Itr* I/, . The Keremeos Chronicle

VOL. II. KEREMEOS, B. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1909. No. 36

GEO. KIRBY, SIMILKAMEEN TO GO RIGHT AHEAD. Notary Public. THE VERDICT. REAL ESTATE, MINES. FOR SHATFORD. Orders Issued to Complete Sur­ Agent for : GOVERNMENT SUSTAIN­ vey and Buy Remainder London & Lancashire Fire Ins. Co. ED BY A HUGE Her Favorite Son Gets a Third of Right of Way. Ocean Accident and Guarantee Co. Endorsement and an In­ KEREMEOS, B. C. MAJORITY. creased Majority. Word has been received in Kere­ EZRA MILLS, Almost a Clean Sweep So Far meos that the G.N.R. Co.'s right- Contractor and Builder, As Heard From -John Oli­ Returns received last night from of-way agent has orders to proceed all but six of the polling places in at once to the upper valley and KEREMEOS, B.C. ver Among the Slain. the Similkameen riding give an complete the purchases of right of Returns were received last night way along the survey west of Prince­ J. A. BROWN, overwhelming majority for Shatford ton ; also that the contracts for a Notary Public. from 34 out of the 42 seats, sum­ —more than double what he re­ marized as follows ; considerable distance will be let at CONVEYANCING. CUSTOMS BROK­ ceived in 1907. The total vote also ERAGE. FIRE INSURANCE. Conservatives, 31. was considerably larger than in the once so that work can be continued OFFICE -.- - KEREMEOS, B.C. Liberals, 2. previous election. during the winter in those portions Socialists, 1. where it is mostly rock work. JOHN KNUDSON, Very few figures were obtainable To be heard from, 8. on the local option vote up to our A despatch from New Westmin­ CONTRACTOR and BUILDER. A motion to make it unanimous time of going to press. ster states that a party of Great Northern engineers who have been Estimalcs Furnished. is now in order. Following are the returns: in that city for some time awaiting Workmanship Guaranteed. Local Option The Vote in 1907. SHAT- ELM- ——'——, orders, received word on the 17th FORD, HIRST. For A_st G. MILBURN Beaverdell — — inst. to finish the survey of the line Following are the figures of the Plastering, Cement Work, Chimneys Westbridge — — eastward from Abbotsford, the pre­ LIME ) election in the Similkameen two and Rock Creek — — sent terminus of the western section CEMENT \ For Sale a half years ago : Bridesville 34 18 of the V. V. & E. Only a few de­ BRICK J Shattonl. Curtia. Sidley Mountain... — — Bcavcrdell 3 8 tails remain to be completed. Camp McKinney .. — — KEREMEOS, B.C. Westbridge 4 4 It will be a welcome announce­ Rock Creek 36 16 Fairview 28 9 11 21 SIMILKAMEEN Sidley 13 20 Vaseaux Lake .... 3 0 0 3 ment to the people of the Similka­ Camp McKinnev 7 I Okanagan Falls... 32 6 12 23 meen that the work of building is L.O.L. No.1770 Fairview 26 24 Soulh Penticton ... 39 5 Okanagan Falls 13 3 to be carried on without even stop­ Meets Tuesday on or before Green Mountain. .. 15 1 the full moon in each month Soulh Penlielon 31 5 ping for the winter; for though Green Mountain 9 3 White Lake 2 0 in Keremeos Town Hall they have not as a rule shared the Visiting members cordially invited. White Uke 2 1 Olalla 7 7 Olalla 12 7 Keremeos Centre .18 9 6 22 pessimism as to the Hope route C. L. Cl'MMINCS. W. M. Keremeos 37 24 D. MCCURDY. R. S. Bradshaw's. 6 t Keiemeos Station . 39 23 30 23 that had seized many outsiders — Hedley 56 44 Hedley 68 S3 even the Premier himself—yet they Stage Lines. Prinee'lon 34 30 Princeton 70 47 Granite Creek 2 4 had become used to long interrup­ Ashnola — — Otter Flat 7 5 KEREMEOS-HEDLEY MAIL STAGE. Granite Creek 9 0 tions in the work, and would not Leaves Keremeos daily, except Sunday, 296 200 Tulameen 13 6 have been surprised at further delay. at t p.m.; connecting with all stages east and west, arrives in Hedley at I p.m. Leaves Hedley daily, except Sunday, at Govt. Gain 8 a.in., arrives in Keremeos at II a.m. Rinisi.. CONSERVATIVE. LIBERAL. SOCIALIST. LATE MEMBER. ELECTED. or LOBS. D. J. INNIS, Proprietor. Atlin Young, Dr. H. E Kearns, Thos Young (Con) Alberni Morgan, Dr. A. D.... Brewster, H. C Brewster (Lib) KEREMECW-PENTICTON MAIL STAGE. Leaves Keremeos for Penticton on Mon­ Cariboo—2 ... .Callahan, Dr Jones, Harry Jones (Lib) days, Wednesdays and Fridays, at noon. Fraser, J. A Yorston, J. M Yorston (Lib) Leaves Penticton on Tuesdays, Thurs­ Chilliwack .Cawley, S. A Munro, C. W Munro (Lib) CAWLEV ('..un days and Saturdays at 6 a. m., arriving in Comox .. . Manson, M Forrest, J. M Cartwright, J Grant (Con) FORREST Loss Keremeos at noon. Cranbrook .Cavan, T King, Dr. J. H King (Lib) CAVAN Gain W. E. WELBY, Proprietor. Cowichan. . Hay ward, Vi. H Evans, John N Hay ward (Con) Columbia Parsons, H. G Buckham, J. A Parsons (Con) PARSONS Keremeos Directory. Delta Mackemie, F. J Oliver, John Oliver (Lib) MACKENZIE Gain Dewdney Manson, W. J Thompson, A Manson (Con) MANSON Board of Trade—George irby, Presi­ Esquimau Helmcken, H. D J.inline. John Jardine (Lib) JARDINE dent; R. H. Carmichael, Secretary. Similkameen Farmers' Exchange—J. J. Fernie Ross, W. R Fisher, A. I Harrington, J Ross (Con) Ross Armstrong, President; W. M. Frith, Secy. Greenwood ... Jackson, J. R Macdonald, Alex .... Heatherlon, G Naden (Lib) JACKSON Gain Public School Board —George Kirby, Grand Forks . . Miller, E Patterson, D Mclnnes, John Mclnnes (Soc) MlLLBR Gain Eira Mills, R. Elmhirst, Secretary. Mands McPhillips, A. E Purvis, Percy McPhillips (Con) MCPHILLIPS Customs Office—W. M. Frith, Sub-Col­ lector. Kamloops Shaw, C. P Vasey, IL M Fulton (Con) SHAW Presbyterian Church—Rev. A. H. Cam­ Kaslo Mackay, N. F Mackay (Con) MACKAV (Accl.) eron, Pastor. Lillooet Bell, Jas Eagleson, M Eagleson (Lib) Methodist Church-Kev. G. R. B. Kin­ Nanaimo Planta, A. E Hawthornthwaite .... Hawthornlhwaite (S) HAWTIIORNTHM'AITE. . ney, H..V, I'astor. Chinch of England—Service weekly, 11 Newcastle Stewart, John Thomas, D. J Williams, P Williams iSoc) a.m. and 7..W p.m. in School House. Rev. Nelson Wright, Harry Crease, E. A Mathewson, J Hall (Lib) U'RtiiHT Gain A. II. Ransome, Rector. Okanagan Ellison, P DeHart, F. R Johnson, Jas Ellison (Ion) ELLISON Constable and Deputy Game Warden— Revelstoke Taylor, T Lindmark, E. F Kempsler, G. H Taylor Hon) TAVI.OR M. B. Ewart. Coroner—Dr. M. D. McEwen. Richmond Collon. F. L. .' Farris, J. W Cotton (Con) COTTON Justices of'he Peace-T. W. Coleman, Rossland Braden, W. R Winn, E. S. H Macdonald (Lib) RRADEN Gain Frank Richter. Skeena Manson, Wm Kergin, Dr Kergin (Lib) MANSON Gain Postmaster and Telephone Agent—Geo. Saanich Kberts, D. M Brydon, Thos Eberta (Con) ERERTS Kirby. Similkameen . . Shatford, L. W Elmhirst, R Shatford (Con) SHATFORD Member of Parliament -Martin Burrell, Slocan Hunter, Wm Davidson, Wm Hunter (Con) Grand Forks, P. O. Vancouver— 5.. Bowser, W. J Wade, F. C . . Kingslev, E. T Bowser (Con) BOWSER Member Provincial Assembly—L. W. Macgowan, A.H. B.. Senkler, J. H . . Mackenzie, W. M... . Macgowan (Con) M u IAHVAN Sli.itford, Penticton P. O. McGuire, Di Campbell, J . .McGregor, M Tatlow (Con) HoOVMH Town Hall—J. J. Armstrong, Mgr. Watson, H. H Macdonald, G. E. . .Garvey, P Garden (Con) WATSON Keremeos Hall —Geo. Loudon, Mgr, .. Petlapiece, R. P McGuire (Con) TisDALL. Great Northern Ry--Daily train, arrives Tisdall, C. E Stables, J. B 10:30 a. m., leaves at 2 p.m., H. A. Cook, Victoria—4 Mi Hiide, R Oliver, John Oliver, George McBride (Con) MCBRIDE Agenl. Davey, Fred Drury, R. L Morley, A. J Davey (Con) DAVEV Mails -Daily from the west via Hedley Behnseii. H.F.W Houston, W Rehnsen (Con) BKHNSEN Stages from east via G. N. Ry.: Tri-week­ Thomson, H. B Munn, H. A Thomson (Con) THOMSON ly via Penticton Stage from the north. Westminster , Gilford, T Johnston, J Dodd, W Giffbrd (Con) OffPOW (For Mercantile and other Business la Yale Me Bride, R Henderson, S Henderson (Lib) MCRRIDE Gain.. stitutiona see advertiements in this paper.) Ymir .Schofield, J. H Oliver, Alex Schofield (Con) SCHOFIELD Which Is the Best Apple? Wood Lake Mystery. When In Keremeos Than arc no loss than five hun­ No word has yet been heard of atop at tho Central Hotel dred standard varieties of apples R. J. Hrown, who left his home at grown in America, says Frederic Wood Lake on Friday afternoon, Special attention to Commercial Men, Haskin. Kach section has its pe­ October 29th, saying ho might be Tourists ami Land-seekers. culiar favorites,and some are grown late in getting back that evening. to eat and some arc grown to sell. He has never returned. He walked Headquarter! lor all The man from Oregon or Washing­ to Okanagan Centre, about five St;ie;e Routes. ton will stake his fortune, ins life miles distant, and transacted some Livery Stable in connection. and his lacred honor upon the pro­ business there and started to walk position that a northwestern Spitz- home. Shortly after leaving Okan­ Good table. enberg is thc best apple on earth. agan Centre he met Mr. Bolton, Large, airy and Any Virginian will accept his chal­ and they had a short conversation. comfortable rooms. lenge and tide forth to battle as the This was at 5.15 p.m. A man who l-'rcc bus to and from knight of thc Albemarle Pippin. may have been Mr. Hrown was seen all trains. The rural New Yorker will defend at 6 o'clock, passing Copel,. id's on Olliee of H.C. Kruit his Haldwins to the last ditch. The Okanagan I.ake, and walking north­ Land Co. Missourian and Arkansas traveler ward on the road. Since that time will join forces in defence of the no trace or clue of the missing man Tweddle & Elmhirst, - - Proprietors. primacy of the Winesap. has been discovered. Large search It is a well known fact to the parties have been scouring thc people of the Ozark mountains in country ever since without result. Missouri and Arkansas lhat the There is no ground for suspicion of rs Winesap apple is the best fruit foul play, and no reason can be grown on earth. Dace Craig, when offered for the man's disappearance. past thc meridian of life, foresook Any information as to his where­ the primrose path of dalliance, at.J, abouts will be gratefully received turning his back upon the devil, en­ on behalf of his family by the pro­ listed in the army of the Lord and vincial police of Vernon or Kelowna, SPECIAL the Baptist church. From lhat day H.C Other papers please copy. forth he never tasud red liquor nor Vernon News. Winesap apples. He knew, as do all good Ozarkers, that the Wine­ Canadian Naval Plans. sap was thc best fruit ever grown, and he reasoned that it therefore The plans submitted by thc ad­ was the very variety of apple that miralty and war olliee at the imper­ Mother Eve ate in thc Garden of ial defense conference of last sum­ Eden. mer for the naval and military LADIES' GENT'S Perhaps thc most popular apple defense of Canada in co-operation with growers is thc Ben Davis. A with the imperial forces, and on Hen Dpvis apple is fair to look upon. which the proposed action of the All-wool Underwear It is big, red and templing. It government is based, were laid on Fine Underwear packs well, keeps well, ships well. the table ofthe house by Hon. L P. It grows in profusion; and its trees Brodeur, In brief, thc naval pro­ Saxony H.B.K. Mackinaws are hardy frost resistors. Prom the gram adopted by the government Ribbed Hose sordid money-making point of view involves the construction of three Hats, Caps thc Hen Davis apple can not be cruisers of the improved Bristol beat. Hut pity the poor foreigners class, and destroyers of the itn- Flannels Gloves who buy them in ignorance. Every proved river class, costing for the •pple cater of parts knows that a cruisers about $5,750,000, and for Combination Suits Ben Davis apple was designed only destroyers about $1,500,000, with All-wool lo lell. It should never bo eaten. an annual outlay for maintenance All-wool Sweater Coats The Houston Post and thc Kan­ of something like $2,000,000. Two sas City Journal long have labored of the cruisers will be placed on the Sweater Goats H.B.K. Overshirts to warn thc public against the hy­ Pacific coast, and one cruiser vvith pocrisy of the l!en Davis. ll looks four destroyers on thc Atlantic Flannelette Mitts like an apple, it smells like an coast. The total number of officers apple, it is an apple—hut it doesn't and men for this nucleus of a licet tasle like an apple. No editor has is estimated at 1408, with a pay-roll conic to the defence Oi this snare of about $400,000, and an extra and delusion, hut much remains to $100,000 for victualing. be done before Hen Davis is driven Mail Orders Promptly Attended to, and Satis­ trom lhe niarkel places. ll is the The Coming Comet. faction Guaranteed foundation Stone Of more than one swollen fortune made in apples. " llallcy's comet vvill not only The big red apple is the king of pass across the face of the sun on May IH, bul the earth will pass fruits, Fifty-live per cent, of all Cash buyers thc fruit trees in America arc apple through the tail of the comet," says trees, and they yield more than 80 Director Pickering of Harvard uni­ get a discount versity laboratory. "The tail of per cent, of all the orchard fruits on all goods produced. There are 200,000,000 the comet is made up of gases apple trees, and thc average crop ICCtylene, carbonic, and several bought at per year is about a bushel for each others. The gas will be rarefied so tree. If all the trees were to bear that vve shall not perceive it. In a full crop in any one year America case these gases were apparent to could feed the whole world with the people the result would be very SHAWS BIG STORE. apples. Notwithstanding the de­ disagreeable. In 18l>0, when an­ cline in the apple yield, the apple other comet was passing, there was still is the best money-maker in the a great display of shooting stars. whole catalogue of fruits. It is We may have such a manifestation King Apple. when Halley's comet passes." mmmwmmwmmMmmmmmm The Keremeos Chronicle. at leisure, and its route in the I'unlislif.l wrwry l'"rnl;iviil thi- uffic meantime more minutely surveyed. Krii-mros. ll.C. The time has come now when it is Sul.v.Tiption $2.00 ;i paat, $1.00 lor nix months, eremeos Hardware in .-iilv.'iiuv. found expedient to complete it. Ailvirtit.in_r K.iti's. Lc_.'.-il notiivs, l.V pvr lino fint laaertion, KV JHT lim- rn.li sul>sei)iieiit insertion. Whether Hill has concluded that K Liiml notiii-i, Crtitit.tU-s of Improl i'iiK'tit.,'ti\. $H.U0 for riO-day notii-t's. $5.00 for .KUlay noli.i-s. Contract further delay is dangerous, that he Ji.pl.iv MVaftUne, We, JHT iiuh ttr nn-k. Tran­ sient aiUvrtis.tni'iiU. siti-h as Lout, Found, WanUsl. might be forestalled or forfeit his vie, not Mondial ont inert. $1.00 first insertion, or Buy your Hardware thnv insertiiins for $2.00. LiH-nl raadtag notices, charter, or whatever the reason We. p*T line first insertit l.V. each subsequent in- sertion. may be, it has been decided to push At the Hardware Store J. A. HROWN. Publisher. forward without further interrup­ And save Money. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1909. tions, and at both ends—from Ab- botsford on the western side of the Just arrived—A fine assortment of False Prophets. mountains and from Princeton on the eastern side. It would be inter­ When John Oliver, in announcing esting to know just how much, if Graniteware his railway policy a few weeks ago, any, of this acceleration is due to Including all kinds of stated that Jim Hill seemed reluc­ the government's railway policy as tant to build through to Hope, and it applies to the C. N. R. and the Preserving Kettles that if he didn't build the govern­ Kettle Valley line; but that will ment itself should build, the CHRON­ probably be made known in course At the lowest prices. ICLE took the liberty of observing of time. that Mr. Oliver was addicted to talking too much. In the light of The delegates to the twenty-ninth Call and see our stock and get prices before purchasing. what has developed during the lat­ convention of the American Federa­ ter part of the campaign, the same tion of Labor have apparently dis­ XX thing may now be justly said of the covered what Canadians have for a Turpentine and Gasoline always on hand. Premier too; and,singularly enough, long time suspected -that there is E. M. CROOKER. the Premier chose the same subject more real liberty in Canada than in on which to make a faux pas. In the United States of America. So defending his Canadian Northern impressed were they by the discov­ proposal he naturally enough at­ ery that they embodied the fact in a B.C. tacked his opponents at all points ; resolution and passed the resolution and as one of their points vvas to by ;i unanimous vote. For all time object to the Fraser river route for it will remain on record in the pro­ Livery, Feed & Sale Stables the C. N.R., he naturally denounced ceedings of the American Federation KEREMEOS and HEDLEY, B.C. Bay proposed alternative route. His of Labor. It is as follows : " That attack led him too far. He assumed the freedom of speech which we without good ground that the Co­ have exercised during the present Comfortable Good Rigs quihalla "toboggan slide" was com­ convention, without judicial restraint and Careful Drivers mercially impracticable ; also with­ based on super-constitutional and Commodious out good ground that Mr. Kennedy self-arrogated authority, has been Draying had pronounced it so ; also without more in conformity with the funda­ Stabling good ground that Jim Hill had mental principles of a free and self- for Teams of all kinds given up the notion of building governing country than is possible over it. And while it is surprising at present in the United States of Prompt attention to all customers. that he should have come to any America." In addition the resolu- Land-seekers and Tourists invited to give us a trial. such conclusions, it is still more tion thanked the press for the fair- surprising that such a past master : ness vvith which their debates had D. J. INNIS, Proprietor. of political tact should have allowed been reported, and for thc space himself to be betrayed into such a j granted to the federation's pro- needless and damaging ineptitude edings as thc "knocking" of the Hope route. If he had stopped to think There is rejoicing in Germany for a moment he must have realized over the fact that according to re­ COLEMAN & CO. that he could not have dealt his cent statistics less than 20,000 emi­ own cause a worse blow in the grants left the country last year. Similkameen than to make a state­ In the '80s thc number of emigrants Druggists and Stationers ment calculated to quench the hopes to the United States alone vvas over of the people for an outlet to the rather than under a quarter of a million a year. The character of Coast. Fortunately he is wrong, KEREMEOS CENTRE. and John Oliver is wrong ; and in­ the emigration as well as its num­ cidentally J. P. McConnell is wrong erical amount has also changed. all three at different tangents. Time was when the word emigrant Thc much decried Coquihalla " to- was associated with notions of pov- hoggan slide" is in reality a consid- ; **J ****- wretchedness. Now it is erably easier grade than some of "aid thai not more than one-third ol the g.ades on the main line of the ****** *t-*0 ***** •>•*- really poor Eastern Townships Bank. CPU- 'hat have been in use for ESTABLISHED 1899. the last quarter of a century. Jim This is what the Governor of HEAP OI-HCK, SHKKHKOOKI:, QUMMi Hill has not been "hesitating" iu Washington says about a law now the sense of being undecided. He on the statute books of the state of knew what he was about when he Washington : " I don't know whe­ Capital and Reserve, $5,000,000.00 built to Princeton, and it was not ther the law is constitutional or for the local tonnage of this narrow not ; I am not a lawyer. I don't Transacts a general banking business, and offers every facility to meet valley alone. If he has been exas- care whether it is constitutional or the requirements of depositors consistent with peratingly deliberate in his move­ not. I don't believe the law pro­ conservative banking principles. ments it was because he could hibiting tipping is being observed afford to be—he had no subsidies at all, and I am not afraid of being Savings Bank Department. to earn with their attached time- arrested." Which is an example of Depoeitl of $1.00 and upwards received, subject to no delay in with­ limit, and there were other big and how grandmotherly legislation is drawal of all or anv portion. urgent mulct takings lo carry out regarded even by those whose duty while this could be dealt wilh more it is supposed to be to enforce it. Keremeoa Branch. R. H. CARMICHAEL, Acting Manager. The Indian Trouble. Local and General. A Fatal Rock Slide. Similkameen Land Dletrlct. DISTRICT OF YALR. 'rAKE NOTICK that Manncl llnm-llo, of Kens, P. S. Hussey, superintendent of Mrs. (Rev.) J. R. Klmhurst of On the night of the 16th inst. a •MM, occupation Farmer, intends to apply fur permission to purchase the following ilcscrilv.l provincial police, has received an Summerland died on Saturday westbound C.P.R. freight train was lands: Commencing at a post planted at Ihe north- exhaustive report on the situation struck by a rock slide at a point Mil cornerof lot 289, tlienee north -Mlchains, thence The output of the Trail smelter west 20 chains, thence south 40 chains, thence east respecting the threatened Indian nine miles west of North Bend, and 20 chains to point of commencement, 80 acres. for 1909 will be about $d,000,000 MANCKL BAKCKLO. outbreak from F.Mailland-Dougall, the engine and four cars were pre­ 26th October, 1909. in gold, silver, copper and lead. chief constable at Hazelton,in which cipitated down the 300-foot embank­ that official expresses the opinion Sir Wilfrid Laurier celebrated his ment of the Fraser river canyon. Hotel Keremeos that the force of constables now on 68th birthday last Saturday. He is Engineer dough of Kamloops was Opposite G. N. R. Station. the ground is ample to maintain 11 days younger than King Edward. killed, but fireman McKay and peace throughout the winter. Greenwood school is to have a brakeman Foster, who were also on GEO. KIRBY, Manager Constable Maitland-Dougall tells new heating plant, to cost $3,595. the engine, had a miraculous escape, the story of the arrest and convic­ E. W. Bishop has the contract for neither receiving severe injuries. tion ofthe six Kispiox Indians who installing il. The eastbound passenger train had I F. SCHNEIDER had been charged vvith assault and passed the point only half an hour The contractor on trench-digging intimidation on the members of a before. The rock slide struck the MACHINERY REPAIRED. for the Armstrong waterworks put gang of men employed in doing engine broadside, hurling it over GENERAL BLACKSMITH. nine Chinks and three Japs on the some road work. The situation did I lie edge of the canyon, and it work. The white men threw down KEREMEOS. look serious for some time after the dragged down seven freight cars their shovels and quit. men were arrested, but as soon as before the couplings broke. The 1 r additional constables were sworn in *** engine and four cars went down to FOR the Indians commenced to gel it Sound a week ago an old man a point near the river edge, dough into their heads that the authorities named John Peter Ohlit, of Bel­ was catapulted out of the locomo­ FALL PLANTING meant business, and there was a lingham, was blown over a bluff tive as it landed. into ,he sea decided cooling amongst the hot-! ***** 0**-*-****- BULBS from thc Mall Furopcan aiul Japan MJMJIi heads of the tribes. During a Liberal campaign meet- Similkameen Land District. niSTKICl OV V.VI.K. HOME GROWN fruit and ornamental trees Constable Maitland-Dougall is of I ing in Fernie opera house last week gn wn on upland soil without irrigation 'PAKE NOTICE thai I'Veucrick P. Sadler, of in the oat] Mui oi the American continent the opinion that there is an ample * Cambridge. Enelaml, Insiiector of Inland a three-inch water main in the back h'ccinic intends lo appK tor )Vrinission to purchase not infested with Sail Jose stale, force available in the district adja­ the tollowiiiK descrihed lamls: Commencing at a of the hall butst and brought the post planted at the southeast corner of lot 1761, (.'•arden. Field and Rower Seeds, tested stink cent to Hazelton to cope with any group!. Osoyos. thence north Ml chains, thence from the Ivst nowwi hi the world. proceedings to a sudden close. east 20chains, thence south M) chains. Ihence w.st Win Fcncine. and Hates. Spra\ Pumps, emergency. There is an ample sup­ 2t I chains lo point nf commencement, HO acres more l'i rtih/ers. B*M Supplies. Cut Flowers. Mike I.vden, employed on the or less. Spraying Materials, etc. ply of ammunition on hand, and Ek I I'l Kl, K I'lKCV SAIILKR White labor onlv. dump of the Granby smelUr, last 5th October. 1909. It, hi„S.V,s Ajfent, . should it he necessary all the white C HATH. Friday vvas struck in the right eye 157-p.i^v catalogue free. men of Hazelton, several hundred, by a flying piece of steel and had Similkameen Land District. would take up arms. The Indians thc sight of the eye destroyed. PIS. RUT Off Y\I.... M. J. Henry realise this, and therefore the de­ 'PAJtl WOTIC1 tti.it H A. Haiedo of Kcrrrmw. I A decision of the V. S. circuit * ivcupation KiirnitT, intends to apply for pat* Green Houses and IM4 partment dues not think that am Minion to [mrH__m tlu* following MMCHMRI lands: gmmm CMMMWIMJ .tt I post planted al*out OM .mil a half ' danger need be apprehended. The court at St. Louis declares lhat the milfs cast ofthe southeast curner of William Co» .1010 WESTMINSTER ROAD St; ul: d MnVl pre-emption, theme north 2*- chains, thence police are, however, not going to " "' Oil company is illegal and east in ch.linv th, tue smith M chains, thciuv west Vancouver - - B.C. orders !t l0 be 20 chaini to point of commencement. 40 a. n -.. lit.inch Nurseries S. Vancouver. take any chance. Ten more con-'' dissolved. An ap- lit Nk . ALLAN HAKIKLO. 27th October, 1909. stahles have been scut up from P**' ***** ** ***** * *-** Supreme Prince Rupert. Court- The Dominion estimates for this War on Wolves. year include $11,000 for Fernie drill Ranchers in the Medicine Hat hall, $10,000 for Fernie public district have suffered heavy losses building, $10,000 for Grand Forks from wolves of late. One reports public building, $10,000 tor (ireen­ having lost twenty head of cattle,! wood public building, and $25,000 Alkazar Hotel another thirty, another forty, and for VenKM public building. these instances are said to be mere­ Advices from Pekin, China, state Keremeos, B. C. ly typical of a state of affairs which that an order vvill be issued when is chronic in some of the remoter the mourning for the empress dow­ PERCY MARKS - - PROPRIETOR. parts of lhe range. The provincial ager ends that all ollicials, military government pays a bounty of $15 men, students and policemen must for grown wolves and $5 for pups. cut off their queues. This i> giv ing The ranchers have always supple­ greal satisfaction lo the Chinese. mented this by themselves giving a At the foot of Little Shuswap Substantial bounty. They now pro­ lake, between Kamloops and Revel­ pose lo form a fund and pay a stoke, the town of Chase is rapidlv bounty ol $50 lor grown wolves;ind growing. Civet fitly residences have KEREMEOS MEAT MARKET _>20 lor cubs, which, added lo the been creeled this vear, in addition government bounty, ought to effect to many business houses. The an abatement of the peat, location of a large sawmill by the Choice Fresh Meats, ••• Adams River Lumber Co. is the 72 Miles of Apples. cause of all the activity. Cured Meats, Fish, Poultry,etc. Scvcnly-two aud one-fourth miles Rev. R. W. Hibbert and his bride is the distance llial would be cover­ arrived in Phu'nix Saturdav evening ed in an unbroken line if the apples after spending several weeks vvith FREE DELIVERY. OH exhibition at Ihe Spokane apple the former's parents in Nova Scotia, show were placed side by side. and was warmly welcomed hy mem­ There an t,S25,831 apples in the bers of the Methodist church, of Special contract rates to camps. various exhibits, and the average which he is the popular pastor. Orders for Cured Meats, Fish and Poultry promptly fruit is three inches in diameter. During his absence the congrega­ The string would stretch from Spo­ tion purchased the residence for­ and satisfactorily filled. kane to Rossland and back. merly occupied by R. Silverthorn, There are three cars of Winesaps, on Old Ironsides avenue, and have four of Rome Beauty, one of Wag- furnished it for a parsonage. Mr. Hk-HKST PRICK PAID FOR HIDES. ener, two of Spitzenberg, one of Vellovv Newtown, one of Grimes Hibbert occupied the pulpit in the Golden, one other standard variety, Methodisl church Sunday evening. and one mixed car. Phoenix Pioneer. GEO. CAWSTON. KEREMEOS FRUIT LANDS The Be . Time to Secure a Lot is NOW

Before our great irrigation system vvas complet­ DON'T DELAY—The time is short during ed and before the railway was completed, many which you can get in on the ground flour and secure settlers located on our fruit lands in the as­ a tract of virgin land in the heart of one of the very surance that these necessary works were soon to be choicest fruit-growing districts oi the province. carried out. Before another year passes it is altogether likelv Now the works have been carried out, the water that every foot of it will be taken up. courses have been laid, the railway runs through the centre of the settlement, and the remainder of our Our fruit lands are free from timber and rock lands are still open on the same terms. The very and are ready for planting. No mountain side, but best time forthe fruit grower to settle at Keremeos in the centre of a beautiful vallev and a prosperous is rijjht now. settlement.

The properties are being offered in 1, 3, 5 and 10 acre Blocks with a well laid out townsite now doing an active business. Our terms are liberal. One-third cash. Balance in .l payments at 7 per cent. Acreage properties are from $1 75 to $300 an acre. Town lots $100, $200 and $300. For full particulars apply to Keremeos Land Co., Ltd. _ KEREMEOS. B.C. jf ,~„ »m ..'- .«•—

Obituary. Bengough. A Plucky Brakeman. Navigating Upper Fraser.

The Greenwood Ledge savs oi The man who can draw well, who Charles Devo, a G. N. R. brake- Sleambo.it navigation on the up­ the late Hugh Cameron: Hugh adds to his artistic abilities a keen man, by his courage and nerve per Fraser has made great progress CametXM died in Camp McKinnev sense of humor, who recites well, saved the Oriental Limited from a during the past season. In the last Friday from hear! disease, aged and sink's comic lOOga well, is a greml catastrophe at the Dryden upper reaches ot the river and its id) vcars. He had kept hotel at man who can entertain any audi­ switch, a few miles from Wenat­ tributaries it has been proved that that Camp for many year*, and was ence. Such a man is BoogOUgb, chee. Devo was rear brakeman on there is more than 1000 miles of noted I'or being one ot the most who will appear here on Saturday, a freight train which was going on navigable waters, requiring only a generOlia men thai ever lived. lie Dec. 4. The .Sydney (Australia) the switch at Dryden to gel out of little dynamiting c>t rocks to make never charged a woman anything Referee comments oo his entertain­ the way of the Oriental Limited. long ttretches for regular steam­ who stopped at his hotel, and vvas ment thus: "An instantaneous suc­ The freight vvas behind time, and boat runs. They traverse a splen­ ever ready to help his friendi with cess was achieved by BengOUgh, when going on the switch Ihe speed did agricultural section, which up money. Often the less security a the Canadian cartoonist, reciter and was so greal thai l.cyo in jumping 10 ihe present time, except for the friend could give the more likely he burlesque artist, who opened his oil'the train to the switch broke a past two or three years, has been vvas to i^et money from Hughie. Australian tour on Saturday. Hen- leg aiul rolled down the bank. almost entirely given over to fur He did not leavea vvill, hut has a gougfa gets going at a good pace, Realising thai the open switch trappers vvith the exception of a brother in Victoria, which will pre­ ami succeeds in keeping his audi­ would mean an awful crash should small portion used for cattle raising, vent the slate from getting his ence wide awake and amused, whe- the paeeenger train then due come bttt wilh Ihe coming ot steamer .vcalth. He was worth about t her he is dashing off things al his llong at ils usual speed, Devo, Iranspot lation, which will be much $100(000 in cash and properly. A easel or npinninjl little tales of inno­ suffering intense pain and in a cheaper than the old route by wagon Greenwood hank has 115,000 of his cence and mirth between the pic­ fainting Condition, crawled and roll­ road, it is anticipated thai the coun­ money and another one in Victoria tures, lie is • combination of manv ed 100 yards to the switch and try will develop many farming com­ has wmething like $20,000 on de­ enviable qualities and accomplish- closed it, just in time lo lei the munities as well as prosperous posit. After being embalmed nnd i.ienls. He is a clever artist, with passenger train apeed safely by towns, and means vvill also be pro­ vided forgetting out some oi lhe coffined in Greenwood the remains a method as aura as it is twlft, • with ils passengers unconscious of splendid at cts of timber in the Were escorted yesterday to the free-and-easy humorist, and al all Ihe lad thai their lives were im­ district. C.P.R, by the Pioneers'Society and poinls a smart showman who has periled. •hipped to New Westminster for mastered his business and who Sheriff Thorp of Okanogan coun­ A Spokane Beaut) apple display* interment. lhe pall-hearers were understands the value of time. eil at the apple show by I'". L. I'ost J. R, Jackson, Midwav; Jas. Lynch, ty htid a lively gUO*Aghl recently at Bengough will be assisted by Bor­ of Chelan, Wash., is credited with Torodo; C. 5. McRae, Dead wood; neo Gardiner, the marvelous hoy Conconully vvith a mfe-cracker whom he arrested in a saloon. The being the largest apple in the world. S. T. I.atsen, Rock Creek ; John whistler, Claude Allan, baritone, man was taken only alter he was 11 measures 17's inches in circum­ Blongh, Camp McKinney; and J. VV. and Dora Carroll, pianiste." ference and weighs over 41 ounces. Nelson, Greenwood. Rev. S.I.nndie shot twice, one bullet cutting the A Wolf River apple from Sharon, of Phomfal conducted the services Angers off his right hand and the Wash., is IN'-, inches in circumfer­ at the undertaking parlors. In the government sale of Point Othei going through his lung, Af­ ence, bnt weight only 37 ounces. Grey lands lasl week, lasting three terwards, to the astonishment of It Is expected Post's apple will be Wilcox, Conservative, was re­ days, 686 acres was sold, realising the authorities, he broke jail de­ reproduced in a metal apple of its turned in North Essex by-election. $2,011,000. spite his WOUnds and got awav. exact shape and si/e. LOCAL NOTES. out on a hunting trip—but the game AT he vvas after was not the four-footed Forget politics now, and think of kind. When the party returned to Tinsmithing. Keeler's Restaurant Christmas. town they had staked nbout 18,000 You can gal Bengough, Keremeos Hall, Ker­ acres of coal lands, including the All kinds ot Sheet Metal Work in Meal Tlckete & Bread Tickets. emeos Centre, Dec. 4. former claims of the B. C. C Co. Tin, Copper, Sheet Iron, etc. Twenty-one Meals for Six Dollars. and of various prospectors who had The Fernie Ledger announces —o— neglected their holdings, as well as Hereafter our loaves will be of regular that it is about to issue a daily- EAVETROUGHING A SPECIALTY. some entirely new claims. The local uniform weight which we will sell as follows paper. Plumbing. Pipe fitting and cutting. men who shared in the staking One for ten cents. Pumps repaired. Twelve for one dollar. Mrs. F. Richter returned home come in for a substantial interest in on Saturday after spending a few the property. Pies, Cakes, Doughnuts or Biscuits weeks with friends at Loomis. Now is the time to repaii made when ordered. F. C. Laird, of Spokane, Wash., your stoves ready for win­ John Knudson has sold his prop­ has been spending a few days in the ter. Heaters of all kinds erty in Nelson and intends shortly valley, looking into the coal situa­ G. G. KEELER. relined on shortest notice. to move his household to Keremeos. tion at Princeton, and incidentally KEREMEOS, B. C. Hritish Columbia visitors at the watching with much interest the H. B. Meausette, progress of the political campaign. Spokane apple show will send a few- (Over Keremeos Hardware Store.] boxes of the choicest fruit to King Of the Princeton coal Mr. Laird Kdward. says it is a good clean-breaking and WM. DALRYMPLE. clean-burning coal, but assays high The government inspector of rail­ -o in ash. He thinks it will need to P. BROMLEY, ways is to arrive here on Monday to be put into Spokane at a lower examine and report upon the new GENERAL BLACKSMITH. price than the coal now used there GENERAL Keremeos-Princeton stretch. in order to secure a market. BLACKSMITH. P. D. McTavish, of the B. C. The Ladies' Guild will open their Your Patronage Solicited. Sat­ Fruit Land Co., was in town over sale of work in the hall at the isfaction Guaranteed. Sunday, leaving on Monday's stage. Centre on Thursday afternoon, Dec. Horse-shoeing a Specialty It is the company's intention to —o— 2, at 3 o'clock, when they vvill dis­ close its office here for the winter. play some very fine articles suitable Cumming's Old Stand. " With the V. V. & E. built over as Christmas presents for husband, KEREMEOS, B.C. Hope Mountain, what is left for us wife, lover or sweetheart. Refresh­ (Keremeos Centre.) to arjjue about?" asks the Hedley ments consisting of tea and cake Gazette plaintively. Our contem­ will be served during the afternoon, TOMMY SING. porary should not enumerate his SIMILKAMEEN and at 6 o'clock an old-fashioned Contracts For Work. poultry prior to incubation. home-made supper will be served. SADDLERY CO. Land scrubbed or any kind o Sid Brown, formerly conductor The Centre orchestra has been en­ work taken by contract at reason­ on the Oroville-Keremeos run, came gaged for afternoon and evening. able rates. KEREMEOS. up yesterday to cast his ballot. Sid Come and have a good time. has recently been in Manitoba tak­ Martin Burrell was very prompt SING LEE ing a train between Souris and to take a hand in the game at Ot­ Lstevan through ten-below weather tawa this session. In the first dis­ Laundry and deep snow. The Similkameen cussion to come up he was one of Work called for and delivered. looks good to him after such an the four speakers, the subject being Satisfaction guaranteed experience. the government's delay in appoint­ Repairers and Makers of WING SING & CO. Charles Peterson, a tunnel watch­ ing judges for the newly constituted Harness, Boots and man ofthe V. V. & E., committed court of appeal in British Columbia. Shoes, Etc. General Merchants and Laundry The court was constituted on the —o— Employment suicide on Thursday of last week by- Whips, Bits, Spurs, Belts, Etc., 1st of September, and it is charged jumping in front of the passenger kept in stock. CONTRACTORS train when it was passing through that the Dominion government is the tunnel six miles west of Mid­ waiting till the provincial elections way. He was 65 years old and had are over in order to make appoint­ no relatives in the country. No in­ ments among party workers. In The RIVERSIDE NURSERIES quest was held. the meantime the interests of liti­ Grand Forks, B.C. gants suffer. Mr. Elmhirst, with George Kirby Offers a Splendid Grade of as his first lieutenant, has made a Although he had not recovered Spitzenberg, Yellow Newton Pippin, Winesap, vigorous campaign of it, especially full strength after his recent illness, Cox's Orange Pippin, Red Cheeked Pippin in the last ten days or so. Last Mr. Shatford has not spared himself and all the other Leading Varieties week they held a series of meetings in carrying through his late cam­ We hold Government Inspector's Certificate that all Stock is in the east end, and this week has paign. As an example of one stren­ free from Pests and Infectious Diseases been devoted to Princeton, Hedley uous day's work, on Tuesday he Write at once for Catalogue and Price List and Keremeos, where meetings drove from Oroville to Fairview, All Stock Wintered in our Large Storage Cellars were held on Monday, Tuesday and theuce lo Keremeos, and thence to Wednesday evenings. Hedley. After his meeting at Pen­ ticton last week he took a turn An outsider named Reg.C, Hrown, For a luxurious Shave, through the eastern part of the representing the Canadian Develop­ Halr-Cut or Bath go to riding to undo the work of his ment. Co. of Vancouver, went into enemies, and the last days of the Princeton and quietly stole a march campaign he spent in the upper on the mining enthusiasts of that valley, concluding with a meeting Booster's -Xonsorial fltarlor burg who had not kept quite up to at Princeton on Wednesday even­ date on the coal situation. His lay ing. He can now take a good rest was to stake claims which had with an easy mind. BOX TRADE IN CIGARS A SPECIALTY. lapsed, principally those ofthe B.C. A fine line of Cigars and Tobaccos, Colliery Co., which —though the fact was not suspected by the gen­ Notice Fruit and Confectionery. Notice is hereby given that, thirty days era] public- had failed to keep up after date, I intend to apply to the Sup­ the reqniiements for holding its erintendent of Provincial Police, F. S. Ilussej, ef Victoria, for renewal of a re­ POOL TABLE IN CONNECTION. lands. Accompanied by George tail liquor license for the Central Hotel, Allison and Bert Thomas, two men located at Kereineos Centre, B.C. II VI I nil K I,IN TWKDDLR. who knew the country well, he set Keremeos Centre, H.C, Oct. 28, 1909. A. J. SAUNDERS, Keremeos.