ADVANGE IN I. X. L. Sale This Morning Reported at Ad- vanced Price of 17c. n, OTHER STOCKS ARE STEADY e tl ‘Was « Quiet Day on the Exchange and Total Dealings in All Stocks Aggregated 44,000 Shares—White Bear o Little Weaker— Osnsdian Gold Fields Steady. Although dealings in 1. xX. L. cussthe manner in which we will Caledonians, Attention! Tuesday even- { artman of Ross g, November 21st, at 8:30, in Nod ate ea Se in kr : ate the f Thomas S.. Gilmour's office, to dis- | BetobenA. b a earing oi eie personal es tate, a Balilie of the aly olikoasland.scepuntant celebrate St. Andrew’s day. in rash jar the purpor ote of, Bias eal My, and ately an out, pret | J. S. C. FRASER, Eegelige ais ad's. rate Hartman thelr Just Fi _. President. ebts rhe said deignor, and the sald Edwar vd —_—__ Lost. Bunch of keys, last Friday; own- r’s name on ring. Reward on re- urn to the Bon Ton. —_— Here’s a Snap. A five-roomed house, plastered The price is $1350, with .Apply at this office. continue small yet the price goes upward and today the quotation reached 17c—the highest figure yet paid. Canadian Gold Fields is steady around 834c. - White Bear is a shade weaker and 3 }4c brought out 5000 shares. The other favor- ald "Bodeza howl, Henuted on lot 20. block 41, Transfer of Liquor License. ¢ McPhersov, for the ites are unchanged. Sales reported today aggregate 44,000 shares, Honsland Sales. Today’s sales on the Rossland exchange were: I. X. L., 3000, 17¢; Giant, 2000,°7¢, 1000, 654c, 1000, 7000, 634, 5000, 6%c; King, 500, 1000, 29¢, 2000, 30C, 500, 28c, 500, 2834¢3 Wonderful, 1000, 3¢3 ‘Winnipeg, 500, 3034¢, 1000, 31¢} Peoria Mines, 5000, 1 13403 Canadian Gold Fields, 2000, 834c; Okanogan, 5000, 104; White Bear, 5000, 37hcs Waterloo, 1000, 1334¢. — ASKED BID Athabasca 36 33 Baltsmore. . Brandon & Golden Grown. tathmullen taro bler-Cariboo . ae (Renn i. Hid, Treas q ‘The Nashville Students. The original Nashville Students, who will visit Rossland Thursday evening, is the only colored com- pany that was engaged as a concert i attraction at the world’s fair. This >-., celebrated band of singers appeared ‘in the great festival hall day after day to tremendous audiences. The exposition authorities also used them in many of their night fetes, providing them with an electric launch, and sending them all through the lagoons singing their beautiful songs to the multitudes gathered. Established May, 1895. (THE REDDIN- JACKSON CO., -ktmireo Ganiity. MINING AND INVESTMENT BROKERS. Agents for Paris Bell Addition to Rossland. Daniel Dickinson. Walter L. Orde DIcKINson & ORDE Stock Brokers. Stocks bought and sold on the closest marging. Tel. No. 61. Rossland, B. C. CHARLES DANGERFIELD, STOCK BROKER, ‘Wallace Block, Columbia aye. Tel. No, 90 Gable addres Redford MoNeill’s abe einen Codes {Crough THos. : Ss. GILMOUR, STOCKS AND SHARES MINING AGENT. Colambia Avenue. Rossland, B. C. Telephone 86. P.O. Box 268 A.® MACKENZIE & CO. MINING BROKERS. meeting of Wesley Lougheed will be held at the office of W. J. Whiteside, Esq., solicitor, Ritchie block; Columbia avenue, Rossland, B: day, the 11th day of the hour ‘of 4 o'clock in the after- Wesley Lougheed, heretofore trad: ‘|GRAND HOTEL. NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT: A meeting of the St. Andrew's | pursuant to creditors Trust Deeds Act and society will be held APD. 1 credits ca ‘whieh May be gold under executian, and all his res lartman, the Baillie, the Mrustees ‘on the 13th day vot October, A. tt Gast and tne wala at rust created By the sald, eet ainst the sald S.A. parma are rei mber, A. , te e full aiiicate At ined fidavit wand notice. is hereby 1 and nicely finished, in desirable | pets rise dr gut aie cay Sinote ‘th location. $350 cash, $300 in say six months, | Hartm and the balance.at the tate of $10 per month. uth di a: Pe Peer une vf EP gesi gaa SEs ce 3 at to Zee 23: mt an S30 re ae FB Gon Friday, the 1 oth. day of November, A- Jaci ae oss ant, B. C,, this rath bea of Octa- Transter of Liquor License.” Notice is hereby at given that at: the next sioners for the city OF Rossland, an. appli: ROSSLAND EVENING RECORD. NOVEMBER a1, 1808, PTT TTT '§ HUNTER BROS. Jeleteeteltete gel ted Feeble abaihbiedbitlichaiead Amending Acts. estate, t trustee has undertaken the Stock: ; Complete , gg oeIN webs Hosiery Before the sith day of ip. to de deliver to ae tras: ven that pita: the: sala stee-will 1 artes |* fo clalms of }. said S. oHises of hae * Col lumbia Svemne, Rossland, & our ef fout o'clock in the ‘atternoon., Macvonaup & C B. Houde & Company, Quebec m _ Neatly Furnished € ed = =. ———— 3 Straight Cut Cigarettes. : MAN UFACTURED BY | Are Better thas the Best. - ' Crow & Morris, Rossland: 4) «re from $2.50 to .. $3.50 per week First-Class Bar in connection. | T No. 58. 22 Ce Avenue. Four doors east of post office. . KK cotetay: ‘Thira Avenue, Hossland. CUNLIFFE: & ABLETT, - ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS. ‘All and Cous suction Work Undertaken. A Bit of LA JESS AND ‘LAURINE. La Contortionists Extraordinarie. MISSES MELVILLE, STEVENS, NEWELL, HARRINGTON, FOSTER, GRAY, SISTERS PERRY, AND HAMILTON IN SPECIALTIES Prof. Del Adelphia, Delp Pearl & Uassidy and eae Gompany in Hae S Trish Farce, “Fan from the turn loose.”” ‘ “M’'GILLIGAN’S BAD ‘BOY. dee QUI CK WORK x% _ Red Star Storage & Trait € OF wi call oe any pat rt of the tract and Light and oes a regular Storage and ‘Transfer business, Bagg: cag delivered Bror mptly Coni ork * * Ore Oars, Wheels and ae Buckets, Fant § Shvattian; Bansers and Patera, _ Pipe work Northey Pumps keptin stock. Agents for Wm. pecialty. Northey Bamps fifi: Concentrators, Etc. 7 "plo, Box 198 Hotel-—=w Sd First-Class Business Lunch - 35 Cents. Oysters in any style, a Specialty. Game in Season. P. BURNS & CO. WHOLESALE MARKETS Rossland, Nelson, Sandon, Revelstoke, Ghecavised, Private Boxcs ft for Fatu- . Grand : Forks; ind Vancouver. ilies and Parties. =—=—— «vex 5 RETAIL, ‘MARKETS : Miss K. seceeeeeeeee® Rossland. Trail, © Nelson, Ymir, _ Kaslo, Sandon, New u Denver, Silverton, Cascade City, Grand Forks, Gr d, Phoenix, Midway, Camp McKinney, Revelstoke SPOKANE STREET. Ferguson; and Vancouver. — William Donald, Mgr. Rossland Branch. The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars. ers? Columbia Ave, Rossland, B. C, Matthews, Bros., Prop’s. The Arlington UNEXCELLED TABLE. == THE LEADING HOTEL AT TRAIL. <=" Headquarters for Commer- cial Men....Splendid Sample Rooms. Joun Haverty, Proprietors JENCKES MACHINE CO. ‘SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC. MAKERS OF THE BEST Mite cae achinery IN THE WORLD. Frank E. Mendenhall, : Rossland. B. C, t I i iM i per a SS =| THE ROSSLAI ECORD. VOL. 5- NO. 68. o ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1899. PRICE 5 CENTS A magnificent line with Striking Chimes. Ornamental Alarm cke. > |Clocks - J. W. Spring, : The Jeweler. t “ Artistic to a degree, and; at Moderate prices. Bedroom, Parlor and Hall Clocks, ‘ Ladies’ Leather Traveling Gompanions, and Writ= «ing Folios.. [ Wirt’s Fountain Pens. Elegant goods. Best quality of. Fit- - Goodeve Bros., Druggists & Stationers. It pays to deal with Gnodeve Bros. Office and ocket Diaries ‘ é (900, ajlsizes. * Invitation ond Gorrespon- . ao Ee dence ,Stationsry, |Razors and Razor Strops. shapes and Best Standard makes.’ Qualit: ‘ Gusamtcea, ty the Burnt Basin are ON KATIED. GREEN One of the Best Showings in the Coun- try for Work Done. FORCE WILL BE INCREASED Manager Green Means to Oarry Forward Operations Continuously—New Bunk House ani Boarding Quarters Under .Way—Ore Bins Being Built. 3 {George H. Green has just re turned from his weekly trip to the Katie D. Green. He was accom- panied by William Pender, a min- ing man of over 14 years experience, who after thoroughly examining the property says that for the amount of work done he has never seen a finer showing. Since Mr. Green’s last visit the bunk house and the boarding house have been completed, while the shaft house and the ore bins will be finished within the next five’ days. One shift will be kept at work ‘in the shaft until the ore bins and shaft house are completed, when a full force of men will be put to work |- in the shaft and kept steadily work- ing all winter. WILL WORK THE UNEXPECTED Promising Burnt Basin Property : Which WIll Be Developed. BULLERIS — PREPARING _ TO SPRING Lining His ; Forces in Ex- pectation of Com-. ing Struggle. London, Wednesday.—The war for .which Lord Salisbury opened the way by a secret understanding with the German em- peror, has reached the transition stage between the Dutch ‘attack, thwarted by the I defe of Lady ith, Mafeking and Kimberley, and British ive ¢ now i on a larger scale. While the tacts of the military. situation in lower Natal are carefully concealed, it is plain that Clery, in the course of a few days, will have a force of 17,000 OF 18,000 troops, includ- ing the naval brigade and the battalions which were on the ground ish army. Naval officers are ry before reinforcements began to arrive at. Durban. clude three brigades of the 1st, 2d and 3d divisions and 2d Somer- set light infantry, which left Cape Town yesterday,. Both Clery and Hillyard have been connected with the staff college, “and are considered among the best ‘tacticians in the Brit- They have been great favorites with Lord Wolseley, | | and understand ‘the minutest detail of military tactics and strategy as taught in the technical schools. is wrapped in mystery, yet so much light is thrown on the move- ment toward Kimberly that some leading military writers decline to believe it will come on, as freely advocated. d by cri This will in- While the campaign in Natal ici of the admiralty for and all d Ladysmith to be sel arranging sea transport by steamships, and are retorting that the situation has been saved by the navy’s guns. the war office was ignorant of the artillery resources of the Boers, © They contend that The owners of the U: P din planning to lop at once and +&@d-on-the Orange river. n. The bluejack guns equal in range to those mounted against it on the outlying hills, hut that the defect of this blunder was counteracted by the naval 12-pounders sent from the ships in the nick of time. cannot be denied, nor can jt be questioned that the naval guns on _ improved carriages have transformed the Squadron at Estcourt A point which Englishmen not connected with” the rival ser- vices-perceive, is that the resources of the British government for carrying-on war at a long distance inland are enormously increased by the | active co-operation of the army and navy in the present d as a camp without providing - This hibition at Li by Lord B field as a p now on court and the Orange river, are _ the sepoys displayed at Malta dysmith, Est- to Russia that there was more than one way of Migbiteiy a big campaign. Straight Cut Cigarettes. MANUFACTURED BY B. Houde & Compary, Quebec . Are Better than the Best. WHOLESALE AT € Crow & Morris, Rossland. ) 622 : «ee eS SF and HORSES FOR SALE. The Rossland Warehouse and Transfer Co., have just received a ) carload of young, well-matched teams, weighing from . ttventy-five to thirty-two hundred pounds. They can be seen at their stable on Second avenue and St. Paul street, Rossland, B. C. They also have ‘Studebaker Wagons and Sensible Sleds ek For Sale. Rossland Warehouse & Vv. AND N. TEL. 48. 2 «P.O. BOX Transfer Co. COL. TEL. will let a contract for sinking 50 - feet'on the property. wi i+ ‘The. Unexpected. lies just beside z the famous Mother Lode, and’ ts s Ha believed to have the same vein as - 7 W.G.& R, Collars ¢ Cuffs, that. well-known property. Thus CG. \ ] \ i, a W. G. & R. Shirts, far only a little surtace work has a Wilson Bros’ Ties, been done, but a premising ledge MO U N aR ba E. & S. Currie Tles, has been exposed. Now the own- 4 Fonne’s Gloves, : ers mean to drive down 50 feet to 3 Health Brame heated find what depth will show. The at CO am Under . Unexpected lies about 1500 feet i) fabove the Columbia’ & Western , = in Tallertnd Department our railway, and the ore can be dumped a Is Full and right into the trains by means of a a plete simple gravity tram. J. D. McDonald, peri d of the West Kootenay Power & Light pany, J. S. C. Fraser of e-> e the Bank of Montreal, . Mike Shick Ny ~ rn 7-5 and.the Jackson brothers are the ¢ 2k HOUDE Sa Ie @ | owners of the property. They are now floating the Unexpected com- pany. It will have a capital of 1,250,000 5-cent shares, of which -| 500,000 will go into the treasury. The first block of stock will go on the market at three cents. The district, although a new pne, is a promising section, and the Unex- pected people arc’among the first to place a Burnt Basin property upon the market in tangible shape. WERE BY q Ls ‘Ten Vessele Wrecked on Patagonian Consts. Chicago, Wenesday.—A special to the Tribune from Norfolk, Va., says: According to the reports brought in today, 10 ships are ashore in the straits of Magellan. The steamship Kurdistan, Captain Littlehale, re- ported six and the Heedless, Cap- tain Milton, reported four. "Each vessel came through the straits bound here for coal and had an ex- tremely rough voyage. While off the Patagonian coast the wrecked vessels could be dis- cerned, but owing to the heavy weather and the treacherous forma- tion of the coast line neither vessel dared approach and the names of the wrecked steamships or fate of the crews could not be learned. The wrecks stretched out for sev- eral miles. Judging from a former experience of the Kurdistan the crews of the wrecked vessels may have been de- -Bayanbang. the tion. The dispatch adds that Boer Guerillas Active. Durban, ‘Wednesday.—A dispatch from the Mo h line was cut Tuesday large force of Boers encamped near Mitcheson’s cutting. A-train bound to Estcourt was compelled to returo. gota mile and a half northward of Highland’s station. The Natal Stud company’s farm has been raided and 300 blooded horses valued at $75,000 have been captured. river says H Province Will Try to Force Reopening of Slocan Mines. DOUBLE THE MINERAL TAX ‘That ‘Resort Threatened in Case, Silver-Lead Operators Refuse to Throw Open Their . Properties—Support of Rossland Mine Man- agers Is Sought. The provincial. government is quietly taking a hand in the Slocan labor situation and by -the tacit threat of doubling the output tax it will endeavor to make the mine owners of that district reopen their properties. R. F. .Tolmie, secretary of the Silver-Lead Mines association, who had been here several days consul- ting with the local mine operatorsi returned to, Nelson this. morning. Mr. Tolmie has, been here doing missionary work for. his. association and he has been trying to get. the support of the Rossland mine .own- ers in carrying on, his propoganda, The provincial- goverament is notoriously ill pleased at the atti- tude of the Slocan mine owners in closing down their properties. Now it is intimating that unless the oper- on net. smelter. returns . will, be doubled. Such a move, so the ad- ministration represents, will-be nec- nue which would ordinarily go to the province were the Slocan. mines working at’ their normal capacity. ° The ‘fneréase would’ come~tnost seriously on the Rossland mines which are working full time, and Mr. Tolmie. chose the present op- portune time to appeal to the local managers for their support in fight- ing the eight-hour law. The Silver- Lead Mines _association,, which he represents, believes the law illegal, and is preparing to fight it. A $10,- ooo fund would be necessary, and Rossland. managers are expected to ig near sta- the railroad station is held by a It only liberally. The plan is te put a 10-hour shift at work in the Payne mine, in defiance of the law, and make a test case of the issue. Now a meeting of all the mine owners over the Kootenays is being arranged for early next month to decide finally on plans for the fight. voured by cannibals. The Kurdis- tan was disabled on the straits once and the crew were obliged to give battle to the man-eaters. AGUINALDO I8 NOW ON FHE BUN Insurgent Leader Chased Out by Ad- vancing American Columns. Manila, Wednesday.—Aguinaldo has escaped between General Young and General Wheaton. General Young is now pushing. toward General Young reports that Agui-| as naldo, with a party of 250, includ- ing some women and a few carts, passed the Aringayon coast between San Fabian and San Fernando in the province of Union, on Friday, November 17. The general adds that Aguinald to strike inland “through the Bin- quet m toward B; bang, in the province of Neuva “Viscaya. General Young with his cavalry and Maccabees is pursuing the Filipino leader. Part of the American force has taken the direction of San Fer- nando. |jthe Herald. MORE POWER THAN DYNAMITE Chileans Experiment with Their New Explosive, Kidrobirocita, New York, Wednesday.—A new 1 called kidr has been tested by the technical’ com- mission at Valparaiso, Chili, says Experts say it has shown superiority over all other ex- plosives. Its expansive. power’ is twice as great as that of dynamite and its use in shells is ‘less dang Eastern Campaign Opens. Magog, ‘Que., Wednesday.— Mr. Foster inaugurated the conser- vative campaign in the eastern townships last night. Addresses were delivered by Messrs. Foster, Pope, Moore, Taillon and others, touching every phase of the politi- cal sii from the d of the ‘opposition. Campbelltowa, N. B., Wednes- ous, The explosive ignites in water well as air. COMING AND GOING. Ross Thompson is back from a trip to the Boundary. J. H. Bowes, barrister, of Nel- day.—Hon. Mr. Blair addressed a large ing of the el here last night. MINOR MENTION. Albert Barrett will open his meat and produce market, on First ave- nue, next to Holstead & Wright's new store, in a week or two. son, is in the elty on legal t w.c. Husband, the genial host of the Halcyon sanitarium, is a guest at the Allan. Migistrate Jordan returned last evening froin his eastern trip and was greetec today by his many In the fight with Aguinaldo’s rear guard at Aringay one Macca- bee was wounded and the insur- gents retreated. Their loss is un- known. ; The best saddle horses at the Montana; phone 6. friends. Isaac W. Anderson of Tacoma returned this morning to the coast after an examination of the Moun- tain Trail property, in which he is interested. Mr. Anderson was well pleased with the showing. A. Klock of the [ ional has opened a free reading room on the ground floor of his hotel. All the leading Canadian and American papers are received, Hon. C. H. Mackintosh requests the Recorp to announce that he is not in any way interested in the I. X. L. company, and all such re- ports are purely fictitious. The Mackintosh syndicate, he adds, is hot securing any interests what- ever except on the recommenda- tions of its mining engineers. First-class dressmaking at Eagle's MAKE THEM WORK ators there comply with the.eight- , hour law and: recommence opera- .. tions, the present. mineral tax of 17% essary to gain the estimated reve-’,