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BC Historical Newspapers
The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919.
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I 9 '•^■^tmr^ Volume X. No 24. NEW DENVER, B.C., MARCH 12. 190?. Price, $2.00 Year IN ADVANCS J Genial Ne^s Float I g§ In and About the'Slocan and Neighboring Camps w that are Talked About. is LOOAL HKWS FLOAT. The Slocan Star is shipping-500 tons a month. For a cigar that will omit a pleasant aroma, call at Williams'. James Lindsay of Fire Valley died last week from consumption. Choice bananas, oranges and lemons just received at Mrs. Matheson. The Payne is building a roaster to separate the iron from the zinc ore, Dave Moore and J.J. Campbell were in the Slocan last week looking for ore. Spring will bring one blessing. It •will break up the disputes about hockey. After April lst, Rev. James Haetio will dispense Presbyterian gospel in Kaslo. W. R. Megaw from Veruon has bought the Hunter-Kendrick store iu Sandon. About 30 cars of coal and coke pass New Denver every day for Trail and other points. Zincy Jones has gone to Vancouver Island to look at a property with a zinc preponderance. Bilver and lead are climbing boom wardr"Mbn(fay lead was £Td"8s 9(1, and' bar silver, 49|. Perhaps you want beer. If so, write the New York brewery at Sandon for a case of bottled goods." Tbe Bosun mine CDotinues to ship sine ore to Iola. Shipments are also being made to Antwerp. It is confidently expected that a settlement of the Fernie strike will be made today or tomorrow. Hugh Niven, the proprietor of Three Fork? leading hotel, ia laid up with a leg that refuses to do its duty. A movement is on foot to form n local Glee Club, with the intention of putting on a light comedy in the near future The Wakefield will start up after the winter's close down, as early as thc disappearance of the snow will permit. Sympnthy may bo free in a poker game, as the Sandon Paystreak ob- nerves, but salvation is just the revfirse. Mrs. J C. Bolander left for Spokane Monday morning in response to a tele cram calling her to tho oodside of her brother. Fresh ranch oggs are quoted nt 10 cents ii dozen in Sandon, Thoy aro the cheapest thing in that camp, except snowballs F. J. Finucane has been appointed manages of the Bank of Montreal in Spokane. He was the first nank malinger in New Denver. It is uot necessary to buy your liirni- turn in the east while D. .1, KnhirtHon k Co. are doing business in Nation. Write to them for prices On Tuesday morning; a auowilliU at tho Enterprise mine carried away the cookhouse, dining room and Htulilo. Pat McGulre and.four men wero (.lightly injured. Uolvillo Tompkins is now malinger of the Phair hotel in Nelson lie is known fn* and wide in this wcticrn country ami the public will be pleated to do business with him. .Slocan City carried thit bylaw grant Inga boiiuit'of tlu.tXM) to tlie saw mill company, The vote was iin to ti, which ■hows how eager Mime people are to give their money away Rod Matheson will start it paimr at Raymond, having failed to mate hi* venture pay at I'lnchor Creek Ticro •earns to be little hope of curing the newspaper (ever in some people Henry Ktego, the genial and popular landlord nl the Nt-iiu.i*rk<;i bole!, i* confined to hi* room with a severe attack of rheumatism liis many friends hope that liis illness will be of abort duratiou. Rev. Mr. Hobb of Sandon held two aervlces lu the Presbyterian church Sunday. He accommodated Key, Mr. \,f*UH'*4*lt, **,.*» 91 HI* *..»..IL* *1J . ,** I Illl I to t-nnrturt. ibe funeral wrvire, nvi-r Wu* remains of A foot of snow fell Saturday night. The "oldest inhabitant never saw to much of the beautiful on New Denver townsite Itefori', It lo a pleasure to Vifclei h ilium, im ■t*i,ii.,tli.'niit£, v/rtii Vi Vi 'ia oni j snow. Joe Tromblcy took an overdo** of chloral and went to bed in the Arllng. ton hotel. Slocan City, one night last week. When found the next day he mm* dead Trombley wa* a French- min, ,-tfnf a ctrpenf.or br truth* After 18 month* the editor nf the SlO'-tn DrW tu**!; n hW; fit N,-«- Jtom-.-r Ja« Friilsy, He was jfurjiii-ed in n-<- th* many changes in that time, ami re. turned home *Aii*!i,eA thai PlomnCi'i wa« imt. the niAv chrotuo on the wall. Lee Coombs, well known in New Denver, left Rossland last fall on a business trip east, and has not been heard of since. Sandon's K. of P. lodge will give an interesting entertainment, including a 30-minute lecture on wireless telegraphy, on tho. evening of March 25th. A number of New Denver knights will attend. There is no longer any hope of settling the strike ofthe C. P. ft. employees by arbitration. The attempt to do so failed and both sides are prepared to fight to a finish Freight and baggage is tied up all over the svstem and there is little prospect of the tie-up being broken. Thos. Hickey died in Mineville.N. Y , on Feb. 10th from cancer. His brother Phil secured for him the best medical skill on the continent, but none could save Tom from climbing the shaft we all aro bound to climb when death sends us an ozonagram. An Indian in Mexico, who made an immense fortune by the lucky discovery of a great silver mine, has a"house with 30 rooms, and in every room a piano. If he had been a North American -Indian-hft-would-have-a-barrel-of-whifl" key in every room and much more music for the same money. Frank Christie left Sandon a few days ago and a host of mourners are now weeping He had conducted a law business in Sandon for many years, and was several thousand dollars in debt. His friends thiuk he will pay all his debts when ho gets monev enough, but there is no telling when tliat will be. A portion of a mountain on the east arm of Arrow lake fell into tho water a few days ago and caused a tidal wave ton feot high to wash over the dock at Arrowhead. No lives were lost and the damage was nominal, although some of tho wicked Arrowhead people thought the world watt ending its career at that point, A WIN Hit HKHO OK 1IKKOKS. Four miners were asphyxiated iu the Nettie L mine, near Ferguson, last Saturday evening as the men were going on shift. Tlieir name aro Patrick Crillev, Allan Caulder, Edward Uagnon and Kobt. Savage. Nols Johnson and Otto Bloom, are under the doctor's care. The day shift had quit work at X p. in and tired their shots, and it is supposed thut some of the lower workings became filled with powder gas and smoke. Robert Savage was the Hast mnn to de scentl to his work, ami when at the bottom was heard to call for help, as he was suffocating. George Uroshey descended to his rescue and succeeded tn bringing him to the floor level, when Groshney became insensible and Sav a^e's body dropped back down the winze, a distance of -10 feet Allan Caulder then nislied down the ladder and on reaching the bottom called for help and Pat Crillev, shift boss, went (lawn onlv to share Caulder s fate, Barclay Crillev went down and actually reached his brother, but the ,:«#dtove him back. Edward Gaguon then tried to rescue the others, but wan overcome nt tin* bottom of the winze. Ncls.lnhii- miii and otto Blornn met the same fate. Jack McLeod, a Capt? Breton miner of great experience, made another attempt, wilh a rope Hm secured a bodv with the tine and bore it to the ladder foot, nml sustained It while it wo* lifted to the level. Six bodies wen- rescued by McLeod in thin manner When the last wa* out the gallant rescuer ml- lapsed* Jack Sweeney went down to see if there were anv more at the bottom H« was overcome, and had to he ruM-ued by Mi I.t-od. WIl.tT PAllTY -tiOVKRNMKMT HA* UU-MK KOH THK KAUMKH* lo the Editor olThe Tribune: p,„ v,» ,.»„ *, * t . ,, *. i* * has bean to dlsinterestedlv loval to party at the tanner* have Without hope of reward «*r lear of punishment fittr g*e.er«id*<ntt* tht* ttuuM alnrav* lh** depended upon tn s'upport their party, and no government posit ion of moreim- TiOMaTtre ttisti * free t r it. tc. tt,.. f,\.i country or h rt'tnrtiing utl'wrr .it * imh* ing subdivision was ever offered tc. them, and they have atwavs been largely in the" majority Trii* Iw-ltite the. case, the very Last they co-aid tt pect is that legi*!»tioit was made fair to them Let wisp*: Tlu-, l.uut V.vx'. -«**.* •ji'-.i'.i'U-l t.ii- vL-it inheritance «•• given to railway cor- piMtf.w**. .tn**> ii.ii-tt'i'i'A y-> >,*t,if ,ni;, j m rile* wtm rharjje •■'" •' "I* i* tluee Iii ten dollar* an arr«« i*,r Hieir l»>me-.ie *,\a whit-b t!i*-y •»bi,*ttlt1 .'!■-. iu** .--.I y. ■>, i.i.tti iuat ;prti-e, arid the tttittier. ta.it «'*« planted by an unseen hand to build their homes, was sold to speculators, who charge the settlers two to twenty dollars a thousand more for their lumber than it should cost them. Railways and their lands are exempt from all taxes, which forces the settler, who has to open up the country, to pay double taxes. Hundreds of millions of dollars were given to railway corporations, and they were allowed to bond and stock their roads for three times what they cost. This gives them a reason joV charging double rates, as they are now doing, and is a mortgage on the fanners that, must be paid off or they must pay interest on it for all time. When Manitoba cried out for relief from transportation oppression, the Dominion, Ontario and Manitoba governments combined to hand over the Rainy River road to Mackenzie & Mann with enough money to build it, and the Manitoba government saddled the province with a debt of seven million dollars to get the N. P. R. out of the country, guaranteed bonds for seven millions more, which Mackenzie & Mann put in their pockets, and thus fattened another octopus on the fanners; this system of guaranteeing railway bonds is'the most vicious and far-reaching of all railway bonuses, because it produces a weak, morgrel management and places the country between two fires, with the only choice of paying exorbitant rates of freight as we are now doing, or paving off the bonds and interest ithat we have guaranteed. A tariff policy endorsed bv both parties is adopted that giveB the farmers their choice of paying 25 per cent, dutv to the government or 25 per cent, more to Canadian manufacturers on all their requirements than they otherwise •would—cost—themt—And—farmers-are taxed to pay bounties to steel trusts and rebates to manufacturing companies on their exports, while the farmers, who are ten times the largest exporters, get nothing; in fact the only live issue between the two parties today is as to how much more of the rake- off the farmers will stand. No provision was made in the railway legislation for cars or shipping facilities for farmers to ship their product. This made it easy for elevator companies to combine .with railway corporations to extort one-quarter of "the farmer's crop for simply shipping it, and after a great struggle (in wliich Mr. Richardson took the farmers's part, and for which the two parties joined together to put him out of parliament), all they got was an amendment to the grain act, providing thnt railway companies should furnish farmers with :cars "without undue delay,'' which i-t'f.lly menus nothing The coal that was stored in rockv vaults by the Great Provider for n-. anil our children, was given to exploiters, who put a guard at the mouth of the pit nnd gave the shivering people their choice of paying an exorbitant price for the coal or perishing in a prairie blizza.d I might «o on and tell of bonuses and contemplated subsldi-en to fn*t Atlantic ,-teamers for exploiters to travel on and tlieir concentration now at Ottawa to get hundreds of millions more saddled on the people for promised transcontinental railways, but I think enough has been said to convince the dullest that, party government has legislated the farmer's nut of half their net earnings, but the climax of unfairness is reached when farmers are taxed to pay liveried mm emits to deliver tite mail at the hall doors In towns and cities while, they have to tramp Ion*, weary miles for theirs, ami as if to add iiiMiiito injury, built partiun cntnu together to veto temperance legislation that faimem are overwhelming!v In favor of, and thus compel them tn raise their laniilies in an atmostihert* that counteract* the clean, moral Influence of the farm.' TI.U svetetn of legalized robbery is turning the grandest neciipillion under the sun Into a life of dismal drudgery. Now. the reason for all this unlair legislation i« bei-auiie (aimers have no organisation except a party one. which divide* them to tight each other, and; r«rev*i*tt« them (nun being heard in our legislatures, and they could alwaxulie dejwtiiled upon to support their partv re^rdiexs oi how legulation -affected' them! This cleared the wav for organised capital, that knows no party, to evolve a combination government composed of the corporations and the leaders of the two great parties! The gov ei'iiing putty in, ibis combination has pewer to mortgage our property and '.,1**491 i,*«-C ...1,44 4.AM11* *.. iitf i.*,*., .-Htl I, ' »tan purl otibo». "fivcvTiTnotit i-furi'i-iiti turn, who m-alce a satUfactnry division' with the other member* of tlie govern- mtni *xi«i4!itA)le, Ami ihty Avv-tt mVI IcgUl.itinu in their own lutertM with the result I have outlined. V, ,„ l:... ........ . . - , pniuthiig for Uie ntttnin-* to iw» aM*' to (Ainhiu«> *n I nt*<> the prite of tl.*»ir in-odihi a-, other classe* do, Imt thev fan orifatiiKe vid combine at th* |m.|(« K«i>ii|<|*oit oi'ty wen who are the *-ni embodiment of gr*-at pr tn ip!e*. The flm oi wl.irh U tin. KWerctidmu ft* ••dopuiii*. mmm ulf i,hc'k IlltO tbe |ienj.'|.-'» hiiiid*. wlm-re it LcSotig*, lh* power of •UJiiu.t ; i:,.y i ■.., U.u*.Uuh» ii*,J* i..tu', ai.-t-J nliu'ii iimi n,t* u-ii;^ to moi'tgajte otir piopi-m *si| bettnw our itdieriu- urn* to 4''<)i„ir>iUi,ii. ii'ithmit mtr <■-<«• "-eilt; Mint It Hlli.lM !||i>b" hittttltill nl corruption for tbe people will then havo. the right to pass on all such legislation before it becomes law. The abolishing of the spoils system will rAise the tone of public morals and stop making merchandise of our positions of trust, and the adoption of prohibition will close up the bars and saloons, which are the intermediates between the schools and gaols. In a country the size and shape of Canada, where transportat.on enters into the very life of her people, it is suicidal to allow it to go altogether into the hands of great, powerful corporations, which transportation companies must necessarily be, and who are now ruling the people with rails of steel. For by intimidating small shippers and giving reduced rates to large ones, by giving reduced transportation to governing bodies and free passes to men in influential positions, and subsidizing the press, they can pioinote monopoly and encourage boycotting, and create a false sentiment in their favor which is very hard for the common people to counteract. Nothing -but absolute ownership of transportation by the peoplo will save Canada from serfdom. Farmers and their helpers who pay all overcharges ,should demand the extension of the Intercolonial railway to the coast, with sufficient branches'and equipment to control all Canadian transportation Why should we furnish all the capital, brains and business to build our roads and make them profitable, and then hand them over to great corporations who become our masters and starve the equipment to increase dividends and boom stocks that never went into our roads. For want of rolling stock thev create fuel famines, make business almost impossible and allow our grain to rot at tbe jtation8,,andafter.iong_waiting,_when. they deliver a car or unload to a shipper to be loaded or unloaded, they im- Eertinently take the law into their own ands and fine the shipper if it is not unloaded in the unreasonable time they wish to specify. Onlv a community of crawlers would meekly put up with'the service we are now getting If farmers ever expect to take the position they were destined to occupy, they must discard party and vote for these great principles, which will insure fair laws and In the meantime they should demand the greatest freedom in shipping and selling their products.— T. D. Robinson in Winnipeg Tribune. Nl.OOAN OKK SHlfHH.VTS The total amount of ore shipped from the Slocan and Slocan City mining divisions for the vear 1902 was, approximately, 28.000 tons. Since January 1 to Marh 7, 1003, thej shipments have been aB follows: Week Total A merlenii Hoy i« S71 Antoltie is Arlington 40 Hlnck l'rlm-i- n lionilhoMi-r i Hii'tin in l»0 Mine Hlnl SO Iiiiytmi 4 Knti'i|ir.K« ini, KMit-r Malilen 4*1 til) M»hi», Si I vtinhon MO Monitor i Kelt. ) t'O Meteor It in OtUwn so nn I'nyne «» «»« Oiif-mi llt*n. ittt liiitnlili-r *«o Ui-<-i> 41 IM KeliUlillf tn Kuth ..,, ft 4S SIis-iiii Stur .1*1 Hit Toul ton* 4M.' HIHSOtmi /INC MAItKKT, 8*11 Convention Echoes gjGood Things Said of and Done by the Provincial W. S. Drewry returned from the first annual convention of the Provincial Mining Association, last Thursday evening. Mr. Drewry reports that the convention was an unqualified success. The four days spent in convention business were days of hard work, but from which, he'believes, much good will result, not only to the mining industry but the Province iu general. Mr. Drewry was placed upon the committee on constitution and the labor and capital committee, the most important bodies in the convention, and was thrown m contact with the several knotty problems that the convention had to deal with. He says there was considerable misunderstanding at the start, particularly in the labor and capital committee, but every question that arose was harmoniously settled, aud at the wind-up tbe best feeling prevailed. Speaking of the association and its work, John B. Hobson, who was instrumental in forming it, and who was also connected with a similar association in California, said to the Victoria Times, "It eclipses the California association. These four days were occupied with settling differences in caucus before the convention got down to work. Next years canvention will have 500 dele- ■gatesT'1 The output from the uinc mines of Missouri for thi- week ending Feb. Iim was fully 'i'l per cent less than au aver- aae, owinir to a blizzard that greatly retarded work There was a sesreity of ore and a larger amount was rold on'a b»«.is of !:W per ton for «in per cent than •luring theprevioiis week. The highest price paid wa* fVi per ton in the bin,as im ore ns«nylng over tv.t per cent wan marketed The lopliu shipments were mote than tho-e of any other camp.; Tin- price id le-nu reiiuiii--*. »te«dy at *\'i\ per ton, delivered. During the cor- responding week of las' vear tne highest; lime paid for zinc wa-. f;ll.V», are! for lead t43,,*,u per lull, A Minneapolis paper declares that some time ago the two Younger brother-*; two western outlaws who used to movei lu the Inner circle* nt Ji'*-*.* James's i most ex.-lniive set, were liberated after mttti* ♦<•«<# tiiiiiii-iiiiui in. i nr ■,.... Ibi-y *>;eri' *f<i free 'bv: rt-i-i-lvcd ';i ; pre'sulng Invithaton from the manager of Jacob hitt's theatre there to ocrtipv a Wo* at the nSay that ttvromg. 'Thev accepted with avidity, ami the news of their i timing having been extewivelv *■'• •*.•',.' *' •',*', ' | iw-ked to Hudocation. Tiie »n >ther» came early, hut did not Ixf in tu j^ru-e their programme until Just before the curtain roue. Then one of them was *een to ♦(.ring to his feet and nuke a I frantic (effort to escape from the h-»x. I be manager intercepted him with a , pi tbt e r-pqucM ai to w'nai i\$* tuu-.** •'<Ji»od God !" he cried with a -.trmg of ii.itiis, "wh-ftl tli U**.e. vull I'ltU U-v ■into'.' Why. tlm —— piav *»* ton* iitfg »hen we went In. He had Jtut rtiA-te the titotrlhtenkiug di*r«ivery thai !!>»• piny wn*, ■ I'nd* Tom's Cabin " Of the convention, the Times savs: "It has been so thoroughly successful, so important and therefore so replete with interest that it must stand in the vanguard of public movements born of an honest desire and active determination to improve the conditions of the country. It has been said, and surely with much force, that a great feature of the convention has been its educational character It has shown that the mining industry doeB not belong altogether to those engaged in extracting wealth from the earth, but to those in other pursuits as well. As far as British Co- lumbia is concerned it is unquestioned that no convention could possibly be more important than the ono just terminated.'' The most important resolution passed by the convention was that relating to tho 2 per cent tax. It asked "that tho government and legislature of the pro. vince be respectfully urged to abolish the so-called two per cont mineral tax upon the output of mines, because of its injurious effect in restricting and repressing mining low grade ores, ami because of Us effect in discouraging the investment of outside capital" It was on this resolution and the question of the convention endorsing the resolution of the silver-lead miners recently adopted in Sandon that Mr. Drewry made his strongest fight. He secured the striking out of the words, "low grade ores" in the resolution quoted above, claiming that thu miners of high-grade silver lead ores were no hotter able to pav the tax than were the producers of Iow gtade ores. The high grade miners, he said, naid fH to $8 per ton ou the cost of production under the existing law In connection with the resolution asking for the repeal of the 2 tier cent law, tin: following additional resolutions went passed: "Uesolved, That with respect to the resolution passed dealing with the abolition of the J per cent tax, this convention shall not be understood as being opposed to a fair and equitable taxation ofthe mining industry ' "That In the event of the repeal of the '1 per cent mineral tax, thlseonven- tion euggcts and endor*»es as a nroper bani*- for the taxation of working mines, that a fair tax be levied upon Ihe pro- tits or dividend-. p,»id to the owners of *iifli mine*. " The find step taken by the convention toward bringing about a better tin- demanding between capital and lalmr, wa« the semi iter of a rotnmisMon to Fernie to bring a limit a nettleim-nt of the coal miners' *«trike TUB TMtJimT IS II, I*. one of the fleet of handsomely-appointed steamers that ply on the* Columbia river and the Arrow lakes. He can then sail a thousand miles over the navigable waterways of the Kootenays. The Eastern and European tourist will line the trip entrancmg, for him it is a new country of infinite grandeur and surpassing natural beauty; a land of stranee and interesting customs; the stamping ground of tho empire-builder, the home of that most picturesque of western characters, the prospector; the scene of indomitable energy, unceasing perseverence and bold adventure. He will find himself in the very heart ofthe great romantic West and can, if he chooses to stray a little from the beaten paths of travel, meet a class of men who, for experiences and as distinct types of western character, will be found as interesting as any depicted bv Bret Harte or Mark Twain. If the visitor is a man of sporting instincts, he can satisfy them to his heart's content in this district. The fishing is generally admitted to be tbe finest in the world. The shooting for both big and small game in great variety is not to be equalled anywhere, if due care is taken in the selection of the hunting grounds. ThetouriBtrtraveHrworth~cuitivatinp, and it is satisfactory to know that it is being cultivated. The tourist associations of Victoria, Vancouver and the Kootenays are doing excellent work iu this respect The transportation companies also deserve considerable credit tor their extensive advertisemsnt of the attraction of the district. It is to be hoped that these agencies will continue in their present efforts to popularise British Columbia as a field for the tourist for it cannot but operate beneficially for all concerned,—Rossland Miner. ifi Ut.,. *..tt,„.t,*t,<% ,* 0,.*,,»t„pi ***44.'f **,'\'\e (MO'- n* 1V,e ^V.-WiTlrtTid 'if *,mer'.-' ca K» a matter of fact it* scenery' bents anything of the kind to be found in Sn'-JUttSaud oi *nywhete. e.tt-: in[ Europe. It also enjoys the wetl-dcserved reputation for being, par excellence. .i . . > . i: i. . . therefore •ttirpriitut that the province is popular with -uintner totiri«t«. Then? is no better country on the continent for n summer * outing, The ■■Tail-fry i- in*tch!e»«i, the climate perfect Then there ia every faeilitv for tbe comfort and cotivetiience of the nixnfv inving traveler. WtisW- puling through thi* great province he need not be. w-duicd !.y ;.,;,,; ui-,!.i„Ui ;. i.tiltt.iv journeys W/irti he has li.vi hi-fill of the »eeiii<* wonders of the l!«K'kie*» and thn Selkirk*, he 1(4*, l,(j| If, ,(, |. fr.-m hi* {'Alice t-JtS ,«t Hevi«l-|.\r ;tt,i! le»»rd FKOM THK WASTK DUMP. A framer is a machine which everv mine timbor shed could use whore power is available. It is more economical than framing timbers bv hand, and its work is as accurate. The laws of several mining states require that a code of signals shall be conspicuously posted at the station of each level in the mine as well as at the collar of the shaft and in the engine room. A machine drill may he mounted on timbers and used as a trip hammer in the blacksmith shop. Supplied with a suitable pestle, it is useful in pulverizing mine samjilen Two pounds of rock can be pulverized to pass a 20 screen in about two or three minutes. The best indication for oil is a seep- r.go of oil from an oll-beariug stratum, bo* such stratum is frequently not profitable to bore near its outcrop, as thu volatile portion has usually long since passed off, and the residual material is more like bitumen or asphaltum, and will not flow readily. The presence of grit in crude oil can rcadflv be deft'ffiiil hy pouring a mnal! quantity of the oil on a pane of glass. Holding the glass at an angle, the oil will unread over the surface ana the particles of grit, if present, will appear as more or less numerous specks on tho sheet of glass, and can be plainly seen. The mine owners of Idaho have recently ex(Mirienced some ditliculty with the tax gatherer. In Shoshone county tho authorities assessed the mines at what tliey considered a proper valuation, upon which the tax levy was made. The mine owt.i-re and niana- ger* positively n-fu-e-l to nay thi- tax, though asserting their willingness to pav taxes on the improvements made on the mine* as they had done for vwar* This course led to much discussion, and the Mate Legislature has recently parsed a law taxing the net output of tint mutes of the State. The n.iw legislation is meeting with no adverse criticism thk ft as rrft-nt-sfi*. We have received from J. It. Fargit- son, Washington, 1). t!., representative •-J '.he Oan in A-sjjua.i, 4 Wa-jitif-uMy designed post-card, speiialiy prepared for the Clan Ferguson. It'i* charac- ...'...,.. I .,.: *... it,, ...vi,.,.. I in gorgeous colors, are tin- lUdge small sunflower , the Cl!*n Tartir, «>«t of arms, and «re*t, with motto, "Duhln* e* aoperift. ' To the left, occupying* third of the etititv c ir I, is a representation, in miniature, of it Highhuid gathering (game*; with a Highlutder inthe ml o to*»llis,' tiie «.i'iii-r, and iileither Highlander in full dgure, tor all th* ■.i,> ill like Ul.: i.-i...V.t!..c D.iluM I»|ti/ili«, st,'lli.illlkr by ,',s j'l.lge. AltO- getliei, the f• »-1 card i* * verv mterest- ■■ itil_ •" f.ll Iimi) '•thi- isirl of '..|',»H'it henHi and ' ■mm. THE LEDGE, NEW DiQsjVKR, B. C„ MARCH 12, 1903. Tenth Yeab Thi Lkdqb is two dollars a year in advance When not bo paid it is $2.50 to parties worthy of credit. LeKftln-lvertisijiR 10 cents a nonpariel line first insertion, and 5 cents a line each subsequent insertion. ReadiiiK notices S!5 cents a line, ttncl commercial advertising graded in prices accordinR to circumstances. FELLOW PILGRIMS: TUB Ledgk is located at New Denver. B. C, and can be traced to many parts of the earth. It comes to the front every Thursday and has never been raided by the sheriff, snowslided by cheap silver, or subdued by the fear of man. It works for the trail blazeras well as the bay-windowed and champaRne-flavored capitalist. It aims to be on the right side of everything and believes that hell hould be administered to the wicked in large doses. It has stood the test of time, and an ever-increasing paystreak is proof that It is better to tell the truth, oven if the heavens do occasionally hit our smokestack. A chute of job work is worked occasionally for the benefit of humanity and the financier. Come in and see us, but do not pat the bull doR on the cranium, or chase the black cow from our water barrel: one is savage and the other a victim of thirst. One of the noblest works of creation is the man who always pays the printer; he is sure of a bunk in paradise, with thornless roses for a pillow by night, and nothing but gold to look at by day. R. T. LOWERY, Editor and Financier. The Ledge. A pencil cross in this square .Indicates that your subscription is due, and that the editor wants once again to look at your collateral. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1903. VKOM THK EDITOR'S UPPKIt STOPK. Thousands of people in the east are in the dumps. They have the mumps. There is another point in New Denver's favor—the hens never get stuck in the mud. The upward flight of lead in London will soon put a silver lining in the Slocan Bky. One sign of the dull times is the fishing for trout out of season by the sportsmen of Nelsen. Many people fast in Lent in order to plunge deeper into gayety and meat pies after it is over. Vancouver is following the trail of Toronto. A Jap was recently arrested in~Marpoie,s~city*for"sell- ing goods on Sunday. Of all the buffaloB that once roamed the Canadian prairies only 33 are left. They are in the national park at BaniT. The C. P. R. has troubles of its own these days." Probably a curse has been put upon it for shoving Lowery's Claim off its trains. When Tiberius died he left 8118,- 000,000 which Caligua spent in ten months. Calig must have run against a church game in Rome. A politician in Missouri wantH the United States to ab.sorb Canada. He ih too late. The C. P. R. and Mackenzie & Mann were here first. In England the dudeB are wear ing corsets, and in America the dudines are wearing men's socks. Thus does evolution make all tho world kin. Kdison has Iwught several.'uickel mines near Sudbury. He needs nickel in his business, and we regret that he doea not need several silver mines. In Sweden the sale of hot milk in temperance resorts has almost ruined the retail dealers in booze- rinc. Who would think that a Swede would 1m» satisfied with hot milk. [ Within a short time Lowery's (Maim will be enlarged and otherwise improved. It already has a world-wide reputation and is the most independent journal printed on this earth. The editor of the Camborne Minor says that if times do not change ooon he will go lutck east and work on the farm, There are other editors who should make the same resolution. A subscriber in California writes as follows : "We are now among the oranges, the figs, the, pomegranates and the grafters, so send along your paper as a protection against all evil." We are sending it While Bret Harte only left $1,800 when he died, a British friend has erected over his grave a monument that weighs three tons. This helps some, even if it does make the great State of California look small. Tom Blackstock's efforts to knock Rossland are like the blows of an infant against the hide of an elephant. Rossland will have money to throw at wine corks long after the ashes of Blackstock are blown into the formation of some old cemetery. All printers do not think consistency much of a jewel. Some use the ' 'patent inside'' and then point with pride to the union label on the outside or home-printed portion of the sheet. Unionism with many stops when it reaches the pocket. In Canada the government gives away its lands and money to the railroads, and the railroads cinch the people. In British Columbia the—governmenu~"practicaily~gives* its coal and timber to monopolists who cinch the people. Cinch is a nice game. The Nelson Economist is to be enlarged and distributed free to any one who will read it. Dave must have uncovered a bunch of subsidy or government money in some quiet corner. As Dave is still considered Bane no other reason can be given for such coming extravagance. The B. C. government will probably turn ite attention to taxing lumber instead of minerals. The lumbermen of this province are eager to cinch those who have to buy from them, and the government should get part of the rake- oi?. It is dog eat dog in this age of monopoly and dollar-worship. The Kootenay Mail wants the government to resume control of N. &> S. railway, build a smelter and refiuery at Nakusp, and work up lead at cost. This would be a good thing for the Slocan, but how would the bullion be moved from Nakusp? Probably in balloons. The raise in lumber prices is not caused by an increase in wages, for it is reported that some of the lumber firms operating in Kootenay are not paying wages equal to the scale in Ontario, Minnesota and other eastern points. Greed is the cause of the price of lumber going up, and the action of the B. C. lumbermen is bitterly resented by the people on the treeless lands east of the mountains. The negroes do not like the north. The governor of Arkansas publicly promised a year ago to pardon any negro convict who would become a citizen of Boston and remain there permanently. Only three men accepted the offer* Two of them returned to Little Rock and are serving out their terms, while the !}hird got arrested in the bean city and could not return. Boston must be hard on coons when they prefer the cells of a southern prison to the pure ozone around Bunker Hill monument. ASTOIJN1HNG KXPOSUKK. The present government of British Columbia does not appreciate an honeit man or an honeftt newsriat»er. To r*wM»h tht* tmlA9-n egg* you mnst be a moral pervert|-T^V-n^' or a groveling pap-seeker. In some ways we are not in it with the ancients. Antony owed $1,500,00 in March. He got into office and before the end of April he had paid it and "blown in be- sidcB S13.500.000 of the public mouey. Beside such a man as Antony, J'rior looks like a fly speck in a barrel of sugar. The lord's Day Alliance will ask the legislature to pass a law forcing people to delist from working on Sunday, and prohibiting all games, excursions and pastimes upon that day. Xo stilwidy or land grant is asked with the law, and as the money for lobbying is nil it is quite likely that the law will be turned down. TK!M»T. KA1SKII ASl) OOTT. When some- , t *i , Do not 1*1 k to much, carried to excess talking tttTWWl l\*l t.ttftt,' tit,till, ^tt.i.i, nervoxmienn amongst women is no doubt catiN'd by talking too much nml uot saying anything. Thn Kalvtti' Iuih nwltched ii-jaln. He, hu returned to ao-called L'hriHtisiiitjr «<««i ■mftiiit*:*utg it/««tun air, HJ^li* tilt 9 A ftVitirt lime t-^-n n nrbin.l The following is from the Fori. Steele Prospector: The Canadian Pacific Railway eompany"has~comrrienced~suit"iirthe" supreme court, Vancouver registry, claiming title to 240,000 acres of land in the Elk river valley, asking1 for damages for trespass, arid an injunction restraining so-called trespassers from further trespass, and from applying to the crown for title to said land. The claim to the land by the C. 1J. R. is based upon the Provincial land grant by the government in aid of the Columbia & Western railway. The announcement of the C. P. li, claiming title to this land is sonic- thing in which the whole of British Columbia is interested, for it will delay tho opening up and development ol a part of Southeast Kootenay which has been proved to possess quartz mines of exceptional richness, considerable areas of coal lands, and vast areas of choice timber lands. The land grant of the Columbia & Western railways reads as follows: "It shall be lawful for the lieutenant governor In-conncil to grant to said railway company lands In the district of Kootenay and Yale not exceeding 10,2-10 acres for cuch mile ot narrow guage railway to bo constructed by said company, upon condition of tlieir constructing tho said Colombia •& Western railway within the time and according lo the terms of this act of incorporation. **A tract of land extending 10 miles on each side of the line of the section or sections as aforesaid of thc proposed rail way, and also such further area contiguous to the rallwav as the lieutenant governor-in council may direct, in order to make up a sufficient quantity under this act." Anybody who knows anything about Southeast Kootenay and its land grants to railway companies aro emphatic in condemning this attempt of the C, P. It. to obtain still tarthor concessions in this district. The land in question was supposed to have been under reserve for railway purposes, but tills whs found to have been a mistake and the government during the psst year has allowed pic-emptora to take up land, issued coal licenses, and jiermlts and tettM-a lor lliu Iter limits. The now town ot Morriiisey, many ranches and homesteads, sawmills, timber limits and coal lands are within the confines of the tract claimed by thc C. P. H. The history of the railway build (np |„ ,*s„ Of****'-* V,.-» II-.;; -1 , besides vast forests of the choicest timber in the province. There is no doubt that the C. P. R. company has resumed its crusade in favor ofits plan to absorb not only the 50,000 acres of coal land owned by the Dominion Government, and from patriotic feelings it thinks that the coal areas uf Southeast Kootenay should also belong to it, in order to "protect" the smelting and raining1 industry. British Columbia suffers from the hold-up-stand and deliver policy of the C. P. R. If the men who consti tute the government at Ottawa, through ia railway commission, would put in force that special clause in the Crow's Nest charter, relating to government control of freight rates, it would go a*long way toward better ing the existing conditions of the mining and smelting industry of the province. _ _ A WBITEUN WKBSTKIt. Senator W. A. Clark of Montana, whose income is said to be more than a million dollars a month, is not only the richest man in the senate, but also one of the intellectual powers of that body. Neither in his appearance nor in his mental equipment is there a suggestion of the far frontier. Early in his career Senator Clark saw the value to be derived from education. He had driven a team of oxen into the western wilderness, and had made a start by establishing a crude grocery store in a mining town, but he had soon discovered that for him the road to great wealth was not to be lined with sugar and dried cod. Mining was the lure, and to prepare himself for profitable activities in that which he had been accustomed beans had invariably been spelled "beens," and he was sure that this new spelling, "beans," was wrong. "And to think,,r he said, "that anybody had the nerve to frame such a sign and hang it in plain view." "See here," said an irritated friend, "that's the right way to spell beans." The mine owner grew almost apoplectic in his glee. "I'll bet you -11,000 that you don't know how to spell beans yourself," persisted his companion. "I'll just take your bet" was the prompt rsply. They decided to accept a pocket edition of Webster's dictionary as authority. "Now," said the challenger, when that detail had been agreed to, "how do you spell beans?" But the astute mine owner had detected in his companion's attitude an element of sincerity and an air of trinmphant conviction which were not safely to be ignored. "How do I spell it?" he said. "Yes." "And the thousand is mine if I spell it right?" "Exactly; that is the bet," said the other gloatingly. "Well," replied the mine owner deliberately, "I spell 'beans,' b-e-a-n-s.'' Amid the roar of the C. P. R. strike nothing is heard about the faithful station agents. These men men have tn be book-keepers, telegraph operators, freight and ticket Arthur flullen Has opened a;Wholesale Liquor Store in Three Forks, and has all kinds of Liquors and Fancy Drinks, Champagne, Tobacco and Cigars. The Best Liquors in the World— From France, Ireland and England -and he wants all his old friends—and new ones—to come and try a bottle, or case, or barrel, whether you order by mail or in person. WHEN IN THE LUCERNE TRY ED ANCRIGNON'S TOHSORIAL PARLORS Brick Block New Denver Manager of HOSUN HALL. J.K.CLARK, MINES and MINING Reports, Examinations and Manage- line he returned to the east and! Midlers, express agents, janitors took a college course in metallurgy. His subsequent rise to immense wealth and power is a brilliant and well-known chapter in modern achievement. But there was among Senator Clark's early fellow-workers a mine owner who, without advantage of education, metallurgical or otherwise, also multiplied millions, and Senator Clark delights to accord his former associate unbounded credit for his genius. One ofthe conspicuous deficiencies of this man in those pioneer days was a dismal lack of acquaintance with the orthodox rules of spelling. Yet he was an observant man, and such knowledge as drifted his way he sekfidJUld^ This illiterate friend of Senator Clark one day entered a restaurant in Butte and began laughing immoderately at. a* sign on the wall reading: "Pork and Beans, 25cts." ■In the frontier iliiiina-nuiins to and diplomats, all for the sum of about $60 a month. In a country like British Columbia this pay is entirely too small. It should" be raised to $100 a month without further delay. The ballot is the, dynamite that capitalism fears. wasiiPay How many of our patron-; sicken at the thought of it. It means so much to the mother who has so many other household duties to perform. Why not make it as easy as possible—ft will be hard enough even then. We can tell you how to do It. Ask about the Grand, Rapid, Canadian, Leader. We will tell you the rest. Special Hat Sale on Saturday J. B. SMITH & CO. New Denver, B. C. spring 4 Summer Ciiiiiiiiic OUIIIIIUO SMTS& AJm your ktlm-tfiiii on «rrlvnl ufituud*. Kulu iiiuiIi- in llit i.nli»r thnt titili-r« art- rM-tivetl F. F. LIEBSCHER, £&& NOTICE. TO DELINQUENT CO-OWNKK. Tr. J..M.M. BENKDUM. or to whomsoever lie may hava transferred his interest iu the •Urossfell mineral claim, situated lit the head nl' Bijjht Mile creek, Slocan Minini; Division, West Kootenay District. 15 C. YOU, and each of you, are hereby notified tlmt I have ex|x-nued the stun of s=.t07..r>0 iu labor und improvements upon the above mentioned mineral claim uikkt the provisions of the Mineral Act, and if. within ninety days Il^M.tl]lfiJl^Ci^hloioUix^'^uJuiLuiLj^iui«Jtu. contribute your portion of all such expenditures, iimoiintlnj; tu eighty-two dollars and sixty cents, which is now due, together with ail costs of advertising, your interest iu the said ..elaim will become the property of the underslKned under Section t of nn Act entitled "An Act* to amend the Mineral Act 1!*0." D-itod nt i\asl.., B.O .this r.ili day of March, A.D. l.n'l. KOBEKT KVVIN. Blue Prize, Henry Vane, Columbus & Havana Whip PierreiUi' miu'e ''*'■ lil&ald \v I'. KILHOUKN'K & Cu.. Wlniii|H.-u, Man. Itt'pi-.sciniMl by Kkoriik HoitroN. ment. NEW DENVER, - B.C. SMOKE MAINLAND 1BRITISH LION CIGARS WM.TIETJEN, MANUFACTURER HOTEL TO RENT. Hotel to rent, containing fixtures and furniture. Por further particulars address— J. T. NAULT, Rosebery. MORTGAGE SALE BY TENDER. U N'HER and by virtue of the Power of Sale contained in a certain tnortKiiirc, which may bo seen at, the oflice of Ihe undersigned, there will be oilored for sale iiv tkndkk (to be oiwnctl nt the Law Oflice of Macdonald, McAllister it Grary. M Yonpe street, Toronto, on tlie L'litli dav of March, wus,) the following prop- erty. namely: Lots One (1) and Two i», Block Seventeen (17) McOllllvray's addition to the Town of New Denver, B. O. The property Is fHi by U5 feet and on the same is a frame two-story dwelling, TERMS OF SALE. Ten |ier cent of thc purchase money to be paid nt llie time of sale, and the balance within thirty days thereafter. Sule cubject to a Bcserve Bid. Tenders will require to be posted not later than the lmh day of March, llius. addressed as follows; MAODONKLL, McMASTKR &, OEAHV, SI Yonjre Street, Toronto, Ont. m Newmarket llolel It Xi-W DCtlVCr, otters a pleasant substitute for home to those who travel. It is situated on tho shore of Lake Slocan, the most beautiful lake itt all America. From its balconies aud windows can be seen the grandest scenery upon this continent. The internal arrangements of the hotel are tho reverse to telephone, all the rooms being plastered, and electric bells ut the head of every bed make it ea«y for the dry moments in the morniug.^«.»$v-»*-S-<j&o>«»^c*««s>c» The best and cheapest meals in the country are to be found in the (lining room. The house is run upon cosmopolitan principles, and the prospector with his puck te just an welcome ivs the millionaire with his roll. Every guest receives tlie best of care and protection. The liquors are the best in thc Slocan, and the hotel has long beeu noted for its fish and game dinners. This is the only firat-clasa house in the Lucerne North America. One look at the landlord will convince any stranger that the viands an; of the l>e«t qual- £=— ity. Koouih reserved hy telegraph. <*^c*t^_jK>*t~i^ pJi HENRY STEUE, Proprletor*X#€Nj«Nj»Ns®li§fL*J 3 ol SI >n- LnJ al- U •how thnt, the muti-A^r* nf tbe 0. IV |( prirl in (tctrmtny wan «t»tit M Anv* to H. have mtiAe It a polmtn treat futrly j V jail became *h« uttmpetl on a brooch with the people ot thin district. ' ■nAh ihtKk'.iAt'*\)h*ntt. ou ooakid*-.*,!, Tbe total acreage of Southeast it. Thii te no doubt the effect of, Kootenay it about 4,-kHUUO acres. ''WW-P °!1 lt.1' KJ*U*r ■. !OMhtoamoantth*0. lJ- K. hm»Mie- eeetied m gelling actual ijumemion oi I 3,40(100.) acre* under land gmnul for railway construction in West! Kootenay and the Crow's Nc« line. | It is understood that the Canadian 8 lllllM»» »* 11 It is now a felony in Washing ton ntAtP to rmi a gambling g*me. The gambler* of that state will j fi have to muve into thcHloc&n no handcuff* Await the wickwli '''««* «nd *Mm*i*mr *\mtt .men i '*rr 'i' £ rt"IUr h> ""•M "I SEyrfc nV &&TS-& I Mmf tu kill *rt fix n*» .i nmri nteiUieiil ot the t iut<'<l „St*tK, iii mi. other thouier fer Cliriillsnitv, In order to mskfi l(R|iublii»n vote* ho tent* the Methodim nit the back, snd in fond of reviling mtb great men si Psine.. .» .- *.»*.*..»~~** v..„. „.„ w«„„„,„„ Ingemoll snd Voltsir*. Politicisn* with 1 PsciHc does not intend to be Mtisiied sinsll mindsalways act this way. Teddy f wHh it* present holAings In AA* Ala bgtnet tiiu shot »omc;tric^ but will endeavor to force the •***rt*ni « Will |Spaniird» |» *ts« back during lh# »«rUnvemment to invite tbem n urea wluuv.iiuCub*, IU *Ua>» .tr.Wtfla*-, ui killm-i*;t'4 ,t « t«..a „,«- \„.\a u, r^V.,/ wiehetl WkI» *>■* »«•«<•'* *«r Mwrt ihirii {.roh-1 <{ lh« J«»d »f,r VcW "' ,m'r7« Kcience route. the extreme soot lies stern [-onion ihe district, HJucbcwiUirmunJifuiUti resoort-r-s in coal, oil and ralnerat«* S IK «hJM, u ft SUM IMUmlt-i^caili A V J1MJ/ il XI im 11 v^lVajiO tnt K-HK-SIUhml 1*17. Capital (all paid Dp) $12.01X0 Ull J Reserved lund : -. 7,00*000.00 Undivided profits : : 510,084.(M u**,:\ iiii.Ai,, Kt. Moh. I»hd Stkathooka a.id Mount Roval, ll.Cll.li. President. Hon. (i. A. DROMMosn, Vice President, K. 8. C-uhjkt-o;*.', -General Manager, branches to all parts ol Canada, Newfoundland, Great Britain, And Aie Tolled State* New Denver branch LE B. OK VEBEk.ManaEer Tenth Yeah. THE LE1X*E, NEW DENVEK, B. <J., MARCH 12, 2903. Awakening of R«. Stubbs "The senor ees from Boston," the fat Josefa always explained with a commentary shrug of her shoulders. Which fact accounted in her mind, for his singularity in not making love to the willing Josefita, his insisting on a tubbing every morning, his insistant pegging away at a pile of dingy books, and bis relish of her frijoles. To Josefita, however, this explanation was not satisfying. Even though the senor was from Bofton, he bad eyes in his head she argued, and for what purpose are eyes put into a man's head if not to do homage to trim ankles and ripe lips ? But all in vain did she bedeck herself in clinking glass-bead chaius and artificial roses. The senor's eyes were blind to everything but the black-hided book always under his arm. She did not know that this American senor bore about with him a weight of dignity that forbade his eyes from wandering toward her blooming charms, and his feet from straying to the sunny side of the the patio where she held her court. For he, Homer Malachi $tubbs, D. D,, was a graduate of Boston Preshyterian College of Theology, had taken a post-graduate course in the doctrine of predestination and foreordination, had published a convincing and harrowing tract on the subject of eternal damnation, and was, as soon as he recovered from a recent attack of nervous prostration, to be installed as pastor of" Zion Hill church, of Knoxville, Calvin county, Mass. Thus it was that while the pretty Josefita pouted in her sunny corner, the Reverend Stubbs, while grasping the benefits of the genial Mexican winter, meditated upon the degeneracy of the Mexican character, and planned another tract on the baleful effects of the religion of Bomanism, which should be called '-The Perils of the Papacy." So while the other boarders of the fat Josefa followed the sun around the patio, and drew like flies around a sheet of tanglefoot toward Josefita's corner, young Stubbs took notes upon the unrighteous life about him, elaborat- -ing*the~syllabus~of~his—tractt It was sometimes only by a conscious and vigorous effort he kept himself from falling under the spell of the langorous air and dolce far niente existence about him. When be sat in the plaza and watched the cherub-faced children playing their juego de bolilla in the dirt, the men dozing and basking in the sun, the women gossiping and smoking as if they had all eternity in which to cook their supper, he sternly reminded himself of the gospel injunction to be "not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." But as he sat one day iu the plaza, bis "Evidences of Christianity" open on his knee, his eye, like good St. Anthony's, glued to his book, a whispered excitement made him look up and turn his eyes with tho others toward a little narrow street. There, coming toward him, serenely unconscious of the gaze of the rabble about her, a vision of loveliness appeared and took him so unawares he dropped his book and watched her till she was out of sight, following every detail of her erect carriage, Iter free springing step, the droop of her shoulders, thu poise of her head and the curves of her waint. When she reached thu door of the little chapel she disappeared, but still the nearsighted eyes strained through their glasses, as if thoy would penetrate eyond the adobe walls. Thu next day, at the same hour, by a fortuitons concurrence of circumstances, the prospective pastor of the Zion Hill church whs again in the plaza, his book again upon his kjee, but his eyes fixed upon the street beyond. And sure enough ut the sumo hour the vision of loveliness burst upon his vision, Mid mwHod so near he could have touched the hem of her garment. But she was nn serenely unconscious of the presence of the Hev* •rend Ktubbs as of the gaping rabble. Again she crossed the pavement and disappeared into the chapel. A moment the nearsighted eya* blinked with indeoi- . .*, . i i . ♦ t ' . , * .fo.tm. ti,*!* i UCIH j hw 5 eyes toward the high altar, he discovered the stately senorita lighting a taper to the Virgin. Then dropping upon her knees, her hands fell listlessly to her|sides, she raised her head and turned her glorious eyes in a supplicatory prayer to the figure of the Madre de Dolore. All her soul seemed to leap into her face as she poured out her petition. The near-sighted eyes had never seen such an expression iu all his life before. During all his four years at the theological college he had never seen the most eloquent sermon of the president produce anything like this effect. In the intensity of her earnestness the beautiful head bent low over her folded hands, aud the profile turned toward the man behind her showed like a cameo against the dingy hangings of the shrine. As the light flickered into her upturned face, her hair seemed to crinkle and wimple in tiny dancing wavelets all over her head, while the few stray ringlets that escaped from the coil seemed to cling to the curves of her neck as if they knew their blessed privilege. Then sinking her head still lower, the heavy lids drooped over the glorious, beseeching eyes, and the long, sweeping lashes fell in a clinging caress upon the pure pale cheek. Thus was the picture burned upon the newly awakened soul of the Rev. Homer Malachi Stubbs, Day after day the same thing happened. The man in the plaza, the senorita crossing the pavement, then both man and senorita wrapped in adoration in the chapel. For while the man looked at the beautiful creature before him his countenance took on an expression as worshipful as her own. That cloud cf blue-black hair that shimmered in the gloom and enmeshed his heart beyond recall, and he mused, in self-justification, even the great Apostle Paul has said, "If a woman hath long hair it is a glory to her." To be sure, this beautiful creature was not entirely in accord with his homespun ideal of what a poor young minister's wife should be. There were moments when his thoughts-were-restlessrior~be~r(F peated sadly to himself. "Let the women adorn themselves not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array" (adding mechanically. Timothy, 2, ix). And this gorgeous vision undoubtedly' had never heard that text. But even this troubled doubt vanished when, one lucky day, on leaving the chapel the senorita dropped her glove, by accident as the simple-hearted fellow supposed, which gave him an opportunity to spring to his feet and pick it up. Whereupon the gates of heaven opened upon him. Her eyes beamed aud her lips parted in a half-formed smile, and in reaching for the glove her hand touched his. The rest of that day young Parson Stubbs spent in the seventh realm of bliss. Thereafter the whole scheme rolled itself out plainly and practi- sally, He understood now why he had been sent to Tenancingo. Here was a field ripe for missionary work. This beautiful woman must be turned from her idolatrous Pa- paoy, converted to Presbyterian- ism, transported to Knoxville, Mass., and her soul gloriou,ly saved. Sometimes the neutral- tinted congregation of the Zion Hill church brought up a contrast with the gay rebozo, striped stockings, and clanking jewelry of the vision of his dreams. But with her conversion to Calvinism, he told himself, she would put off her gaudy finery for the adornment of a meek and quiet spirit, as laid down in the precepts of St. Paul. Then one day she did not come to the chapel, nor the next. She must he ill. Perhaps she wm even now dying und in ignorance of the true religion. Perhaps It was for the light of Calvinism she had beeu praying, and he was sent, like Klijah. to save her from spiritual death: Hut the neit moment ho hauished the thought of such untimely dissolution. He would find her yet. The plaza was always full of people: he sought through the crowds vainly. The world sud- iiuiiw o«n.#k hum vutyty. .that he could not do justice to the subject of degeneracy in his tract if he did not at least see something of the Palazo de Toros. Accordingly, long before the hour appointed, he found himself ensconced between the fat Josefa and the coy Josefita, a part of the noisy mob that stretched away from sol to sombre, and no one suspected he was the author of the tract on "Eternal Damnation." Suddenly his mental notes on | the subject of Mexican degeneracy were interrupted by a great fanfare of trumpets, and a glittering cavalcade before him. Banderillos, shaming the sun in their spangles and fringes; capeadoros, whose gorgeousuess might put Joseph's coat of many colors to the blush; and the, torero, whose feat was to follow that of the celebrated torera, strutting about with lordly indifference to the admiring crowds. "And there is the torera," the fat one whispered breathlessly. "What!" Stubbs exclaimed in horror, "not a woman in the bullring !" "But yes," she gurgled joyously, "she killed six bulls last year. The saints are on her side, for she promises them new candles when she wins.'' But here the music roared, the crowd went wild, the people rose in their seats and shouted themselves hoarse, waving their gaudy fans, flying long rebozos, throwing confetti into the ring, stamping, cheering, calling, till Stubbs fancied himself caught up in a sunset, a rainbow, and a thunder-storm combined. Then the prospective pastor of Zion Hill closed his eyes on the sight he saw. A woman, clad only in pink tights and a glittering tinsel corslet took the ring. Boldly and serenely unconscious of her appearance, the abandoned creature stood before the eves of men of high and low degree. But when, with a courage born of his righteous wrath and duty to his tract, he raised his eyes and looked again at the torera, the blue-black hair rippling and dancing in the sunlight, the poise of the head, the unmistakable profile—0 Great Jehovah ! were her ! She whom he had hoped might grace the parsonage at Knoxville— this—this—creature ! The petition she had been pouring out so ear- •nestlywas"-not=not~ior~tire_true" faith as laid down by John Calvin, but a bargain for new candles if she won ! This woman upon whom he had been lavishing his heart's true devotion, was a—was a— "Oh, Josefita, quick! quick!" the fat one cried to the coy one; the .penor has fainted from the heat!"—William Hopkins. LOWERY'S CLAIM ^f^fc/^S/fc/fc/ft/S/fc/G/G/fc/fc/S^fc/i S a monthly journal tliat you do not meet every day. Its home is in the West, far from the smoke of crowded cities and the hum of grinding commerce. High up in the mountains, surrounded by scenery that would drive some artists mad with joy, its editor sits close to heaven and draws inspiration from the clouds #*#******-**■ Lowkky's Claim is principally devoted to Truth and Humor. It has hosts of friends and enemies. It is hated and loved just according to how it strikes the human miud. It presses the limit every time and always deals from the top. It bows to no creed, cringes to no god or devil, and fears nothing, not even the sheriff. It is a sham crusher, and aims to tear the mask from everything that is evil. It is the most independent magazine in the world and panders to no class, party, sect, creed, color, flag or fat advertiser. It has pay ore always in sight, and every shift shows that it is increasing. It has touched a chord in the human heart that vibrates with its music wherever the English language breaks the ozone ******** If you want to get in line with it, get in early as the circulation is limited to a million. Xo sample copies are sent to anyone, but it is furnished free to all people who are one hundred years old. Postage free to any part of this wicked earth * * * % ^ VKllV IM'.-NHK IGNOKANOK. Mrs. Waybiick—"1 ain't goin' to stick in the country any longer. If wo sell out the farm now, we'll have enough to live on, and then we can move to the city and keep up with the times. I've lived iu ignorance an' darkness just as long as I'm goin' to." Farmer Wayback—"Good lands! What's got into yeh?" "I've got ashamed of myself, that's what. One can't learn anything off here in the wilderness. When we was down to Chicago, a couple of months ago, I heard some one point out a fine-lookin' man on Wabash avenue, and tell his wife that man was one of the big guns of the literary world, and that he writ fer the magazines." "What of it?" "What of it? Why, here you und I has been grovelin' along fer years and years, a-thinkin' that a magazine gun was somethin' to shoot with."r The Calgary Herald wauts a public hath its city. Evidently the editor bas grown tired of taking his annual with the office towel and a bucket of cold water. Tho West is surely on the inarch for better things. It li mskI tlmt. unless tlllt III'mMMrV nmlve labor can lm obtained, "it will bit ImpoHslble to work tlm Kami minus to KdvAtilagi', which Miuply iiicjuih that thit mint* tnansjfsri are unwilling to |my t»» white IhImiii'ih a wage rat* which would nmve an inducement In them, tor tha reanon that the milieu caruwt afford to bu-reaw Hi* espenae -IIIMK MKN'N J.IVKS. NEW DENVER. B.C. father the old man and go with the girls. At 21, after he has bankrupted his father and blown every cent of his own, he finds a woman who is fool enough to marry him and take in washing until she is called away. The last period he lives around with the children, tells lirANTHl) --SKVKKAL I'KWSoN'S OK it chnriu'tiT mul irm.il n-imtHllon lu i-ui-h Htato(iiiid Iii thin county i'i.-<|iilrii|/ to iv|irt«nnt uiul uilvultlm-old 1-ntalillnlii-il tvcnlthy Limine** hull*; of solid ilmim-lal Kiiiiidlii*.'. Silirv fcii.m wtu-klv withi'Mii-iiHos addllloniil, all |u>-aliii. In ciidi ilirt'i-t iiit'li Wodiifindny fnnn In-ml oiH.-.k llornu and cairhw furnlHhed wlu-n iu>i-i**Arv. IWi-ri-nwi*. EiieloiM-. *.lf udilnitu'd enve ,,{»•. Colonial t'o , ,'i,'i*l IJi.-uihoin St., OIiIciiko, The Filbert Hotel G. W. GUIMMKTT, i',, V U.'llirif Iii"|im-I<.i. *M»u liorn of nv^tlin*** *■ .it.. WOlllHIl, says an .t,,U.i rv,... Mte Wte mljjM Ashe MIMI. .*»**»«H IMWI 1**1* -~B .-, j .......... -._.... ,...„ v. ..y... 1 , ,, IwlHU.™ .vIjuijv/J wtihh. a tinx- TJ«; JawkvJw* ul il.e SmiJitotlm wuti t ipT? 1 VT'''"' hold of Romanian, bul he reasoned * coarser and more distasteful than *: ?, fonr pft't*. in duty to hi* truel, nwwt■ h*> nnttwr, th? eoqvttrim of the wih Jo **«"»»«>* "tomacb w full of pains, kuow his subject thoroughly? seflta were worse thau hilly by W»«w>nT Mmm and paregoric, Theu laying hte "Evidences^ face! comparison with the dignity and I »n«new»mw wj» by stealing green dou'imai'd, he run1 i-eHoiuteiy.; wcrenny oi Uie nuneiy nenontA, j*;^^*"^'^** •>*'-■ >w.^**.» • ■»■»*'■ crossed the pavement, and the next And now. to e»p the enormity „f i «ee«*nd period, commencing at I.i, moment the Reverend Stubbs had, the gross life about him, the world j "H»(»y fff** «nt« "»e sm»rt-a ex disappeared, too. row-up in excited anticipation of f«y*r and he learns to wear high The institficient light of the .he coming bull-fight. ; collars, smoke cigarettes, call his taper* left hira f«r an instant U»*t Ou the day of the festivity the j — ■ ■ - ■ - ■■■;:- — ■ - iu fiemi-darknet-w. The air bad part-on scarchtd thc crowds witn that damp, sepulchral odor that in- redoubled diligence. Xot that he du-rt-s a feeling of reverence in the dreamed she would bf* among j superstitious mind, but brings them, bnt he fancied he might see! chills to tlie ffpifte of the thin- gome one who looked Vtkt. her.i blooded northerner. Straining hi* And at U.H it hetame etetAt to him | IN SANDON Is fhe liou.se to .stop at when in tlie Silvery City. The rooms are airy and the beds conducive to slumber, while the call-bells beside every door will put you in mind of modern civilization. The meals in the dining room will make a mash upon your tasie and change your stomach into an internal heaven. The Filbert is cosmopolitan.j and is run upon the Canadian American and Kuropean plan. Thc bar te replete j with all kinds of'braccrs from 'gentle old rye to tlMMip|ile||;;^:-,';,'''^,"w"' that I'oiuiiH in the glnns. Wm. Bennett -Proprietor of the great things he did when a lioy, and finally goes under, making a momentary bubble on the sea of humanity, then is entirely forgotten," Glasses that beautify. F.yettrnin proilucf* thnl mirn, worried, ditconlt-itli-'i rtpprar*. a r> € t* w h 11 I. in « r • otherwitv brautiful frulMi't-v We ri-mf.fr *j-.-Mr»ir* und tl><- di..fij.,urlr»*g wr NOTICE. \jnnri*; is HKKKHV OJV! N il,»i ■.*, days 1.1 nit, rdiili) I intend lo itiiplv to tin- Chief Coiiiiiilysioiirrof KuiidHiuid work* for a «|H*>-inl Hi-eiiK! to cm ami cuiTy away UiiiI.it from llu- followliiKofscrilii-d tract of land: Coiiiini-iicliiif ul b iiost itlmtit him I..11 north- «i'M of iln. Twilvi- Mill- I'oxt on Uu- Nakii.-|.& Sloi-an Hallway, lii-ucc i\-(-s| so ilmink, tlu-nci- Koiitlihn chains, tln-iici- cum ni i-haiiic, tliwu-n north Hui'huliiK 1«. |>..lni ufcoiiitiii-iiriiiuiii. li.itnl nt Ni h Dcimr, l-Vh. nth. lir.-i. A. U l'l\i.l,ANI». nil.tl.i- uniifurmj i*u) rinhlf*. diMipi"-'*"-, VyT viNlti.X, li <- NOTICE, I.IVl«'l( I.K IA< K At I I-".. •»I.»H-t.V I.M-KNCi; Ml-Tltlt'l Vlll UH Mi. i.ii*, ifii.i, i|iH| |(„ uiiitrliltcii. A -I ,-.r.l >.;*,,ut III, |,r**>l'i ,n« ■.: iln • l,;.V,. *,., ill All 0 l.l.i;. I l.|,|>.'.| l,m*i,», VI. t"»1, ' HW ;.| ll't, -I t "|.|>>«|t. >|i< NOTICE. I" IiKI.INyt K.NT < u-i.WNKH To SANKOUJi JMUil.i:, . r to whi.m-.ocv..| lit; may liavi- tr«imferri-d liln IntvreM in (he '•I'onifi; No. X,*"llrli<tol"iiiid,,f'..iiiii,aiul»-r" Mineral Clnlm*, Mtinttt* on th., North Kork nt Klwht Mid-1 m-li, in tin- Slu-iui Minini.' 1)1- vliloii.i.f W.«i K.*.tfii»y Dl-triii Vol' Mi- Inn hy n.,lili.„l iimi J Imve rxM'tiili'tH I forMMWiiii-iit work -nd n-i-orilltiir fi'i-n un I hi. alK-vi-iiiimi-di-lnlms for llie yinr hml im-iM, thn-e hundred and w-vi-n ilollm. md lifiy ohiU; ii.iiiiiIv, un.' Imiidr.-d ami f»,. <|..!l ,<« aiidrifly t-i-ni-* lor i-hi-Ii ol ih,, ,1,-jrf ilHiiiif, In older to hold tlu- mid i-lmm-i nml. 1 Hu- i.n.vMoinioft-hr Mim ■'.*.'. Ail. .mil if. uuiiiii .«• iI.ii fi.,m liir • Inti- of Milk notli'i', y„n rail or rcfiim- tn c.iitrth- iit>- .lour |ii<.iHirt|..ii t.f -tw-li i*|»ii,Uiiiri». to- IM-lltt-r ullli ill cii-at if !iov. nl-lnn v, 01 h'i*r»t In «.tld chilm will l-worn.. the i.r«>i*ny >,f the mh- •i-lllkt limit! xvtl'.ii 4 >.f tin- Mi>,.r.il Ait Alliriiiliiii-iit Act, IK.i. O.it.il Mil- I7lh .in-, ..r |l.ct)int«i. |-.««, StltiH.I CIIAS. K IKH'K. THE BEST IS NOT TOO GOOD -■*■« rt ll*M, lf..«*i»'rv, 'll l.ll 1 I!*!' ImIMIIIIM . .|l*<fi<l «illl»i li-M t> 0 1 f'.nrt l»'iii»., ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP TICKETS fo mid from Kuio|h-jiii j.'-inl. via Cjhi».II.ii Uiii. ft.441111 w,-fc'Ji, \.,i.t.li *l'l)'J,l :■>'* ittttliitf ',,*,,' rtu*,ltfktt**n<t full tnform*itfii« i<> *,,, 1 Hf latitt twil. 11. OAHHKTT. <*. I". K. Autlii. S**w Ileturr I Mn «n. iMnn, Hi J ll.C \ iiiifiln.' 1,1 ih.- H",ii'l |«|i«4-r« f'.flll'- Slia-MIt II.. 11 ||,if,.i,«l,frr miih -oit.lii'ni ,i <J*>,*li ,*fi,*,i ,.(, S»li.'t.iu| iln .II»i ilal of I Ut !.■»■ V'f '.' «»., I, *.|. *,« '• .-* ' . ■, .„.■!,, f .., \ JU'.*U ■ti'll\ J. Jll.tl K I It i* f I.U.Iiii li,.|«. I 1 ( l'i ni,"' *'(i'*i «"," I*' V**r,i; \. „ S'i* *,*,,, m r: 1 ;t|i Kft,nujv in* wnnor 1 *» •■-» \ji % * \j»—. .-l.i.U ..Mi* th. I. I I '.ml -..» i*i, f'hfff t i't|,'i,l«»|. ni t ihni» .ik)« id. n,.„tt* •1 I..m|i -hi.I i WADD8 BROS i # PHOTOGRAPHERS } f VANCOUVCA ... NKLtON, » C. 4 4% %%%%%%%%%%%%V4 RELIABLE ASSAYS „ „ „ „ " «««.-.. ..-r- .,,„r> itt„,k.-,„t ,|#...,,, ,),„,,. ,., tut m,,i ,.„,; W .e.t.Uummiuti.O >*,**. Aift .« limit-.* i„f>, .„„ur tr.,m it.r t...t ..wu.j .1. ..t*fii«,t %,M, t ..... . . .—^_ m ..fliii.t. .|!.;*!f,i ,.». 'I,.** «. mh »(,*J,. „f >u„,rt*,n fl.lk' ••*( llw- N'.*Vli*f<k>.f *•!.«•■ ti lllllan ,„m. i■••■■"-■ '• • ■■■'■ * i.i* i.*i', M ti N U t pliii'irt- ti. -I, .Him^i-mit. ..! A M 1 'it.*nUi,.l'« thM I .',', 1 a.it.t nml M'.v«" •! ..It""! *t >t *t,,n* •.'•■.■• ■- n, tin «mi;!i»,'*t , ,,t t^-'JlU ... , 4..44.«ll» r f >.|l|l I V* ■ '" ' ' ' '.."I. I. -•• 'li* 1,1. k„,*,|| H. , |.*«|lr». ■*HltlJ.ll-«l.J IIIHIJ (IT. ill *j..W«;,l JllKMIol, lliH" ,'1"' I.'" I'lm- |I.,..C|- „„i; )4 ,„ , !,%lli,. Gold and Siirer Refined and Bcutfii fc "■" t'-''■■ '<"'?; r"h V^*" OQDEN ASSAY CO. !3h.[ Vm iu " ',iw Mi ■*•' • >''**■ ll'J.I tiniul,,,-. ,1,. Ii-nirr. I ..I., M f,l\y/fni* ,rlf, Job IVintiny is an art. ll ih today tuif ni' tlii' most nflvjuH'cil tif'arfs. and irmttw I'florfhari* Iwiiiif matlc !«• ri'iu-h jii'ii'tM'titm than ever Iwlia*' ill the hiMUuy of pi inti nu. Kvcry up- td-dafc liiiviiii-sv m-li. rt.'cojrniy.fs the import- am.MMif hai'iti); hiK sta. rioiiciy well printed. j.M YOU CAN GET IT AT THE LEDGE ■til l'.»i 1. Ii'ijitim lh.,, it,.,. Ht'ti;,.^ tror* thii infrrt,,. . fthti- utlt *{*.» »,« 1 THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B. C, MARCH 12, 1903. Tenth Yeaa Notary Publics. EM. SANDILANDS SANDON, B. C. . Kotary Public, Insurance Agent and Mining Broker. Mining Stock? bought and sold. General agent for Slocan properties. Small Debts Court held lst and 3rd Mondays in every month. Established 1835. HOTELS. TRKSIONT HOUSK, NELSON European and American plan. Meals, 25 cents. Room? froni i c up to fl. Only white help employed. Nothing yellow about tlle l>l«ce except the itoid it. the safe. MA LONE & TREGILLUS. . pfoip ths Suites M iVBDBX HOUSK, NELSON, is contrally located and lit by electricity It is liead- ists and old timers quarters for touri millionaires are equally MADDEN. Proprietor. welcome. Miners or THOS. THE KOVAI. HOTKL the excellence of ilsc-u proprietor. Nelson, is noted for sine. SOL JOHNS, BAKTLKTT HOUSK, formerly the Clark is the best si a day hotel in Nelson. Only white help employed. (J. W. BAKTLKTT proprietor. THK EXCHAXGK, in KASLO, has plenty of airy rooms, and a bar replete with tonics and bracers of many kinds. PALMER & ALLEN. ritHK MAZE, in KASLO. is just the place X for Sloean people to find when dry or in search of a downy couch. REUTER & LATHAM. WATCHES, J' G. MKLVIN, Manufacturing Jeweller, • Expert Wliteh Repairer, Diamond Setter, and Engraver. Manufactures Chains. Lockets .tnd Rings. Workmanship guaranteed equal to any in Canada. Orders by mall solicited. Box 240, Sandon. CTQARS. THK CABINET CIGAR STORK Sells pure Latakla Student's' Mixture, Pace's Kaslo's board ot trade is choke lull of ideas, which are coughed up spasmodically. The latest production is a prize winner, and shows that while the town might be just a bit sallow-faced it is very far from dead. The board has taken upon itself to intercede for the poor, rate-smitten tourist, and will make an effort to induce the great-grinding-C -P.-R. to reduce the passenger rate to the down-trodden of humanity. This is wisdom—of a kind. Everybody knows that to beany- thing but a box-car brake-bearatour- ist vou must have money; And that the average tourist is not living if he cannot spend a hundred or two a day. Everybody knows, too, that the actual railway fare is tho smallest consideration in traveling; And that where tot rists pay $5 to $10 a day for hotel accommodations, the railway tare is U to 3 cents a mile. In this part of Canada the rate is 4 cents a mile, and hotel accommodations are not over -$3 a day. Supposing that the Kaslo board sue ceeded in reducing it to half, and that a thousand tourists took advantage of the cheap fare, and came to the Kootenays. If all staid on the cars long enough and enough axle-grease and coal were used, thev might save 2ffi«S!S^SSSl«^SgJS,. NatUral enough in car-fare, if they would com- g.b.matthew, Nelson, p.o, Box io. | bine for the season s run, to buy flowers for the ladies when they returned home, Reduced rates! Get them by all means! What a sight it would be to see those world trotters riding second- class so as to save money enough to buy fish hooks when they arrived at Nelson's! Or to see ihe ladies sitting astride a brake-beam and eating Lowney's $2.50 creams while they scan the scenery through $100 field glasses! This would be horrible! And what a stench would be ere • ated in the box cars if such tourist swells as come from the eastern states had to mix the aroma of their 25-cent cigars with that of smoked meats and mixed freight! Kaslo's board of trade is entitled to a bunch of blue ribbon. Kootenay Candy Works, J. a. Mcdonald, Wholesale Confectioner, Manufacturing Nelson, B.C and "Wholesale ^dCeroliants. STABKKY & CO., WHOLESALE DEAL- ers in Butter. Eggs, Cheese, Produce and Fruit, Nelson .B.C. XjEJO-A-Ij. Jl . Hcltor, Notary Public. Sandon, B. C. CHKISTIK, I.. I.. B., Barris-ter, So- dtor, Notary Pu Every Friday at Silverton tf ML. GRIMMKTT, L. L. B., Barrister, . Solicitor,Notary Public. Sandon, B.C. Branch Office at New Denver every Saturday Mining Properties. Vei ARTIES WISHING TO BUY OR SELL Mining properties should address Box 50. ew Denver. B.C. Insurance & R.©al Estate 1 THOMPSON, MITCHKLL A CO. Fire Insurance Agents. Dealers In Real Estate -Mlning-Propertie Lots for Sale. ! to-reat-and-Town NOTARY PUBLIC. •j s, kJi RASHDALL, New Denver, B. C, NOTARY PUBLIC, GENERAL AdENT Real Estate and Mineral Claims for Sale. CUlras represented and Crown Granted. HjXJMBBR,. N* 1LSON SAW ft PLANING MILLS Ltd, Lumber, Door*. Windows, Store FronU,Show Cases, Store nnd Bar Fixtures, Counters, Fancy Glass. H. HOUSTON, Man*w.T. Nelson, B. C, DBNTISTRY. DR. MILLOY, H0Km Has had 15 yours (ix|Kirieuce iu dental work, nun makes a specialty of Gold Bridge Work. Most complcto dental office In B C. Oeneral Store. JT. KKLLY, TIIHKE FORKS, dealer In • Groceries, Dry Goods, Eto., Good* Ship ped all over tha Slocun. SANITARIUM. TTALOTON HOT SPRINGS B ANITA Ilil IOM. Tho moot complete lirii Til on the Continent of North Ameri-- tl li A L I II es. Situated midst scenery un- n r O fl D T rivalled (or Grandeur. Uoattnir, n LU U tl I Fishing and Kit-unions to the many point* of interest. Telegraphic communication with all parts of the world; two iiuiIIh arrive und depart •very day. Its bathes euro all nervous and muscular diseases; Its waters heal all Kid miy. Liver and Htnmach Ailments of awry namfl. The price of a round-trip ticket hetween New Denver and Halcyon, obtainable all thc year round and good for so days, Is feS.36. Halcyon Springs, Arrow Lnku, ll. C, SURVEYOR. JOHN Mel.ATCUlK, Dominion aud I'm ♦J vlin-lnl Lh ml Surveyor. Wlnoii, II.1'. Alt HEYLAND, Kninneor and Provincial , Land Surveyor. KASLO DRuas, VANHTUNK'N ItHIMi HTOHK, NY|«m, MhII orders |iro"ii|itlv Attended to. TAILORS* ¥ H. OAMKUON, V, Clothing to order; rom all classes, Handon. Msniifsctiin-" und sollidw patroii*i*rF Silver King Hotel In NHaon. 1 hnv«» <u»mirert * lenm mon *,hi» Imperial, and have dinngod thn name to what It was y**ars ago: Tiie SiiVCi XiiiK Htiici ThiH name te familiar to nil who b*»zed thc trails in early flays, find tlio newcomer* will not forget it if they drop iu atul me m-c. A. KLEINSCHMIDT. + Loid Marpole, with headquarters at Vancouver, commander of the C. P. H. forces in the Pacific division, has issued a command to the striking train-hands-that-reads-likft-the-ulti*- matums that Lord Kitchener was in the habit of issuing periodically down in South Atrica. He tells the trainmen that they had no right to quit work till the company was ready to "fire" them; That in quitting before the company had other men to take their places, they caused the company Inconvenience with a big "1," and" also much damage; And he commands them forthwith to clothe themselves in gunny-sacks, rub ashes in their hair, and obey the orders ol their superior officers. The penalty for disobedience, Lord Marpole sets at $50 and up and the loss of all moneys due the men from the company. And, furthermore, Lord Marpole is backed up by the war office— The superior court at Winnipeg decided a test case the other day along these lines: the judge ruled that the man had no right to quit, and that In quitting work tlio company was damaged to the extent of &r)0, and gave judgment against the man for the amount and said he must also lose what was coming to him from the company. And Winnipeg Is in Canada, too! At least, It used to be Canada before the word was spelt with a C and a I* and an R. 4- Greator diplomats have lived than oither Emperor William oi- President Rooseveldt, but the world has had few men of stronger character and greater administrative ability. vVhen these men became heads of tlieir respective governments, the wibc world sh->ok its head dubiously, and trouble was predicted, to bo brought about by these "hot heads." Hut how little the world understood these giants How differently thev have administered the affairs of their nations to what the world said they would! What is the secret of their siu'-ms*? We have only to know the men to know the secret. One cannot read the frank, manly, simple utterances of President Room- velt without feeling that behind them there is a wise head and conrageuiis Chrlsihin heart. And history, ancient or modern, does nut show a nobler stplrit than that uvlrtcnecd by Emperor Wilhelm in his frank confession of faith that i . i . i •. » i i.l. .„.««-.«., .IS ,.».*< I'...4',/I4. ^l.,,,,i. t.t. 4 ^ t.p,. • Tho F.mrmror nfflnii" hte beWettb;^ the Hebrew people were chosen of (ior! that through them might he manifested the Messiah, "hnrnMeri by prophets and psalmists, tho greatest revt-hfinn nl find i.i tin*world fnr he n\n>eHved in llie Son himself" "If Christ Is God-God himself in human form, 'theKmi>er«radds, "He redeemed un and Inspires us to follow Him. We fcol His burnlim hi us. His sympathy strengthens us. His «f Nymtent dtstroye us. "ofisci'ius nt victory, building solely ti|>on His ii'uiA, wo (tf, though labor, ridicule, mii-iow, misery, uui] death, for we havi> in Him God's revealed won!, nntl He nevor lies." Chicago Inter-Ocean tritely says: "That Wilhelm II. should thus declare a stalwart Christian faith is altogether natural. Aside from the evident sincerity of his personal conviction, such would be his faith because that was the faith ot his dynasty and all the strong men that'made modern Germany That was the faith of the men who rose up to deliver Germany from the foreign oppressor and of the men who came later to unite Germany and make her great among the nations. It was the faith cf his father i.nd.of his grandfather—of Bismarck and Moltke, and of all the makers of the Germany of today. And whatever the "higher" or other critics may say of that faith it has been and is everywhere the faith that achieves. By the very conditions of his existence and ot his achievement, Wilhelm II. could hold to no other." + An Idaho exchange remarks: "Miss Laura Hull spent a pleasant day this week visiting Pullman friends. No new cases are reported and the quarantine bas beeu raised on the old ones." Which is cause for rejoicing by Miss Laura's friends. But if the public is to be let into the secret thus far, our contemporary should tell the nature of the disease, and if there is auy likelihood of it coming this way. WK AKK "IT." News that peaches can be grown in the Kootenay District of British Columbia must fill the eyes of patriots with visions of a good time, coming. New Denver with its beauty that Switzerland cannot rival; Sandon with its own wild, rugged grandeur, will be centres of the British Columbia peach crop. The ever sprightly New Denver Ledge and the fiery," untamed Sandon Paystreak will have to stop trying to edit the faults out of theology and politics, especially theology. These journals will realize that their earthly mission is to print editorial denunciations of the San Jose scale; recipes for keeping the yellows out of the peach crop, and red hot comment on the greed of the trust that puts up the price of the fly-netting that spreads it pink blushes over the tops of the well-filled baskets. The Kootenay ought to be a great region for fruit, and all Canada should rejoice in the progress of the attempt to engirdle the Sandon Paystreak and New Denver Ledge with the bloom and blossom of peach orchards. —Toronto Telegram. 8 For a few weeks only I will allow a 2C per cent discount on every article bought at my store Patrons in the Slocan are w.ell acquainted with my goods. Your prompt attention will be appreciated. All goods are guaranteed. JACOB DOVER, IKaffci" Orders by mail receive our prompt attention. Send your watch repairs to me and I will do tne rest. THE COPPER SITUATION. Mr. John copper: Stanton aavs regarding: BYSTANDER'S OPINION. In dealing- with th«\' party system, a distinction is to be drawn between the case of a national and that of a provincial government. In the nation, questions may arise important enough to make a division of the people into parties reasonable for the time; though to prolong tho division when the question lias been settled is to turn the parties into factions. Such was the question in which tho party system had its origin, between the Hanovarians and tho Stuarts, But in a province such as ours, there Hie no issues important enough to make a division into parties reasonable or moral. Tho parties here, in fact, could not bo held together were they not severally connected by an unconstitutional tie with the national parties at < ittawa. What a province wants is merely administration, the man's aptitude for wliich does not depend on the general theory of government, In British Columbia, which is remote politically as well as geographically, from tho center of party at Ottawa, party ifovurnment ia a fiasco, and politics are weltering in confusion fhe present cendition of the copper market is healthful and legitimate. 1 he advancing prices are based solely on the increasing demand for consumers, aed there are no evidences of manipulation. I expect to see copper advance at least to 14 cents, and 1 do not think there will be any lessening of the demand should tho metal rule at this figure. During the last half of 1902 and so far in 1903 the United States consumption of copper has been at the rate of 50,000 pounds per month. Manufacturers are not carrying large eupplies of the metal and are asking the selling agencies to anticipate deliveries on contracts. The market today is certainly in the sellers' favor. The unprecedented demand for iron, especially for structural purposes, must necessarily carry with it an enormous demand for copper and brass. The talk of substitutes for copper may be dismissed as unworthy of serious consideration. Even aluminum has yet to demonstrate its right to be con sidered au important rival. While the electrical requirements of copper constitute less than 15 per cent, of the consumption, the demand is an ever increasing one. The development and extension of long distance power transmission on the Pacific coast and abroad is creating a considerable demand for copper to be manufactured into large copper wire. It is not to be supposed that the disappearance of the large accumulated •supplies—df-copper-necessarily-meanS' that all this surplus has been consumed. Under 17-cent copper the manufacturers allowed their stocks to reach the vanishing point, while at present they are carrying a workable supply—but by no meane an unusually large amount; in fact, itis below what might ho called a normal amount. The increase in copper consumption averages 10 per cent per annum. There is no reason to fear an increased production for the next five years to equal or exceed this new demand. I have taken pains to put myself in touch with the largest producers and consumers of copper on both sides of the Atlantic, and nave come to the firm conclusion that the present status of the metal could not woll be improved upon.—Boston News Bureau. P. B U R N S & C Q, MEAT KINGS OF THE KOOTENAYS Shops in all the principle camps. Excellent service always. P. BURNS & CO. Job Printing That assays high in artistic merit, quickly done at New Denver's printing emporium— Address ===== THE LEDGE H. GIEGERICH Staple and Fancy GROCERIES Agent for GIANT POWDER AINSWORTH SANDON Why you should buy FAIR PLAY CHEWING TOBACCO BeCailBe it te thu bast quality. BeCaUSe U- I* thu moht lamlny chew. ""■"■mmm Because it i« tin- i»w»t high gradit 5 or U)c plug. BeCaUSO the nm-* are valuable for premiums until .laimarv Int. moi, BeCaUSe w«! guaranty' everv |ilujr,aii<l BeCaUSO >•»"«• Aenler In author- l/.t'd to r-Hfni'id vour money If you are not hhMuHi'iI, THE EMPIRE TOBACCO CO., Ud. Smoke rVnn\ra.4mi' Cigar Oo. Brands: HOTEL SLOCAN THREE FORKS This old-timehotel has recently been bought hy the undersigned and renovated into an up-to- date hostelry. Miners, tourists and all classes of this world's people can always get a square meal antl an easy hed within the portals of my doors. The bar contains many kinds of nerve bracers, ranging from the brow of Cody to tlio sweet cordials of sunny Prance. If you are dry, hungry, weary or sad when passing through tho Forks, lift the latch and drop in. HUGH NIVEN Tea Tips 25 cts 25 cts PALMA ANGRIGNON General Draying: Mining Supplies and Heavy Transportation a Specialty. Coal & Wood for Sale Saddle Horses and Pack ^lnuis. Feed Stables at New Denver. Will buy ONR POUND of |>ure,clcan,flno-flavorcd OEYLON-INDIAN TEA. KASLO HOTEL w Will buy ONE POUND Standard BREAKFAST ULACK TEA. I'urclias- out of ten pounds or moro, will receive one pound oxtra for oat-li ten pounds purchased. l'rippsonour regular linos of CHOICE TEA, six-, ssc, 40c, 45c, Wc and 8t)c p«r pound for Black-, Oroen and niondoil. Kootenay Coffee Company l\ O. Box m. Went Baker St. NELSON, B. O. HENRY'S NURSERIES ROSES, BULBS. RHODODENDRONS, FRUIT & ORNAMENTAL TREES OKEEXHOUKE and IIAHDV PLANTS. HOME OIIOWN & IMPORTED OARDEN, KIELI) AND FLOWER SEEDS BEE HIVES AND SUPPLIES NOT tlm "lawe-it nurwrlon, groenlouivi. and wi'd linu«e* In llie world," but wn have bi'tter iUh'U tii.in nvi'r, and you will nave in<m*yliT buylnu dinci. My mm Cutatotfuc will till you ill about It. Mailed fn*. M. J. HENRY, ttn.t Wtmtiiiluiititr Road. Vancouver! 11.0. WHITE LAHOK ONLV THE LEADING SUMMER RESORT IN THE KOOTENAYS COCKLE & PAPWORTH KASLO, B. C. KOOTENAY RAILWAY & NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. OPERATING INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION A TRADING COMPANY LIMITED, KASLO & SLOCAN RAILWAY. 8:80 a, m. Lv. 8ANDON All. !l:25 p. in. 10:45 a m. An. KASLO Lv. 1:00 \i, m. INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION A TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED. KASLO-NELSON ROUTE. m. Lv. NELSON Ait. U0 n, m. m. Ah. KASLO Lv. 12:80 p, m. 0:00 a 9:10 a Tickets Hold to all parts ot tha Unlt«d StAtoM and Cnnnria via Great Northern and O. R & N. Compmy'H linos. For furthor pnrliculir* call on or ad- Arom ROBERT IRVING, Manner, Kaslo, OUR CORSET DEPART- MiCNT IS UP-TO-DATE IN ALL STYLES AND PRICES. >•■■■■■■■•••• Fred. Irvine & Co. i NELSON B. C I LATEST NOVELTIES IN ALL DEPARTMENTS ALWAYS IN STOCK ••■■tumi——— ii . i n Label Cigars to, pi-|i•«-.*»»|jply in- W J MtMIM.AN It m. Writ'tlr-Ml* Agattti for !».*". Monogram Marguerite Bouquet Our Special El Condor Schiller Commenting on thliconteUoo, the, vjn„^v*r.it.i New Goods Everv Dav Dlourc Wall-its, Drc» Skirts and Coctamcb. Piece Goods in plain And flgarcd Lastres» Julian Cloths, Homespuns Friezes, Hmadclotha, Serges and all the atyIiih cloths. itaamlfal and complete new line of Embroideries and Insertions. Orknoy Shetland Floss in all staple colors. Onr Spring MHHncrv U enmiort' nun nfit ia hpri" nnw Do nnr mi«« liri^lun' a tnnV thrnnr»>i Complete Line of Carpets & House Furnishings J SOLE AOKNTS FOR nUTTKHICK PATERNS. THE ONLV RELIABLE. MAU. <>Rf>KKH RECEIVE SPECIAL ATTKNTIOV Fred. Irvine & Co., NELSON, B. C. lit^^fcliWIIlflflftiflAfraa 9 WWW 9r~W*W WWWW^"WW^P TRL'NICS ami VALISES OP ALL SIZES atoSTYLES at VERY LOW PRICES
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