Mining Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-02
issued: 1897-09-11
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note: ���������V^ / C '���������yUr-fr^K.. V VOL.1. NO. 14. SANDON, B. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. II >. A Homesick. Barber, Writes to His' Wife An Infamous Slander on Sandon. It is surprising what creatures there are in the world after all. Up to a fow day's ago there was in town a barber named J. W. Brichnell, and for the , sake of venting some unworthy feeling on the place, or some one in it, .wrote to his wife, and it got into a San Francisco paper,.'saying that ,the cholera was raging in this town and the people wcre.floeing for their lives. Now, any one with an ordinary , spirit of humanity, would scarcely sny this of any place, even'fpii 'hearsay; but when the falsehoods made out of whole cloth with the- full knowledge that it is a falsehood unadulterated, a good healthy dose of the severest penalty of the law is too good for him. Now Prichnell knew when he Wiis penning these lines there never was a case of'cholera in town and never a severe case of any contageous fever for that \-'' matter, and why he should when leav- \ ing the place himself pen such a libel ' it is most difficult to understand. Even the editor of the Examiner in whose columns this slander appeared, \' 'if he knew the size of the place and its surroundings, would have known the , latter was a slander to ease a slanderous mind. Cholera never originates in a small town, with the climate of Sandon, and never is limited to less than a section of country when it does break out. All we have to say to Brichnell \ is that if this is the principle he in- ;{, tends to be governed by through life, he will ere long come to some unexpected stop, and not a day too soon either for the country's welfare. The folllowing is the libel that appeared in the Examiner, scare headlines and all. Residents and people who have been here, one and all, know the utter falsity of every line in thi3 excerpt, but this docs not in any way jS lessen the injury it may do the place outside. Sandon is pronounc…
note: Print Run: 1897-1903 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sandon (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0183543
language: English
lat: 49.975556
long: -117.227222
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sandon B.C. : Cliffe and Son
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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