-098r ;O1 Telseyies SYAOMON THRDTA TN AG oxMELIAWT {Nes TOMAR ot) oF AMOTTLOMATUMOD IA lOL 4, NO. 42. ROS3LAND, BRITISH: COLUMBIA, SATURDAY. A it Hopgggairon Tris T “anadt mia tad aes sesceulay noatidt rc ¥ enone mbdrelias—-—— We have just received another lot of Umbrellas with Sterling Sliver Handles, tor Ladies and Gentlemen. Call aud see them.. seeeeeee J. UW. SPRING, NEXT DOOR TO: THE POST. OFFICE, ‘THE LEADING JEWELER. ‘ABOUT FRUIT FAIR ADVERTISING. Press Agent and Manager, Deny, Paying Bpe; ‘kane Eprror Rossuanp ecinn: 3 Dear Sie. The editorial in your issue of August 14 I have just read. If it were not thet.you -had been incorrectly in- formed, iI believe’ your complaint against theS iti would have ee ell founded. Tho statement that it has been the custom of paying the Spokane papers for advertising the fruit faira is incorrect. never have paid a dollar, directly- or in- directly, to any of any kind The fruit faire |. ne) 42 nS PB TCE Ie cats I HAS OME 10-SUAF seiwito A F daut aad ysa) ‘Bight-Hour Law. ria SEMLIN GOVERNMENT” A FIXTURE, BARGAINS BARGAINS | BARGAINS L T-mean. Genuine Bargains and the -Lurgest and Most Complete Stock of y-Made Chotning, Men's Furniahinge,— 3 ~ Boots and Shoce, Hata and ais sig z r ©Yonths and Chiidren’s “Wear, fo ‘Belect Tron in the City, ROOM: Must BE MADE FOR. NEW Goods ARRIVING. See PEGIAE MENTION: @ = ioe Men’s Nobby Suits, 1. English, Scotch and Canadien _ Tweeds reduced 20 per cent,'to Clear Out. An. Immense Line of Boye! Baits,’ at Cost and Under UST ARRIVED. 3 Atarge Consignment of Latest American Hata, Newest Phases and Btyles - kcand,vou will be convinced that you can 1 do better, Btock Carefully Selected, Call and be Call an act mv a cates nore value for.vour-nioney than: elsewhere, beck Buttom, Pests 8 and Square Dealing. No. et for ad this is absolutely true, and I am certain! that [ have always supposed: it- to be true.. You certainly are correct in‘ say- ing that the outside papers. should be the firat:to.be paid, if any-papere-are ta be paid. “ Manager Bolster says this pol- fey will he followed if ever-any papers are paid anything for what they are doing for the Spokane expositions. Your informer, whoever he may be, who said that the Spokesman-Review last year reccived a cerlain per cant-rake-off on intentionally. desires to do an injustice. Certainly nothing of the kind has_ever been'‘permitted in any shape. The Spokane expositions have received very generous treatment from the news- papers throughout the:country. If it were not for this treatment. the exposi- tions could scarcely have been held. -It would be impossible to’ properly pay the newspapers for the services they have rendered. sIf any papers were to be assisted the fruit fairs, those most" mote from Spokane would be tho first]. considered. Spokane degires to give an exposition which will be of great benefit to every section of the country. “At the request of many exhibitors from a distance, this year, the exposition bar branched “out intonew departments, which, it -is-be- Meved-will nore benefit | fo the. be aa We will‘hgve your trade afi if t Try average mop boy phoes | : “a © ance and fit,.. Ply knos.Jittle abqut leath- J. er and trust to.their dealers. Hence theiadvantage of dealing with a repn- table house. Our. shoes strike people by stylish shape and by their anes ‘Cc. O, LALONDE 106 WEST e COLUMBIA: AVENUES . A Positive Cure for.-all~Kidney~ Diseases: “A i Purely Vegetable Medicine for: all Diseases of the Kidneys and Urinsty Organs. “| Burge, Richard chanan, M. J. entire country. papers, like every one else, will be bene- 'fted-by thus building up and advertis- the country in which we live. “Very respectfully, Srorey Buck, Press Agent.: the Bolster -eays |* all receipts: is certainly misinformed ‘or- paid, however, of all those which ,haye|. ing the great resources of: the section of ‘fhe information ‘upan Wplce 01 four of Eight-Hour Law Might ‘Be Confined to Greater Depth than 100. Feet. “J. M, Kellie, M. P.'P., of the Revyel- stoke riding, came in from Neleonon the Allan,. Mr. Kellie rays there is pothing new in politica 60 far as. he’ knows: iw-satistied that’ Henderson, ¥ appointed attorney-general would. have been returned, no matter who opposed him, and. that le, -Kellie,.was; not sur- candidate, had “ withdrawn’ ‘from © the: contest. He was of the opinion that the dissatisfaction represented as within the ranks! of the Semlin eupporters * was, greatly magnified | by the epposition press and that the present government would remain in power until at least now issties arose that are-not now. known of. In peaking | of, the eight-hour. law: he is MO apparent opposi- tion ‘to.it. The mine. owners are pay- ing $8.50 for eight hours without grumb- ling. , There may be contentions between mine owners. and their employera, but they. will finally ‘ddjuat themselves, I hope, satisfactorily toall. I would not commit. myself:to the’ amendment, “but wise and. justt to have ‘aidvelft IM. Kellie, H.P. P., stn era 11! a. m. train’and registered at the oi aS ofS {7 STEALING AR SPR ct) a SHR peor ital Posie ‘mar car aia oo 9. Decked“the C.F R! pay 1s98y na Can tia” Avvinitor. from: Solio seasia heat eeSaee y electric street rellwey- sompany ine ing eaupen aa a hed cant i cy WB Priced thet hit Cav ae ill’a toenter the city with his Neleon & Fort ‘tepead2aon Query in formant says the excuse for putting down the heavy rails is thxtdighter ones Cannot be had, ia not ‘credited? andshator it seems not at all unlikely that the de- sire of the people of Nelson and the Nel- son & Fort Sheppard road to eater the town is to be:accomplished by strategy aud ina quiet way, which could not be done otherwise on account of, the oppo- sitioh of the C. P. R.- The - president. of the etreet railway company is president of the Grand Trunk, which is pointed ut’ as another reason why the rumor inight be true.” Reid Withdraws.- Vieronta, Aug. EER ee sition Reid bh: ‘from the contest for ilember at New Westminster, 80 it is not likely that Henderson. will:be opposed. ~ Committee Mesting, bial - There will bea meeting of the Labor lay program committee. this evening at the Fire Hall at 7:30, Police Court. Miss Jessie Sheppard was before Police Jordan this upon the charge of being drunk. and disorderly, and being a little ever talkative, got fined $80, which she paid, * County Court Monday. Scofield ved 8 from Judge Spinks thia morning stating that he would be in Rossland on Monday tions.of: the eight-hobt Iaw.-to totry Burns, Lewis, Kelly and Peck, of greater depth. than 100 feet. For deep, mining. hs am uncompromising in _ The, ‘principal is. -right,, andr no gdvernment ia ‘my opinion will ever repeal it.” Mr. Kellie thought the..mining outlook of . West Kootenay most bright, and “expressed aurprise at tne rapids stridea-Rossland ia making. and. in such “a way that “we di ‘question the trathfalmess of it. ment the benefit of the ‘above denial.— Eprror.] ADVERTISED’ LETTER “Lists? view getting a per cent of tlie ae of-the frait fair,.came from -Spokenoe ‘| people while.we were attending the fair, “not How- ever, we are glad to give the manage- ‘The following isa list of letters re- "i “PERSONAL. W. H. Patterson baa gone to Salmo. ‘W