The Keremeos Chronicle
Vol.. II. KKRKMKOS, B.C., FRIDAY, JUNK 4, 1909. No. 11
QEO. KIRBY, FORWARD, MARCH! earth as the , rice of traversing the Cut From Contemporaries. Notary Public. earth, it may be freely forgiven—as WILL BE "HANDS UP" PRETTY OFTEN. REAL ESTATK, MINES. The Iron Horse Is Again Head it doubtless will be even by Hedley Agent for : [Grand Forks Gazette] London & Lancashire Fire Ins. Co. ing For the Pacific. and Princeton—if it makes good in To the people of Grand Forks, Ocean Accident and Guarantee Co. the long run. KKRKMKOS. II. C. The work of track-laying and Cascade, Danville, Curlew, and all bridge-building for the rest of lhe Heavy Sentences. ranchers and others in the Kettle EZRA MILLS, way up the valley, so long delayed, Valley: Realizing that some of the At the assize court at Greenwood is now being resumed in earnest. horses driven in this valley are Contractor and Builder last week Cleve and Bill Newman, On Tuesday a large shipment of afraid of automobiles, and liable to KEREMEOS, B.C. brothers, were found guilty of being material, including full equipment turn a rig over or run away, I wish implicated in the Hridesville holdup for track-laying, arrived in Kere everyone to note that I am desirous C. A. STOESS, last December and were sentenced meos, together with about twenty of taking every precaution against B. C. LAND SURVEYOR. by Judge Morrison to 20 years in more men, including foremen for accidents; and should any person, the provincial penitentiary. IRRIGATION WORKS. the tracking and hridge gangs and driving a horse or team, meet my Ben Hart, who turned King's evi Residence at Old Townsite, or inquire a force of carpenters to build board automobile, if they will raise their at this office. dence, was allowed to go free. On ing cars and put up the false-work j left hand to indicate that they have the night of Dec. 19 the Newman for the first bridge. This and the a skittish or dangerous horse or JOHN KNUDSON, brothers, accompanied by Hart, track to the first bridge are sched team, I vvill at once back my car off held up the Great Northern agent CONTRACTOR and BUILDER. uled to be completed by July 1, as far as practicable, stop the en and the postoffice at Bridesville, se after which the work beyond can he gine, and help them to get safely Estimates Furnished. curing $7(i in all. Workmanship Guaranteed. carried on while the permanent past the automobile. — A. B. W. Ben Hart was arrested a few frame of the bridge is put in place. Hodges, Manager Granby Smelter. weeks later and confessed to the Ballasting for the track in this sec LAMENT NO. 4731. JIMILKAMEEN crime, implicating the Newmans, tion will be taken by steam shovel From the Princeton Star.] LO. L. No. 1770 who were afterwards extradited from the hill just east of the town When the V.,V. & K. is complete Meets Tuesday on or before from Washington State. At the lha full moon in each tnonlh an operation that will greatly im-' many hundreds of coast dwellers in Keremeos Town Hall trial Hart's evidence was corrobor prove the present highway by wid vvill come here to 'build up' and es Visiting members cordially invited. ated by a woman who made masks ening it. The work on this section cape the enervating climate there, C. L. (_'l MM1NC.S, W, M. for the men, also by the Great D. McCi Ri.v.R. S. will employ a large number of men but when, ah, when ! Not even J. Northern agent and the postoffice during the summer, and go a long J. seems to know or care. clerk. The Newmans offered no i Stage Lines. way to making a busy season for defence, but asked for leniency. the town. Kl.lKR STAliK. The Masons of Grand Forks are Leaves Kereineos daily, except Sunday, It is figured that the road can Irrigation By Current Wheel. building a fine temple, to be opened nt noon, arri.es at Medley 3 p.m. now be completed to Princeton by i this fall. Leaves Medley ilaily, except Sunday, A current wheel has been erected October 15, that is with everything al N a.m., arrives al Keremeos II a.m. and is now in successful operation A million and a quarter acres of Onlv through connecting stage between going full speed and nothing to de-' Penticton, Keiemeos, Medley & Princeton. on the Similkameen river. Planned free homesteads, tributary to the lay it. Such conditions, however, I). Gn.l.ESPIK, Proprietor. and built by Messrs Sorge, Bratz G.T.P., vvill be thrown open for are not to be expected, and if the and QiUUtt during last winter and settlement this year. KKRKMKOS HKDI.KV MAIL SIM.I. Princetonians get for next Christ Leaves Keremeos daily, except Sunday, this spring, it is now delivering nt I p.m.; connecting wilh all siagrs east mas that turkey they were expect-, W. D. Currie of Kamloops has about 20 miners' inches of water and west, arrives in Medley al 5 p.m. ing for last Christmas, but which been appointed by the provincial Leaves Medley daily, except Sunday, at for use upon their lots in sub-di was delayed owing to circumstanc government as a lecturer on irri 8 a.m., arrives in Keremeos at II a.m. vision 458, being part of the Web D. J. INNIS, Proprietor. es over which it had no control, gation, and vvill visit the different ster estate. The wheel, which they vvill probably feel satisfied - irrigated districts in the near future. KKRKMKOS PKNTICTON MAIL Sr.vuK. weighs about three tons, is 11 feet Leaves Keremeos for Penticton on Mon- even though il should have become W. T. Shatford has agreed to d.iv., Wednesdays and Fridays, al noon. wide and II feet in diameter, and a trifle high hy lhat time. The Leaves Penlicion on Tuesdays, Thurs- raises 0 boxes 3 feet long, one foot transfer to the Municipality of Pen time counted on for putting a bridge- d.ivs and Saturdays at 6 a. m., arriving in wide and one foot deep and dumps ticton, free of cost, all the lakeshore Keremeos al noon. in place is two weeks, and there are W. E. WKLBV, Proprietor. the water into a flume at the high frontage from Winnipeg street to five bridges four over the Similk est point of the wheel. For a the Okanagan river, except one Keremeos Directory. ameen and one over 20-Mile Creek. foundation the wheel has a sub acre reserved for a bridge approach. The rale of track-laving according stantial rock-filled crib and he;rvy The Spokane Orator is authority Board of Trade George Kirhv, Presi to schedule is a mile a day. So, al logs project from either end between I dent; R. II. Carmichael, Secretary. for the statement that M. K. Rod lowing for contingencies, the end of which the wheel is suspended. For | Similkameen Farmer.' Exchange J. J. gers has secured an option on the 190*' should see the completion of raising and lowering according to Armstrong, President; W. M. Frith, Secy. Nickel Plate for several million. Public School Hoard George Kirby, R. the road to Princeton. the height of water in the river, the and is trying to sell the property lo Elmhirst, I). J. Innis Secretary. The long delay in continuing the wheel is supplied wilh a lever and Customs' Office W. M. Frith, Sub-Col certain parties whose names are not road westward from Keremeos has ratchet attachment around which a lector. divulged. Presbyterian Church Kev. A. II. Cam been a sore grievance to the inhab cable is fastened, the same being eron, Pastor. itants ofthe upper valley, many of connected wilh either side of the John Sharp, the religious fanatic Constable and IVputv Game Warden wheel at the steel axle. The own known to his followers as "Adam M. H. Kwart. whom builded for the future and in Coroner Pr. M. I). McEwen. vested their capital in full assurance ers confidently expect that vvith a God," who made a good deal of Justices of lhe Peace T. W. Coleman. that they would have railway facil few more added improvements trouble in Canada last year, was Frank Richter. ities at once. Naturally their re which they intend to put into action convicted last week at Kansas, Mo., Postmaster and Telephone Agenl Geo. of murdering a policeman, and sen Kirby. peated disappointments and actual at an early date, the current wheel Member of Parliament Martin Burrell, losses have soured them on James vvill deliver twice the amount of tenced to 25 years imprisonment. Grand Forks, P. O. J. and all his ways. Yet it is water now being raised. We may Member Provincial Assembly—L. W. The properties of the Dominion Shatfoid, Penticton P. O. doubtful if any particular blame is say that the engineers of this truly Copper Co. at Phoenix and Bound Town Hall- J. J. Armstrong, Mgr. due him. The G.N.R. is not the skilful piece of work are Messrs 1". arv PaHe were put up at auction at Great Northern Uy—Daily train, arrives Only system lhat was checked in its C. Sorge and K. Bratz of Pincher Vancouver. The highest bid was I0:.W a. m., leaves at 2 p.m., W. O. Stev Creek, Alta. Ihis is the first cur ens, Agent. forward career by Ihe great panic only $150,000, and the property Mails-Daily from Ihe west via Hedley of 1907 and forced to mark time rent wheel ever seen or built by was withdrawn. The assets of the Stage; from east via C. N. Ry.; Tri-week until thc fountain of capital resim- either of them and their work be company in liquidation are claimed ly via Penticton Stage from the north. ed its flow. And as the only road trays real genius in themselves for to more than offset the liabilities, (For Mercantile and other Business in work of this description. which are about $900,000. stitutions see advertiements in this paper.) in Canada that doesn't want the FIFTY YEARS IN B. C.' profterion. The following year I When in I had charge of a party of C.P.R. Keremeoa Hon. Edgar Dewdney Tells of surveyors, who ran a line up the etop at the Central Hotel His Eventful Career. Coquahala from Hope to Nicola. We then ran a trail location up the Special attention to Having come to this country in North Thompson as far as* Albrida Commercial Men, 1859 as a young man, Hon. Fdgar lake and in the fall finished some Tourists and Land-seekers. Dewdney, who has played one of uncompleted work between the 100- the leading parts in the develop Mile house and a line run by Mahon Headquarters for all Stage Routes. ment of British Columbia, celebrat from the east. During that year I ed his jubilee on Friday. was returned unopposed as mem Livery Stable in connection. Mr. Dewdney arrived in Victoria ber for the Dominion house to rep via Panama, from London, and his resent Yale and Kootenay. I sat Good table. first year in thc then almost un for this constituency until 1879, Large, airy and known province was one of the ful having been returned in 1874 again, comfortable rooms. lest and most active years of his in after a contest, and by acclamation Eree 'bus to and from teresting career. Victoria in 1859, in 1878. all trains. as Mr. Dewdney can tell, was a "In 1879 I went to the North Hudson Bay post, sheltering a west at the urgent request of Sir sparse colony of settlers and most John A. Macdonald to take charge Tweddle & Elmhirst, - - Proprietors. of the officials of the company, the ofthe Indians, who at that time latter having arrived in 1858-9. were hungry and angry, the buffalo Following bis first work in the having virtually left the country. I province— the surveying of the site remained in the Northwest until of New Westminster — Mr. Dewd 1888, during seven years of which ney and some companions settled time I vvas lieutenant-governor and on an island iu the mouth of the for two years Indian commissioner. Fraser river, and went to making I vvas then asked by Sir John A. hay at the rate of $100 a ton de Macdonald to join his administra The Big Store. livered at Fort Douglas. Speaking tion, as minister of the interior, of those pioneer days, Hon. Mr. after the death of Thos. White. I Dewdney said : vvas returned by acclamation for "In 1860 I took a contract to East Assiniboia and held my port SEEDS construct a mule trail from Hope to folio under the premiership of Sir Similkameen and the following year John A. Macdonald, Sir John Ab 1 undertook to build the first sec bot and Sir John Thompson, who Alfalfa, Timothy, Clover and Lawn tion of the wagon road from Hope appointed me lieutenant-governor Grass. RENNIE'S SEEDS, in pack to the Similkameen on the then of B. C. I held the position five Hope trail. The following year I years and have resided permanently age and bulk, guaranteed fresh and .pent the summer in Cariboo, in the province ever since. reliable. whither I walked from Yale. My "In many enterprises in which I time vvas occupied in surveying have been engaged I have not been BOOTS AND SHOES Williams creek, both surface and very successful, but when one failed underground from its headwaters. another turned up. Thai is the In the autumn 1 walked down to way in British Columbia, for its re Our summer stock of Ladies', Gents' the coast after a very successful sources are so varied that no one and Children's boots and shoes con season, and wintered in Victoria, need he afraid of taking his chances where all the miners who wished in the province, which today 1 con tains a wide range for selection. for a change and some excitement sider cannot be excelled for good Our leader, THE CANADIAN came for the winter months. In opportunities and affording excel I8(i4 I put in another successful lent chances of success." GENTLEMAN. year in the Cariboo district, where Hon. Bdgar Dewdney is 74 years I got the job of superintending the old. Over six feet high, of military DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS construction of the Koulinan trail appearance, a gentleman of the old from Similkameen to Wild Horse school, he still retains much of the creek, and the same season I also | extraordinary vigor which has char- Great variety of Prints, Ginghams laid out the road from Cache creek j aclerised his career in this province, and light summer wear. Full and lo Savona. 1 Even now he is unsatisfied to take "In I8M> I explored and superin-j his otium cum digitate, but is still complete stock of Notions. tended the construction of a trail j evolving schemes, and thinking out from the mouth of Bridge river near plans in connection with his pro GROCERIES Lillooet lo Tyacton creek, and that fession. Illustrative of this is the an lumn again went to Cariboo lo f,Kt that in concluding the ahove A carload of choice, fresh Groceries give evidence in some important interview, he stated he had an ap- Rlining disputes. The following pointmenl vvith the premier in con- just placed on the shelves year I purchased a farm at Soda j nection with a railway scheme in creek, and cairied that on for three British Columbia which he hopes to or four years, practicing my engin-| start work upon this summer. Coring prolession during the sum Vancouver Province. "Royal Standard" Flour. Rolled mer months. In I8<>8 1 was elect ed a member at the legislative Oats. Bran. Shorts. Feed Wheat. Stanley Kida, the Austrian who council, which at that time vvas was arrested at Revelstoke for put partly elective and partly nominated ting obstructions on the railway by the crown. During 1869, 1870 track, has proved himself a Tartar and 1871 I practiced my profession. to handle. After spending a day in A pleasure to show our goods. I subsequently vvas appointed a the lock-up he became tired of con member of Lieutenant-governor finement, wrenched Ihe iron grating Musgrave's council during the times from his cell and fled. Recaptured at Sumas, he submitted quietly to that the terms of union were being Keremeos Commercial Go arrest, but objected to handcuffs carried through the local house. and broke them from his wrists. "In 1872 I sold my farm at Soda I Before Judge I'orin lie was sentenc- creek and was again busy at my j ed to four years imprisonment. M WMJ «"- ~ -\W\WkitWM * t tr-me—r-y*.——-,, -, \r*r-.t——,i *u .——*,, u irip-inni w i . .. . TOMMY SING. Earl Grey on B.C. Fruit Country Contracts For Work. Land scrubbed or any kind of Residents of Keremeos will re A Few Facts work taken by contract at reason member well the visit of the Gover able rates. nor General last fall, and his ex KEREMEOS. pressions of admiration for the beauty of this part of the province About the Similkameen Land Division. and its wealth of natural resources. DISTRICT OF YALE. T"AKE NOTICE that I, Morton D. McEwen, of After his return to Ottawa he wrote Similkameen Valley. *-_ Keremeos, physician, intend to apply fnr pi mission to purchase the following ilescrtntsl lands: to Premier McBride relating the in Commencing at a post planted 20 chains soulh and 20 ehains west ofthe south-west corner nf H. Noad's cidents of his trip, dwelling espec pre-emption, No 198s, thence soulh *t0 chains, thence It is east -10 chains, thence north 40 ehains, tlienee west ially on his camping experiences in 40 chains to point of commencenient, containing 160 the wilderness of the Kootenays. acres more or less. Purpose required, pasture land. The Furthest West MORTON I). MCEWEN. Of the Similkameen and other fruit May 15th. 1909. The Furthest South valleys he says : The Lowest in Altitude J. A. BROWN, "Wherever I went I found the Notary Public. same enthusiasm and confidence in The Most Tropical CONVEYANCING. CUSTOMS BROK the future of the fruit industry. ERAGE. FIRE INSURANCE. With the necessary irrigation, trans Of the Fruit Valleys of British Columbia. OFFICE - - - - KEREMEOS, B.C. portation and labor secured, every yard of that country to which water MISS LOWNDES, can be led will be tinder orchard. When a country or region be interior. For this reason, compar If your fruit industry is properly comes noted for a particular pro atively near as we are to the coast, Teacher of Pianoforte and Accompanist (certificated Royal College of Music, Lon pushed and cared for, your fruit duct in agriculture, the primary- the quantity of rainfall at Kereme don) open to engagement for accompan iments. Terms on application. valleys will soon show a larger reason will always be found to be os is approximately ten times less MEDLEY, B.C. number of happy, prosperous, the peculiar adaptability of soil and than at Vancouver. High as are wealth producing, beautiful homes climate to that product. A second the mountains, too, these interior to the square mile than will be ary reason may be the aptitude and valleys are some of them quite low- found in ten times a larger area in tastes of the people, but even these in altitude, which is of as much im P. BROMLEY, any other part of Canada. are an outcome of circumstances portance as latitude in its effect on "I have traveled much but I have rather than a controlling cause. So temperature. GENERAL never seen any district offering in a when a country is famed for one Shelter from cold winds, expos greater degree a combination of thing, as France for wine, Manitoba BLACKSMITH. ure to the warmth of the sea, low splendid climate, beautiful scenery, for wheat, or the Southern Stales altitude and light rainfall—these, rich land and convenient situation." for cotton, we look to the soil and then, are the chief factors affecting In the course of his letter the climate for the reason; and, looking the climate of what vve may call the Horse-shoeing a Specialty Earl tells of a bit of tradition which a little further, find the reason for fruit /.one. And it is in the Similk he picked up in the course of his the soil and climate, and wherein ameen that each of these exerts its journey : and why they are different from most potent influence* "1 an sorry to say that at the those of other lands of similar KEREMEOS, B.C. lower end of the Toby creek wagon latitude. While the prevailing trend of the road timber of a whole mountain valleys is north and south, that of side has been destroyed, with the Why, then, has a certain portion the Similkameen is rather north AT result that there is a huge blot upon of the interior of Southern British west and south-east, thus providing the otherwise- lovely landscape. Columbia been found to excel in a more complete and effective shel Keeler's Restaurant the production of tender and lus This was the work, twenty years ter than that enjoyed by the dis You can get cious fruits? And why, further, is ago, of a prospector named Monis- tricts which are more or less open Meal Tickete & Bread Tickets. on, who fired the hill, from top to the Similkameen valley endowed in to the north. a higher degree than any other Twenty-one Meals for Six Dollars. bottom, in his anger and disap with the favorable conditions that Of all the valleys of the fruit zone pointment at not finding any paying conduce to success in fruit growing ? the Similkameen is furthest west Hereafter our loaves will be of regular minerals. The fire overtook him, and nearest the sea, which means nniform weight which wo will sell as follows and he was only saved from the fate A glance at the map will show- warmth; furthest south, which also One for ten cents. he deserved by lying two days in Three for twenty-five cents. that the main physical feature of means warmth; and lowest in alti the creek. I am told that he after Fourteen for one dollar. British Columbia is a succession of tude, which again means warmth. wards boasted in public that he had mountain ranges whose general As a result vve have the earliest Pies, Cakes, Doughnuts or Biscuits "burned the whole damned country direction is north and soulh, vvith season -and what an advantage made when ordered. to hell." Fortunately the change long valleys of more or less width that is iu marketing every grower of sentiment on matters relating to lying between. To the east, the knows. forests is such that no one would Rockies and the Selkirks, the high G. G. KEELER. make such a boast now wilh im The Similkameen has a very est ofthe ranges, effectually shelter punity." light rainfall qvite insufficient for KEREMEOS, B. C. the interior from the cold winds farming without irrigation aiul the that flow unimpeded from the supply of water for this purpose is Hon. Edgar Desrdney was in Arctic across the broad level plains. unlimited and conscquentlv has a town a short tine on Monda) on On the west lies the Pacific, the great deal of sunshine. And sun- his ie!uin lo Ihe coast niter a trip controlling factor in lhe climate of j shine and warmth are what produce Tinsmithing. via Nicola to the Princeton district, British Columbia. A much vaster the great yields, large size and whore lie hits large business inter body of water than the Atlantic, its j brilliant coloring of the fruits of the ests. His present errand was in influence on the lands that border it All kinds ol Sheet Metal Work in district, whose merits have been re connection with the lumber mill at is proportionately greater. From Tin, Copper, Sheet Iron, etc. peatedly demonstrated hy the cap Princeton, in which he is interested, the south-west, the prevailing di ture of medals and prizes. and which is preparing to operate rection of the winds, a strong cur EAVETKOUOHINC. A SPECIALTY. on a large scale in view of the ap rent of warm, moisture-laden air Mr. Maxwell Smith, Dominion Plumbing. Pipe fitting and cutting. Pumps repaired. proaching completion of the railway sweeps upon the coast and yields Fruit Inspector, says of the Similk —o— to Princeton, now definitely assured its excess of moisture on the west ameen that it is "perhaps the most for this summer. Mr. Dewdney is ern slopes of the high coast range; tropical of any part of British Col Don't Throw Away one of the very first of British Col then, robbed of its dampness but umbia, and most favorable location Your old graniteware. Have it re umbia's old-timers, both in point of not of its warmth, sweeps eastward for the cultivation of grapes, peach paired. Vol Peek Granite Cem time and position, having recently through the sheltered valleys of the es and other delicate fruits." ent will fix the holes and make completed his fiftieth year in the it as good as new. west. An interesting sketch of his H. B. Meausette, life will be found on another page Come and See It During the Summer. [Over Keremeos Hardware Store.] of this issue. country. "You have in B.C.," he The Keremeos Chronicle. says, "what is probably the richest Published every I'riJm .it Wm tWet, and most remarkable timber area in latatwmmt, ll.C Subscription $2.1X1 ;i year, $1.00 tor nix molltll», the world. As the premier industry Royal Standard in aJv.-unv. Advertising Rates. Lafftl notices, Ue ttt jine of the province it is criminal that fir.t insertion. 11V per line e.i.li subsequent insertion. Land notices Certificates nf improvement,ete.. $K.(X1 you have no organization for the for (Way notices. $5.00 for JWay notices. Contract Flour Coupons. display advertising'. 19e> per *—t P-r week. . Tran protection of the timber. There sient advertisements, such as Lost, Found. W'anted. etc., not exeeetlintj one inch. $1.
More people eat fruit and people eat more fruit, to-day, than at any time in the past. (Sta tistics show a decrease in fruit production in America.) Larger demand and inadequate supply means increased profits to the growers. The Similkameen Valley Is the natural home of highest grade apples, prunes, pears, Tokay and other rare grapes, apricots, nectarines, peaches, melons and many other fine fruits, berries and vegetables.
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Level Bunch- Good Local Grass Mining Land. A Splendid Market. An Gravity System All Rail of Irrigation. Route Cheap to Coast Lumber And And Prairie Fuel. Markets.
This Valley Leads In earliness of production, perfection in color and flavor, shipping and keeping qualities. (Captured 1st X prize at the National Apple Show, Spokane, 1908.) Q Climate the perfect medium between the severe cold of the prairies and the rainy wet weather of the 90 Pacific coast. A healthful dry sunny atmosphere where life is a pleasure. X Write for free booklet, views of valley, and opinions of men who have inspected the district. We operate EXCURSIONS twice a month from all points. § _. ROUTES TO THE SIMILKAMEEN
$ FROM Till. HAST. -(1.) C.P.R. via thc Crow's Nest route to Nelson and on to Midway, then Croat North ern Railway to Keremeos. (2.) C.P.R. Main Line to Sicamous Junction, then south through Okanagan valley tO I'entieton and stage to Keremeos (a superb outing trip.) FROM THH WHST.—C.P.R. Main Line to Sicamous June, and Okanagan route via Penticton to Keremeos. FROM THH SOUTH.—Great Northern Railway via Spokane to Kereineos. B. C. FRUIT LAND CO., Limited.
Room 9, Clarence Blk., CALGARY, ALTA, and KEREMEOS, B. C.
5 C. A. MCDONALD, LOCAL MANAGER. XXXKX;0€KXKX>0 The Keremeos Land Co., in announcing the com winter and summer and has proved itself as being par pletion of their irrigation system that will cover their ticularly adapted to the raising of apples, peaches, entire properties with an unlimited supply of the pur pears, plums and cherries, grapes and melons, while est of water yet brought to the home of an irrigated vegetables exceed all conditions usually obtained both country, feel that the properties offered by them are in quantity and size. such as will command the attention of all homeseekers. In competition at Spokane the onlv exhibit sent Situated as Keremeos is on the main line of the took first prize, while at the Provincial Fair at New Great Northern Railroad now being extended to Van Westminster out of 100 pounds of assorted fruits Ker couver places her on the direct highway to the far emeos captured some 23 prizes. East and West. The upper portion of the valley, including Hedley Having a climate that is distinctly her own, it and Princeton, both rich in their mining industries, stands today unexcelled for its sunny climate both offers the local market means of disposing of all produce. The properties are being offered in 1, 3, 5 and 10 acre Blocks with a weil laid out townsite now doing an active business. .Our terms are liberal. One-third cash. Balance in 3 payments at 7 per cent. Acreage properties are from $200 to $300 an acre. Town lots from $100 to $300. For full particulars apply to L Keremeos Land Co., Ltd. j ®. KEREMEOS. B.C. J& Provincial and General D. C. McRae, merchant, has left MRS. T. M. FARRELL, Greenwood to start busine s ;,t An electric railway is projected DI*MMMMII*| ami Bewiag. Prince Rupert. HENRYS- from Vernon to Kelowna and from Satisfaction lina ran teed. n I OK THE Vernon to Summerland, with power The values extracted from ores KKRKMIOS CI mu from the Shuswap Falls. at the Trail smelter for the first Spring Trade four months of this year vvas §1,- 1 he B. C. Gazette announces a Tesleil sleek, seeds for farm, Similkameen Land Division. 620,000. For April alone it was bounty of $3 for coyotes or golden •MVJM ai conservatory, from It-ISTKIiT OV \ALE. more than half a million. t>.-si -Jiywefi in Bogtaed, Hol "TAKE NOTk'K that I nJllTl Kotvrtvon i*has.\ eagtea and $2 for bifj-homed owls land, Frame, I'niteil Slates aiul i>t OlalL, l"arm»r. intnulslo appl> for prnuis- leeal growers vion to puroti.iM- tin- follon [flfl deecnhea lamls: — in the counties of Cariboo, Yale Penticton lost two of its ministers I Ming at a p-»st planted at tho north-west last week Rev. R. VV. Hibbert, comer of JW, thence north 10 chains, thrm» «, st S and Kootenay. Heme In own Fruit anil Orna ohains, trnnci- south H ohains,. th. na- cast I oh.-iins, Methodist, who goes to (Ireenwood, mental Trees, Small Fruits. ami containing siv afivs mort* or lo*v "Pop!" "Yes, my son." "What Lrnum KOHKKTSON CHASK. and Rev. Jas. Hood, Presbyterian, Feliili/els, Hee Supplies, Ma> 1.1, !9(>». do they irrigate land for?" "To who goes to Summerland. Spraying Pumps aiul Mat raise things, my boy." "Hut can't erial, Cut Flowers, etc. they raise things without irriga A 9-mile race held in Kelowna on \St**m9gt eatalo^uo live. Similkameen Land District. tion?" "No; irrijjatin"; is resorted Victoria Day was won by Gordon MtTEM T Off v\n. I" \K I NOIKLthatl. William Kin*, of Km- to in countries where they have no Stirling in 60 min. 4') sec. T. VV. M. J. Henry * meow, H.i"., land atfrnt. intrnd to apph tor prr- •ieeion t.- purchaat tin- following deecrinnd Inane rain. "And do they raise every Hell of Penticton was second and iinvn I I.MI»I t» and St»sl M isl.m.l in thc Similkamtvn nvrr, Ki-rviu. os. I*X CtMMWiling •! • ••_•< planted about 2 ohain*. m***t thing when they irrigate?" "Kverv- VV. Fuller of Kelowna third. Mouwett, ofthe in rthweal cornei ot lot JT'>; thence in • aorth- XttO VMM MINSI IK ROAD *.retnrlj .In.itt.»n about Dchain*In HM njonl nort fi tfaing but umbrellas, my son." eri) point ot *aul island; thon.o in a nouthcrU diriv- Colin MeKinnon, while working Vancouver - - B.C. II.MI .ihont ¥• .hain- to tl"1 most •Otf'Herh pofaH ot Yonkcrs Statesman. i n.l isl.ni.l, t Ii. ii. i Mlt>"in|_ -•**' nicantlintiK ol the on the new Myers Flat wagon road, ltr.Mi.li NupM-nri S. \ ;iin\ni\cr. Similkameen rivei '>' the point of ooeMMejcneaeat (•'rank llailey is locked horns with was injured by an explosion of .it .1 ,ont.lining ..ISMII 10 -nt.s mon or lt»v WIIIUM KIM.. the Great Northern, whose track he blasting powder caused by a bush -NURSERIES April IX ''*" is blocking up with muck from a lire. His side, arm, lace and eve tunnel that is heinj,' driven on one Were injured. For a luxurious Shave, of his mineral claims near llenrv A new bridge will be built this Halr-Cut or Bath go to Creek. The tunnel mouth is just a summer across the Okanagan river short distance above the railway neai the outlet of the lake. It will grade and the rock from the tunnel be 16Q0 feet long, and one span Booster's .Xonsorial flterlor lands on Ihe jjrade. He has been will be 20 feet high to enable small warned by the chief engineer to de steamers to pass. sist, but the muck continues to pile BOX TRADE IN CIGARS A SPECIALTY. A small colony of Bogtieh spar up. 1 ledley Gazette. A fine line of Cigars and Tobaccos, rows has made a lodgment at Oro Fruit and Confectionery. Persons intending to clear land ville, says the Gazette the first by fire must obtain permits from ever seen in that distriet. If they the government agent. A eevert attempt to cross to Kereineos our POOL TABLE IN CONNECTION. penalty is named for infringement immigration officers should turn of this new regulation. them back as undesirables. A. J. SAUNDERS, Keremeos. OLALLA. plies can be taken in to that camp. Tom Roderick came in on Wed Old Sol haa heen getting in some nesday and after getting supplies tit Eastern Townships Bank. heavy licks on the snow hanks up the store drove on as far as Fish at the snmir.it these last few ilavs, ESTABLISHED 1859. Lake the same day. He is going and both Keremeos and Olalla HEAD OFFICII, SHBRMOOKE, QUBMC in—or at least he is going to try creeks are now rushing, roaring; and get in—to do the annual assess torrents. The heavy rains of Mon Capital and Reserve, $5,000,000.00 ment work on the group of claims day and Tuesday helped swell the he owns, in conjunction vvith Jim volume of water, beside* soaking transacts a general hanking business, and oilers every facility to meet McNutty and K. P. Matthison, on the ground liberally and forcing the the requirements of depositors consistent vvith Independence Mountain, about half growth of plant life that had been conservative banking principles. a mile south oi the Apex shaft. languishing lor want of moisture Roderick and McXulty also own until the ranges have assumed their the Gem group of claims on Red Savings Bank Department. usual tint of emerald green. lhe Mountain, and both partners vvill Deposits ot SI.00 and upwards received, subject to no delay in with creeks, and therefore the Similka put in some time on this property draws! of all or anv portion. meen river, will probably rise much when the snow is gone. Tom will higher this year than last, because Keremeos Branch. R. H. CARMICHAEL, Acting Manager. have a great time getting in his the spring thus far has been so cold supplies to the Apex camp, but as that very little of the deep snow he is a determined young man and has been melted on the higher a hustler he will get there, even it levels and will now come .ill at he has to cut his wav vvith a shovel. once. General Clearing Sale C. H. Cornell and J. S. Wallace, James S. Bruce, a well known who have been working .in the resident oi Keremeos, died sudden Horseshoe group of claims, on one English Prints. ly in the Pacific hotel at Spokane of the eastern spurs of Independence on Thursday afternoon ot last week, Mountain, lor about a month, came Dress Goods. of apoplexy following an epileptic down last Friday. They have not tit. He had for some years been Ladies' and Men's shoes. been able to do very much actual subject to epileptic fits, which of development on account of lhe Saddlery and Harness. late had become more severe, and snow, .md therefore have nothing il vvas vvith a view to employing new to report as to the show ing up Plows and Harrows. special medical aid that he went to Of the ore body. Cornell went up Spokane early in May. Apparently Farm Implements of every description. to camp again on Sunday and Wal the skill of the specialists was oi lace on Tuesday. Wagons and Trucks. little avail, for he has had three or Hilly Pure lett on Wednesday for four seizures oi the malady, the last lledlev on a short visit before pro One fatal, since his arrival in Spo We mean to move our goods regard ceeding lo Seattle, whence he will kane. Mr. Bruce was a native of take boat tor some point in North* less of price and if you are looking cu; B. C (I think Kittimat) where Bruce County, Ontario, but came west while still a youth and spent he vvill have a position under Har- for bargains do not fail to call and the larger part of his life in the rv Swan, who is aboul to construct Northwest and Hritish Columbia. look over our line. a stamp mill lor M. K. Rodgers. I,, 1885 he served in lhe volunteers Billy has done all his assessments during the Riel rebellion. for the lor this vear and expects to return last ten years he had been a resi some time nexl tall. dent ol Rei emeos. He was about Jim Corrie and Jack Elliott will Frank Richter & Co. 52 years o! age. Ol a quiet dispo pull out for Fori George! Cariboo, sition, he was yet public spirited in a day or two. They have pur and v cry generous, and his death chased a team and a light double will be sincerely regretted by a wide rig, and will drive the whole dis circle of friends. tance, expecting to reach their des tination about the end ol this month. They will go by way oi COLEMAN & CO. Nicola and A-IKTOII, thence taking the old Cariboo wagon road to Lumber and Qlteenel, which is about 75 miles Druggists and Stationers south of Fort George. They will Builders' Supplies. take up i pre-emption each it the land .onus up to their expectation . KEREMEOS CENTRE. The boya are not afraid of hard work and vvill make first-class pioneers. |im Lynch has sold Ins ranch and is about to leave lor kamloops. lie also will take to the road wilh a Model Livery, Feed and Sale Stables. couple ol hoi ses, but vvill probably KEREMEOS, B.C. make the trip by way of I'entieton Rough Lath and up Okanagan lake ovei the and Shingles pack trail. At present he is > owing Dressed Sashes some grain tor George Cawston on Lumber Doors the letter's ranch a) Velloe Lake. Choice Cedar Posts. _»Oc. each. |im is thinking ol trying his luck al placer mining on the I hompson Estimates of cost cheerfully fur nished lo intending builders. river, having done placer digging on lhat stream before. Contracts for all kinds ol build ings in town and country ptomptlv The Apex did not lUrl work on executed. the 1st ol June, as vvas unnoted a tew weeks ago. Probablv Hie J. KNUDSON, Freighting, Praying, and General Livery Buslneee. drain and Hay. snow is the .auseof the delay. It Contractor uui BniUer. vvill he the first of Jul) before sup Kl KI vn ,>s, B.C. D. GILLESPIE, Proprietor.