@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "12b45fce-a710-44b7-b9c9-9b8a07a4905c"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2011-09-27"@en, "1912-06-27"@en ; dcterms:description "The oldest mining camp newspaper in British Columbia. ; The Ledge was published in Greenwood, in the Kootenay Boundary region of southern British Columbia. The Ledge was published by James W. Grier until 1907, and was subsequently published by R. T. Lowery (1907-1920) and G. W. A. Smith (1920-1929). The paper's longest-serving editor was R. T. Lowery (1906-1926), a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. The Ledge absorbed the Boundary Creek Times in April 1911, and was published under a variant title, the Greenwood Ledge, from August 1926 to May 1929."@en, ""@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xledgreen/items/1.0181427/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note " \\ ' :s THE OLDEST MINING CAMP NEWSPAPER IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Vol. XV-IIL . GREENWOOD, ���������B..-C.,-THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 4912. No. 50 '.. > ' ��������� :0 Baking Powder BEST ON THE MARKET 5 pound can,'$1,25 . ;i, 2 1/2 pound can, 75 cents .-..','< ..16, ounce can, 35 cents Try our Concentrated Soups All flavors at 5 cents a package, The Russell-LaWrCaulfield Co. HARDWARE GROCERIES MENS' FURNISHINGS FIT, FOR FISHING Steel Rods, Reels, Lines, .Spoon Baits, Flies, Leaders, Landing- Nets; Baskets,, Wading- Pants,, etc., etc. COMPLETE ANGLER'S OUTFIT PRICES RIGHT (I Ut KKIlilUUc Greenwood's Big Furniture Store SUMMER SUGGESTIONS REFRIGERATORS -.. FOR HOTEL, OR FAMILY USE MATTING SQUARES , . ' FOR BEDROOM OR BUNGALOW \", VERANDAH CHAIRS - GOOD FOR HOUSE OR PORCH VERANDAH SCREENS OF BAMBOO, 6 FEET BY 8 FEET, #2.00 EACH T. M. GULLEY & Co. Opposite Postoflice GREENWOOD, B..C. Phone You will find a Welcome at the Club Cigar Store and Pool Room CIGARS, TOBACCOS, AND SMOKERS' SUPPLIES FRUIT AND CONFECTIONERY Coast,,Calgary.,and Local Papers and Magazines always on the tables^ Agent for Phoenix Laundry, Office of Phoenix & Midway Stages WALTER G. KENNEDY. PROPRIETOR j THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE SIR EDMUND WALKER. C.V.O., LL.D��������� D.C.L., Pretldont ALEXANDER LAIRD General Manager JOHN AIRD Assistant General Manager CAPITAL, $15,000,000 REST, $12,500,000 SWINGS BANK ACCOUNTS ��������� ' . Interest at the current rate is allowed on. all deposits of $1 and upwards. \\ Careful attention is given to every account Small accounts are welcomed. Accounts may be opened and operated by mail. , Accounts may be.opened in the names, of two or more persons, withdrawals to be made by any one of them or by the survivor. a, J. J. BEATTIE, Manager. - Greenwood Branch. C Dealers in Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish and Poultry.; Shops in nearly all the towns of the Boundary and Kootenay. \"I 9 ?! i i i. ?! I Linoleum 'The Thistle Brand is the best on earth, New Import Shipment just received. : See the patterns and get my pricefiibefore you buy and yon will come back. New line of Kitchen Ware just' opened up. L WHITE Phone 16 Greenwood,. B.C. NSWS^SSHS^S^ySiSiSi* Around Home ^^������^������^^^^^S������^������^i^������^������^������^ GETTING T������0 H0T T������ BAKE Well, let me do it for you William C. Arthurs ,, THE BREAD & CAKE BAKER - Vienna Bakery, Greenwood ATTRACTIVE JEWELRY has seldom been gathered in such * an extensive display- as the one we .are now showing. We.know you will become interested. Not only in THE ODD DESIGNS but with the prices that we have placed upon'the articles. If you want to see the prettiest Chains, Lockets, Brooches, Pins and Stone Set Jewelry ever shown in this town, come now. I COPPER STREET, GREENWOOD, B.C. I I ' ��������� \"���������- 1 A. LOGAN & Co. GREENWOOD. - B. C. St. Jude's Anglican Church Services: Holy Communion 8 a.m. 1st and 3rd Sundays in this month; Matins, 11 a.m.; Evensong, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday School, 10 a m. Rev. Franklin Watson, Vicar. ROOMS TO LET In tho Swayne House, Silver Street. Clean, private and comfortable rooms in a quiet locality at reasonable rates. Hot and cold baths free to guests.\" WANTS. Etc For Sale. ��������� Piano, Apply at Ledge office. cheap. Farm for Sale.���������A 160 acre farm near Bridesyille, 35 acres under cultivation aud 20 more about ready for breaking up. 90 acres available for cultivation and the balance good pasture land. For further particulars apply R. T. Lowery, Greenwood. For Sale���������A five horsepower motor. Apply at Ledge office. For Sale.���������Nice 6 room house, barn and lot, cheap, C. F. Stork, Greenwood, B. C. Wanted,��������� Information. Will P. W. or Paddy Murray, late of Princeton, B. C, or anyone knowing his whereabouts, please communicate with Joe Murray. Very important. S421 McClellan St. Spokane, Wash. Wanted��������� Any kind of job. understands cooking. T. Tan- aka, Japanese. P. 0. Box 85. If the man who left a gray gelding with Mr. S. G; Stooke to be wintered iti the fall of 1909 doesn't come to take it away aud pay the feed bill it will be sold to pay expenses. Apply to Frank T,' Thompson, Midway, B. C. It was 99 iu the shade on Tuesday. \"' \\'\"'' ,\"��������� Curlew ice cream fresh every day at Kennedy's. - i Dan Matheson is ,now manager of the Tiger group in Ainsworth. Fancy ham and bacon, 20 cents a pound at Brown's, Forry, Wash. Greenwood will play baseball, on Dominion Day-at Rock Creek. Hardy's and other hand tied flies at Kenrledy's.' J ' ��������� H. Laug and , Miss Gladdys Pickard \" were marrie'd iu Phoenix last week. . ��������� ,! ' Jack Lucy departed for Princeton on Fridayv to prospect for a diamond mine. \"'[ Robert Keffer is , ?.ctiug editor of the Hedley, Gazette while the Major is at the coast. Gorman West left;the hospital on Sunday, although he is not yet in the best of health. Buy Apex Open Kettle Rendered Pure Lard, $1.50,per 10 pounds at Brown s, Ferry, Wash*. Owing to.\"the great heat, the public schools hav^ beeu closed each afternoon since Monday. .' Inghram. and, Holmes are now running their stage from Midway to'Carmi. The fare for one way is $4. ���������' \\_ i Frank L, White,'\"George Clerf, 0. F,' Pears6n,!'G.VW.' Earl, and eight others were naturalized this week. , -, J. B. Desrosiers, is setting a good example toother citizens by cutting the weeds' in some parts of the city. In Phoenix last week Alex McLean was sent>two:, months to jail for inflcting\\serious bodily harm upon Evil Fol^rr-- -.- --- -. Rev. L. H. McLean of Pictou, N. S., will be iu Greenwood this week. It is hoped that he will preach in. St. Columba-church on Sunday evening. Mr. Rae of Grand Forks, moved the bank fixtures from Midway to Rock Creek this week, where the Bank of Commerce will open a branch on Fridayv The Ladies of the altar society of the Roman Catholic church intend holding a garden party on the lawn at the church on about the second week in July. Dr: Stone until recently practising medicine in Ontario has located in Greenwood, a:nd opened an office in the Rendell block, over the Bank of Montreal. Charles King found a dead beaver in the creek last week. The animal had probably been driven from home because he would uot work, and drowned himself. While fishing in Long lake on Sunday, Sam McConnell caught a rainbow trout, 32 >������ inches long, and weighing 17# pounds. Sam was ably assisted by Messrs Clark, Hicks and Baird. Father Bedard celebrated his silver jubilee at St. Edmund's church, North Vancouver, last Monday. A. fitting emblem of the occasion was sent to him by A. A.. Frechette, of this city. . The French shoemaker of Eholt came to town ou Tuesday to get naturalized. He got drunk, and being an interdict, he was fined $20 because he would not tell where he got the booze. The Ladies Guild of St. Jude's church presented Mrs. W. G. Mc- Mynnwith a cut glass bowl on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. and Miss McMynn are leaving today for their new home in Golden. Ralph G, Poe was married in Phoenix last week to Miss Helen Campbell. They received many presents from friends and relatives. After a short trip to Spo-. kane they will make their home at Princeton where Mr. Poe is mine manager for the B. C. Copper Co. Tom MacDonald of Rock Creek is suffering from a gunshot wound in his right hand. While taking a rifle from the wall of his house the trigger descended, causing the gua to discharge a bullet into his hand. The wound is not dangerous although it will take several weeks to heal. M. H. Roy died in Spokane last Thursday aud was buried in that city. He was 49 years old, and for several years, in companv with Owen Boyer he had conducted the National hotel in Greenwood. In the past he had kept hotels in Fernie, Cascade and Phoenix, and was known to thousands of people. He had many warm, friends who will regret to learn of his death. Tbe ball game advertised to take place in Greenwood, with a team from Republic did not come off. The players from Republic came to town in an auto late Saturday night without reporting to Bob Kerr at Midway. Kerr ordered them to leave the country within two hours. Iu future ball players from the States should come here in flying machines, or cross the line on foot disguised as Presbyterian parsons. BAD INDIANS There is a boom in bad Indians at Merritt. Early Sunday morning Squami9ken, one of the best known Indian hunters iu the valley, was murdered at his house at Springs rancherie,.- having his brains beaten out with a club. George Toodlakein, an Indian, 24 years old, charged with the murder, is now in the Provincial jail. Toodlakein's wife, whom the imprisoned man is said to have attacked, is in a dying condition. News ofthe murder was brought here at an early hour by Chief Tom Petor, of Springs Eancherie, who says Toodlakein and Squamisken had been drinking last night and had a argument..-, Dr. Tutliill summoned to the- scene by the police, gave immediate attention to the woman. \"Evrly Satrirday\" morning Joe Coutlie, foreman of the Douglas Lake Cattle company, started from here to go home, passed in front of Armstrong's departmental store, when an Indian jumped up behind him on his saddle and held his arms, while another stabbed him ten times, inflicting deep wounds in his back, arms and chest. Several eye witnesses to the crime rushed out just as the Indians made off. Coutlie will recover providing that blood poisoning does not set in. Albert Wilson and Tom Bryden, of this city, drove in an automobile to Quilchena, whence the Indians are supposed to have come, and as they neared the Quilchena hotel they met an Indian whose horse caved iu. His saddle had blood on it, so they ordered him to come with them. Further on they met Charles Douglas, of Quilchena, who informed them that he had but a few minutes before passed another Indian. This one- was found close by in a rancherie, his saddle also covered with blood. Both Indians were brought back to Merritt, and it has been reported that they both confessed to the crime on the way back. Their names are Nicomen and Sheeny. Thursday night Constable Smith was Bhot at during a storm, and last night Smith and Chief Strang captured a man who boasted he would get them the next time. He claims that Smith shot his partner at Ashcroft. The man was drunk when arrested. He seems slightly erratic, but has just finished a six months' jail sentence and had beeu out only five days. It required five men to get the prisioner to the jail, where he was shackled hand an foot. During the arrest Chief Strang was bitten in the forearm by the man, and also on tbo hand. I Western Float] There aro 14 daily papers in B.C. Beer will soon be made in Blairmore. - - An armory will be built in Vernon. There are 43 printing offices in Vancouver A granolithic sidewalk will be laid in Naramata. John Bell has opened the Hoops hotel in Soda Creek. Bears are numerous this year along tho Hope trail. Wm. Yates the first citizen of Hope is 80 years old. ��������� James Plumridge has opened his new store in Mission City. Wm. Sawyer has opened an ice cream parlor in Armstrong. There are six teachers in the public school in Blairmore. Colonel Conrad has closed the Big Thing Mine at Carcross. seven millions of them- do not. attend any school. The new hotel to be built at' South Fort George this summer will contain 4.0- rooms. \"A new motion picture theatre' will be opened in the same town next week. Joe Drinkwater has builta summer hotel, at Great Central lake on Vancouver Island. It is called the Ark, and is a floating proposition; and can be moved to any part of the lake. By next May 500,000 ties will be needed along the line of railway construction east and west of Fort George. An average price of 28 cents each will be paid local subcontractors. The auto stage between Princeton and Merritt was wrecked last week, being overturned over a low bank. The owner, John H. Jackson, was injured internally and. Charley Howso escaped with a few scratches. , A number of C.P.R. officials own 2,000 acres of land between Cas- cade and Laurier. They propose A moving picture show building to subdivide this into five and ten can't quite afford to often the Tho man who have scruples is man of means. When hot weather gots on the nerves it is moro than likely to create a coolness. is being erected in Princeton The opera house in Chilliwack has new fire exits and escapes. The Empress hotel in Stewart will be refurnished this summer. Ed. V. Chambers has been appointed postmaster at Glenemma. Recently mails have reached Hazelton in six days from Edmonton. In May there were 25 convictions in the police court at Chilliwack. Bob Heddle has bought Pat Regan's blacksmith shop in Aider- mere. Palma Angrigon of New Denver is importing hay from Chewelah, Wash. Cent coins are now being used in New Westminster and Vancouver. In Dawson Miss Fritzie Hill was fined $75 for selling booze without a license. On the last payday in Coleman a little over $60,000 was paid out for wages. Outside traders doing business in Port Alberni have to pay-a license of $100 a year. It is about time \"the C. P. R. built a summer hotel on the shores of Slocan lako. Gold Commissioner Chipman of Kaslo has gone east for a three months holiday Horses are scarce in Hazelton owing to the heavy demand for pack train animals. For $50,000 the C. N. B. will bring it3 main line through the town of Armstrong. The girls in Coalmont have a baseball club, but have some difficulty in getting an umpire. Protests are being made all over British Columbia against the low wages that are paid jurymen. A railway construction camp was established this week five miles east of South Fort George. A game of baseball was played at midnight, June 21, in White Horse. It must have been a light game. An Indian in Merritt was sent to jail for 44 days because he would not tell where he got the liquor for his jag. Five families of Swiss guides have taken up their permanent residence in the C.P.R. Chalets, near Golden. According to The Truth there are about 40 gambling joints in Vancouver in addition to the illegitimate clubs. It is reported that the Leslie Hill ranch at Osoyoos lake is to be sold and divided into small tracts for fruit farms. Sir Richard MeBride is married and is the father of five children. His wife is a native of Bruce county, Ontario. A double corner lot in South Fort George was recently sold for $4,000. Upon it will be erected a modern office building. So far there are no mosquitos at White Horse this year owing to the lack of rain. The citizens are praying that it will not rain- The new steamer B. 0. Express has been launched at Soda Creek. It is 140 feet long, and can carry 150 passengers, and HO tons of freight. Wah Hung Lung was fined $20 for running an opium joint in Chilliwack. There are opium joints in many other towns of this province. Two lots were recently sold in Prince Rupert for $40,000, nearly $1,000 a front foot. Lots can be obtained in-Greenwood for a much lower price. There are 24 millions of children iu the United States of school age. Owing principally to bad roads, acre plots, develop it to the stage of ready-made farms, and then settle it with people from the east. According to the Ledge, Henry Stege, who recently Bold his hotel in New Denver, intends starting a brewery here. Hank will be royally received in South Fort George Suds costs a dollar a bottle here, making a beer jag an expensive ballast for the average celebrant.��������� Fort George Herald. Send for a catalogue of headstones and monuments, made by the Kootenay Monumental Works, Nelson, B. C. COUNTY COURT A two day's session of the county court was held this week. Judge J. R. Brown presiding. In the suit for wages and damages entered by James Carry against David MeBride, a verdict for $39 and costs was given in favor of the plaintiff. The. \"amount involved was $100. C. J. Leggatt was for the plaintiff and A, S,' Black for defendent. Harry H. McArthur appeared upon a charge of-attempted suicide. It appears that when brooding over domestic troubles he swallowed a quantity of muriatic acid, on June 8. A lew minutes later he summonsed Dr. MacLean and was taken to the hospital where he remained six days. After a kindly lecture by His Honor, McArthur was discharged upon suspended sentence and the putting up of $500 bonds. He was defended by E. Millar, while A. S, Black acted a prosecutor tor the Crown. Charles Russell is suing Messrs Adams, Laing, Rickers and Far- quharson for $160, claiming that they caused the death of one of his horses.' The case is still in progress. The next case is Stork vs. Stork in which the son is suing the father for $600 that he claims is due him for wages and expenses. SECURED THE PLUM The C. P. and K. V. railways have agreed with the city council of Grand Forks to make that city a divisional point; build a roundhouse of not less than ten stalls; put up machine shops, and make a union passenger depot where tho K. V. station now stands. This agreement is for ten years. ���������In return for the above favors Grand Forks agrees to exempt the companies from taxation for ten years; to supply 200,000 gallouB of water daily for $50 a month; to supply electric light not to exceed 2,000 candle power for $35 a month, and several othor privileges. A by-law will be submitted ted to the voters in a few days to ratify the agreement. Conceit is a suit of chain mail that keeps our skins from many a puncture and abrasion. The sum of existence can't safely amount to much moro than your week's salary. lUl/rf I MM J. THB LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA\". .'-...;. THE LEDGE Is located at Greenwood, B. C, and can be traced to many parts of thc earth. It comes to the front every Thursday morning, and believes that hell would close up if love ruled the world. It believes in justice to everyone; from the man who mucks in thc mine to the king-.who sits on the cushions of thc throne. It believes that advertising is the life of trade; and that one of the noblest works of creation is the man who always pays the printer. The Ledge is $2.00 a year in advance, or $2.50 when not so paid. It is postage free to all parts of Canada, Mexico, Great Britain and thc county of Bruce. To thc United States it is $2.50 a year, always in advance. R. T. LOWERY EDITOR AND FINANCIER. could shoulder his,way through any crowd however den He or however strong. He is tlio embodiment'of massive physical strength and of inflexible will. Tho head and face are a worthy culmination to the splendid figure. Tlio faco is round and somewhat short���������tho. face of one whoso blood is mainly Celtic. The jaw has the .'strength of the strong man of action, ofthe lighter, of tho man who knows no fear. The mouth is, curiously enough, small and delicate; hut again firmness is its chief indication. The brow is high and broad,, and the managers had politely to refuse him their aid. Here, then, was a strong and paradoxical problem. .Nothing could doubt that the Province had gigantic aud varied resources;.time only was required to make the world and the Province itself realise its immeasurable potentialities. Population had to be attracted, and that is not an easy task. , When you get to British Columbia you reach one of the fairest and most attractive lands in the world. Do you want scenery of the same appalling magnificence GREENWOOD, JUNE 27, 1912. A blue mark hero indicates that your Subscription has become deceased, and that tho editor would once moro liko to commune with your collateral. Somf. girls aro like fly-paper. tomahawk, and give tho redskins another chance to elect a Big Chief. We have Spoken. Ciiukk up, partner, day is yet to come. the hottest Every three days another newspaper is started iu Canada, a few whom will live ten years. trees for bugs, birds and chickens. We made a record last w.e.ek. Two doctors subscribed in one day for Greenwood's leading excitement. In this issue we print a long and pleasing article written by T. P. O'Connor upon the idol of British Columbia���������Sir. Richard MeBride. It is a wonderfully clever assay of Dick, and as a word picture of Wkkds are of little use to the our popular aud progressive prem- community, except to act as shade ier, it should be pleasant reading, even to Bruce and the other two or three people in this province who will occasionally throw semi-liquid real estate at our most noted native sou. To us Dick has always been a great man, not because he has gazed iuto the face of royalty, shaken hands with Dan Maun, or made the Grits look like the last rose of the season, torn-and faded; but because of his wonderful memory and great attention to details. Ho never forgets a face or a favor, and he plays no favorites. With that charming grace that springs from nobility of the soul, especially in the. Irish, lie is ever courteous to prince or peasant and no one is too small or too great to be overlooked by our greatest premier when it comes to friendly greetings and \"a clasping, of bauds. \" Thkue is no close season for flies, dear Daphne, in this province, and you are perfectly free to kill them, in or out of the butter. The good do not always die young. We had a narrow escape in our extreme youth, but since then we have beat the game fairly well. Sixce the Titanic went down it has been discovered that there are about 100,000 landlubbers in America, who know how to run an ocean liner. I The fear of hell may be dying ont, but the world is still full of dnvilf-', prancing around in search of delinquent subscribers and other sinners. Forewarned is forearmed. A Benevolent Autocrat BY T. P. O'CONNOK There are two pretty women policemen in Vancouver. They must have taking ways in order to get a job of that kind. It is reported that they never take a drink out of a side door, nor go to sleep on their beat. Why all this fuss about Taft and Roosevelt, when we all know that Morgan and Rockefeller crowd are the real presidents of the United States? Taft is merely a handshaking machine and Teddy a daiigt-rous rival of the gramophone. There dwelt for a few weeks lately in London one of the most remarkable of the true Empire builders of our time. Doubtless he papssed through many scenes unknown unnoticed; and that, to him, must have been an experience as welcome as it was novel. For it is quite unlike his ordinary experiences in his own ^country. There, for every moment of every day, he has rows of people stand- tug out side his door, eager to win his ear, to excite his interest, or even to have the pleasure of shak \"ng him by the hand and exchanging I he was notTeft long to study briefs- eyes bright, blue, piercing, and vigilant, reveal tho man who- has had to look into tho depths of myriads of human souls and find out whether gold or mud are at their unfathomed depths. And then comes a massive, head of hair ���������thick, curly, but all white as snow. Therein ho bears some re- aembahiiico, to that othergronb Canadian of whom he has been a personal friend and the political opponent all his life; for the massive whito nianoof Sir Wilfrid Laurier has become historic in Canada, and by his enthusiastic friends used to bo compared to that oriuummo of the French king which always led the way in baltle and always rallied thc French soldier to courage and to victory. .Shrewdness, kindliness, good nature and ,yet vigilance, keen sight, indulgent but thoroughgoing instinctive knowledge of human nature,-and above all, inflexible will; these are tho different qualities of the inner man that are expressed iu his physique. Mr. Winston Churchill, once addressing a meeting iu his honor, said of him that \"high destinies\" were written ou his face, aud that is a true as wull as eloquent expression of what this man suggests even at a cursory glance. Such is \"Dick\" MoB.-ide. I call him \"Dick,\" for,nohody calls him anything else.- It is one of the many signs of the extraordinary hold he has on hi.s people; it is symptomatic of tho spirit of the community he rules. Of that community he is thn child in every sense of the word. His parents were among the many who left Ireland to find a freer and more prosperous home in the New World. And in the circumstances of his parentage, as in so many things in his prosperous life, fortune smiled upon him for it was a mixed parentage both as to race and creed'; and this accounts largely for the singular combination .of qualities that has made him so ideal a ruler for a young and democratic community. His father carne from Ulster and was an Orangeman; his mother came from Limerick and is a Catholic. From the one came the strength, from the other the geniality, tlie kindliness, the frate- nity of feeling that makes him a popular idol. Mr. McBride's parents gave him a good education, and ho was sent to thc other end ol' Canada���������that is to say, to tho law-school or Halifax, to be trained as a- barrister; aud then he set up for himself in the small office in which in primitive communities men have to open their struggle for existence. But Me.v who hold up banks and express trains are sent to jail when caught. Railroads that hold up poor, innocent towne in the way of taxes, etc., are lauded to tho skies, and the officials aro liable to land in the legislature, or on top of a stack of banknotes. So far it has been found impossible to prevent hens from laying eggs on Sunday in Canada. The hens even cackle on that day, and we see no way to stop this annoyance on the Sabbath, outside of using the guillotine, or putting u bounty on the heads of defunct chickens. a few words with him. In passing outside his office through the streets of his city, there is not a man, woman or child that does not recognize him, few who do not greet him with a word, none who do r.ot give him a kindly smile as he passes. Many of them, simple as well as gentle, address him as his natural gifts as a political man asserted themselves early. Before he was thirty ho was a Cabinet Minister, and he soon made it quite clear that ho was a man so strong, so fearless, so astute, that he had to bo counted With. A Ministry brought in a railway bill, giving a big concession; he, with a Uick, and, in turn, he addresses small group of members fought the r.lia Tnnafc r\\v f l./\\m 1... j.1. _��������� j-11 ��������� .. ....... o The Republican convention in Chicago has been the laughing stock of the world and proves that political gentlemen are becoming Hcarce in the United States. As a man said to us the other day: \"I am au American, but I am ashamed of my country. I might staud for grand larceny, but, petty larceny, never I\" It is about time the Indians took back the United States. Surely they can do better than tho paleface savages who oscillated the ozone last week in Chicago. When greed, graft and insanity rule a the most or them by their Christian names. No man ever..had in a greater degree that terrible gift of familiarity which so exasperated the father ofthe great Mirabeau; no man was ever so endowed by nature with those gifts of kindness, simplicity, good fellowship, which are among the chief requirements of the rulers of one of those great young communities monarchical to the heart's core so far as the old mother country is concerned, but within thero own sphere and towards their own public men democratic to a degree undreamt of even in the philoaphy of countries that call themselves republics. Yet, though his name and personality might be strange, this dweller for brief space within our gates could not appear anywhere without attracting some attention. Ho looked what he was: the horn ruler of men. Very tall, and at the same time very robust, with the great shoulders of an athlete, bill all through a session, not to be bullied, or tired, or cajoled into surrender. Then, having felt his feet, he fought for a new principle in official and political life iii his native province. The. Ministerial, and Opposition parties were then settled on the simple and good okhsystein of the \"ins\" and tho \"outs\"; Mr. MeBride resolved that party government was the cure for thesordid aud meau personal motives which influenced political contests ,so primordial, and fighting his way through tremendous obstacles and overpowering interests, he established a party government, and soon ho was himself at the head of a Ministry. He was Prime Minister at thirty-two���������the youngest Prime Minister in the British Empire. It was dazzling eminence; but also a perilous ono. Tho province was nob in a healthy condition; its finances wero suspect; and when 'as that of the Zermatt region of Switzerland? You find it almost immediately after you enter its borders. Do you want fertile land bearing the most beautiful fruit in tho world? It is to be found in the famous Okanagan Valley. Aro you a mining prospector?. You can ramble through .British Columbia with tho certainty that in timo you will reach gold or copper, or some other or the metals for which tho world is calling out. These form tho material attraction of British Columbia; but if you seek for other things, for a lovely and healthy climate, for scenery soft, or' spots that nestle under the gigantic mountains, and bring vigour and the joy of life back again; these also you can find they come to you without the asking. And, finally, you get to the Pacific, spread beforo you, one of the loveliest sheets of waters the world can show. Around and about it are growing those gigantic buildings, those mighty wharves, those docks that are attracted by a great world centre and depot, aud the tall funnels or the spreading sails of ships from every land are crowded in by the water side. A city whose growth is like a tale from the \"Arabian Nights,\" in its suddenness and its opulence, has grown up around tho magnificent depot. Vancouver, one .of the marvels of the world, has increased iu a few years by fifty per cent.. of its population; and here at the end of the world, you find a city as modern as if ib were in the heart of London; with plots of land��������� nay, with square feet���������selling at prices such as sometimes equal those that ten centuries of civilisation and of the central and supreme position as capital of the world ��������� of commerce ancF-finando have given to the core of Loudou. Then take the steamer, and you reach in a few hours the Island of Vancouver. Never shall I forget the impression made upon me when I first caught sight of the City of Victoria. There are some scenes which, by their overpowering beauty, make you forgot everything; that give you something of the ecstasy of an opium eaters dream; and the first sight of- Victoria is one of these. Imagine Venice, and combine with that something of the truly British air of Brighton, and it will, give you a faint idea of what Victoria is like. And when you get there you find something of tho same combination of impressions. Victoria is ohe political capital of British Columbia, and to make assurance doubly sure and to prevent auy attempt to transfer the capital to the mainland, Victoria has a building palatial enough to adorn the metropolis of an Empire; a noble Parliament House; in and around it ministerial buildings; a fine museum, and around it, grounds that have all the softness of an English garden and all the spaciousness of a city like Washington. The atmosphere has more sun than ours, and the sun, gilding the water which seems everywhere, gives a sense of surpassing beauty. There is even in this warm atmosphere a slight of that invigorating cold that adds so much to the health-giving properties of the climate of our own Brighton. Like Brighton, too, Victoria has its fine esplanades; its perfect pavements; all the signs of an old-world and not a new city of the Far West. And the population is E n g 1 i s h to the core. It is English, too, largely of our own sea-sido resorts; the well-to-do and the tired, who, having won in life's battle, desire to spend their closing days in a perfect and a tranquilis- ing climate; the middle class parents, who desire to live in one of the cheapest and best educational centres of the world; the retired admiral or general, who desires to, live under the British flag, in thoroughly British surroundings, with the inspiration of a new, yonng and thriving country superadded. All these things, I say, you find in British Columbia; but you have to go a long distance to reach them.' Victoria is four thousand miles from the Atlantic coast' of Canada and seven thousand from England; and though there is a splendid train service, either by Canadian lines or by a detour through the United States, still it is a long journey. And on the way you are met by tempters from any of tho other great centres of the abounding life arid the growing prosperity of Canada. Montreal with its gigantic population and its throbbing commercial life; Toronto with its great size and its.fiery active spirit; Winnipeg���������of rapid growth and a depot between Eastern and Western Canada; Regina and Edmonton and Calgary���������all bog you to remain with them and not go farther. And thus it is that population has been, and.still is, the groat want of British Columbia. But all these difficult problems were faced by Mr. MeBride- with that extraordinary courage which is one of his greatest qualities. He ignored the hanks and the financiers, went straght on with his work, and soon tho people of Brit, ish Columbia realised that at last there was at tho head of tho Government a man native to tho soil, knowing all its conditions; and bringing to its problems oxhaust- less energy and proud local patriotism. Progress began to be made, not slowly, but rapidly, until in the end it came to be felt that all the safety and advance of the province were bound up with his personality. And thus there came to pass in British Columbia what has happened iu other countries and times���������that all the politics of the country were bound with one single powerful and popular personality. A. position..like this may be quickly won and as\" quickly lost. But that has not been the experience of Mr. MeBride. There have been three General Elections since he became Prime Minister for tho first time; and each succeeding election has only increased his power. British Columbia has only one house of legislature; it consists of forty-two members. In the last legislature thirty-nine were sup- H. W. Farmer & Co., REAL ESTATE, ' ' Rock Creek, B. C. JtJtJtJtJtJtJtJtJtJtJtJtjXjgJtjSjf WESTERN - - HOTELS. WKWMAKKKT nOTISE Is the home for all tourists and millionaires visiting1 New Denver, British Columbia. A. JACOBSON. Proprietor. '^ f. *fc Reaves Mother Iyodc 9,30 a. m. 6:30 p. m. Leaves Greenwood 2:00 p. m.,_ 8:30 p.. m. *> TIIK PROVmOK'nOTEI. Grancf Forks, is a large tnree- story brick hotel, that provides the public with good mealR and pleasant rooms. A new building- but tho same old rates. Kmll I-m-iien, Proprietor, % % % Saturday last stage leaves *������ ^ Mother L-ode 6 p. m. Returning-, ��������� ^ % leaves Greenwood 10 p. m. J **, ^ *i ~ *������ % Greenwood Office !J <* NORDEN HOTEL 2 'JtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtStJtjtjtjtjtStjt THK KASI-O nOTKE. Kaslo, B. C,;,is a comfortable homo for ali who travel to that city. . . Cockle & Papwortn. SHERBKOOKE HOUSE \" Nelson; B. C. One minute's walk from C. P. R station. Cuisine unexcelled; Well heated and ventilated, LAVINCE &DUNK, Propiletors. . LYNN CREEK DAIRY DELIVERED To any part of the city or district 111 TKKMONT HOUSE Nelson, B. C, ia run on tho American and European plan. Steam hentod roomB.' All white labor.. Special attention paid to dining' room. ��������� lliuiHoiuo & Ciim]tl,oll, ProjiH, TULAMEEN HOTEL Princeton, 13. C . is thc headquarters for miners, investors and railroad men. A fine'location and everything first-class KIRKPATRICK & MALONE, Proprietors. J. McDONELL, Proprietor Frank Fletcher Provincial Land Subveyob, Nelson, B. C. mtII>������SVII.I,E HOTKIj. Bridosville, B. O. Provides oxcellent accommodation for tourists and travel- ,,s; S)'??1! E*������s a\"d Butter. Special Irish Whiskey always on hand.\" THOMAS WALSH, Proprletor.\" IjAKUVIJEW hotel , in Nelson, B. C, employs all white help and is a home for the world at $1.00 a day. Nap. Mulletto, Proprietor. J. R CAMERON, Leading Tailor of the Kootenays. KASLO, B. C. Continued ou third page When you want a headstone or monument write to the Kootenay Monumental W.orks, Nelson, B.C. GREENWOOD and MIDWAY STAGE Leaves Greenwood for Spokane at 7 a. m., and for Oroville at 2:30 P- m- Cham.es Eussell. HOTEL CASTLEGAR, Castlegar Junction. All modern. Excellent accomodations for tourists and1 drummers. Boundary train leaves here at 9.10 a.m. W. H. GAGE.'Proprletor GRANITE CREEK HOTEL Granite Creek, B. C. Headquarters for miners, prospectors and railroad men. Good stabling- in connection. Tasty meals and pleasant rooms. H. GOOD1SSON, Proprietor. GRAND UNION HOTEL Hedley, B. C. American plan -and-moderate rates. First-class mineral display from all sections and will exchange for specimens from any part of the world. Reliable information will be given investors and^working men. ANTON WtNiaER. Proprietor. Greenwood City Waterworks Company CLOTHES CLEANED %* PROCTOR, B, C, ; Bank of Montreal ESTABLISHED 1817 , - Capital, allpaid up, $15,413,000. Rest $15,000,000. UNMVlDBli PROFITS, SI,855,185.3(i Hon. President: Lord Strathcona and Mount Royai,, G. C.M.G. ^ President: R. B. Angus, Esq. - \"Vice-President: Sir.E. S. Cr.ouSTON, Bart. General Manager: II. V. Merbdith, Esq. Branches in London, Eng; {&������?'&&} New York, Chicago Buy and Sell Sterling Exchange and Cable Transfers. Grant Commercial and Travellers' Credits, available in any part of the world. ��������� SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT knfe������V&Tee������nt Greenwood Branch - C. B. Winter, Mgr. ^mimmmmmmnimmmmmmmffimmnjmmmtwg ��������� Greenwood to Phoenix Stage I s������ Leaves Greenwood Daily at 3 p. m. ��������� . -������������- s������ Arrives Greenwood Daily at 10 a. m. :3 CT GREENWOOD OFFICE CLUB CIGAR STORE ZS SEH. M. LAING, PROPRIETOR 3 ^aiauiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaiauiiiiiaiiiiii^ WINDSOR HOTEL The Windsor Hotel is one of the ' best furnished hotels in the West. It is located in the heart of Greenwood aud within easy reach of all the financial and commercial institutions of the Copper Metropolis. Heated with steam and lit by electricity. Commodious sample rooms. The. bar is replete with all modern beverages and the cafe never closes. Rooms .. reserved by telegraph. The Windsor Hotel Co J. E. Cartier, Mgr. ���������^JKJ^-VJ,M>������J������^J#$,^.V������VJ������J������J^j������j.j''!M<^ SMOKE Mountaineer and Kootenay Stan? dard Cigars. Made by J. C. THELIN & Co., NELSON. Don't Be HOODWINKED WE NEVER CHANGE BRANDS rt .v/.uumvpll ARE A 1 QUALITY TheBRILLIANTES Are the Best Clear Havanas la Canada Made bv Union Labor In Hie best IIv- irlenic factory In the country. Call for tlicm and tret value for your money In- ' stead of rope WILBERG & WOLZ, Prop. B.C. Clear ' Factory, New Westminster, B. c. your Razors Honed and Your Baths at FRAWLI BARBER SHOP GREENWOOD, ' ASSAYBB ( E. W. WLDDOWSON, 'Assayer and Chemist, Box diio8, Nelson, B.C. Charges:���������Gold, Silver, Lead or Copper, $1. each. Gold-Silver,: or Silver-Lead, Jti.50. Prices for other metals; Coal, 'Cement,- ^Fireclay analyses on a'pplica-; tion. The largest custom assay office in British Columbia. '.'\"'\"'���������'��������� ' ^j^m^^ .xcursion ALEXANDRA HOTEL OKANOGAN FALLS This hotel is situated in one of the most delightful sec- : tions of, the Okanogan and provides ample and pleasant accommodation for the tourist, sportsman and farmer. Information about the district cheerfully furnished. Stage line to Oroville, and steamer on the lake. , ARN0TT & HINE ��������� Proprietors nananHBBHBraBnNK 1 To principal points in Eastern Canada and United States *** . Tickets arc First-class and will be on Sale May 17.18. 24, 29: June 1.6.7,8.13,14, 15.17,18.19, 20, 21. 24, 25. 27, 28. 29, and many other dates In July. August and September. Limited to 15 days on going Journey. Good to return until October 31st. Stopovers allowed. ��������� Greenwood and Kootenay points lo WINNIPEG $ 60.00 TORONTO 91.50 MONTREAL .'....��������� 105.00 St. JOHN, N. B.'. 120.00 St. PAUL..... 60,00 CHICAGO 72.50 NEW YORK... , 108.50 BOSTON .;.. liO.OO v .... Ask your local C.P.R. Ticket Agent for particulars regarding routes, limits, stopovers, etc., anil for excursion fares to other points. e. r. REDPATH. . Ticket Agent, Greenwood, B.C. J. A. MCDONALD, District Passenger Agent, Nelson, B, C. STARKEY & CO. nelson, b.c. wholesale dealers in Produce and Provisions of what even'in British Columbia is a not \"infrequent occurrence��������� namely, labour unrest.- Labour unrest is serious in any country��������� but it is most serious in countries where tho prospect of the quick ro- tur'n of mining draws the strong and adventurous and sometimes unruly men of all ��������� nationalities. British Columbia is full of great mining camps; and thus tho Prime Minister has had to deal, more than onco, with situations that, beginning in a dispute about wages or.hours of labour, or a conflct between union and non-union, might easily have developed, into bloodshed. ' And bloodshed there would have been if the conflict between elements so stubborn and so resolute as the miners on the one side and tho mineowners on the other had not all to be submitted to the cold, clear judgement of-the ruler of the country. For such a momentous position the very contradictions of Mr. Mc- Bride's political philosophy made him ideal. He and his friends are called Conservative in Canada; but the same names means different things in different countries. What are the party lines that divide men in Canada and in all its provinces? Free Trade and Protection is one great dividing line- And yet that would not be an entirely accurate or exhaustive description, for the Liberals, their leanings are towards Free Trade, have not in recent years ever adopted an entirely Free Trade, policy; they have been moderate Protectionists, but Protectionists, all\" the same. Again, there is a certain slight, but very slight, difference in point of view on the, supreme question of Imperialism. Every Canadian Liberal would claim, and-justly claim, that ho is a loyal and convinced friend :of the Mother Country and of the Empire; and he would argue that closer trade relations between Canada and the United States would not in the least prejudice that feeling. The Conservative holds strongly that Canada is strong enough to bo ��������� self-sufficing, and that commercial bonds between their country . and the United States might soon develop into closer political bonds, aud thereby bring America and Canada nearer aud Canada and England.farther apart. And as everybody knows, this was practically the issue which decided the last Canadian election in favour of the Conservatives and against the Liberals. On the other hand, in such matters as divide us in domestic politics in England, it is hard to see where the Canadian Liberal aud the Canadian Tory differ; if they differ, it is not on our lines. Every Canadian Conservative would be, in our domestic questions, more in sympathy with the Liberal���������perhaps even with the Eadical���������than with the Conservative. They are���������men of both parties alike���������democrats; and on such questions as the franchise, the relations between England and Ireland, and taxation, the Conservative would be on the side of the Liberals, and even on the side of Mr. Lloyd George. The future development of British Columbia must go on at even a more rapid rate than oven its present enormous advance. In a couple of years from now the Panama Canal willl be open to the commerce of the world, and all the Western Coast on the Pacific must receive an immense impetus from this extraordinary new development of oceiin traffic. The thoughts of Mr. MeBride have been devoted for some years towards preparation for this momentous revolution. He went to the country a few less man. He is building one of the greatest r Universities in the world for his province, and ho is searching all Europe for men who aro - the foremost'in educational work. It is his ambition, as he says himself, not to reach as high an educational position as Oxford or Cambridge or Harvard, but to start equal with them. Finally ono little touch will help to complete one conception of this remarkable personality.. Sir Wilfrid Laurier aud ho havo always been warm personal friends, though equally ardent political opponents. A couple of years beforo tho last general election Sir -Wilfrid went on a tour to the West oivthe great Dominion, and everywhere he had a triumph reception. In some provinces he found political friends in office and power; in Saskatchewan Mr.-Walter Scotfe, the Premier, is a Liberal; in Alberta the office is held by Mr. Sifton, also a Liberal; but in.British Columbia there was Mr. MeBride, the stout Conservative in power. And yet it was at Victoria that Sir'Wilfrid received the most enthusiastic and the most sumptuous reception. Great arches spanned the streets, the Government buildings were decorated, the townspeople were all out for a holiday and there stood Mr. MeBride, 'to recive him with the welcome of an honoured guest. ' It was a sublime stroke; it showed at once generosity and shrewdness���������the. generosity of a naturally warm Irish heart and the shrewdness of a keen politician who turned what might have been a campaign against to one in favour of himself and his policy. Finally, a few statistics to show what progress British Columbia has made in the ten years of Mr. Mc- Bride's rule: The net revenue has grown from 82,044,000 in 1902-3 to $10,500,000 in 1910-11. Whereas the province was heavily in debt in 19037 the Public Accounts showed at the close of the last fiscal year a balance of $1,500,000 over all liabilities, and by reason of the surpluses which of late years have been the invariable result, the estimated expenditure, for the present fiscal year are more than $16,000,000. The population, too, has grown in ten years more, than 113 per cent., and is now 400,000. The figures are the most eloquent testimony to a wise and popular rule. Mr. MeBride has often be9n aBked to' transfer his energies, his gifts and his magnetism to Ottawa; he could have had a Cabinet office in the new Conservative Government; but he has preferred to remain in his native province until his work has there been done.���������T. P.'s Magazine. ^F= NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Board of Valuators to consider claims for work actually performed and materials supplied iu connection with the construction of the Midway & Vernon Railway, will further'consider all such claims as have been fully filed and verified. Any claims which have not already been so filed and verified by statutory declaration or otherwise, should be filed with the undersigned without delay. Tlie Board will consider all claim's for actual physical work performed and goods and materials supplied in connection with the surveying, locating or obtaining of right of way between Rock Creek and Vernon. R. F. GREEN, Secretary to the Board. Address Box 312, Victoria, B. C. The man who calls a biuff is seldom sure of the answer. \"It isnt' you who docldo what ypu are going to do in Italy,\" said the woman. - \"It's the cabby. \"1 thought I waB going to leave Naples that morning. In fact, I had my valises with -me as I stood at the door while., the porter whistled for a cab, seven of which rushedout of the shimmering sunlight around the corner at, me. A handsome young cabby grabbed the valises, put thorn in the cab, helped me In, and started off. ' . . \" 'I want to go to the station,' I told him as wo went along, 'I'm going hone.' \"He slowed up, rested his left hand on the back of the \"seat, turned half way around ,and said smilingly in French: '\"You want\" to go to Pompeii?' \"'No!' I cried. 'I want to go to the station. I am starting for homo, for America, for home!' '\"I'll take you to Pompeii,' he offered graciously, 'for 8. lire' \"I braced myself for the conflict. \"'I want to go home,' I declared. If I .went to Pompeii, I wouldn't go ovor that old road anyway. I'd go by train. That's the same road you take to Vesuvius. I was ovor it tho day boforp yestorday. It is full of beggars and ruts.' \"My driver paid not tho slightest attention. Instead ho pointed proudly to a passing cabby. \" 'That's my brothor,' ho grinned, adding softly, 'I'll take you to Pompeii for 7 lire.' \" 'A handsome fellow ,'I said, 'and if you paid mo 7 lire I wouldn't go to Pompoii to-day. I'm going home.' \"He drove awhile, then turned and smiled at me again. \" 'This road takes you to the sta- tion,' he said, 'and to Pompeii, too. I'll take you to Pompeii for G lire. A whole lor'< day, a handsome driver, a'fine (���������: riage, and all to yourself for G lire,' he summed up, flashing a triumphant face full upon me. \" 'If you gave me the cab and the harness and the horse thrown In,' I wailed, 'I wouldn't go, You couldn't pay mo to go, I know that old road. Besides, I want to start for home. Amerike! Home!' \"He drove and drove. I got absorbed in the things we passed. In the doorways, back of which was Invariably the single room of the family, the ono large bed, the throe chairs at the foot of It ,the table, and In the rear the altar, before which burned the little lamp to the Blessed Virgin, and in her humblo worshippers, who lived, It seemed, on the door steps, there being only one room ins.de. \"There played tho children, the little ragged girls of 5 and G holding the bambino done up in swaddling clothes, tossing it between them as they would toss an overgrown doll, and the boys more ragged yet, If that were possible. There were the dogs, cats, the chickens, and now and then a proud turkey, lgnominiously tied, far from barnyards and its kind, by a string to''a post. \"I didn't know which I pitted most, the babies in training for cripples swaddled so, their tiny limbs 10 unnaturally bound, the unwashed cats and dogs, or the turkeys in chains. \"I recalled my destination with a start. \"'Where are we?' I demanded to know. \" 'The station Is about a mile back yonder,' iny handsome driver said stolidly, 'and you'll be too late for your train. I'm taking you to Pompeii now for 5 lire.' \"I could\" have wept, but -what was the use?\" I was now too late for my train.' \" 'Anyway,' I petitioned, 'you'll rescue me from the beggars. Won't you? When you get to them drive fast' \"To my amazement he complied. We sped past the man with the withered arm, the cripple tangled up with the donkey, and passed another cab. The driver flung a bright look at me. \"'Do you see that man?' be asked. ���������\"'Yes,' I answered. \"'Well, he's my brother,' gloated ho. He seemed to have an oversupply of brothers, but he endeavored to compensate for bringing me out of my way for five lire by showing mo the sights. \"He pointed out all the pictures of tho saints by the roadside, the crucifixes on the walls, the Holy Virgins at the corners of the lead-colored houses, until at last tho wide sweep of level country where the dust and ashes of the burled city wero began to show. ��������� \"Arrived there, a babbling guide hurried me through with the velocity of a whirlwind, showod me broken columns, old fountains, Madusa heads with the faces worn away by bands long since ashes, the burled dog, Its mouth in the attitude of barking, prints of chariot wheels, gray walls through the apertures of which the smoky poak of the mountain that had done all the harm glowed purple, and hurried me out again through the gate to my cab. \"My cabby stood thero smiling, a man beside him who was even handsomer than he. '\"My brother,' said he. \"I smiled and bowed, and wo started over tho long gray road of the poor to Naples. \"The sight saddened me. I wiBhed I had started for America, for homo! As wo bumped over tho terrible sings of tho Naples streets my resentment grew. It was not lessened by the behavior of my guide. Threo times moro he had pointed out brothers. Now he loaned over to me, smllod, nnd pointed out another beforo we drove up to my door. \"Some acquaintances ran out, amazed at soelng me. ���������\"I thought,' they cried, 'that your started for homo thlB morning.' \" 'I thought so, too,' said I, 'but my cabby thought differently.'\" NEW ADVERTISING SCALE. The newspapers in Greenwood, Phoenix and Grand Forks have adopted the following scale for legal advertising: Application for Liquor Licence (30 days) >. |S.bo. Certificate of Improvement Notice '. ' (60 days) #7.50 Application to Purchase Land No- tiees (60 days) $7.50 Delinquent Co-owner Notices (90 'lays) Jro.oo Water Notices (small) J ' $7.50 All other legal advertising, 12 cents a line, single column, for the first insertion; and 8 cents a line for each subsequent insertion. Nonpariel measurement WATER NOTICE For a licence to take and use water. Notice is hereby given .that Valentine Dynes of Penticton, B. C, will apply for a licence to take and use 178 inches of water out of Beaver Creek which flows in a south-westerly direction through land of applicant and empties into the West Fork of Kettle River near Beaverdell. Thc water will bo \"diverted on ,lot 3129 and will be used for irrigation purposes on the land described as lot 3T30. This notice was posted on the ground on the 7U1 day of June, 1912. The application will be filed in the oflice of tlie Water Recorder.at Fairview. Objections may be filed with the said Water Recorder, or with the Comptroller of Water Rights, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B. C. *��������� VALENTINE DYNES By W. E. Dynes, Agent. MINERAL ACT-. Certificate of Improvements NOTICE \"Ohio\" Mineral Claim, situate in the , Greenwood Mining Division of Yale' District. ��������� 7 Where located: In Boomerang Camp, adjoining the L. Fraction. ' I TAKE NOTICE that I, Sydney M.' Johnson, acting as agent for P. B. S. Stanhope, Free Miners' Certificate, No. n29324, and R. T. Nicholson, Free Miners' . Certificate, No. B29044, intend,' sixty ' days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Im- ' proveuients, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. E38 And further take notice that* action, \" under sectioii 37, must be commenced before the issue of. such Certificate |ot Improvements. Dated this 1st day of May, A.D. 1912. t. WATER NOTICE For a licence to take and use water. Notice is hereby given that W. E. Dynes of Penticton, B. ,C, will apply for a licence to take and use 178 inches of water out of Beaver Creek which flows in a south-westerly direction through land' of applicant and empties into the West Fork of Kettle River near Beaverdell. The water will be diverted at the upper end of lot 3129 and will be used for irrigation purposes on tlie land described as lot 3129. This notice was posted on the ground on the 7th day of June,' 1912. The application will be filed in the office of the Water Recorder at Fairview. Objections may be filed with the said Water Recorder, or with the Comptroller of Water Rights, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B. C. W. E. DYNES. SmU EHOLT, B, C, 11 Johfi JVTel^ellaf* Proprietor. W. V. WATER NOTICE For a licence lo take and use water. Notice is hereby given that Victoria E.- ���������Dynes of Penticton, B. C, will apply for a licence to take and use 178 inches of water out of Beaver Creek which flows in a south-westerly direction through land of applicant and empties into the West Fork of Kettle River near Beaverdell. The water will be diverted on lot 3129 and will be used for irrigation purposes ou the laud described as lot 565s. This notice was posted on the ground on the 7\"th day of June, 1912. The application will be filed in the office of the Water Recorder at Fairview. Objections may be filed with the said Water Recorder,���������or with the Comptroller of Water Rights, Parliament Buildings Victoria, B. C. ' VICTORIA E. DYNES By W. E. Dynes, Agent. nelson, B. ft. WJShLS, Proprietor. First-class ��������� in everything. Steam heat, electric light, private baths. Telephone in every room. First-class bar and barber shop. 'Bus meets all trains. GRAND CENTRAL Opposite Postoffice, NELSON, B. C. *' \"American and European Plans. H. H. PITTS, Prop. COUNTY COURT OF YALE. A SITTING Of the County Court of Yale will be holdcn at the Court House, Greenwood, on Tuesday the 10th day of September, 1912, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. By order, WALTER DEWDNEV, , Registrar CO. of Y. K1NCS HOTEL PHOENIX, B, C. This hotel is now under new * management, and has been improved in every respect. Pleasant rooms and up-to- date meals. Large and convenient sample rooms. The headquarters for mining- and commercial men. This hotel is in the heart of the city, and close to all the local commercial and financial institutions. j. e. Mcdonald t ��������� ��������� McCarthy was boasting of tho pro- mlnonco of his family in hygono ages. \"But thoro woro no McCarthy's in Noah's ark,\" Bald O'Brien. \"No,\" said McCarthy, \"our family was very oxolufllvo in thoao days and had yachti of their own.\" Synopsis of Coal Mining Regulations. ������^OAL mining rights ofthe Dominion, ^ in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories and in a portion of British Columbia, may be leased for a term of twenty-one years at an annual rental of $i an acre. Not more than 2,560 acres will be leased to one applicant. Application for a lease must be made by the applicant in person to the Agent or Sub-Agent of the district in which the rights applied for are situated. In surveyed territory the land must be described by sections, or legal sub-divisions of sections, and in unsurveyed territory the tract applied for shall be staked out by the applicant himself. Eacli application must be accompanied by a fee of $5 which will bc refunded if the rights'applied for are not available, but not otherwise. A royalty shall be paid on the merchantable output of the mine at the rate of five cents per ton. The person operating the mine shall furnish the Agent with sworn returns accounting for thc full quantity of merchantable coal mined anu pay the royalty thereon: If thc coal mining rights are not being operated, such returns should be furnished at least once a year. _ The lease will include the coal mining rights only, but thc lessee may be permitted to purchase whatever available surface rights may be considered necessary for the working of the mine at tlie rate of $10.00 an acre. For full information application should be made to the Secretary ofthe Department of the Interior, Ottawa, or to any Agent or Sub-Agent of Dominion Lands. W. W. CORY, Deputy Minister of the Interior. N.B.���������Unauthorized publication of this advertisement will uot be paid for. Proprietor CENTRAL HOTEL PHOENIX. One of the largest hotels in' the city. Beautiful location, fine rooms and tasty meals. A. O. JOHNSON PROP. QUEEN'S HOTEL, PHOENIX S. O. The Newest and Largest Hotel in the City. Everything neat, clean and comfortable. Steam heat and electric light. Meals and drinks at all hours. CHISHOLJI * E1RTBUH ��������� Props. BULL CREEK HOTEL One ol the oldest stopping places on the West Fork. Good accommodation and plenty to eat. Fish and game dinners in season. Rooms reserved by telegraph. GORMAN WEST - Prop. ������lpasMffl^BgqfMMa������a^^ Is a GREAT THING TO MIX WITH . . YOUR BUSINESS LIQUOR ACT, 1910 (Section 35) NOTICE is hereby given that, on the rst day of July next, application will be made to the Superintendent of Provincial Police for the grant of a license for the sale of liquor by retail in and upon the premises known as the Carmi hotel, situate at Carmi, B. C, upon the lands described as Lot B, subdivision of Lot 2,360, group 1, Siiuilkauieeu Division of Yale District, B. C, Plan 109. Dated this 23rd day of May, 191T. NET-SON & FERROUX Subscribers are reminded that Thc Ledge is $2 a year when paid in advance. When not so paid it is $2.50 a year. ON PARLE FRANCAIS MTIOML HOTEL GREENWOOD, B. C. The Really Best House in the Boundary. Recently Remodelled aud Strictly Up-to-Date. Restaurant in connection ROY & BO YER PROPS. NELSON HOUSE NELSON. W. European Plan. Cafe open day and night. Bar. Merchant's luuch 12 to 2. A. WARD - PROPRIETOR Phone 27. P. O. Box 597. THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. ooooooo0CK>CKKH>CK><>0<>00<>00 Last week the Rawhide shipped 3,373 tons of ore. Lust week the Jackpot mine shipped 412 tons of ore. Last week the Granby mine shipped 22,053 tons of ore. Last week the Granby smcltor treated 2d,555 tons of oro. Last week the Mother Lode mine shipped 5,33G tons of ore. Last week the Greenwood smelter treated 10,43S tons of oro. Last week the Napoleon mine .shipped 332tous of oro. Last week tlio Granby smelter shipped -135,000 pounds of blister copper. Tlio Ik C. Copper Co. has five diamond drills tit work at Voight's camp. IT Um company takes up the bond on this property a smelter will be erected at a little lake, nbout seven miles from Princeton. if the Ti. C. Copper Co. takes up tbo Yoijdit bond, and build another HincHc.r it is not likely that any dividends will be paid for some time. The leasees of tlie Elkhorn expect lo strike another shoot of ore in a short time. E. G. Warren returned on Tuesday from an auto trip to Voight's camp. British Columbia Copper directors have declared a quarterly dividend of 15 cents a share. They announce that the company now lias a sufficient surplus to continue payments at this rate for a year. The last previous dividend, ISA- cents, was paid by the company in June 1911, and disbursements were discontinued because of the strike of the coal miners in the Canadian northwest, which made it necessary for the company to purchase its coke in Pennsylvania, the increased cost of fuel for a timo wiping out its operating profits. Current earning are at the rate of $60,000 a month, or 81.22 per share annually. Including the dividend just declared, British Columbia has disbursed since organization, a total of SO cents per share, or ������430,G81. If the Voight property,, now held under option, is purchased it will probably be financed by the sale of treasury stock or convertible bonds. ��������� Boston Commercial. CKKK>OCK><><>OC-0<>CK>C-CK>0<>OOC-0 i B. C. MINING NEWS <>0^>000CK>00-CKK>OOOC-CK>0 A new concentrator will be built at Whitewater, in the Slocan. It will mill the ore from the Whitewater and Washington mines. T. G. Proctor has been appointed managing director of the Lucky Jim mine. It is planned to do some deep work on the Antoino mine, in the Slocan. Bill Springer has been appointed superintendent of the Idaho Alamo group in the Slocan. An offer of ������10,000 has been made for the Iron Horse in Rossland camp. Sam Forteath and II. G. Oliver have secured a working bond on the Curlew in Rossland camp from JT. T. Goodeve. A four-drill electric compressor will be installed this month at thc Blue Bird in the Rossland camp. In Rossland, at the Le Roi, the Elmore Oil Process is \"to be installed for experimental purposes ou low-grade ore. In Montreal', last Saturday, ������75 a share was bid for Consolidated Stock. ��������� Talking in Spokane to the Review, D. J. Elmer said:, \"The mining situation in British Columbia is very promising, and as soon as outside capital can bo enlisted there are a number of properties that will speedily become valuable prod ucers, \"The St. Eugene mine on Moyie lake, which suspended operations the first of the year, has resumed with a small force, but it is anticipated that it will be worked at capacity before the summer is over. The property'was oue of the heaviest silver-lead producers iu the district aud its reopening means a great deal for the Cranbrook region. \"The Aurora Mining & Milling company, operating the Aurora mine, across Moyie lake from the St. Etigene, under bond for two We have been implored to continue our Big Bargain Sale until after the next pay day, so we will continue the Sale until the 15th of July< so that every one can settle up all accounts with us and expend this month's earnings for goods now way below manufacturer's prices, We still have a large lot of fine goods to dispose of, Mens and Ladies' Hats, Lace Curtains, Mens' Ladies' and Childrens' Shoes, Mens' and Ladies' Stockings and Under/' wear, Rubbers, Pyjamas, Skirts, Quilts, Blankets, Mens' Carpenter Suits, Ladies' Coats, Embroideries, Laces, Ribbons, Calicos, Collars, Dress Goods of all kinds, Silks, Threads, Corsets, Fine Lot of Furs, Mitts, Gloves, Chifx fons, Ornaments, Feathers, Flowers, etc,, all very low, many at half-price, Don't let this chance go by as you will never have such an opportunity to get such real bargains, GREENWOOD years from June 15, 1912, from owners, J. H. Harvey of Vancouver, B. O.; Captain \\. 13. Sanborn of'Portland, Ore., and O. J. John- sou of Coeur d'Alene, is working sfceadUy. We had a boud on the mine for two years previous to renewal and have expended about ������40,000 in developing and equipping it since we book it over. About 20,000 tons of ore are block- out, samples of which assay 35 per cent, zinc, 20 per cent, lead and 11 ounces in silver to tlie ton. Our ore is treated at the Alice mill at Creston, B. C, and we havo shipped five cars of concentrates to tho smelter at Trail, from which we havo gotten excellent returns. The zinc market on tlie Canadian side of tho line is not (is active as ib is on the American side, and we aro storing our zinc concentrates in the hope of a better price later. \"We aro running a tunnel on the No. 3 level, at a vertical depth of 1,000 feet, which will intersect tho main lead showing on the surface. It is in 350 feet and we anticipate cutting tlie vein at 750 feet. We have a six-drill compressor at work and aro making live feet a day. As soon as we tap the ledge we will install a 50 ton mill.\" What is said to be the largest body of hematite ore ever discovered in the West, Hint at the head of Whiterock river, a tributary of the Chilcotin river, about 150 miles northwest of Lytton, is interesting mining men, for, if id's as great a body as is claimed by those who have examined it, it will rival the great hematite deposits of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, that for years have been the supply for the great steel manufacturing plants. This great deposit of iron ore is practically the supply for the manufacture of steel on this continent, and, if British Columbia's deposit should be as tremendous as reported, tbe raw material for a great steel industry exists in this province. Hematite showings have been discovered in several parts of the province before, but never in a marketable deposit such as that in the Chilcotin di-trict, according to Mr. Bert Lucas, the locator, who has returned from the district and is a guest of the Irving hotel. \"I am convinced.\" said Mr. Lucas, \"this is the most important find in the West. More money has been made out of iron than from all the other minerals and hematite is especially important. It will pay the Pacific Great Eastern railroad to build through the district for it will save more than a hundred miles between North Vancouver and Fort George, besides passing through a country whore construction, compared with the route now selected, is eas}r. Ore is there to give this railroad tonnage sufficient to pay for the entire construction. I located sixteen claims. A creek cuts across and iron shows all along the banks and for from eight hundred to ono thousand feet back from the creek on the south side it its solid outcropping which will give a vertical depth of about three hundred feet. How mnch deeper this deposit is nobody will know until the ground has been properly prospected. It is the only largo body of hematite ever found in British Columbia and the importance of this is' best appreciated by mining men.\" Assay returns of. the ore give silica, 5. IS; alumina, 1.12; oxide of iron, 80.50; lime, trace; magnesia, none; phosphorous 004; sulphur, 1.37; loss on ignition, 11.34; metallic iron, 56.53. Interested with Mr. Lucas in the iron claims is Mr. \"Jack\" Peeder- sen, a well-known mining man.' Arrangements for opening up the property aro to bo undertaken as soon as possible. The outcrop recently inspected by Mr. Peedersen is about twelve thousand ioefc wide. MANUFACTURING JEWELER The Only Up-to-Date Optical M^lc,��������� Department in the Interior. lieison, B4T* most important mining discovery ever made in the province. Not only the value of the ore, but 'the additional industrial possibilities it opens up, lends to it exceptional importance.���������Vancouver Sun. WHEN WAR WAS NEAR La Prcsso is authority for Borne statements concerning, a critical period in the history of the Dominion that have not hitherto been made public. In 1885, when Louis Rio! was pontenced to bo hanged, there was tremendous cor.storna- tion in certain circles in Ottawa. One of tho members of Sir John rMacdona'ld'S' ministry at that timo was Ohapleau, tho haudsomo and brilliant secretary ot state. Few public men in Canada havo had the commanding presence and great oratorical powers of this son of Quebec- La Presse tells that Mr. Chapleau 'declared that Riel must not die. Sir John, ou the other hand, was determined that the law must take its course. Ou the night of November 10th the two men met to determine which. should rule. Chapleau was resolute and said that he would resign his seat in the ministry and take all Quebec with him. Sir John's reply is stated to have been: \"All right; stay with the province of Quebec; I will Btay with the province of Ontario, and before a month blood will flow in this country, for there will be a civil war. Will you accept the responsibility ?\" Chap- leau handed in bis resignation; but Sir John declined to act upon it until the next day, advising his colleague to'reconsider it'. Chapleau decided to consult his friends and telegraphed for .some of them to come to Ottawa at once. A party of them arrived in the morning and found Chapleau restlessly pacing his room. He had not been in bed or slept. He told them why he had sent for them; but added that he had withdrawn his resignation for fear that they might iuduce him to stand by it. In this way was averted what was perhaps the most serious crisis in the history of the Dominion.���������Victoria Colonist. AUCTION SALE Town Lots in Rock Creek I have received-instructions from the -Department of Lands, Victoria, to ofler for sale by public auction, at the provincial police oflice, Rock Creek, on Saturday, July 6,'-iit io a.m., all the unsold lots in the government townsite of Rock Creek. The highest bidder above the upset price takes thc lot or lots. Terms of Sale:���������One quarter'cash, and the balance ��������� in three equal annual payments at 6 per cent, interest per milium. For further information apply lo D. R. TAIT, ' Rock Creek. ^imnmmmtiimmmmmiimnimnm'mtfiinifflmtnmK. I HERE TO STAY' ] HAVING DECIDED TO CONTINUE BUSINESS IN GREENWOOD; ii WE HAVE PUT IN A COMPLETE LINE OF MENS' CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES AND GENTS* FURNISHINGS. DROP IN AND LOOK AT OUR GOODS, I P. W.GEORGE-dc-Ce..'I g COPPER STREET .-. .V GREENWOOD, B.C. 2 O.K. GIGAR STORE COPPER STREET, GREENWOOD Cigarfl, Tobacco, Fruit and Confectionery. Free Reading Room with ' all the Daily Papers. ANNUAL MEETING The Annual General Meeting of the Greenwood City Water Works Co. will be held in the Company's office at Greenwood, on Saturday, the 20lh7lay of July, 1912, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, for the transaction of the general business of the Company aud the election of a Board of Directors. E.G: WARREN, Secretary. TUNING Mr. Charles E. King will visit Greenwood at an early date. Leave orders for guaranteed pianoforte tuning at White's Drug Store. DEPARTMENT OF LANDS Water Rights Branch J.MKERYIS - PROPRIETOR ��������� LOWERY'S CLAIM / During tho.87 months that- Lowery'Br Claim was on earth it'did business, all over ,the world. It [was tho most' unique,-independent and fearless journal overproduced in Canada. ' Political, and theological enemies pursued it with tho vonom of a rattlesnake until tho k government shut it out of the mails, and.its editor ceasad to, publish it,' partly on account of a lazy liver and partly because it takes a pile of money . to run a paper that is outlawed; lliore are still 20 different editions of this condemned journal in print. Send 10cents and got ono or $2 and get the bunch. . K. T. LOWERY, Greenwood, B. C . ARG������ TUNNEL Take notice tliat the Board of Inyestlfration acting under Part III of the \"Water Act\" will meet at the times and places hereinafter mentioned to hear and determine claims to Water Rights on streams in their respective vicinities, existing ou the 12th day of March, 1909:��������� On the 6th clay of August, 1912, at 4 o'clock ii the afternoon, at Grand Forks. On the \"Ui day of August, 1912, at 3:30 o'clock iu the afternoon, at Grecnvood. On the 9th day of August, 1912, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at Princeton.' On the 10th day of August; 1912, at 4:30 o'clock iu the afternoon, at Keremeos. Ou the 12th day of August, 1912, at 1Q o'clock in the forenoon, at the Government Agent's oflice, Fairview. On the 13th day of August, 1912, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at Penticton. Parties -who presented claims to the Board in 1!)10 and have received licences in substitution of the records need not present auy statement of claim. Dated at Victoria, B. C., the 18th day of'June, By order of the Board of Investigation. J. F. ARMSTHONG, Acting Comptroller of Water Rights. 191: TAKING A VOTE The Locals of Districts No. 6 of the \"Western Federation of Miners, are now taking a referendum vote, as to whether or not they shall affiliate with the Dominion Trades & Labor Congress of Canada. The count of the vote last Saturday night in Greenwood Local No. 22, was overwhelmingly in favor of such a policy, there being but two dissentient votes. Providing that the vote throughout the district is favorable, the delegates to the forthcoming Annual Convention of the VV. F. M., will be instructed to place the matter before the executive board with a view of having the Per Capita, Tax paid by the Federation at large. The Convention meets next month at Victor, Colorado, a place from whence the Federation were driven during the Cripple Creek war. Last year the mayor and council- men of that city, sent a special invitation to the W. F. M. asking them to come this year and hold their Convention at Victor. Hereafter, the Conventions of the W. E. M. will be held biennially. with the company. Enderby and Armstrong were as good as off the map, apparently, when the railway company and the Government entered into the aforesaid agreement. Now the CJ.R, is attempting to hold up Armstrong to the tune of $50,000 to get the main line into tho sister town. \"Who is get- ing the rake-off? Is this the kind of a game the railway company is working? Is the Government going to permit it ? Are the good people of Armstrong going to stand for this kind of a hold-up ? Ia the MeBride Government bringing that kind of a railway company into the Okanagan���������one that will stand a mile or two outside of a town and say: \"If you want us in, put up $00,000?\" Is this the road which we havo been told is \"out for the business.\"���������Enderby Press. The workings of the Argo mine are only a short distance from the centre of Greenwood making it easy for tourists and strangers to see a mine in full operation. The indications are that the Argo will eventually become a great mine, and add materially to the prosperity of the entire district. Come up and see it for yourself. OLA LOFSTAD President. JAMEJS 'McCREATH Secretary. ^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmiimnmimK 1 Plumbing and Tinsmithing j ���������= Out* complete stock of Plumbing and Tinsmith/ .95 *?J \" . . *^ lUl Bi PHONE S= 12 McArthur & Clerf f ^iiii'ia^aaiiaiiaiiiiaaiiiiimiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiK What kind of a deal is the C.N. E. trying to give Armstrong and Enderby? The Provincial Government is guaranteeing the bonds of this road into the Okanagan, from Kamloops to Vernon and Lumby. The people will stand back of these bonds. The route had not been decided upon at the time the Mr. Poederflon is convinced it is the'Government signed the agreement WANTS A BONUS NEWS OF CARMI The auto stage now leaves daily at5a. ra., and return at 9. p.m. Baird Bubar will build a large barn on his Beaver Creek ranch. There are 600 men working on the railway, and the town is lively. There is a trainload of rails at Westbridge, and it is likely that steel will soon be laid, between Peanut Point and Carmi. ' The site for the depot has been surveyed. It is on the bench above the main street. J, B. Sheridan is putting up a building 30 x 40. Jim Cannon has bought another team, aud now drives a fine set of fours. , ��������� J. C. Dale is putting on a stage to Grizzly, a distance of 10 miles. In timo this stage lino will be ex tended to Kelowna, a distance of 50 miles. The citizens are asking the government to expend some money on the railway tote road, it can easily bo turned into a government wagon road at an expense of about $4,000.' Jim Dale moved tho wagon road survey party last week, from Switchback creek to the last crossing of Ellis creek, near the Summit. This wagon road will be hardly 30 miles long and can be built for about $1,000 a mile. The -steepest grade, eight per cent., is on the Penticton side of the mountain. The new addition to the Carmi hotel cost $3,000. It contains 12 bedrooms, barroom, dining room, kitchen and laundry. Nelson & Ferroux are again applying fora liquor license, and expect to get it as the railway contractors are'in favor of a license being granted at Carmi. The Tote road has been extended to within ten miles of the dam, where a connection can be made with the road to Kelowna and Vernon. The Current Motor that is being J installed here for the Rev. Father Ferroux by the American Land Development & Mfg. Co., of Curlew, \"Wash., was launched last week by A. R. Brewer the president of the company. Tho plant was assembled complete on the shore of the river and let down over tho bauk a distance of 00 feet by large cables aud placed in the river. The massive machinery is supported on two large scows which is anchored to the shore above. When Mr. Brewer pulled the lever a great mass of water shot into the air, and a large canvas hose was laid up the hill side to a height of 35 feet and the water sent to the top of the hill. A crew of men is now busy laying the eight inch wire wound wooden pipe that is to lead the water to a tank at a elevation 15 feet higher. From this tank a 50 foot gravity head will be used for the purpose of operating the Sunshine Sprinklers that are now being installed by Clement Vachey of a manufacturing concern of Santa Barbara, California. Some of these largo sprinklers are intended to cover an area 240 feet in diameter. 9K8SRRE"@en, "Published as The Ledge from 1906-05-10 to 1926-07-29; Published as The Greenwood Ledge from 1926-08-05 to 1929-05-23.

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