HI SIMILKAMEEN STAR. Devoted to the Interests of Princeton and the Similkameen Country.
SATURDAY, At $2.00 PER YEAR
R. P. Williams, representing the through eight feet of ledge matter DOWN RIVER NEWS Jenckes Machine Co., visited the Nickle THE MINING WORLD the ore is steadily improving. Plate and other Twenty-Mile properties this week. D. G. Hackney will build a large hotel Local and Mining News from at Keremeos. As soon as lhe lumber can A Promising Country to the s from the Copper Bench clai be got on the groun^uilding will be South of Us. Lower Similkameen. PURELY PERSONAL. J. Schubert has established a plumber yard at Keremeos and is busy hauling a Mr. A. E. Howse reti ed from the Free Gold in Yuneman's Camp-Ram's complete stock of lumber and shingles Slate River Country Party Tell About 'acific coast and Nicola today's stage. Horn Bonded to Vancouver Party frpm Penticton. V Their Rich Country—Sunset and for $30,000. Lost Horse Improving. fitted up-at Keremeos, and the children ftb^nfi-*^ V. wston, of Keremeos, was C. Fleischbein^ind J. T. Holley arrived lis week. He took a draft from the Slate/creek district on Thurs- lown the river on Wed-
of electing a delegate to attend Mr. W. Baillie, representing the ] eral convention at Revelstoke 1 Mai .ills are working ish Columbia Mining Record, is visi quartz having been made lately. tember 5th. Princeton and district in the interest C. DeB. Green has completed the sur A camping party consisting of 1 pocket was found on the vey of the Tyne and Savage group ; John J. Neil, prop, of the Keremeos I [dge which produced nearly Buchan and I/. M. Lyons report a rich J. Innes, Miss Sarah Neil ai Mrs. M. Woodward, of Lower Nicola, ve gold. On the headwaters And on the Ada Bell; Chas. Winkler is Sproule are spending a few days paid a visit to Mr. and Mrs, Haegerman pper on Wednesday, returning home on yes Slat pectt. FTEe terday's stage. ng Co., of India work on the Snowbird; E. Bullock- Messrs. O. Coulthard and J. Wirth, of Webster has found a rich vein on one of Keremeos, were in town today. They are on the annual round-up tour of the Mel I the St. Pa lilkai iilkai spe regon An; tallic ipper ing a well earnedAacation at Kamloops. Over 600 feet of tunnel ha Messrs. W'lgh g"d Duncan Mcfiae re He does not expect to return to Keremeos and several bodies of rich e found. The turned from Rossland this week. They for two months, unless he can persuade ore is of a refractory 1 :ure, but will intend working their properties on Cop district) a almost all the lo- his friends to allow him to leave. Scotty's concentrate easily and the- comps per mountain this fall. athei health and the peace of the community tend putting in a plant for that purpose • Mr. C. W. Veysey, accountant for the W Jas. Riordan has bonded the Ram's he has left will be much benefitted by early next year. There Horn claim_on Riordan mountain to J. Hudson Bay Co., at Vancouver, made a the change of climate, grub and super mills in the district, the Eureka having Meiklejohn, of Vancouver, for #30,000. business trip to Princeton by Wednes vision which he is enjoying in his new ten stamps and the Mammoth and The Ram's Horn is one of the best loca day's stage, and returned on Friday. Whistler five stamps each. All the ma tions on the headwaters of Keremeos chinery has been taken in over the trail Sheriff Elkins, of Greenwood, is taking creek. As soon as the new wagon road NEWS OF THE WORLD. from Brewster, Wash., by means of a trip through the Similkameen country. reaches the camp tectrve development specially constructed wagons, the axles He is interested in several promising lo work will be started on the property. A late telegram from Paris reports ofwhich are only 28 inches wide. Slate cations in the Twenty-Mile creek district. other attempt on the life of the Shah of On Twenty-Mile creek two men are at creek and the upper Similkameen head Persia. Details of the assault are lacking. Mr. James Hislop, P. L. S., returned work on the Bradshaw properties. A on the same summit about thirty miles from Victoria on Tuesday last. He com cabin has been built close to the claims Caleb Powers has received a sentence south of the boundary line. Messrs. Hol pleted arrangements with the lands and and preparations made to continue work of imprisonment for life for the killing ley and Fleischbein made the trip to works department for the survey of the ing this winter. of William Goebel, in Frankfort, Ky., Princeton on foot, in less than four days, Hope road, and started out Wednesday On the Nickle Plate everything is pre the total distance being 65 miles. Numer morning with W^. Martin^ to make ,a An anarchist plot to assassinate Presi pared for the installation of machinery. ous locations have been made in the reconnoissance of the different routes, dent McKinley has been discovered at As soon as the wagon road is completed Roche river, Peysaton and Slate creek before starting the final location work. New York, and fourteen anarchists have to Penticton the compressor plant will be districts this summer, the mineral belt It is possible that the road- may be lo- been quietly arrested as they arrived in shipped and it is probable that a. rr^)l extending for 50 miles on each side of jcated via Kennedy mountain, Friday the city. will be built before long! Supt, Rogers the line. The trail from Princeton ^creek and Roche river, instead of the old has pSbftascil'llHUli good teams and in Extraordinary precautions are being Roche river is reported in miserable c trail. tends freighting in all supplies and ma taken to guard the lives of the nobility dition. and the government are requested . The Greenwood Times makes the fol chinery for the mine over the Penticton and prominent British politicians at the to send a man over it to cut out fallen lowing announcement: It is announced present time. The Prince of Wales, who logs and generally make the trail pass that the marriage of Miss Irene Haynes, is visiting Hamburg, is guarded by four able. second daughter of the late Judge PERSONAL JOTTINGS. teen special detectives from European The Sunset is steadily piling up ore on Haines, of,Osoyoos, to Mr. R. H. Park The lower Similkameen sch»o^re- bureaus, and six special service men the dump, there being no sign of a wall inson, P. L. S., of Fairvjp< will take opened, after the summer vacafSi, on from Scotland Yard. yet in the face of the erosscut. Eighty place at Fairview early aext month. Miss Monday last. •• A telegram of August 18 from Pretoria, feet wide at a level of 150 feet deep, all in Haynes was very, popular at Midway, Frank Richter is preparing to cut his reports General Baden-Powell's forces good pay ore is a record which few mines where she lived wilbr her mother, Mrs. third crop of alfalfa. He intends break asked to surrender at North Commando can show at the same stage of develop- Dowding, until the latter left the district ing all records in the hay line this year. Nek to General Dewet. General Powell last January. Since then the young lady J. H. Jackson, of the Hotel Jackson, replied asking terms. Dewet is evidently has resided at Fairview with her sister, The Lost Horse ledge has been cut by Princeton, and Editor Anderson of the moving eastward. Lord Roberts has Mrs. C. A. R. Lambly. ^ the crosscut tunnel which was driven to Star, visited Keremeos on Wednesday issued new severe and rigorous orders. tap It So far, indications prove that the last. r A late despatch from Lorenzo Marquez mineral is much the same as that found %/ The Princefcon School. ¥r The fruit crop in Keremeos valley is to London says former President Steyn on the surface. A layer of white quartz Miss Murray, ofyNicola Lake, has ac I exceptionally large this year. Apple is reported to have died, as the result of ite cuts the formation next the footwall, cepted the position of teacher to the trees especially have been unusually pro a severe wound, while endeavoring the richer copper ore being found closer temporary school at Princeton. School ductive. , reach Mr. Kruger. to the hanging. The tunnel has now cut will be opened on Sept. 3rd. THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR.
MR. DOOLEY ON CHINA. says, 'an' we're goin' to give ye a railroad so ye can go swiftly to places that ye He Thinks Western Civilization May don't want to see,'he says. 'A counthry be in for a Bump. The James Robertson Co. Ltd. that has no railroads is beneath con- "Sir," said Mr. Hennessy, "to think timpt,' he says. 'Casey,' he'saysf 'stretch iv th'audacity iv thim Chinymen ! It th' chain acrost yon graveyard,' he says. I VANCOUVER, B. C. do bate all." 'I aim f'r to put th' thrack just before 1 "It do Dc that large tombstone marked riquiescat bates th' wurrnld. An' what's it co Jai H. Chung-a-lung,' hej Manufacturers of Lead, Pipe, Shot Traps, White to ? You an' me looks at a Chiny tm i I, 'ye will disturb pah': LEAD PAINTS, AND Et though he wasn't good f r auuything but washin* shirts, an' not very good at that. says. 'Ye'll be mis Jobbers In Wrought, Cast or Steel Pipes and Fittings, Metals and Steam 'Tis wan iv th' spoorts iv th' youth iv with th* Cassidys in th' next lot, that,' I Fittings. Write for Quotations. our gr-rcat cities to row! an impty beer says, 'he nivir spoke to save in anger keg down th' steps iv a Chinee laundry, his life,' I says. 'Ye're an ancestor w an' if e'er a Chinyman come out to resist shipper, heathen," says the la-ad, an' THE JAMES ROBERTSON CO., LTD, it they'd take him be th' pigtail an' dc goes on to tamp th' mounds in th' cimitry peg and VANCOUVER. th* joynt swing with him. But th'Chiny an' ballast th' thrack with th' man home's a difPrent la'ad. He's with th' deceased. An' afther he's got through, m his friuds, an' they're manny iv thim, along comes a Pr-rinchman, an' an Eng an' he's rowlin' th' beer kegs, himself, lishman, an' a Rooshan an' a Dutchman, an' western civilisation is down in th' an' says wan iv thim: 'This is a com SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR laundhry wondhrin' whin th' police'll fortable lookin' saloon,' he says. 'I'll And secure Reliable Information in regard to the Mining take th' bar, ye take th' icebox an' th' .' Lot ef'r r-rest iv th' fixtures.' 'What fr?,' says' Developments in the Famous Similkameen country. nissy, but if I was a I. 'I've paid th' rent an' th' license, says' will fight anny man f'r sayin', an' wa mind,' says he. 'We're tl livin* at home, I'd tuck me shirt into mi ives iv western civilization,' 1 pants, put me braid up in a net an' g< 'tis th' business iv westei an' take a fall out iv th' in-vader if i l to cut up th' belongings cost me me life. Here ant I, Hop Lung (ilization,* he says. 'Be of Dooley, r-runnin' me little liquor store he says, 'or I'll pull ye'er hair,' he say an' p'raps raisin' a family in th' Well,' says I, 'this thing has gone fj '•-'•to.- Koochoo. I don't like foreigners there inough,' I says. 'I've heerd me good c ast-iron good or josses abused,' I say a bald-headed man with chin whi ' l'v pa from Baraboo, Wisconsin, an' says goods, an* th' Peking Lightnin' Expret I •Benighted an' haythen Dooley,' say is r-runnin' straight through th' lot 'ye have no God,' he says. 'I have,' where the bones iv me ancesthors lies,' I OCAS d4l4/ Mr*/ I. 'I have a lot iv thim,' says I. says. 'I've stud it all,' I says, 'but whin ar-re an oncultivated an' foul creath ye come here to bounce me off iv me own he says. 'I have come six thousan' i primises,' I says, 'I'll have to take th' leg ft*. ' iv th' chair to ye,* I says. An' we're to th' dure. • That's th' way it stands in Chiny, nissy, an' it looks to me as though ern civilization was Pr a bump. I st whin a dhrunk prize fighter come SIMILKAMEEN up th' r-road an' wint to sleep on Slavin's ps. Some iv th' good sthrong la-ads came along an* they were near bein' at BUTCHERING QO* blows over who shud have his watch an' who shud take his hat. While they were itin' he woke up an' begin' cuttin' WHOLESALE and RETAIL loose with hands an' feet, an' whin he Dealers in Heats. re pri got through he made a callection iv th, Orders Filled for any Point in the Similkameen Valley. 'here things they dropped in escapin' an' y,' I says. 'We're doin' th* best we arched ca'inly down th' street. Mebbe 1 th' matther iv gods,' says I. 'We will tur-riu out so in Chiny, Hinnissy. C. Summers, \ thim cast at a first-rate fonndhry,' I see by th' ya-apers that they'se four! 'an' we sandpapher thim ivry hudhred millyons iv thim boys, an.* be PRINCETON BRANCH. manager, f ,' says I. 'As f r knowin's things,' hivinsl 'twuddent surprise me if whin v^vvw
An Important Announcement An important announcement was made in Montreal on Monday morning, Aug. 13th, by Mr. C. R. Hosmer, director of French & Day the Centre Star and War Eagle mines, British Columbia, also director of the TINSMITHS Canadian Pacific railway, to the effect PLUriBERS that a deal was on with the C. P. R. by which that company was to handle and GUNSniTHS
is understood to be $2,000,000 annually. .JUMP DRIVING DONE. Mr. Hosmer said that the shipments Our Camp Stove is the Boss for from both mines are being held pending Prospectors. the signing of the agreement by which .he War Eagle would receive special Repair work of Every Descrip ' terms for transportation and smelting. tion. Tbis. Mr. Hosmer said, would so reduce the cost of mining that it would be pos sible to profitably mine lower grade ore than had been hitherto. Under this agreement, it was further added, War Eagle and Centre Star would GRAND PACIFIC ship a minimum of 1,000 tons per day. Tne Bkckstock-Gcoderham party, who ....HOTEL*... left Momieal several weeks ago, are ex pected to reach Rossland on the 20th KAMLOOPS, B. C. inst, when it is understood the deal will The nearest hotel to the Rail be consummated. way Station. Headquarters for j The Duke Got the Cigar. all people coming from Nicola Some months ago Mr. W. H. Knowles, and the Similkameen. registrar of births, marriages and deaths, Good Rooms. Good Table Great Harwood, Eng., addressed an Good Liquors, Good Sta- velope as follows: J- Ming in Connection. JP "To the officer who hoists the Union Jack (when that happy event takes P. A. BARNHAOT, Prop. place), Pretoria, "South Africa1" Mr. Knowles enclosed a cigar and a SMOKE note: "Thanks 1 Have a cigar?" As the war was so protracted he feared the envelope and contents had fallen in Tucketts to the hands of the Boers, and that one of them had enjoyed a good cigar at his TOBACCOS, CIGARS and expense. The other day, however, he re CIGARETTES. ceived the following autograph letter from the Duke of Westminster, dated Government House, Pretoria, June 7, Tphey are the Purest
"Dear Sir,—I write to say that I J^ certainly the y t the officer who hoisted the Union Jack Dest in the market. DEBARRO & THYNNE - ' over Pretoria, in consequence of which I received an excellent cigar, which Lord Otter Flat Hotel PROPRIETORS. Roberts gave to me, having been for warded by you. I thank you both for (ieo.LTucKef!&soEiCo. J FINEST BRANDS O NES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. the cigar and congratulations, and re- HAMILTON, ONT. FISHING AND HUNTING RESORT. BOATS KEPT; "Yours truly, "Westminster, A. D. C, BOATS KEPT FINE BOATING ON OTTER LAKE. "Headquarters Staff." CANADIAN Agricultural Exhibitions. PACIFIC Salmon Arm Sept. 20, 21. Vernon Sept. 25, 26, 27. Nearest Stopping Place and Supply Point for Boulder Creek, Kelly Creek, Slate Kamloops Sept. 26, 27, 28. "Imperial Creek, and Summit Mining Camps Mining Men and Prospectors can outfit at Saanich Sept. 28, 29. Store in connection with hotel. New Westminster. Oct. 2, 3, 4, 5. Ashcroft Oct. 2, 3, 4. Limited" DAILY TOURIST CARS
ST. PAUL TUESDAY AND SATURDAY. TO Hold Jackson TORONTO J. H. JACKSON, Sole Proprietor. WEDNESDAY PRINCETON Montreal and Boston. DINING ROOM UNDER PERSONAL SUPERVISION. ONLY THE FINEST BRANDS OF LIQUORS AND Trains pass Spences Bridge as follows: CIGARS AT THE BAR FIRST-CLASS STABLE IN WEST BOUND EAST BOUND CONNECTION. 5:51 IMPERIAL LIMITED 20:16 10:45 KAMLOOPS LOCAL 17:4 Jg^"Patrons of the Hotel Jackson can keep posted o the mining Pamphlet furnished free. Development of the entire Similkameen. THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR. &^1^'
service which would be of great NOTICB. > EDITORIAL COMMENT. < Certificate of Improvement*. THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR benefit to the entire community j MANTON FRACTIONAL MINERAL C could be established from Fairview I . situate in the Osoyoos Mining Divli When some men are asked for an PRINCETON, B. O. to Princeton via Keremeos and ad or a few- locals they will say that ARE NOTICE that I, I Twenty-Mile, giving the latter im they don't believe in advertising—a portant mining camp regular mails, THE PRINCETON PUBLISHING CO. paper is never read anyhow. But which at present it is forced to do what an awakening they have after without. Fairview is a natural they have been caught hugging distributing centre for mail from the of such Certificate of Improvements. someone's servant girl, chasing Dated this ioth day of August, A. D. 19c Boundary country, as it has at the RICHARD H. PARKINSON, I some loose bit of calico up the present time three mails a week street after dark or struggling from Greenwood. Keremeos and through forbidden pastures with a Twenty-Mile are now busy mi ring, JOHN W. PECK & CO. load of booze. If the printing office centres, with practically no close regularity in receipt of the pap is in a garret of a twenty story th building, they will climb to the top ivheri and ask the editor not to publish it Wholesale Clothing in the paper where everybody will AND With the establishing of a see it. Funny, isn't it?—Silver- Mens' Furnishings. office at Twenty-Mile and a treekly service from Fairview to VANCOUVER, B. C. THE MINING COMMISSION. Princeton wants a jail, for the ich neec sperity of theSimilkameen is too ral Mu ch for some of its citizens, so Correspondence Solicited from the Trade. t they drink, swear and grow Careful and Prompt Atention to all LETTER ORDERS. erally rambunctious. The ex- e made for the government's lire to build a jail is that it is Parkinson & ting to see where the mining eted Boards of Trade of Easten tre will be. At this the Simil- Fetherstonhaugli British Columbia, in commenting still suffering from inadequate pos iieen Star waxes wroth and s: "This takes the cake."— FAIRVIEW, B. C. i the the tal facilities. Mr. Mulock has evi PRINCETON, B. C. island Record. ra, struck the key note of what is dently no conception of the neces- Ro.| illy wanted as a safeguard to thi In a recent issue the Kamloops PROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYORS iustry, in his recent speech al Standard asked, editorially, "What CIVIL ENGINEER 2 annual convention of the every new mining camp in the is Turnerism?" Turnerism is pro and NOTARY PUBLIC. ards, held at Nelson this month, province has to go through the iferring to the commission he same old period of kicking for what vincial legislation for Vancouver they are rightfully entitled to, no Island, the needs of the province as Surveys on the Similkameen Promptly a whole being a secondary consid Attended to. alter the present condition of the eration. Turnerism is rapidly dy mail service throughout the interior ing out, thanks to the growth of H. A. WHILLANS, M. D. the mining districts in the interior an assurance that no radical change • Eastern Canada enjoys as good of the province, and when a proper PHYSICIAN mail facilities as could be desired, would be made in the existing laws redistribution bill is passed, Turn and effecting the mining industry, and but British Columbia is evidently SURGEON. erism will be a thing of the past. I trust that the conclusions of the not of sufficient importance in Mr. If neglecting the needs ofi the min Princeton, B.O commissioners will be such as to Mulock's estimation to receive even* ing districts, which were building indicate to all governments the in- ordinary consideration from the up the principal industry of the W. J. WATERHAN, M. E. advisability of making continual postal department. The regular province, and catering only to the changes in the mineral laws. excuse used by the postmaster-gen F. a. S. M. A, I, n. E., Btc. Capitalists would then know under eral in answer to requests for im wants of Viotjttia and the island exactly what conditions they would proved service is ' 'that the returns generally, meant prosperity, then operate and would not be, as in the from the local post office do not Turnerism is, prosperity, as the Examination, Development and Man past, in constant dread of radical warrant any further expenditure." Standard would have it understood. agement of Prospects, Claims and Mines Undertaken. sP changes made without proper con Surely the authorities are not so As far as not understanding what sideration and without consulting unreasonable as to draw a com Turnerism means, we would com the parties interested, by whom I parison between a go-ahead west mend to the Standard the old adage, ^^nesyi the capitalist, mine owner, P. O. Address, PRINCETON, B. C. ern mining camp and the snail "There is none so blind as those : prospector, working miner and la like growth of an eastern village. borer. who will not see." A mining town, as everyone knows, J. CHARLES McINTOSH, IMPROVED MAIL SERVICE. is likely to grow into a city of sev John Houston, member for Nel eral thousands within a few months, son riding, joking offered togive up BARRISTER, SOLICITOR Now that the Princeton-Kere thereby warranting any extra ex $200 of the appropriations granted AND meos is certain to be completed this penditure that may be made. On NOTARY PUBLIC. his district in the estimates, as the fall, a strong effort should be made the other hand an eastern village, sum granted exceeded his request to urge the postal authorities to situated in an older and more give Princeton improved mail ser thickly populated community, with by that amount. Turn it over to vice. It is necessary that mail West Yale John ! We can use it a much slower growth, would not PRINCETON, B. C. from the Boundary and Kootenay warrant any extra effort being put to advantage in this great Similka districts should reach here with as forth oh that account. We sincerely meen country, and if you can per ... JAMES HISLOP little delay as possible. The mining hope and believe that the postal suade the other 36 members to con. community are closely connected authorities will come to view this tribute $200 each we will confer on with Greenwood, Grand Forks and matter in the right light, and that MINING AND CIVIL ENGINEER, « Rossland, and with the present you the freedom of the city when before long we will be blessed with PROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYOR. \n miserable service it is impossible to you visit the metropolis of the a much needed improved mail u I receive a reply from any of these youngest and most promising min «I / vpoints under three weeks' time. A ing district in British Columbia. THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR.
way Co., in which the jyriter stated that his companvwas prepared forthwith to About the Similkameen begin the construction of their proposed jlffiefif they were restored to the same position they occupied in respect, to pro- fir. J. M. Robinson, who has tj "jncial aid hefore the session of i8oo. down in Victoria "for the past few days The committee recommended that the interviewing the government in the in- cretary of the board be directed to of the residents of Pejtchland, who >mmunicate the statement of Dr. Milne IM. P.Gordon, want«a road constructed from tha^ point > the Hon. Mr. Dunsmuir with the re to Princeton, arrived in town by the quest that it shall receive the earliest MANUFACTURERS OF AND steamer Yosemite this morning. Like possible consideration from the govern- DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF the deputation from Princeton, Mr. Rob' t. The information given the com inson came away frcftn the capital in a mittee as to the routes through the Hope happy frame of mind, for although all he untains, although interesting and FURNITURE, CARPET5, OILCLOTHS, WIN- asked for may not be granted this year, uable, was not sufficiently definite to the prospects are very good. He says rrant them in expressing any opinion there is little doubt bnf that a start will the subject. They recommended the ^S CORNICE POLES, PICTURE FRAMING..*.* be made on the construction, and the Chilliwack petition to the favorable con road will be pushed through as far as sideration of the members of the board. ESTIMATES FOR HOTEL, OFFICE The report was adopted. Glen Robinson, a distance of fifteen miles, AND ALL OTHER FURNITURE in any event. The estimated cost of this a work is $6,500, and he is of the opinion Princeton merchants all carry Blue FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. that with the addition of another $8,500, Ribbon Extracts. the highway from Peachland to Prince m: ton could be completed. The construc NOTICB. tion of the road to Glen Robinson will Certificate of Improvrment. VIRGINIA, ALABAMA «ND NOONDAY Min- Kamloops, B.C. greatly aid in the opening up of the n Mil fale Dist claims at that point owned by the Can B LOCATED:—On Copper Mountain. adian Gold Mining and Development NOTICB that I, John D. Andersoi P. L. S. of Trail, B. C, Free Miner's Certifical Co., which are said to show the best of No. B39356, for myself and as agent for John ! prospects.—Province. Clute, Free Miner's Certificate No. 33677-*. (Tru pply to the' Mining Recorder for Certificate Impr for The Similkameen. Grants of tl
fsuch Certificates of Improvements. The milkai ntry is coming to J. D; ANDERSON, the front a good deal lately. Several big «ted this nth day of June, A. D. 1900. strikes have been made in Camp Hedley which is considered one of the principal NOTICB. Certlcate of Improvements, high grade mining camps in southern MAFEKING AND KIMBERLEY FR, British Columbia. The ore bodies are MINERAL CLi~" large and well defined, mostly found ir KE NOTICE, that J, R. H. FaTkinson (Free The contacts and chiefly composed of arsen '" le No. B58865) intend; sixty days ical iron carrying high values in gold. eof, to apply to the Mining Re- The principal mine is the Nickel Plate n—.„ „f :,„,,, ~.«.,„(•„ 4X».tt.« and surrounding properties, which is owned and operated by the Marcus Daly ist be commenced before the issUi syndicate. There are also some very lis 21st day ofjuly, 1900. TULAMEEN, good copper properties owned by Pete R. H. PARKINSON. Sr^tt and Mr H?dlT, nf J^^ann ] K Scott was the locator of the camp, the very heart of Hedley camp is a large Notice is hereby given that thirty days after Hotel Indian reserve which extends for six date I intend to apply on behalf of the Dominion Consolidated Mines Company, Limited, of Fair- miles along the Similkameen valley. view, to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and West and adjoining the Indian reserve, about a mile from Twenty-Mile creek; uid: Commencing from a post marked "Dc Q. W. ALDOUS, Proprietor. linion Consolidated Mines Company's north the townsite of Similkameen is laid off istcorner" 'and planted at the south-east corne into lots and blocks. It is in the centre of a large mining camp, and 1 prised of several hundred acres in Similkameen valley. The location line B C, this 23rd day of July, PRINCETON, B. C. of the C. P. R. has been surveyed throngh •ARKINSON, P. L. S., it from Spence's Bridge and Midway, and the Provincial Government is_ goinj construct a wagon road from Princeton NOTICE. and Keremeos, a distance of 45 m Certificate of Improvement. Similkameencity is situated 22 miles FRISCO MINERAL CLAIM, kameen Mining Division 01 xaiejuidtnct. northwest ofKieremeos and 23 miles WHERE LOCATED:—On Copper mountain. TAKE NOTICE that I, J. D. Anderson, P. L. S. southeast of Princeton, and has so of Trail, B. C, acting as agent for David A. Stew very valuable properties surrounding art, Free Miner's Certificate No. ^7433, George Certificate No. B279205 —Province. John W. Nelson, Free Min r's Certificate No 19740A, and Reuben R. Shuttleworth. Free Min er's Certificate No. B7446, intend, sixty days from date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for The Coast to Kootenay Railway. a certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. Prospector's Supply Store And further take notice that action, under sec The Victoria board of trade made the tion 37, must be commenced before the issuance following report at the last general of such Certificate of Improvements. JNO. D- ANDERSON, c. E. THOriAS. meeting: Dated this 18th day of May, A. D. 1900. On behalf of the railwaxxommjttee C. A new line of Gent's Furnishings H. Lugrin reported as follows: The railwa^e'onimittee report that they met Just Received. See Our Special and took into consideration a petition Hotel Driard sent out by the municipality of Chilli ties in shirts. wack asking the government to adopt NICOLA LAKE. the best means to secure the early JOHN CLARK, Propr. struction of a railway from the coa Kootenay. They also were favored by Headquarters for Mining Men and Pros the attendance at one of their meetings pectors. of Mr. H. P. Bell, C. E., and several gentlemen from Princeton, who very An Ideal Summer Resort. kindly gave them much information as to railway routes through the Hope moun Dining Room Service Unsurpassed. Only the SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STj tains. A letter was also read to the com Choicest Brands of Liquors at the Bar. mittee from G. L. Milne, M. D., of the And secure Reliable Information in regard to the Minii^ Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Rail- JOE RICHARDS, Manager Developments in the Famous Similkameen country. I I THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR.
THE CHINESE WAE. The Copper Market. This column has from the first con The Allies Enter Peking—Dowager sistently combated the theory, rathei Empress Flees. strenualy maintained in some quarters, that copper must go the way of other metals and suffer severe declines the morning of the 15th. The 1 value. Such a view has the support of Hotel Princeton evening the Japanese demolished the analogy, and it cannot be denied that Cham-Lang and Tong-Chi gates and en JAMBS WALLACE, Proprietor. speculation has played a certain part tered the capital. The other armies en holding up copper quotations. But the tered by the Tong-Quien gate. The; "bulls" have had nature on their side, and the basic facts have been with them. foi They are still with them; so far as we can PRINCETONS PIONEER see, and in our judgment the talk of A despatch from Shanghai ays the al- "liquidation" in copper and a sudden de •* <* HOTEL <* «*' ' lies entered Peking unopposed , and met scent to old-time prices is nonsensical. with a friendly reception fit m Prince Our copper production for the first six Ching. All hostile elemen s escaped months of the year increased 10,000 tons, The Resort from the city. The Imperial court left or eight per cent, over last year, while for Shen-Si on the nth, with the Man- our exports in the same period increased For Prospectors and Mining Men. chus. The Kansu troops 1 ave gone nearly one-third. The foreign den southwest with the object of d rawing the for Ameri -an Copper is insatiable , allies and preventing them frc m follow- xporting regul arly twe••third s ing the court of our to g and Hrst Class Dining Room and Bar. Metallurg cal Journal. ihithe 1 Pekin No trouble to talk to guests. Political ingt< Blue Ri jbon Extract of Vanilla is the matters laid over for the present. The suiting from the jealousy and suspicic best on th Chinese Question the Important topic of \of the powers, will possibly shortly a Blue Ri tbon Extract of Lemon i the day. [Jurini a serious aspect. The Britit rora the 11itura l Fruit. Vandked Gourkbas and Bombay regimen Toti Friday, and France is hurrying 1,700 Mongolian Sympathisers Excluded. I Tonking troops thither, some of whom are reported to have arrived already.
1' A Tokyo despatch of the 17th, de- f-,i scribes the entry of the allies into Peking Prospectors I as follows: When the allies arrived at I Peking early yesterday evening, with ar Riveted Steel Pipe. I tillerj', the eastern side of the walls was 1 Suppy, Placer, Hydrulic I obstinately held by the enemy. The STOPF 1 Japanese and the Russians were on the Inorth of Tung-Chow. The Americans If you want to Outfit cheaply id the British were on the south side. It nightfall the Japanese blew up the and quickly, do so at the vo eastern/gates 'of the Tartar city. In ARMSTRONG & MORRISON, ue meantime the Americans and British MANUFACTURERS HYDRAULIC MUTING MACHINERY, ORB CARS, ORB BUCKETS, STEEL WHEELBARROWS, BOILERS, ENGINES AND GBN'L MACHINERY. Had entered the Chinese addit by the Telephone ajo. OFFICE AND WORKS, FOOT OF HEATLEY AVE. Ung-Pien gate. Detachments of each ..KEREMEOS STORE.. BOX 51. VANCOUVER, B. C >rce were sent forward to the legations. WM. HINE & Co., fhe party met near the legations and mm, Ipened communication. All the minis- You can save time and :rs and their staffs were found safe. The make money by buying bsses to the allies have not been ascer- your outfit at the point | Uned. Four hundred Chinese were lied. you start prospecting. COOK & CO. BL late Berlin despatch says the flight the Dowager-Empress and the disap- Mining Supplies of Every rance of the Emperor of China, is re- DESORIPTIOB KET IB STOCK. led there as of much greater import- is than the mere taking of Peking, nd thei complications resulting there- I from are speculatively discussed by the Princeton's LnaTifcd in political circles. The over- sider/ - 'pinion is that since all the ft.?/ ^agreed to instal a strong .^. 7 ^rhment at Peking, it becomes Granite JaK^i-f^first to destroy or at least ren- Pioneer Store. er harmless the fugitive government flrhich is responsible for the whole Chi- Creek.. lese eruption. Therefore, it is claimed, X. is necessary to follow and capture the STORES AT jfgitives. This probably will call for the ...Hotel jployment of large additional forces PRINCETON and GRANITE CREEK. sides those which are now in China. trmises as to whether the United States, MRS. JAMES. Proprietor. Ciseat Britain and Japan will also share therein or leave the burden to Russia, .France, and, above all, to Germany, fill This Hotel has always been the papers today. The German govern- Famous For the Excellence -< iment adheres to the view that perfect of its table. S. A. HARTMAN harmony prevails among the powers, re The nearest point to the 1 garding immediate action in China. Herr richest Silver Lead mines j ROSSLAND, B. C. von Brandt, a former minister to China, in B. C, 'Summit City.' in the missionary organ, Christche Welt, MINING AND MINES puts the largest amount of blame for the There is more gold in PROMOTER OF STOCK COMPANIES. i Chinese outbreak on the missionaries, Granite Creek than has , citing a mass of evidence in support of yet been taken out. We have first class connections and can find the necessary capital to "'rVjdassertions, He says two-thirds of the work and develop meritorious copper propositions in the Similkameen W. \i II Ink of the legation and consulates in Stopping! Point for country. If you have a good claim with a fine showing we will find ' V/pta had been occasioned by the corn you a buyer. We cordially invite your correspondence. 's, demands and claims of mission- Princeton stages. Respectfully, OFFICE: 43 COLUMBIA AVE. S. A. HARTMAN- THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR. ^^ VV AN EXPERT OPINION G. LALLAN Mr. J. Moran. Representing Montana Capital, KEREMEOS Looking Through the Similkameen Country — Favorably Impressed— Boots and \ Coast Railway Wanted. <* SHOES at \\ Mr. J. Moran, whose arrival in Prince The Centre of the Lower ton was mentioned in our last issue, has \ now returned to Aspen Grove, and will Similkameen Valley, 45 miles probably not be in Princeton again till VANCOUVER, B.C. the spring. During his stay, Mr. Moran visited most of the important mining from Princeton. A Mining properties in the district, and was ex 2 tremely well pleased with .what he has Try Our Own Mining Boot, J and Agricultural Centre. «£ *& seen. He was especially impressed with It is just right. J the showing of high grade ore on Copper mountain, and is understood to have be come interested financially in a promis ing group of claims there. Speaking of the district as a whole, Mr. Moran said: Quick Returns "I do not think any section of British LOTS NOW OIN... Columbia has shown, at a corresponding stage of development, a greater prospect FROM of mineral productiveness. Ore, especi ally of copper, is found here in several localities in bodies which appear on the .. .THE MARKET surface, or in the comparatively shallow prospecting holes that have been dug, to give certain evidence of their capacity of MAIMRFS being turned into mines of great rnagn; BUSINESS STREETS. tude. The district, too, equally in cl; mate, available timber supply and other THIRD AVE., 100 Feet Wide, Lots 30x120. . conditions, is an ideal one for mining Drug Store operations." "But," he continued, with CORNER LOTS $150; Inside Lots $100. emphasis, "I tan tell you this, you can never have anything more than a pros pecting camp here ftll you have a rail- OTHER STREETS. way to carry out your ores, or the matte . that might be produced from them. Some We carry a full stock of Drugs CORNER LOTS $100.00. INSIDE $75.00. here seem to think that a wagonjaad, out Proprietory Medicines, Toilet Pre to Hope would give the necessary facili parations, etc. In fact everything ties. That is a—mistake, for a wagon that an Up-to-date Drug Store road 70 miles long through a mountain ough to have. TERMS: ous country would take the cream off any mining that might be none. Such a road, while it would be extremely valuable in Terms: One-Third Cash; Balance Three and Six aiding in the initial development of the Months Time. country through which it runs, would only be used for the shipment of sample lots of ore, to show the outside world the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION APPLY TO richeess of the district." "No; you must have a railway before you can have R. H. PARKINSON, Fairview, genuine progress; and it seems to me that capital should not be timid about CPJPJPJPJPW. BULLOCK WEBSTER, Keremeos. going into such an enterprise right away. There wonld be paying business from the start. The deposits of coal in this dis trict are magnificent and apparently in WM. BEAVIS, BEALEY INVESTMENT & TRUST CO. exhaustible. This cgal—ia-itgeif would ...-QENERAL BLACKSMITH LIMITED. give a railway business^ enough to begin with, not to speak at all of metalliferous GenormlAgent. GreOOWOOd, B. C. Expert Horse-shoer. Wagons and Agri "I notice," continued Mr. Moran, cultural Implements Carefully Repaired Local Agents: "that the business men of the coast cities are now lending a hand to secure a rail way direct to the coast. That is the road ALI* WORK GUARANTEED. The Princeton Real Estate, to be preferred, and if its building is long delayed, coast merchants will in- Opposite Keremeos Hotel. . evitably lose the business of this great Mining and Assaying Office. ^district, just as they have lost that of the : KEREMEOS, B. C. Kootenays." Mr. Moran represents Montana capital and has negotiated a number of very im Blacksmithing portant deals, particularly in the Slocan, and during the several years he has been in the province. Horseshoeing Blue Ribbon Extract of Vanilla is the Shop on Harold Avenue. Blue Ribbon Extract of Lemon is made PRINCETON, B. C JEBEMEOS. from the natural fruit. Princeton merchants all carry Bine Ribbon Extracts. Q. flurdoch THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR.
IN A LIGHTER VEIN HHHH J Pioneer CaHlTO mmm r*fi1.U(xt.wmm New General Chang, jsidldl i-***1 */wi jipidi "These foreigners giv< It's religion the Store HUGH COWAN, Prop, We carry a well assorted stock of Clothing, Gents' Furnish An old maid stood on a steame he First Barber Shop Established in thi ings, Blankets, Boots and Shoes, Stationery, Tinware, etc. Whence all but she had fled, We sell none but the Purest and Best And calmly faced a kissing That circled overhead. The maidens shrieked and the GROCERIES
ad the men all pn Try Our "HONDI CEYLON" and RAM LAL'S osite Post Office. Princeton, B. C INDIAN TEAS
Airing Their Differences. Just Received Three maidens talked, as maidens will, PRINCETON Another Consignment of Boots and Shoes, Shirts and Underwear ASSAY OFFICE. CALL AND SEE THEM. C.B.HARRIS •/*%o St. Rennie & Bell Assayer and Chemist* PRINCETON LUfiBER, SHINGLE and PLANING MILLS ports will be returned on stage bring- A. E. HOWSE, Prop.
Correspondence Solicited. Hill and Office Bridge Street, PRINCETON. B. C. Miss Springer-Making a ielf.—Judge. Regarding Mining Properties in the
A Dollar for a Kiss.
isked f ichv, Similkameen District. edt ON YOUR had seen for several days, he offered her WAY TO PRINCETON a dollar for a kiss. It was duly taken Carefully Sampled and Assayed. and paid for, and the young hostess, who You will find a Comfortable had never seen a dollar before, looked at it a moment with some curiosity, then Resting Place M asked what she should do with it. He For the Best — replied what she chose, as it Was hers. 1I "If that's the case," said she, "you may take it back, and give me another kiss." Table Board 15 niLE It Touched the Burglar's Heart. The burglar had entered the house as In Princeton try HOUSE. quietly as possible, but his shoes were MRS. WM. HAEGERMAN'S not padded and they made some noise. NEW BOARDING HOUSE, He had just reached the door of the "Bradshaws" bedroom when he heard someone mov eshest and Best ing in the bed as if about to get up, and^ he paused. ' BOAR i. Bv THE DAY, Well Stocked Bar and Excellent The sound of a woman's voice floated Dining Room. Headquarters to his ears. for Twenty Mile Mining Camp. "If you don't take off your boots when 9 you come into this house," it said, I YV&nt Promptly Executed "there's going to be trouble, and awhole Stabling in Connection. lot of it. Here it's been raining for three hours, and you dare to tramp over my I Ulir We can save you carpets with your muddy boots on. Go \\Ta+rY\ money on~your " downstairs and take thepi off this min- yy a ii He went downstairs without a word, Repairing but he didn't take off his boots. Instead Princeton Meat Market he went straight out into the night again, A full line of Watches and the and the "pal" who was waiting for him Latest Styles of Jewelery always WARDLE & THOMAS saw a tear glisten in his eye. on hand. "I can't rob that house," he said. "It Orders for Mining Camps promptly attended to reminds me of home."—London Tid. W.J.KERR, Bits. -^^Kamloops, B. C. and delivered. THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR. General Lord Wolseley will relinquish the post of commander-in-chief of theCanadia n Pacific JOBN LOVE & CO. British army in October, and Lord Rob Palace Livery erts will almost certainly replace him. Navigation CO, DRUGGISTS AND Mr. L. A. Clark has a contract fopcon- <* STABLES & structing twenty-eight miles ofiroad from STATIONERS. Penticton westward to the Nickel Plate Time Tabl& Ho. 51 mining property on Twenty-Mile creek, KEREMEOS, B. C. for the Standard Oil Co., to enable them to get machinery in that they are now D.J.INNIS,Prop. much in need of. It'will take at least ANCOUVER two months to complete the work. Mr. ICTORIA T:Oo VANCOUVEVANCO R daily, except Saddle Horses to All Points in the Simil Clark leaves for Penticton shortly, and Monday, at 7 o'clock a. m. Regular ft kameen District. Presriptions .^Carefully.* Compounded. -' —dnighidnight oon will be accompanied by Mrs. and Miss day and Thursday and Vi Orders by mail or stage promptly nesday and Friday. Clark. Travellers from the Boundary A drily, a Mr. Rogers, superintendent of the District can secure horses Nickel Plate, arrived in town this week Cleave"! through to Princeton. from the south.—Kamloops Sentinel. Ron in Connection with Keremeos Hotel CLARKS STAGE A Crooked Race. The Johnson-Ha'ckett b; UNE championship of the Nor irsday and Pacific coast and a Leaves Kamloops for Quilchena and pulled of at Vancouvei MINSTER Special Stage Nicola Lake every Monday. Thursday and Saturday at 8 ternoon, as advertised *"-lon City with C. P. R. fr people gathered to Leaves Nicola Lake for Kamloop, A Special Stage will leave and considerable betting was indulged every Friday at 6 a. m. in, Hackett being the favorite. Johnson Spences Bridge for Prince took the lead at the start and gradually Steamships of this Com] ton and way points every PRINCETON ROUTE. Monday morning at 6 a. m. increased it, crossing the line five boat Leaves Spences Bridge for Nicolas lengths ahead of his opponent. Hackett arriving at Princeton Wed Coutlees, Nicola Lake, Granite throughout the race steered badly, and Steamships of this Company leave from Evans, nesday at noon. Coleman & Evans' wharf, weekly, for Wrangel Creek and Princeton every was continually catching "crabs." It Returning: Leaves Prince Thursday at 6 a. m. was quite evident to thosfwrfio witnessed BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. ton Friday morning at 6 the race that it was a put-dp job, and in a. m., arriving at Spences Leaves Princeton for Spences Bridge consequence protest has been entered by Bridge on Sunday. and intermediate points every several Vancouver gentlemen, and the Sunday at 7 a. m. affair will be thoroughly investigated. G. A. CARLETON, It is stated that Quann Bros, arranged General Freight Agent. with Hackett to throw the race. C. S. BAXTER, JAS. SMITH, Propr Carry Hail and Express. Passenger Agent. The Sunset Copper mining Co., IN. Owning and Operating The SUNSET Mine. f On Copper 3/louaCain, Similkameen Mining District. % Everyone who has seen the property renders a unanimous verdict* * The Biggest and Best Mine in British Columbia* Now is the TIME to BUY Stock in this Wonderful Hine. It is an investment! No Speculation! Ore enough in sight to return 100 per cent, on amount invested. BUY TODAY before advance in price. i Sunset Shares Will Make You Rich. H APPLY TO if. R. A. BROWN, ^jS. President and Gen'l Manager PRINCETON or Grand Forns. I rim THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR. mm I THE VERMILION FORKS MINING AND DEVELOPMENT CO., ua. OWNERS OF THE TOWNSITE OF PRINCETON ...Lots for Sale... BEAUTIFULLY SITUATED at the Forks of the Sfmilka- meen and Tulameen Rivers* The business centre for the following mining camps:- Copper Mi, Kennedy Mi, Fri day, Boulder, Granite and 20 Mile Creeks, Summit, Roche River, Upper Tulameen and Aspen Grove* Splendid Climate and Pure water Enormous Agricultural Area to Draw From Government Headquarters for Similkameen District. °=«^°°-^ ^-T-°=5=:":Present Prices of ^13======^^ Fron $2.00 lo $10. per front loot. & & *& Size of Lots 50 x J00 Feet and 33 x J00 Feet* & *& *& Send for map to W. J. WATERMAN, Ml Resident Manager V. F. M. & D. Co. sji _,