discuss the results, and at the same time give the miners a chance to see what they could do in the shorter day. I consider that the policy pursued by the operators of these closed mines has been arbitrary, to say the least. When we consider that the government was merely enforcing a law in keeping with the hours of labor in mines in England and in Australia, and even in the coal mines of this province, they ought to have continued their business for a given period, giving the men a chance to prove what could be done under the new conditions, and that if the results were proven to be seriously ajtainst them, to meet the miners' union, lay their business before them, and 1 am certain the whole question could have been settled without any trouble. Instead ot that, however, they foolishly thought that OV continuing their business under the new law that any consideration of the matter afterwards would be regarded as a reduction of wages, apart Irom the fact of having any relation to the reduction ol hours per day. Instead of going ahead with their business as did the mineownorsof Rossland, Slocan mine owners have done nothing to give the men a fair opportunity (as 1 believe from experience would be proven) to prove that as good results could begot from eight hours as ten. They arewast- Ing their energies in drafting petitions to the government In favor of repealing the law. They have made it impossible to get any public sympathy, and certainly impossible to make out any good case for the consideration of the question in the legislature. The sooner the better they dispose ef the belief that it is prob able the law may be repealed. The law is there to stay. They must settle the matter outside of that, but they muBt first recognize the miners' association as a responsible and constitutional body, as worthy of regard as their own. When they do this fairly, their Bide of the case will receive Borne consideration by the miners. When we consider the position of the miners of this part of the province, they are very poorly paid, indeed. Those of them who have wives and families cannot live it home, with few exceptions, and are compelled to pay one dollar a day for board, leaving them in the best paid mines $2.50 a day. They are not by any means over well'paid, and we are in a position to make contrasts if necessary that would make their proposed reductions look very mean indeed. These mine operators must understand that the miners of this province are organized for political purposes, to get protection for labor; and if we have a wealthy province���which we undoubtedly have���we intend that the men who make it by their labor share receive a fair share of it, and to this end we are able by our votes to get legislators who are willing to protect ua in this matter. Their wise policy would be to deal with us as citizens in the business with them, and not as mules, made useful 'or hauling out the minerals for a piece of grub and a few clothes. We are men, capable of knowing our fair claims, and we have the power to insist upon them. We are not anarchists; we are law abiding, and we insist on being recognized and met on these matters, and not be forced to do just what a few men (few of whom are citizens of our country) think fit to dictate. The miners of the Slocan are sensible men, just as much so as in other parts of the country where all business is done amicably between employers and employees. Ralph Smith. Nelson, Sept. 12, 1899. This was trespassing upon hospitality too far, ao Tom sent for the Ohio Rifles, captained by Frank Wells, and, joining forces, the two leaders sallied forth to attack Bruin's citadel, over in the vicinity of the head of Springer creek. The latest advices from the scene of hostilities, received by The Lkdge's special courier, Andy Tunks, were that the attack was in progress, and it was expected the enemy would capitulate before night. Andy says the reports of the musketry volleys were incessant^ testifying to a hard fight, but victory would no doubt rest with the valiant leaders of the attacking forces. APHORISMS. POINTKM PARAGRAPHS, The hog pen is mightier than the fountain pen. It doesn't make a miller dyspeptic to bolt his meals. The fox makes his best timejwhen h�� travels for his health. The inside of an airship should be decorated with fly paper. There is always an ill feeling between the doctor and the patient. In time of peace prepare for war; the honeymoon cant't last forever. Love in a cottage sounds very pretty, but coal in the cellar has a more practical ring to it. Nothing is so infectious as example.��� Kingsley. Of all vain things excuses are the vainest.���Buxton. Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.���Bacon. Repentance is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.���Milton. A life spent worthily should be measured by deeds, not years.���Sheridan. I Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.���Lavater. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.���Maria Edgeworth. The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.���Hamerton. The man who builds, and lacks wherewith to pay, provides a home from which I to run away.���Young. Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.���Sherlock. The darkest hour in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without earning it.��� Horace Greeley. KOOTENAY RAILWAY & NAVIGATION CO. Operating Kaslo & Slocan Railway, International Navigation & Trading Company, TROUBLE ON TEN MILE. Tom Reid, one of the owners of the Gatineau A Simcoe group, Ten Mile, has had a variety of experiences this summer. First he struck ore in the crosscut tunnel on that property, which caused him to execute a war dance to relieve his feelings. Later on, a damaged fuse came within an ace of sending him to push clouds with the white-winged host. And now it is bears that are disturbing his mental equilibrium. There are three of them in the party and they have been bothering Tom more or less s.ll summer. They visited him one night when he was alone, and he received them with a salute of dynamite, causing then to break the obstacle race over the Springer summit One night last week he was down in tbe valley, and on his return to camp iu the morning found Bruin, senior, in poa. session of the premises, with one paw on the ridge pole of the tent, calmly surveying the evidences of his visit. The tent looked as if it had seen betterdaya.while the grub had mysteriously disappeared, and the pots and pans had the appearance of the Spanisn gunboats after their meeting with Dewey. Tom mourns the loss of a can lot treacle the most, for it was the pure Canadian maple article, made in Vancouver, bruin was finally Induced to take his departure, but returned his call two days later. BRIGHT MENTAL FLASHES. Art has prejudices which it presents to the world as principles. Inconsistent human nature doesn't want to be understood nor yet misunderstood. By making the people wait for us we teach them the folly of punctuality. Sometimes men are slow because their wives have usurped the whole track. The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which our kinsfolk have prophesied. Most of the quarrels in this life are started on Monday mornings before ten o'clock. We are on the road to wisdom when we make our old mistakes only with new people. Man sometimes fancies that sin is ta ken out ot him when he has lost only his conceit. A girl knows that she is in love when she would rather hear the man talk than talk herself. The old-fashioned man who used to pray in a closet is yetting demoralized ny living in a flat. If women had no sense of humor lots of men would wear crazier looking neckties than they do. Discontented people are the factors that improve the world for the enjoyment of contented people. KASLO & SLOCAN RAILWAY. Schedule of Time. Pacific Standard ���Time- Passenger train for Sandon and way stations leaves Kaslo at 8:00 a m. daily, returning, leaves Sandon at 1:15 p. m., arriving at aslo at 3:55 p. iu. INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION & TRADING CO., operating on Kootenay Lake and River. S. S. INTERNATIONAL. Leaves Kaslo for Nelson at 6:00 a. in., daily except Sunday. Returning leaves Nelson at 4:30 p. in., 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, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 7 a. m., connecting with steamer International from Kaslo at Pilot Bay. Returning leaves Bonner's Ferry at 7:00 a. m., Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, connecting with str. International tor Kaslo, Lardo and Argenta. Direct connections made at Bonner's Ferry with Great Northern Railway for all points east and west. LARDO-DUNCAN DIVISION. Steamer International leaves aslo for Lardo and Argenta at 8:45 . 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.' ickets sol! to all point i Ca ada and the United Statas. o ascertain rates and full information, address��� Robert Ihving, Mamiger. S. Campbell, Kaslo, B. C. Freight and Ticket Agt., Sandon. SANDON BOTTLING CO M. W. DAY. Proprietor. ���Manufaturer (if nil���i Kinds of CARBONATED DRINKS Syphons, Gingei Ale, Sarsaparilla, Etc., Etc. Sandon, B.C. Patronize home industry when you want the best THE PAYSTREAK, SANDON, B. C , SEPTEMBER 23, 1899. LASCA. The poem printed below has been drifting through the press for 15 years without anyone claiming it. Some of the many writers in Kootenay may have written it, for more than one of them has been a rough rider and basked in the smiles of Mexican sweethearts down on the Rio Grande. I want free life, I want fresh air, I sigh for the canter after the cattle, The crack of the whips, like shots in a battle, And the melee of hoofs and herns and heads That wars and wrangle? and scatters and spreads, With the green beneath and the blue above, And dash, and danger, and life, and love��� And Lasca! She used to ride On a mouse gray mustang close to my side, With blue serape and bright bell spur, I laughed with joy as I looked at her Little she knew of books or creeds, An "Ave Maria" sufficed for her needs. Little she cared, save to be by my side, And to ride with me���and "ride���and ride��� From Sun Saba's shore to Lavaca's tide. She was as bold as the billows that beat! She was as wild as the breezes that blow! From her little head to her little feet She was swayed in her suppleness to and fro By each gust of passion. A*sapling grown on a Kansas bluff, That wars with the wind when the weather is rough Is lik^ this Lasca���this love of mine. But once when I made her jealous, for fun, By something I'd said or looked or done, One Sunday in San Antonio, To a glorious girl on the Alamo, She drew from her garter a dear little dagger, And���sting of wasp!���it made me stagger! An inch to the left or an inch to the right, And I shouldn't be maundering here tonight; But she sobbed, and, sobbing, so quickly bound Her tornreboso the wound around That I quite forgave her, and scratches don't count In Texas, down by the Rio Grande. Her eye was brown���a deep, dark brown��� Her hair was darker than her eye; And something in her smile or frown. Curled crimson lip and instep high, Showed that there ran in each blue vein Mixed with the milder Aztec strain, The glorious vintage of old Spain. She was alive in every limb With feeling to her finger tips; And when the sun is like a fire, And sky one shining soft sapphire, One does not drink in little sips The air was heavy, the night was hot! I sat by her sido. and forgot���forgot��� Forgot the herd that was taking its rest; Forgot that the air was close opprest, That the Texas norther comes sudden and soon, In the dead of night, or the blaze of noon; That once let the herd at its breath take fright And nothing on earth can stop the flight; And woe to '.he rider, woe to the steed, Who falls in front of the wild stampede! Was thai thunder? I rose and grasped the cord of my swift mustang, without a word. I sprang to the saddle, sin.- clung be- hind. Away, on a hot chase down the wind! And never was fox hunt half so hard' And never was steed so little spared! For we rode for our lives! You shall hear how we fared In Texas, down by the Rio Grande The mustang flew, and we urged him on; There was one chance left���and you have but one- Halt, jump to the ground, and shoot vour horse, Crouch under his carcass and take your i.bn 111'P And if the steers in their frantic course Don't batter vou both to pieces at once, You may thank your star! If not, good-by To the quickening kiss and the long- drawn sigh, And the open air and the open sky, In Texas, down by the Rio Grande! The cattle gained on us, and, just as I felt For mv old six-shooter behind in my belt. Down came the mustang and down came we, Clinging together, and���what was the rest? A body that spread itself on my breast, Two arms that shielded my dizzy head, Two lips that hard on my lips were prest! Then came the thunder in my ears, As over us surged the sea of steers, Blows that beat blood into my eyes. And when 1 could rises��� Lasca was dead! I gouged out a grave a few feet deep, And there, in earth's arms, I laid her to sleep! And there she is sleeping, and no one knows, While the summer shines and the winter snows. For many a year the flowers have spread A pall of petals above her head; And the little gray hawk hangs poised in the air, And the sly coyote trots here and there; And the black snake glides and glistens and slides Into a rift of the cottonwood tree; And the buzzard sails on and comes and is gone Statelv ana still as a ship at sea! And they wonder why I do not care For the things that are like the things that were. But half of my heart lies buried there, In Texas, with Lasca, down by the Rio Grande. LIGHT AND BREEZY. Mrs. Dothetown���Poor, dear child! Are your parents dead? Tenement Tommy���I t'ink pap is. Him an' mar wus atightin' when I left, an' gee, she wasn't doin' a I'ing to him den. �� One day Tommy accompanied his mother on a shopping expedition, and seeing a large candy man in a confectioner's window, he paused in front of it with a wistful look; then turning away regretfully, said: "Mamma, 1 could lick that fellow with both hands tied behind me." �� How wondrously nature has ordained all things below, 'Mong other things forbidding hair on woman's face to grow; For no barber could e'er shave her, no matter what his skill, Because her tongue would never let her dimpled chin be still. �� "Will you have a piece of the pie.Mr. Goodman?" asked Bobby's mother of the minister, "Thanks, n i,' ii.' replied. "Will yon. Bobby?" she Inquired ���'No, 1 think not. Bald Bobby, rather hesitating, The minister looked at Bobby in -nr- | prise. "I thought all little boys were fond of pie," he said. "They are," replied Bobby. "I could eat that hull pie, but ma said if you didn't take any I mustn't, and she'd save it for tomorrow." �� An Irishman went out on a little bit of a spree. He didn't get home till 3 o'clock in the morning, and was barely in the house till a nurse rushed up to him and told him he was the father of triplets. The Irishman looked up at the clock, which marked the hour of three, then at the three in the nurse's arms and said: "Oi'm not superstitious, but thank Hivens that Oi didn't come home at twilve." �� The elder Sothern once saw a notice in a country inn that a convention of clergymen was to meet there the next day. Each clergyman, upon arrival,received a note, signed with the landlord's name, requesting him to say grace at dinner, the signal to lie a bell rung in the office. Sothern had noticed that the landlord rang a bell every day as the guests seated themselves for dinner. Everything went off to Sothern's complete satisfaction. The bell rang, and uo rose every clergyman and began grace, then stopped, looking askance at each other. Some began again, some sat down and some got up again. The scene for some minutes was one of confused bobbing up and down, with mutterings. The landlord stared in astonishment, and Sothern put on an air of polite anxiety and surprise. He afterward expressed sympathy with the landlord in his anger, but left the inn next dav. �� An exchange furnishes the following little story, which points a very clear moral: "Said a local merchant the other day, 'Have you noticed the tine advertisement I have out on the fence west of the town?' 'No.' replied the customer, 'but if you will send the fence round to my house some day I will read it over and see what you are dealing in. Fact is, I'm reading newspapers and don't get much chance to studv fenceolojjv '" �� In her heart Love and Duty strove for mastery, and Duty won. "No man shall wed me,"she exclaimed, with suffused eyes and quivering lips, "who does not promise me that if he is ever president of the United States, he will use his influence to have- battleships christened with water." Such was the ardor of his passion that Algernon hesitated not a moment. "I promise," he cried, and fell on his knees. �� There is one disadvantage in raising these strapping big boys. Tid-Bite- tells of a man who sought a divorce, and properlv, because his wife cut down his son's trousers for him. Whither are we drifting ? LEGISLATURE TO MEET. Last week's issue of the B C. Gazette contained the proclamation convening the Provincial Legislature on Thursday, January 4th, 1900 This disposes at once of the assertion that the present government would not dare to meet the House, in session. The last meeting of the legislature commenced on January 5th, 1899. Invt'stin;* iu Ainsworth. H. Stevenson, acting on behalf of a syndicate ol Walla Walla people, has purchased Frank A. Heap's interest in she Braden bond on the Tariff mine at Ainsworth. Mr. Stevenson made a small payment upon the bond, the balance of which becomes due in October. Mr. Stevenson, who spent many years in the Ainsworth camp, will take charge of the development of the Tariff. The men who are financing the venture are Messrs. O'Donnell, Wilson and Thomas, who are wealthy farmers near Walla '.Valla. New Express Offices. The Dominion Express Company is now open to accept business for the Boundary country via the Columbia. & Western railway. The company has opened offices at Gladstone, Cascade and Grand Forks. From the last named point arrangements have been completed to forward the goods by stage to Greenwood, pending the construction of the railway to that city. In the United States $8,030,000 per year are. spent for looking glasses. Vanity comes high, but Uncle Sam'a i^irls must have it A good many men believe that when ���!iey have borrowed a dollar that they have earned it. Hunter Bros. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Groceries, Dry Goods, MEN'S FURNISHINGS, HARDWARE, CARPETS, BOOTS & SHOES, TINWARE, LINOLEUMS, HATS & CAPS,CROCKERY, WINDOW SHADES, CLOTHING. We carry the best lines that money can buy, and, baying in large quantities, save you tie extra profit, Sandon Rossland Greenwood Gran.I Forks The Paystreak. judgment by his Enemies. There is little or nothing in the career of the leader of the Filipinos to brand him the renegade and unscrupulous agitator the war party in the United States declares him to be. i nit of the mouth of an official body wini certainly bore no good-will to Aguinaldo, judgment upon his character has been pronounced. The Americans who treated with the captain of the insurgents offered him far in excess of what would have bought the surrender of many a one whom history records as a patriot. Wealth and honors, which to one of Aguin- aldo's degree were as much as a crown to a higher type, have been laid at his feet, only to be rejected. A nation which is able to afford titty millions a year to bring about the subjugation of the islands could well afford to make offers to the Filipino leader which a renegade and unscrupulous agitator would not hesitate to accept. 1;, is only fair to judge Aguinaldo by his acts, and not by his alleged motives, and his refusal to be bought by American offers of gold and power illustrates qualities which belong" to the patriot and not to the unscrupulous agitator. "I beg yo' pawdon, suh" setting d iwn his glass alter the ceremony, "but did I undahstand yo' to say this whisky is chemically pyo'?" "Yes, sir," said the saloon man. "Ah, was not sutten, mh, whether yo' said that or stated, suh, that it was pyo'ly chemical. "Gocernment Ownership." statesmanship and a higher standard uf honesty when the people's land and money is in question. Liberals and Conservatives may be found unking these demands and many public men of high standing in each put- have declared for the naton- ali/.atiou of all railroads. These declarations by such leaders and such journals are only the reflection ot public opinion, and the "ins" win will not act and the "outs" who will not promise will soon find themselve confronted with a feeling which will not be satisfied with anything short of a radical policy of reform in the matter of transportation. A measure, introduced at the las session by Richardson of Lisgar and seconded by Oliver of Edmonton, tn amend the railway bills being passed by which $,480,000 was granted as subsidies, read as follows: "That during the construction of all railways herein bonused, all books accounts and records showing thrf actual coat of construction shall be open to inspection by the government, in order that if it be subsequently determined by the government to acquire any or all of the i ;iilways subsidized, they may be so acquired with a knowledge of their ��eiual cost, and at a figure from which shall be deducted the bonuses Hiven by the government. That the rates, both passenger and freight, shall be at all times subject, to revision and control by the governor general-in-council, provided that whenever such rate produced a net earning of more than 6 per cent (>n the actual cost ot the road and equipment, less the amount of subsidies received from any source, the '''""s shall be reduced to such point ^ shall only produce 6 per cent in- u:rest on such net cost," , Only 13 members of the House of (Commons supported this resolution��� Richardson, Oliver, Wallace, Clark , Trywhitt, Sproule, Morin, Bennett, Taylor. Davin, Cochrane, Guillet and GUuiour. It will be interesting t> note how many candidates will b > tound ready to uphold such legislation and how many will be returned to support such a policy CHURCH NOTICES. Methodist Church :��� Rev. A. M. Sanford, B. A., Pastor. Regular services to-morrow at 11 a. m. and 7:30. p m. Presbyterian Church :��� Divine service will be held in Virginia Hall at 7:30 p. in. Rev. J. A. Cleland, Minister. Certificate of Improvements. NOTICE. "TELEPHONE" MINERAL CLAIM. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On Payne Mountain, adjoining the "Two ���lacks'' and 'Thursday Fraction" mineral claims, in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay; 11 C. Take Notice that ITE M. Sandilands (Certi- icate No. B 18765) acting an agent for the Payne Consolidated Mining Company, Limit ���d, Free Miner's Certificate No.B 18921, intend. ixty days from date hereof, to apply to the Vlining Recorder for a Certificate of Improve- nents, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown ,Irant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under 'ection .'17, must he commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements Hated this twe��� ty-rir.-,t day of July, WM. E M.SANllll.ASliS, Certificate of Improvements. NOTICE. IRENE FRACTION MINERAL CLAIM. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division o' We.it Kootenay District. Wheie located On Tributary Creek. Take Notice that I. H. B. Alexander, of landon, B.C, Free Miner's Certificate No. TL'H.'A, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to opply to the Mining Recorder for a Certi tloate of l.ivirovements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, Midsection 87, must he commened before the Issuance of such Certiflcate of Improvement.-. Date I tlii. twenty-ninth day of July, 1899. H. B Al.KX.VMlKlt. C jrtificate of Improvements. NOTICE. "IRON DIKE" MINERAL CLAIM. Situate in the Ainsworth Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On the Notrh Fork of Kaslo Creek, adjoining the Metlakatta Mineral Claim. Take Notice that I. M. K. W. Rathborne, of Silverton, B.C, Free Miner's Certiflcate No 8887 A. intend. M\ty days from date hereof, to upply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate ,��l Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining tl Crown (irant of the above claim. And furtner take notice that action, under action 87, must he commenced before the Issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. M P. W. BATUUORKB. Date I this 14th day of July. 18J9. Certificate of Improvements. NOTICE. WELLINGTON, CHAMBERS, EUREKA AND JAY GOULD MINERAL CLAIM. Situate in tha Slocan Mining Division of We.-,t Kootenay District. Where located : On the North Slope of the South Fork of Carpenter Creek, above the Town of Cody. Take Notice that I, J.H.Gray, acting as agent for Mrs. L. Berens, Free Miner's Certificate No. 84896 A, Ed. Becker,F. M. 0. No. 18198' John Caldwell, F. M. C. No. 18798. F. A. Dever- eux, F. M. C. No. 68846 A,C. L. Preston, F. M. 0 No. 10849A., 0. T. Stone, F. M. C. No. 10B56A and J.H.Gray, F. M. C. No. 88146A, Intend sixty days from date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claims, And further take notice that action, under section 87, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certilicate of Improvements. Dated this twenty-first day of July, 1899. J,H. Gkay. MINERS' HOTEL WATERLAND A WESTERBERG Proprietors. SANDON, B. C. M. L. GRIMMETT. L L B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Pnblic, Etc. SANDON, B.C. Headquuirters for Miners. Well stocked bar in connection. First class accommodations. Board by the day or week. F- L. CHRISTIE, L. L. B. Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Notary Public. SANDON, B. C. Established 1896. E. M. SANDILANDS. Slocan Mines. SANDON, BRITISH COLUMBIA. Mining Stocks bought and Sold. General Agent for Slocan Properties. Promising Prospects For Sale. Atlantic Steamship Tickets. to and from European points via Canadian and American lines. Apply for sailing dates, rates, tickets and full inlormation to any C. P. Ry agent, or A. C. McARTHUR, C. P. R. Atfent, Sandon. WM. STITT, Gen. S. S. Agt., Winnipeg. SANDON MINERS' UNION. [Western Federation of Miners ] Meets every Saturday Evening at 8 o'clock in Minors' Union Hall. Pres, Gko. Smith. Vice-ires, HtWAKD TnoMi SON. Fin Sec, W. L. HAGLKH. SANDON MINERS' UNION Hospital. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY AND SOO LINE. IMPERIAL LIMITED DAILY DAILY FAST and SUPERIOR SERVICE JUST INAUGURATED. EAST WEST Optional Routes East From The KOOTENAY COUNTRY. First Clas Sleepers on all Trains from arrowhead & kootenay landing. Tourist Cars pass Revclstoke, Daily for St. Paul. Thursdays for Montreal and Boston. Tuesdays and Saturdays for Toronto Certificate of Improvements. NOTICE. ATLAS No. 8 MINERAL CLAIM. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay DUtiot. When three miles from Three North Fork of Carpenter Creek. Take notice that I. Okas. Moore, of hasln- II 0,acting as agent for Chft8. S. Ellis, Free Miners Certilicate No. 88177A, intend ,|11VS from the date hereof to apply Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improve ments.forthe purpose of obtaining a Crown (irant of the ahove claim. ind further take notice that action, under eotlon 87, must he commenced before the asuancfi of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this first day of August, 1H!K1. Chas. Moore. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC j Subscribers, H.00 per month.; Private Patients *8.00 per day, exclusive of expense of physician or; urgeon and drugs. ,]. D. EcLaoghun, President. VV. L. HAOIiKR, Secretary. DB. W. E. QOMM, Attendant Physician. MissS. M. CHISHOLH, Matron. GKANTCoX, Wm. pOMAHOK, J. V. Mautin, SANDON TO TORONTO 04 hrs NEW YORK 110 hrs VANCOUVER 84 hrs. MONTREAL WINNIPEG VICTORIA 88 hrs. 54 hrs 89 hrs located : About Forks, on tin- sixty to the Wm (lAitiuiT and P ment Committee. II. Mini BY, Manage- A. F. & A. M. Regular Communication of ALTA LODGE, U. D., held first Thursday in each Month, in Masonic Hall, Sandon, at 8 p. M. Sojourning brethern cordially invited. W. II. Lilly, Secretary. Advertise in the Paystreak. CONNECTIONS. Daily to Points Reached via. Nakusp. Daily except Sunday to Points reached via Rosebery and Slocan City. 13:30 k DAILY TRAIN Lv. sandon Arr. 13:00 k Tickets Issued Through and Baggage Checked to Destination, A. C. McARTHUR, Agent, Sandon. W. F ANDERSON, Trav. Pass. Agt Nelson. E. J.COYLE, A. G. P. Agt., Vancouver, Be sure that yonr ticket reads via the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY K>. The Paystreak. Will Work the Blue Bell. Mr. Arthur R. Browne has taken an option on the Blue Bell mine opposite Ainsworth, which includes the sampling works, concentrator and the Pilot Bay smelter, for the Smelting corporation. Mr. Browne has examined the property and made several tests of the ore, which is very low grade, but as there is considerable zinc in the ore his company can handle the property to a much better advantage than any other. Last week a force ot men were put to work and the mine will be thoroughly sampled. The water is being pumped out to al ow an examination of the lower workings of the property. This is the oldest mine in British Columbia. Should the company de cide to purchase the property it is not likely the smelter will be put in operation within the next year, but it is to be sincerely hoped that they will conclude to make the purchase. Strike on The Granite King. (Kootenaian.) D. F. Mcintosh of Kaslo and Geo. B. Macdonald of the Noble Five mine, made a trip on Tuesday up the South Fork of Kaslo creek to the Granite King, Grey Eagle and Forest Queen mineral claims, owned by themselves aud Messrs. Baker and 0. T. Stone. Assessment work has lately been done on these claims, aud these gentlemen had been informed that a large body of ore had been uncovered, but were doubtful as to the truthfulness of the report, and were amazed to find it was all true. Upon measuring the width ot the vein it was found to be 32 inches, and this almost on the surface. It continues to widen as depth is attained and there is no wall in sight on either side, They brought back some very tine simples. Missouri Zinc Ores. The first use of the zinc ores ot the Missoursi zinc field is said to have been made in 1869. though ore had been mined prior to that date, it being left on the dumps. The original discovers ot lead ore were made about the year 1700. The zinc and lead deposits of the central and south eastern fields occur in Silurian rocks, and thoso in the southwestern districts, about Joplin, in lower carboniferous limestone. The ore bodies are lenticular, tabular and rudely cylindrical in form. The minerals of these ore doposits are lead and zinc compounds, normally sulphides, and the results of their decomposition, chiefly the hydro silicate of zinc (calamine), and the carbonate (smith- sonite), and carbonate ot lead (cer- rusite) and more rarely the sulphate (anglesite) and phosphate (pyromo- phite.) "Steve" Bailey, whose name is inseparably associated with the Payne mine, made a good turnover out of his steamboat venture on Lake Bennett, Captain Sanborn, who was running with Commodore Troup on the Stickine river, induced Bailey to furnish the money for a steamer on Lake Bennett. Bailey's money and Sanborne's knowledge produced the finest steamer on the lake, and the result was that the Canadian Development Company, which was competing with Bailey, thought best to purchase the boat outright. On the deal Bailey cleaned up over $8000. LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Liberal Conservative Union of British Columbia will be held at the Assembly Hall, New Westminster on the 5th day of October next, commencing at 10 a. m. All Liberal Conservatives will be welcome. The right to vote is confined to delegates chosen by Liberal Conservative Associations or District Meetings regularly convened tor the purpose, one member for every twenty members of such Association or District Meeting. Proxies can only be used by members of the Union, Advantage may be taken of the Railway rates to and from the Exhibition, whicn is to be held at the same time, D. H. Wilson, Geo. H. Cowan, President. Secretarv. Fine Seasonable Groceries and Table Novelties. Unequalled for Variety and Purity. Hotels, Mines and Families will find it to their ad vantage to see these new goods in all lines before purchasing elsewhere. Mail Orders will receive as usual our prompt attention and forwarded as desired H. GIEGERICH, KASLO, Sandon, B.C. AINSWORTH. Hamilton Watches Are the best for Hard Service, beins the fuvnrite Railroad Watch of North America, largely taking the place of other watches where accurate time is required. The Jewels in these Wstches are Jewels, not imitation, and set in Gold. The Higher Grades have Sapphire Pallets. Everything that goes to make the finest Timekeei>er is to l>e found in these Watches. Seventeen Jewel Grades from ?����to J.V5. Twenty-one Jewels from -40 to ��U). Call and see them. I also handle the famous Hampden Watch. I state only facts and can hack up every assertion made. Q. W. GRIMMETT. Jeweller and Optician. The FILBERT CIGAR Store Cigars, Tobaccos, Pipes, Smokers' Sundries. Cards and Chips. JAS. WILLIAMSON. CHARLES GALES | TONSORIAL ARTIST. S Has the Finest l| BARBER SHOP �� and j'j BATH ROOMS 1 In tne Slocan. J Everything New, Complete and J Up-tO'date. The Comfort and J Convenience ol Patrons will receiv ! I the most Careful attention. Cal1 | and see us at the New Stand. Two Doors Above the Pod Orlice. SANDON H. BYERS & Co. Builders and Heavy Hardware. Prospectors Outfits, Picks, Shovels and Steel. Camp Stoves, Camp Cooking Utensils. Powder, Caps and Fuse. RECO AVE. SANDON. J. R & D. Cameron, Tmmrs TsimrsrtrirbTrsTSTQirvTcirs^ ^ KOOTENAY TAILORS. JUUULftJUULBJLSLfi. See our New Goods. The Latest in Fall Suitings. We Carry the Finest Lines in the Slocan. Fit, Material and Workmanship Guaranteed. SANDON. Donaldson's Rheumatic Cure. it has Cured Others, It Will Cure You. J. DONALDSON, RECO AVENUE, DRUGGIST. SANDON, B. C___ S'S- Folliott & McMillan. 0000000000000000 Contractors and Builders. Dealers in Dressed and Rough Lumber. ������ . _ 000000000000 SUh, Doors, Blind., oto��� Had. to Order at Lowoot Poo.lblo Prloeo. Ulna and Olmonolon Timber alwaya la Stood. Plana, Eatlmatoo >"d Spaollloallana lurnlahod lor all Claoooa ot Building. SHOPS OPPOSITE C. P. R. FREIGHT SHED. RAILROAD AVE SANDON. I I I I | mmmmmtmim mmfmfmm $ # 0
Issued simultaneously in Sandon and Cody; publisher headquarted in Sandon. Published by Jno. J. Langstaff from 1896-09-26 to 1897-03-27; by an unidentified party from 1897-04-03 to 1899-04-08; and by WM. MacAdams from 1899-04-15 to 1899-12-30.
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