PROSPECTOR '-<0 VOL. 3, NO. 45 LILLOOET, B. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1914. w$$P<E R YEAR «WLJ .a/m Annual Report of Lillooet! War Gleanings GRATITUDE General News of Lillooet Mining Division District The common cry of the street Lillooet, B.C., Sept. 3. (Report of Minister of Minos) boys in London is "Who said In this hour of my deepest Work on the Government Barn German Fleet." sorrow, the kindness shown to and implement sheds is progress­ The new work no the Pioneer me by the many friends of my ing favorably these days. claim is made up of a cross-cut Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, late husband, so lately laid to with her children, has arrived in rest, has been like a ray of sun­ A. E. Griffin of Griffin and 300 feet in length, the portai be­ England. ing located at a point about 400 shine piercing the gloom. Welch, contractors, passed thru According to the La Presse of To those who lent their aid at town en route for the coast. feet to the east of the west line the scene of the accident, and at of the Pioneer claim. This cross­ Montreal, the Crown Prince of Mrs. Carrie Hall returned to Germany is dead. The advice the hospital in the attempt to the coast after spending three cut is expected to cut into No. 1 was received from Berlin under save my husband's life; to all months among her many friends vein at about 100 feet farther in, date of August 24. those who, since his death, have here. where there would be about 100 been ready and willing to do so London. Sept 3 — The official feet of backs. Additional drifting much by word and deed to help; We hear that a wedding took press bureau has issued the fol­ to the many who expressed their place near Seton lake this week, has also been done on both the lowing statement— sympathy by following with me but up till going to press we were veins crosscuts in the original "Continuous fighting has been the body to its lasr. resting place; unable to get full details. adit; on No. 1 vein the drift to in progress all along almost the I desire to express my grateful­ whole line of battle. The British ness. The contractors on the Pacific the west has been extended from Great Eastern construction are 30 to 35 feet, and the drift to the cavalry engaged the enemy and JESSIE DUNN, brushed them back and captured laying off the majority of day east from 10 to 21 feet. On the ten guns. men. No. 2 vein the drift to the west Mother's Pride and—Sorrow "The French army has contin­ House cleaning and decorating has been extended from 20 to 160 ued the offensive and gained Perhaps no other place in the is in full swing over-the-way, feet; this work has resulted so ground in the Lorraine district. British overseas dominions can and the house will, in the near satisfactorily that, at a point 70 In other reigons of the war the boast of contributing from one future, be occupied by Mr. and feet in, or 50 feet beyond the Russian army is investing Kon- home a similar number of brave Mrs. George Prosser. young men to take up arms in face of that drift at the time of igsberg. The Russian victory, which is complete at Lemberg, defence of the Motherland as in Mr. G. A. Goss of Waterbury, Mr. Robertson's visit, the width the quiet little hamlet of Frog and Mr. H. James of New York, has already been announced." hunters, left for the hills this of the quartz-vein matter had in­ Mr. Graham-White, has been Marsh, Newfoundland, C.B. creased from 2 to about 12 feet, Here in this unheard of section week. Wm. G. Manson is their appointed a temporary flight com­ guide. which width continued for about mander in the British navy, Mr. dwells an old lady and seven sons 80 feet, when it gradually de­ R. T. Gates, who recently re­ When a short time ago the call If you are bothered with head­ signed from the Royal Aero Club, went out for men to do or die for creased to 3 feet in the face, England's cause it reached the aches, squint or cross-eye, or if some 60 feet farther to the west. has been appointed a temporary the glasses you now wear are un­ flight lieutenant. little hamlet and penetrated the satisfactory, consult with Dr. At the point where the increased quiet home of Mrs. William Flynn The official casualties suffered in Frog Marsh. Instantly seven Hirschberg. See notice on page width began, it appeared as by the Cavalry Brigad and of the four. though another vein had formed brothers, sons of the patriotic three divisions, less one brigade old Irish lady, responded to the Quite a number of the local a junction with that which the of the British force in Fiance call and are today on one of the sports left for the hills on the drift had been run on from the follow— battleships ready to combat with First, but up to going to press crosscut, and manager thought Killed, 36 officers and 127 men. tlio enemy. we have not heard of the game that the two known veins en­ Wounded, 57 officers and 629 men having suffered very much—Per­ Missing, 188 officers and 4939 men Identical with the above is the countered in the crosscut had case of Mrs. Coffard of Penge, haps game is still high. This report was received in united; but if such had happened England, whose seven sons are at London from the headquarters of present serving under the colors.. Mrs. Asselstine, wife of Dr. it would have been necessary for the expeditionary force in France Both ladies are widows and get­ Asselstine, resident doctor of the the No. 1 vein exposed in the ting on in years. May they re­ Liliooet Hospital, left this week The "Liverpool Courier" says for Vancouver, her father, Sam crosscut to have changed its line that Germany is preparing an turn to add further cheer to their devoted mothers. Penny having passed away on of strike from nearly east and active campaign in Canada in an Monday night. Mrs. Asselstine west to north-west, thus making endeavor to bring about a revul­ has the sincere sympathy of her a turn of almost 45 degrees be­ sion of the present feeling. The "Times" correspondent at friends in her bereavement. The "Courier" asserts that the Dieppe, France has telegraphed tween the present face of that Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Madell, vein in the west drift and the Canadian Government recently his paper as follows— discovered that information of "In the main theatre of the who have been visiting- Mr. W, J, point on No. 2 vein in the drift British preparations was being war. the German advance ap­ Abercrombie, at the Excelsior where the increased width was sent by German secret agents in pears to continue without slack­ Hotel for the past two' weeks, first noticed. This may have oc- Canada. ing its pace. It must 1 e indeed left for the States, Tuesday. an o/er-wearied army that they Mr. Madell is a very enthuiastic cuin-d, but is hardly probable, From all reports the enemy has angler, he reports having made when the conditions as Lo regu­ not succeeded in forcing a way are bringing towards the forts of some fine catches and some real larity and continuity of lines of Paris. They have made an ef­ through the circle which seems fort which nearly deserves to be good sport. strike throughout the camp are to be drawing closer and closer. called superhuman. Nothing like considered, so I should rather The Times correspondent also The track laying gang on the' states that—Amid all the welter it ever before was seen in war. Pacific Great Eastern Railway favor the theory that a third vein of war the British troops pro­ —Province. are getting closer and closer every continued on page two duced the great quality of effici- London Sept 3— A dispatch to day. They are now about 35 cency. The spirit of Kitchener the Reuter Telegraph Company miles out of Squamish, and, al­ apparently pervades the whole from Tokyo, via Petersgrade (St. though there are some bad cuts expeditionary force. The trans­ Petersburg), says that the Jap­ to bridge or fill in, unless some­ The Vauconver Exhibition is thing unforseen happens, the now in full swing. port and commissariat are all ex­ anese have occupied seven islands cellent and they have withstood situated near Kiao Chow, rails should be laid to Lillooet by the slaughtering tacticts of the The Japanese, according to the late fall or early spring. Shot 1 hrough Legs German general staff with won­ despatch, have swept up more The court house was crowded derful equanimity. than 1000 mines which have been last Saturday, the occasion of the A shooting affray has occured Toronto. —Word has been re­ scattered by the Germans in tne trial of Max Lamey, auto driver, on the Lillooet-Ashcroft road in ceived here by cable of the first waters adjoining the "stronghold. for the unlawful killing of Mr. the vicinity of 18 mile ranch. It Canadian killed in action in the Charles Dunn. The action arose appears that an Italian and an European war. Cap. B. Denison, Fire at Fountain Creek from the result of an auto acci­ Indian woman had been living son of Admiral John Denison of dent on the Lillooet-Seton lake together for about a year, when Toronto.