f£<
* . / w i, . •• -Wv, J V
I rw\ mri
tfj \«..JJJ LZTJ * / M 1 r E&t^*
VOL. L.No. 45. NAKUSP, B. C, AUGUST 91894. PRICE TEN CENTS.
THE COLUMBIA BURNED. W. S. Jones, tlie customs officer, THE RICH LARDEAU Prospect lost a watch and oUv- ,"iV : /^.., but The Prize Steamer of the Arrow saved his red' hat, /r v/ek he is Will he a Heavy Producer Some Day. *t«. truly thankful. < Lakes a Total Less. Net«.n 5'«>. B. C. Captain Troup, who is quite an en John D. Macdonald, who lias been thusiast on photography,'lost a //;• M » AULT, • " The steamer Columbia,' running be Mr??voting iii the Kootenay district camera. When last seen alive. -.'- J!ETOR. tween Kevclstoke and . Northport ''•• i've years, was in Nakusp this was trying to make a snap-she/!, w. was burned at 1.30 a. m., last jChurs- -. •'/•;. /Macdonald is one of the men The Bar is .icvVi ^.M« f. -ilnest braiirts of the local and thrilling surreiv:.'.ia«;., Wines , Lirju'j"-, ..-•!•' '.I-::, i -• day. At the time of the, disaster she \v'-.() ioe.-i ted the town of Bear Lake,'"- MI., i jilt misled hnding the, Lucky. was tied up for the .night,* 'at the Capt. Gore, -Pursei Ander- .-:- , v ,th> . i/x io interested in five claims; wood-pile, across the river jfixmi Say- Steward Tompkins have been •; in the i ifirdeau, known as the Sir ward. All hands, except tlie-watch ferred to the Lytton. This hon ha-< - NAKUSP, J3. T3., • .h,ii,j ar.d Glengarv groups, and has man were in bed at the time. The been the bread-winner of the line. cwiu/h.i'-d tlie assessment work on fire broke out from what cause couldjnot and will, no daubt, keep up her re tlie i.:u:ir.:,uTy. ,11c has two tons of Corning &, Rodd, Props, be learned,' in one of the aft cabins on cord, this season.. o>v, on r.he liuinp, and expects to make the engine room floor, generally oc LIFE ON CARIBOO CREEK. a slirpjneui" as souu as the wagon road . cupied by deck hands. The watch reaclies Ttout lake. The ledge from - man had visited that part of the boat which the/ere is taken is 15feet wide, The bar is stocked with the .finest a few minutes before the flames made Or the Ups and Downs of the Yellow Metal Hunters. carrying a .-.J inch vein of ore. The. brands of wines, liquors • ! their appearance and noticed nothing as.say,4ru.H as high as 1003 ounces/ and ci°f»»v ' ' wrong. Ben Edington, the cook, was ;,i.e fve.rago for silver being 315 ozs., _ !/ aroused by the fire in - his room-. He About 75 men are working at tiro v/ijli a sl-roug tracing of gold and LilOiaJ^Jl' (endeavored to smother- It with a diggings. ^s'av i:opper. Those claims arc on ! blanket but his efforts; -were - of no t!ic o])positc divide, from the Black aYail Billy Pyer is packing lumber to NAKUSP B. C. " [ - The alarm sounded through Prince, where ab >nt a dozen men are : the diggings. He receives in the j the steamer, and everybody had all neighborhood of §60 a thousand feet working. The f) ~i\iation in that sec-' $^tlie,wprk^ •tioii ;J:s,contact.osl^ii,e,-and lime,--^bluish :white/:;gmhite;^and- ;;pcrphyrry.-. It • >r managed to pick up; ih their hur- ;/The mbsquit^ at Burton City/ and it is possible to seeni/tod3e;a cornitry :of.large;bodies Beautifully situated on the Lnko <->hore .>• • thVs en • » LSCI ; filglltv •El ve- passengers were take;a; ?;&• -"•#: .& •w ZENITH / ^r~iAw^ locan iwis..-.,of tuicies. CGaJra =rassi»rau!eB=roe1 tlie.'completion ore. will fee brought to NaJaisi Slocan Railroad, Thousandsof tons of steamer for Revelstoke, mines of the Slocan, and loMect OH the Gold and Silver'JLeclges -have The town -.already contains.- Si miles of with otels,. welling IJ a capacity»/ of '30^000^-^ ^>- Q t^> %_f ^J ' feet peSd^-pr» '-^H- onses, Stores > a; m Shop and many other buil lug's- :Oiises,;'B aqksxnith ••*,; disease auo xieatn;. FOSTER & WINTER'S It takes a long time for a well-known The l 0. .'Jini nwar< fact to pass from the tahles and statistics RESTAURANT of a board of health through the imagin B^a'icrs in WHOLESALE KETAIL ation to the conscience of the people. NEW DENVER, - - - - B. C, But, when it is clearly understood thai;, Pianos, Organs, Musicians' Sup in a city say of one hundred thousand plies, Sewing- Machines, and Is one of the best in the Slocan'dis people, at least three unnecessary deaths OYSTERS, trict. Call in. in a thousand occur each year, some- « upplies. thing will happen. That means the j ai'OKANE, WASH. FISH & unnecessary deaths of three hundred V^r-.^T i *rn people each year. If such deaths are K ^ U i. T" T> V unnecessary, they are preventable. If BONANZA CITY MlBi, they are preventable, somebody is re sponsible for their occurrence.* Three SLOGAN LAKE. 11 ITovx.it i ;I Street, hundred deaths of persons, the majority of whom are children under five years. Plenty oi accommodations for trav- SPOKANE, WASH. RAILWAY. of age, produced by tlie intentional ad-' THE 8T^A.TJEI? ministration of sewer gas, malaria, ellcrs. Good beds and good meals. impurT dunking water, the g^rT'of I Hav stockcd with wines, liquors and disease, or any of the well-known I cigars. i x-.it REVELSTOKE TIME TABLE. poisons which are as deadly as arsenic, would excite such horror that JOHN MADDEN, Prop. AthmtU* KxpivsK arrives at 10:10 Daily the civilized world would ring with the G. L. EST A BROOKS, - MASTER. ;3a<'ilie " ** 17:10 «• news. The difference between the in NEELANDS BROS., Leave New Denver at 7 a.m. for Silvertoii. tentional production of the causes of diseases and the li'eglect of them after 5 Leave. New Denver at 8:30 a.m. for Honun.a they are known to exist is small. When NELSON. B.C., City. . r]:i'api.»i, mo-! ivliahlc and safe route toMon- the imagination fairly realizes the fact, j Leave Bonanza City at 12 noon for New Dl-siver. the neglect will no longer be unconscious j isv.ii, TVrouto, St. Paul, Chicago, New York, Landscape Photographers . i:d Boston. Kales & (o *1<) lower than any olhor or unintentional. The happy, prosper- j SLOGAN TRADING & NAVIGATION Co...(Ltd.) A T,-... V route. ous and healthy numbers of society will ! rr i , ~ *.•*. ^ W. C. McKINNON. be compelled to know the facts, to know KeeP a larSe entity of Architypes the causes of disease and death, to know Secretary Specially fitted Colonist Cars, .in charge of a and Steel Engravings in stock porter, for the accommodation of passengers hold how they may be prevented, and choose a whether they will or will not apply the Pictures framed to order. CANADIAN • • , ing ••ccond-cla s tickets. remedies. Then, the diiforence between the intentional production of disease and DOCTOR Passengers booked to and from all European the intentional neglect of that which PACIFIC points at lowest rates. causes disease will be too small to satisfy Low freight rates. Quick despatch. Merchants the conscience of those who allow the J..KB. ROGERS, will save money by haviug their freight routed via process to go on.—Christian Register. •tlie C.P.R. KASLO, B. C. PACIFIC DIVISION,- Cause and Effect. COLUMBIA & KOOTENAY BRANCH. Full and reliable information given by applying Tom.—It was trouble that drove Graduate, of Trinity University, To to Lushley to drink. ronto. Member of college Physi Jerry.—Yes; but the trouble was TIME TABLE NO. 3, GEO. McL. BROWN, I. T. BREWSTER, whiskey • cians and Surgeons, Ontario. To take effect on Saturday, May 19th, 1894. Asst Gen. Freight Agent, Local Agent, A Double Action Well. ""% "9" Trains We4. Station. Trains East. Vancouver. Revelstoke. 10 SO Depart NELSON Arrive 20 45 A flowing well at Isabella, Mich., pro Ufi 50 Kootenay Crossing 20 251: duces wrigglers in great numbers. U7 85 Slocan "Crossing 19 40; These little animals are constantly 18 15 Arrive ROBSON Depart 19 00 UMBIA k KOOTENAI bursting in the water in the, barrel, and, Trains from. Nelson will wait arrival of boat coming to the top, unfold wings and fly from Bonner's Ferry and Lake Points on Wed Steam Nav. Co., Ltd, away. The atmosphere, however, is so nesdays and Saturdays. KASLO CITY, B.C. ; Flag Stations. cold that fchey do,not get far before they iJSTAbove Trains will run Tuesdays, Wednes fall into the snow. days, Fridays and Saturdays. The only practical Watchmaker in The Company reserve the right to change this In Effect Thursday, July 12th, 1894. Almost Human, the Kootenay District. Orders- by Time Table without Notice. Dew is a great respecter of colors. To Pacific Standard and 24 hour system adopted. prove this take pieces of glass or boards mail receive prompt attention. REVELSTOKE ROUTE— and paint them red, yellow, green oi H. ABBOTT, J. HAMILTON, STR. COLUMBIA. black. Expose therh at night and yon GeneralS rt., Trainmaster & Agent, ALL WORK GUIRANTEED. Vane uver. Nelson. (Connecting with the Canadian Pacific Rail will find that the yellow will be covered way for all Eastern and Coast Points.) with moisture; tha,t the green will be , KASLO & NEW DENVER Leaves Robson on Wednesdays and Saturdays at damp, but that the red and the blacls 8 p.m. will be left perfectly dry. I-.FBDS. k I en Leaves Revelstoke on Tuesdays and Fridays at o a.m. Enormous Passenger Traffic. MAIL STAGE AKD FREIGHT LSN Within a six mile radius of Charing RAILWAY. Cross, London, there are 270 miles of NORTHPORT ROUTE— railway and 255 stations, and within, a STR. COLUMBIA. twelve mile radius over 400 miles of line Stages leave Kaslo daily at 8 a.m. Nelson & Fort Sheppard (Connecting at Northport for points north and and 301 stations. The average number for New Denver. Returning- will south on the Spokane Falls & Northern of passengers carried on a week day by leave New Denver for Kaslo at Railway.) the public conveyances of London, in same hour. RAILWAY. Loaves Robson Wednesdays and Saturdays at 4 a.m. cluding omnibuses, is 2,500*000. The to L aves Noithport Wednesdays and Saturdays at tal for last year is 777,000,000. Satisfaction is Guaranteed. 1 p.m. A Valuable Consignment. ALL BAIL, ROUTE TO SPOKANE. A consignment lately passed through A. J. SCOTT, KASLO ROUTE—STR. NELSON. Berlin on its way from Paris to Russia. '•'• Manager. Leaves Nelson Tuesdays at 3.p.m.; Wednesdays, It consisted of valuables amounting to ..••: 5:40 p.m.; Fridays, at3 p.m.;, Saturdays, at 5:40 280,000,000 of francs' worth, packed in The onlyuy, through route from Nelson, Kaslo, i».m. Connecting on Saturdays and Wednesdays wooden cases, and distributed among A.eOOPERABBS Kiootena y Lake and all Slocan with Nelson & Fort Sheppard" Railway for Kaslo Points. and Lake points. three passenger carriages in the charge Leaves Kaslo for Nelson, connecting, with Nel of thirty attendants. V son &. Fort Sheppard Railway, for Spokane and ATTORNEY Through Trains Semi-Weekly. noints south,'-'on 'Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2:30 a.m. :' A. Piece of Literary News. SOLICITOR, The Critic announces an interesting Leave 7 a.m. NELSON. Arrive 5:40 p.m. HONKER'S ' FERRY ROUTE—' piece of literary news nothing less than the purchase by Dodd, Mead & Co. of CONVEYANCER, - .STR. NELSON. ; (Connectn election followed by a drouth, and as lean upon, and run to with their troubles, they are not as strong or Published every Thursday. a grand finale the forest fires furnish a brilliant but mighty expensive il self-reliant, as when they have to j. E. BROUSE, M.D. fight their own battles, and live or li . T . L O \V i: il i'. EDI T O R A X D lumination. Today the ozone is per PHYSICIAN die on their own merits. FINANCIER. meated with a smoke that is not thin and the sun looks like a ball of red The destruction by fire of the str. and SURGEON, •11; BSCiill'l i<>>: RATES. fire at a melodramatic entertainment Columbia, the best and most popular O.Vr) V::.\i: ?-;.'.O'.i in. a small town, while the air is boat of the fleet owned by the C. & 1'r.i i-i .i' A.uvrii i i^-. - > iviu- ner iiue iir-.i i:j- .-H-*IIMI. J' ••u!^ ..IT :i.j..- '.iiiv*iiu* ii ijj-ertions, filled with white cinders, gently K. S. N. Co., is a severe loss to the n-• p t: c.; i".<-. ;i: ,-:w •;:,. dropping on the burning sands of Na district, and more particularly to her A. COCHRANE, kusp as gracefully as the Beautiful T.) CiJi; 1 lilBL'TORS. owners. The company haa met with NOTARY PUBLIC C^rro* > -iidcmv Jr.*::: .<\vvy partoitli<' KooU.nay does in January, when the sands are several small losses aireadv, and and Districi .ni'l ,"<»ui.:i'i:ii.-..li.ui> upon live topics not burning. this calamity coming in the dullest GENERAL AGENT, ahray-< .U'iv..t,;li!c. Write on both sides of the paper if you v.-:-ii. Always .-end .-omelhingg^od. What is next on tlie programme of season, that they have ever had is Ruvelstoke, B.C. no inalter iiow ( rode. Get your copy in while it events, no one can tell. It might be very trying to those.interested. i li >t. mm \w will d" the iv.4. an earthquake, or perhaps an era of We miss the Columbia as though G. M. SPENCER, good times might set in. Anything some friend had left us. We have TilCRSDAY, AUG.'J, 1894 but the latter for us, We could not enjoyed many pleasant trips on the stand it. We are too conservative. irber and CAr*?S HANDICAPPED. cremated steamer, and often from We have become so accustomed to the lofty pilot-house have we . feasted every stage of adversity, from wet our ideality upon the matchless monn- W. B. Capi-S Jives--in Tennessee, feet to waiting for a pass on the Kaslo tain scenery- as it seemed to glide Hairdresser. and is an Adventisfc in religion. & Slocan railway, that we could not past in panoramic procession. It was SLOCAN AVE. .NAKUSP, B.C Members oi this religious sect believe possibly bear-to have our pockets always delightful to travel on this in keeping Saturday instead of Sun lined with yellow.coin, and oitr cheque palace steamer, and her destruction Buy day as a holy day. Some time ago, good at any bank. will be regretted by the travelling Your Goods Capps, who is a poor man was arrest If such a thing should come to pass public. ed for working 011 Sunday and fined. we would go out to some sylvan glade, FROM : He appealed his case to the .Supreme lie down on the fern-covered terra On Wednesday last Nelson was vis Cfo.urt, but the judgment of the lower firma, turn our optics towards the ited by Misslmandt and Miss Maxwell court was affirmed, and in conse starry firmament, take off our boots, who, representing the Dundee Courier W.CO quence, as lie did not, or could not swallow Brown's press, muzzle and a paper of standing in Scotland, are Wholesale pay his fine he will have to serve go up, or down the golden stairs to travelling throughout Ganada as about fifteen months in prison. Re another sphere in our stockinged feet. guests of the Dominion Goverment. ligious Liberty Associations in the Force of habit is very strong, and to Their .stay in Nelson was short, but IN United States are making a loud cry lose the hard times we have cherish the few hours they had to spend here "":: the matter, claiming that Capps is ed so long would be too much to bear. were absolutely wasted. Mr. Bigelow WINES, a martyr to a tyrannical law. We We could not do without the excite as (we suppose) a leading J. P. and pro LIQUORS, do not think so. He has no right to ment of dodging the sheriff, and bably in the (fortunately) very \ dim |AND CIGARS, break the law of the State he livesin. sleeping on the lowly but virtuous future, a Mayor, of Nelson undertook Revelstoke, - - B.C. I'd his religious scruples aro such that floor. We do not want quail for dinner to convoy the party'round, Arid what he considers it a sin to work on Sat or a leather bed to slumber in. They did he show them? The Hospital, the. urday lie should keep the two days would ruin our health. • Still we are sacred and not defy the law of the Canyon and (great heavens) the. RE The nof- afraid to bet a Cariboo' creek SERVOIR !!! What were you thinking land. There are too many pleas and placer against the Bank of Montrerl, pretexts in the United States for dis ot. George? We have one of the finest' that it would be our luck to wake up silver mines in the'world here. You Nakusp obeying the law with impunity. The some morning and find an excited sooner the courts over the line deal should haye got an express wagon mob waiting to pay a years sub., in and four .horses and- you should have out justice with a sterner hand then frigid cash, to the only paper on the Sawmill they have djne in the past, the soon sent those ladies away marvelling at great Arrow lakes. r_*fc5u er will the constant turmoil and strife the riches of the Silver King. Re that is ever present disappear, and member that they are amongst us AVING- placed some new other nations will not sneer as much The Kaslo Times is deceased. It takin notes, and faith they'll prent ' Machinery in our Mill, as they do now at their judicial ad- whined a. little before its death, and em." And they will say of Nelson that we are prepared to furnish minstration. as the ( -. jzens did not come to. the it has a neat hospital, a picturesque rescue i. ad to peter out. It was' waterfall and a dirty mudhole called all kinds of Rough and Dres While we think the laws ofanv sed Lumber and . Shingles at run priiK , ily as a campaign sheet a Reservoir* We cannot hear that country should be upheld by the greatly reduced Prices. in the •, >i of the Opposition can they made the accquantance of a sin citizens, we feel sorry for poor Capps. didate . . robably caused him the gle representative man in the place. Fifteen months in prison tor working loss of .•••'- . i votes. The proprietors Nelson Miner. PRICE LIST : on one Sunday is too much. ' Capps were i - .'-.• ihir in the community, should, come to this Province, where and e^ '.•*..•!•.* were ashamed of the Rough Lumber, narrow, $10 oO " "" wide. §11 00 to $12 00 the clutch ot religious superstiution is rag, in iK..-.ies never appeared Joist and Scantling:, sized up to not very strong, and law is dealt out 18 feet long, $11 00 in coiii . with it. 18 ' to 24 ' $12 00 with a more modern tinge to it, then 21 'to 30 ' $13 00 Flooring, T & G, 6 " - $20 00 they have down in Tennessee. ;Would »t not be as well for Canada NOTICE is hereby given that, 30 U . .( A )>, $22 00 V joint Ceiling, 4 " •$22 00 to become more progressive, and cut days after date, I intend to apply, to C "Rustic, $19 00 the political string that binds us to the Chief Commissioner Lands and Shiplap, $14 00 HAVE AND MAY; Surfaced Dressed, $13 00 England? Is the connection worth Works for authority to take and con A liberal discount on large orders for Cash, anything to us? It would, surely vey and divert one hundred inches PETER GENELLE & Co. It would seem that Providence had make us more independent to stand of water from creek, located on J. ,alone, and be called a nation instead Robinson's pre-emption. To divert a special spite at British Columbia, - and more particularly the Kootenay of a colony: We are old enough to water in a southerly direction through GUY BAKBEB, section, this year. Trouble has been walk now, without the assistance of a ditch to cross J. Robinson's pre-emp dealt out in wholesale quantities. the Motherland, and we think that tion, the same ditch to cross a portion Watchmaker and Jeweller. ir would not take much persuasion to of J. Cooper's pre-emption;- ditch to •Last- summer it was the break in the Repairing Neatly and Promptly Exe silver market; in the spring aqua.: be allowed to step out, and put on end on applicant's pre-emption. Wa cuted. pura got the best of us: then came the • our long pants. Countries are like ter to be used for irrigating purposes- men. When they have some one to. Fire Valley, B.C.; July 30th, 1894, REVELSTOKE, B.C. LEDGE CROPPINGS Cummings & Richardson have se. cured a large trade with the hotels of BAKER BROS. & CO Maps of British Columbia for sale a the district, and their business will this office. f continue io increase as the country is VANCOUVER, B.O. When in Kaslo stop at the Great developed. Northern Hotel. Rates reasonable Chas. Van Ness stood on the wharf Headquarters for cool and delicious a few minutes, last Sunday. He was beer. f on his way to the coast, and says it Commission Merchants The blackest thing on earth is a beats creation how business keeps up printing-office towel. The ace of in Nelson. & Wholesale Importers spades is a blonde in comparsion to Mr. and Mrs. Reid. have the sym it. pathy of many friends, in the sad be -OF- A cyclone was here on Monday, reavement they have recently sus and raised the dust. It should have tained in the death of their infant visited Cariboo creek. daughter. The funeral, took place A social dance was given at the on Sunday. Wines, Liquors, and Cigars. , Columbia House last Thursday even ing- OnThe Yukon. Nelson expects to have the electric light turned on this month. Placer mining on the Yukon river, CUMMINGS t RICHARDSON F. W. Jordan & Co., are doing in Alaska is attracting a great deal quite a business with the interior. of attention at present, and a number The low prices cannot fail to always of miners are making for the Yukon DRY GOODS, secure them a large share of the Slo valley. It is estimated that 1,000 can trade. miners and traders are now in that section. Those w-ho enter by way of BOOTS AND SHOES During the past week, for a brief the Chilicat pass generally take a period, Nakusp has had telegraphic small outfit of tools and p. ovisions communication with the outside, but weighing 500 to 700 pounds,. and ex AND HARDWARE fires did not allow it to exist very pect to reach the diggings after five long. or six weeks of climbing of mountains Curly Robinson, is boiling the nu sailing across lakes, gliding down tritious bean, and flipping' the ban the current of the river,, shooting, one nock at the Mountain Chief mine.. or two rapids and making a few por OROOERIES and PROVISIONS at very low prices Mrs. Foster> a colored woman, tages.. Forty Mile Creek is the lar FRESH CANNED OOODS always in stock: well-known in Nelson, died a few gest town" at the diggings. * A charge days ago.. She was the first woman of $5 a hundred "on all freight is re to settle in that town. quired by the-boats plying on the i > The Public School is timed to open river. Flour costs $17 a hundred, A full assortment of Choice CIGARS and TOBACCOS, bacon$40, beans $20, sugar $33, dried next Monday. • i fruit $25 and butter $75. i > The new school building, will be erected oh, Block 10, not far from the site of the present one. A lot WHS do- Railroad News. noted by one branch of the townsite company this week. D. McGillivray, went to Vancouver People in this town desiring to haye on Sunday. NAKUSP, B. C. letters reach Spokane in quick time, The C. & K. road, between Nelson put American stamps on them, and and Robson ;is in operation again. send them out with some of the passen GENERAL MERCHANTS. gers going south on the Lytton. The present speed on the 5T. & S. is 12 miles an hour. , :. ... Miningjnatters are very quiet in : O : East Kootenay at present, and will The I. C. Ci. has. moved their continue so, until better facilities, for supplies from the Green Slide to Na- ; .kusp. transportation are effected. SEE OTTIR. LIST : Twice a week, Spokane, papers Fire, done $6,000 worth of damage reach Nakusp the day after publica to the railroad •, 1 >ridges near Wilson- tion. Tetters take from three to four creek last week. DRY GOODS DEPT. GROCERY DEPT. HARDWARE DEPT. The N.& S. twk is laid to W^1 son days, as they have to gp to Nelson Underwear. Hosiery, Hungarian Flour, Grindstones, '& K' •, • K;-.IV,:- before being sent here. creek. New Denver station will be Mens' Furnishings, Sugars, Bacon, Hams Crosscut &.. Rip Saws, reached in less than 15 days. Mens' Ready Made Coffees, Teas, Spices, Axes and Handles, The Cassiar election took place- ves- A train leaves Nakusp every day Clothing, Jams, Pickles, Oat Nails, Screws, Bolts, terday. The result is sure to be in Gloves, Ribbons, Silks, meal, Biscuits, Round, Flat, Square Iron favor of the Government, as both can for the end of tlie track, at 10 a. ni. Satins, Cashmeres, Canned Vegetables, Oils, Paints, Glass, didates were on that side. W.C. Fraser, is handling the com Melton & Serge Cloths, Canned Fruits, Horse $hoes and Nails, Carpets, Blinds, Cot Dried Fruits, and , Cutlery,/ ' - \" The Lytton, discharged 30 tons of mercial lightning at the end of the : ( ( track. ;•; v .-. •...}•..• :,'' tons, Hats and Caps, Syrups; Glassware, freight at Nakusp on Tuesday. House & Table Linens, Fancy Toilet Soaps, •Crockery, Berry-picking and fishing are the A number of men arrived this week Boots and Shoes. Cigars and Tobaccos, Stationery. two principal amusements of our citi from Revelstoke, to work on the grade near Threei..Eork$,.''->;>•" .. r zens this month. •/. o : . - Trackrlaying was delayed consid About forty Russians iwere aboard erable on the N.& &, last week by Miners can get a complete outfit Were. the'Lytton on Sunday. Tliev were the men having to fight bush fires. going to settle near Calgary, having grown tired trying to make a living Twelve car-loads of bridge timber in Idaho. will be taken to end ©f the track this week. aKusp 9 '. ? ntnmiaimmtimtiaAumAJIIU'arwrfi Why Drunkards See Doublo^ ( AN IMPREGNABLE FORTRESS- £5i In answer to the question; -"Why The Gateway to. tlie Capital of England's Can West's Hotel ioes a drunken man stagger in. his gait • Oldest Colony. and see double?" Dr. J. W. Crosswhite Although comparatively little is known said vesterday: "Double vision is due to of Newfoundland by the outside world, BEAR LAKE, B. C. a want of haririony in the muscles which two things belonging to it have a world control the movements of the eyeball. wide celebrity—Newfoundland dogs and Everything ne^v about the house ex This is owing to; a change effected in the lbo/Narrows? of St. John's harbor. The Supply You cept the whisky and landlord. nerves or nerve centers by the alcoholic former are too well known to require any poison. Inflammation of the nerves and description, but perhaps it may not be un Evcrybodygets a hearty also a lack of energy in the centers of interesting to spend a little time in noting with any welcome and plenty the brain are produced by overdoses of a few points of the; latter. No one who alcohol, and to this disturbance in the has ever seen ''The Narrows" can ever for to eat. center is due the double vision, as also get them, and as St, John's is a port of call GORMAN WEST, - - Proprietor. Via staggering gait produced by the loss for the ocean steamers between England of harmony in the muscles of the limbs. and America, they have been seen by many. Should the muscles of each eyeball not In no other part of the world is there a Blue Ridge Hotel, act exactly as one then a different part work of nature like this. of the visual field is exposed to tlie two W hen we call to mind the vast number ; roii-aa. Each retina,';-acting independ- of shipwrecks that occur off the New- 10 MILES FROM KASLO. tVutly, sees the object, and the impressions foimdland coast and on the "Banks," we conveved to the brain are therefore realize how important it is that there MUSIC Accommodations lor travellers. Good (1 o able instead of • single Were the HI us Bhpnld.be; somewhere in this rocky and in cles acting exactly ..similarly the 'object hospitable shore a refuge for the innumer stables. The bar is stocked with would be seen by the same, part of-each able, vessels which ply these waters.- Such OF cboice Liquors and cigars. Pack retina and thft.impressions,therefore con is found in St. John's harbor, one of the train in connection with the house. veyed to the brain would be single, ex- safest in the world. When .the wildest '•diujiry vision resulting.''—Kansas .City storms are raging outside, and the billows -Vl^SL'O'j^L^j-a.i^ AU Goods taken to any part of the IP' Times.- ; are dashing themselves in fury against the mountains. ; adamantine rocks, scarce a ripple disturbs Opportunity vs. Importunity. - the vjlacid waters of the harbor, for it is snea. MCDONALD BEOS., Props.. I v•'••: The century of missions' • jlist";. closrd securely guarded from the stormy Atlantic '•/'&''•• has witnessed a revolutioii in morals; and by gigantic rocky hills rising perpendicul arly froin the'water. Nature has left only manners more.surprising than that bthbr : revolution "wrought in '.the material .one narrow inlet for vessels to pass through, iviilllti sphere by'the inventions and discoveriua so quite appropriately and naturally this ia r o) the Nineteenth Century. A hundred called "The Narrows." ; Send to us for the N'ewest | ,-: vcav;] back there were but two or threo '••••,, To us it was a surprise, not having 01/ /s • missionary societies in all Christendom'; known anything of it before we were AiiSSnnS. to-day, there are oyer 100 such societies, ; called up on the deck of the boat to see ,; a new one for each year in' the century, it as; we were passing through. The first whose representatives are '.preaching the impression was one of awe at its.-grandeur 'gospel to/every nation under heaven.- and sublimity,- its strength and massive- Parties having good Min= Then there were less than; .fifty versions- ncss,,as we beheld it in the driving rain 6f the Bible-~the entire result of biblical ; storm of an,autumn day. After that we '••;•?v-\WfiLitioii 'since the da,yis; of;the^Apos-" behold it in every variety of the sunshine log Claims to dis= ' jies.;-.;how there are 280. languages^ into. and storm, moonlight and starlight, in '•every' season bfsthe year, and never wearied ^viiich the word of- God. is translated.; and; the Whole Bible; inaccessible, to ^of.'dt-j-V'when-',.sailing'..away, out on the Mail Orders receive j pose of should apply '; nme-teiit'hs of the population of the globe. ; billowy Atlantic, were still to be seen those &•:. ' £heh there wereno women's missionary- ' trim cliffs towering iip like*- giants, as if promr.) t and careful! "agencies; now there are,30 such;brgani- the-guardians of thej laud. .: zntioiis- inAmericai; alone, which contri-;' I-;-; The more important cliff is on the right attention. I bute nearly $2,000,000 per'amium .for, the ' going in; let us ascend it and find what we .', spread "of the gospel. Then most of.•the''; 1 can bee, for it is accessible by a long and heathen nations were, inaccessible- now: . circuitous road, which requires plenty of Ail Publications for . p.Imost every door stands,open, v strength and en durance. One is repaid for the ,The ,watchwoj^d of the century just, necessity of stopping, to rest by the view warded on receipt of NAKUSP, B.Qi .past has been Orjffartuhity; that: of the - with which one is,: rewarded by looking v-^itury just o]>ening should, be.impor- "back,'; and if it' is at the time of sunset, as Publishcr's Price. tur.ity, • ••'..'' ..,•:'V ." ' • ;. ' •'• .'•' ,' • when-we;first'saw it, one is particularly forUinate. ,On the horizon, bounding the .A Y'crsr>t:<« •f^"in^-!. ili/ir'hGiv ';.••••• view, lie1 the rock v. hills for which New- MA ..The following prosp,ecins of a giff ed i foundland is proverbial ; these are projected barber oi: .!•• iireiit.jerg, who .flouri-dred;'• against the sky in all possible shapes, jag in the yearvl040, is published by a Gar-, ged. and broken,; looking as if some fierce .(S-ssafeB-.-' man newspaper : battle had been fought in which they had We respectfully solicit your o •^ \ • "Isaac Makerl, barber, maker of ' been worsted before they took their present •i -» ...ber.ruques. surgeon; dyer, schoolmaster, form. Seen in the distance, they seem.to ' trade. Write to us about : blacksmith and accoucheur, shaves for possess a purple-tinted mist peculiar to fH' a kruetzer, cuts;hair i'or two: iirrietzers,'.•, themselves, foiwjuo i'oliatre . but stunted 'W,;'. includii g pomade for pretty gii'ls, cleans I shrubs protect their sides from the stormy anything in the stoyes,instructs noble young'- persons, ; . blasts which sweep them. without. difiiculty, in the principles of . From there our gaze; falls on the far- Book Line. ; y-i;. grammar and teaches them fin enianriers \ CD spreading valley below, and to those who m as well as thea]pb:ibet. He, puts on heels think Newfoundland is all barren rock thia 'f^|. in a masterly fashion, repairs boots avid i would be a pleasant surprise. A fairer 8 ,.•!-•£*> shoes, teaches the hautboy and the uui:o, •! sight one need not wish to see than the lets.blood, lends on wages, ;gives'lesabns '; suburbs- of St. John's, with its undulating Orders for Blank Books care in the cotillon. and other dances, sells . plain:-., containing lakes and ponds, trees & cosmetics of all kinds, paper, wax, 's'alr. . and streams and well cultivated farms, fully filled. Prices quoted herrings, brushes, mousetraps, various ] dotted over with pretty summer cottages preserves, strengthening herbs,'potatoes', \ of the town people, being conveniently and samples of Pa sausages aiid vegetables. | near tlie city and yet far enough away. \"N; B.—Traches also-chograpliy (?) j and forei.p) 'pn.-ducts- every; Wednesday • Then the-city'itself looks, fair and come per sent, if so ly., situated, or..'the side of the hill, with its. A Tale-Bearing-Sliark. | handsome prforie buildings showing to ad- - desired. A British ship bound for the West j •vantage'; Am iyd these are two magnifi- Indies once fell in with a suspicious- ; one.of them being consid- cent cathedral: ! looking craft having the appearance of : ejvd .tlielLn^st : i-'-eimen of Gothic archi- a slave-trader, and gave chase. During teetiire in A.n;(: the pursuit somethi g.was thrown over- i In studyiu the history of British board from the pursued vessel, which ; "America we h:ivo wondered, perhaps, was captured and taken into Port Roy- I "svhy.. Newfonxuliand never changed <® al to be examined. The ship's papers ; hands, but remained undisturbed '"Eug? were .not forthcoming, and the vessel ; land's Oldest Col-nr/d'' particularly as the was in a fair way to escape condemna fisheries were participated in by several-dif- 1 Wholesale aM Retail Mmmm. tion, when a ship came into port which ferent nations. To one standing on-Signal had caught,a shark, in whose stomach Hill,'this..question 'is answered—No foe J Booksellers.- Stationers, was a. tin box containing the missing could bo rash enough to attempt an en-, | paper.;. These clearly showed that the trance here.. -They, could expect nothing •and Tobacconists* captured craft was engaged in the slave but certain destruction. trade, and proper punishment was met ; .Looking.'down-'the dizzy heights, the ves ed out to her officers. The tin box sels below seem but toy boats and the rneD 60 KAIN STREET: which the sliark swallowed is now in are hardly perceptible. We can see the-' the museum at Whitehall Yard, places in the rocks where chains can be London. placed and streU'hed across the "Narrows,-" \ thus, effectually barriner out all intruders PETEOLIA, Ontario. *', ,r:r—•"ia :=&&:: c R o w f-: s A * J n T I r •_ E S. A Stamp licking Machine. k K i\j i'4 •,fc. A cleverly constructed little machine has •'i -> •m ** * m?u kaiser slaughtered in the North sea been designed for the purpose of affixing I' cu. -=• vi. X" y& last 'summer'..are -to be turned into furnK stamps to letters and circulars, and by. its kire for the.Norwegian boathouso at Pots-, means' the procpss can be carried out .with c..:.. '. o "&•*? '1'' "'••'••• -"S • •! 'dam... •.•'.' . '. •:•'•„•• extraordinary' rapidity.;, The motions of ••".''vJ'.>"'"!! Oi :'1 vVi-va' '••JO. • v i? vi '.'",' •:'; •••'< •.& 'W ' g frm A •&« -/^' ^ •**$.• i^nr I-.1-., V . j detaching, dampening and fixing are all \_.-ount. rocoTimc v !30 ; , a f U S . c> '•; !.• ft, Vij ,; ,K' to ^ or, Oxmru.,, r. ., . ,.,,Washington. r,.,. f ", - attractTi ' fs genera' '' Tl :* pcvribrmedb l _•v• .on •o revolution of'a: small asmugcun • auracts general•. ^hey attached to the machine; From attention on aaqcov.r^ofc ' ms ..statmie and ijm to 5)000 letters an hour enn be avoirdn^oii-. . il e stands'six reet live inches .'stamped,'ari ;... ^ „,,,dn on;,,,—e o *f -«.th«e mos,.,~^t importan:m^^hit in his wtoekingr, and weighs three hundred. advantages of -the-•machine ia that it; will ; •and. iifLy •.pV-'.tiuls.-.'. •-;: •' ..'•'• n\ •• .'•"•' .regi-ttte'r the'-.number of letters thus treated. »? .vJiC-o^t'ivJ 1 -L .;. .a. :Ofanp'c^ ^Lero'ons,."'Aoples,-. Ba-nanas, The carl'of Ava, who has recently come ; ; ;/,"fc>tre't-ton arid ins pretty wU'e-—ror, in Hnd-:all-kii.ids. c* •across 'the"' Atlantic to ' do -the."states. is XT' I •'' /"V • T •• • '" -i deed, Edith was pretty, though I have r a fon specimen o British'' manhood, He never mention eel, it before—-have never, N vi'*~ 4 '? hWsf \"-J •••• H,'i;Br0;,;":.--^h-o jai'gest,-•Bh.i.ppers •-'•ih-..tm ^di.ron^^ rn'jr, ! > ;11> is a sohoer ana jas_ ror .adong time, wag when he wanted the cScene,!from ; B^how:d i-l:icna.with tiis regiment., •; .. Mao0etlr 'hvajgin'thedrawing-roomand' : ; •-, ,;K'ing George,;.-of'Tpnga,;.; in tne .friendly s'she wOnld not have it becaiiseit was;too T. A, Garland, went to lim-e-hfcoke t*n Sunday. Neil Gethinsr, was in fcuw;i OM Sit- The Terminus of the Nakusp & Slocan Railway, urday, He has no stock in the iNew Denver Comique, n.s lie considers lie is sf,ill j-ational i:i his mental ajarfc- V 5 ^ *»•*>, owns at that camp. Kt There is no truth in the rumor that Kaslo would have its name changed Real Est^|^:;>a|i4^^ininS; to .Kane's Landing. : : Hugh Madden has returned from a 605 HASTINGS STREET^!-' -¥;d;^d > B» 0« trip to Bonanza City. A cut of the Columbia, as she was WE WANT before the tire appears in another col umn; OTICE is hwc1>y given that 30 days after date H .1 intend air, .lying' to MQ Gold Commissioner;'' We want a bank in Na for a retail; lieeiiso to , :?el 1 beer, wine, spirits, and Arsenic has been found in the Big- •/other, intoxicating liquor v and beverages at the in outlr of Trout Creek, W est Kootenay District. iiend. Asbestos, exists, but not in kusp, so that business will be :.:...'• HUGH MADDEN. paying quantities in the Lardeau. made easier. '.: M;.ku«ivJuly 2nd, lf®-i, '};-;fd'dd'-:dy-'d-'-"/d'-d;:,-:, H. i\l. .Martin, ever smilimy; and We want a smelter at Na mm: ^5?aM;;|:i| polite, allowed Ids cigarette smoke to kusp. It is the. best point, d.-<;d- v :''•„-.':\/: '':-'''-'wiioLESALE'.;'/-;' •"•;'•: • dd:-.;d ;"• ' mingle'with the atmosphere of our : ;BoGk^>;Stationery,: Office Supplies, city for a short time this week. for that business. and^yall Paper.: T A shipment of 20 , tons of ore from, We want our letters from •' G;rc>'fit''.Ea.sterii:--Bi'c>ck.--: •'".-': '•:'•-'C;:>:d;:c:--:;y •;;.-:' ,; the Josie and 0. K. mines at Trail Spokane at Nakusp, before •;.-:•;..:;; :, fj; -V:!SPOKANB, /WASET. .• went to Tacoma today via iu-vestoke and C. P. Q. the moss grows on them. We want Canad's mint, at J. B. Wilson, of Kaslo, is racier- tine- gg» ..... {J-^-ifx 'at the Springs. Nakusp. Just, the spot fcr : •d\M\':I;'^^^ U. I). Malioney, and tnmib; are in ir. is : town today. We want a Registry office Mm® M