employes that their services will not be ‘. Thornton needed after this month. The Balls Fi claim that the machine will do better Langley_Directory Of [rer hen tne John McTeer’ |New York brought into strong competition with Was be abovt and will in a few davs go c:stona visit tu relatives and friends. Mrs. Eber C. Smith is slowly recover- ing from a revere illness of four weeks duration. W. A. Meyers, editorof the Weexxy |i Recorp, is sick in. bed.” Hie doctor says be will be around again in a few 8t. ther Folchi, from ppokaus, bold chs He ere ning for home. with Bishop O’ Dea, of e peicperd aed has been visiting this diocese. ishome again from the| Tol Howard C. Walters returned last evening from Spokane where he has been visiting his family. Frank Watson is in town looking after wy his mining interests. IN THE LABOR WORLD. Machines Taking the Place of Men— Strikes in the East. Muncie, Ind., Aug. 2.— Ball Bros., among the largest fruit jar manufactur- ers in the world, are preparing to intro- duce machines for blowing fruit jars, and bays set notice to vome of 8-4-2t | I BEE: rissa ge588 prt 3 eo oBF SSS2355 i Se 388 RR BESE2SE8E onita.... fonte Cristo. met reo Shorr SION RN 338 8s 322 ateagannanwnok, sGbbedl ROSS K Roseland St’k Ex. Sindicrt Royal Gold. Royal a n. wee EN Seesee8 oo ESS 55 Beaneeaune SEEgeeEse S88888 SorasopoitnS PEEP EEE Winte Bird. Yaneta and Trail Greek. . Y: ankee Bey . 8 Bane A STOCKS WANTED. Phoenix, 10,000 at 4c. Dardunelles, 1,000 at 16!¢c. Grand Prize, 1,000 at }¢c. sone Keep your eye ou Burton City it lot, nice location conven: Foals business cemtre. Jennie L. 80 is For SaLz—. Bar and. ‘eiznitore of hotel in this city. Apply thi on G-14tt For SaLe—Fou: frame ‘house; First ‘ave., for $1005, sete ° stone ots ¥F ones SaLE—Good restaurant vies rain; Gesitee to eel on account of ate sick fess; Jenale ne. For: Stun —Good bs hotel business- reporter hunted up the law and four “he “public and private acts of British «*: bia of 1897” the needed informau:t.. Section 6 of ihe 1896 municipal election Ia« bas been re- pealed.end a section substituted, which MALES AND WRY+LES MAY VOTE. Any male or femaie, who ia a British subject, of 21 years of age, who, iato che city municipality has paid on or ‘-efore the firet of November in township c- district municipality, on or before «. first of De --:ber, inthe year immedi- ately prior ta, «ae day of nomination, 2! mranicipal cates, » eres (exclneive of water ‘ate or rent) areessments and li- conse fees (if any! ? parable by kim or or who shall aseesset oscer of ends or improvements orc‘. .r pier of lands in the city | 4 feeidest of and caries ie th: unless euch Person: defora the first in is, that by ite terns, woner. woof 1600, situation’ in Rossland before his de- | pal el Martin was Provailed upon by a nuin- 000 Done During June. Vancouver, Aug. 4.—During June, 380 certificatee of work were issued in Trail Creek, repreeenting $38,000 worth or work done on claims. ae hundred durin the same period ; 178 companies paid the license fee required by the new mining. law, $17; 250 revenue being ob- tained frou this source. SALVATION ARMY COUNCIL, and all canneries have placed a limit on the number to be taken from each boat. Fishermen asually only make one drift, and catches of 200 or 300 fish are quite common. Six hundred and forty-five fish were caught in one drift Monday night. A large quantity of salmon is being salted, and as a result salt has jumped i in price from $11 to $35 per ton. It is d that the of a large English buyer of salmon is now on Fraser river investigating the manner in which salmon are put up, in order to ascertain whether there is any to British € (bi Made in Spokane. At the convention of Salvation Army officers in Spokane promotions and ~ pointments were made. The folowing are for British Columbia: Rossland—Ensign Woodruff and Cap- toin Wilkie. Vancouver—Adjutant and Mrs. Ayre Gc Contain Quant. toria, B. C.—Captein Bowers and Canoe Gaines. Nanaimo, B. C—Captain and Mrs. rown. B. C.—Captain Posts truth in the rey ate of Special inquit sing made into the pa sical nay no of pinses ginployes, the white workmen hope that result of the anticipated report Chinese labor may be dispeneed with. Cammissioners Jordan and Hon. New May ‘and L Krew. TELEPHONE TC TO NE NELSON. Construction of Long Distance Line Be- Trail and Nelson. Mayne Daly, t! this ieability of holding a meeting this evening to dispose of license transfers. Contractor Davey increased his force to 20men today. The workmen have hard The ‘ion of a metallic circuit, long distance telephone line between Nelson and Trail, and’ will probably be completed within two months. This struck some digging on Columbia BOs ber of men, includ- ing membera of the city council to make an impromptu address to which the commissioner responded briefly He hiss in terms of praise of the remark-{" le development of the snoovensgy. coun- ry and expressed confidence in Hi future of the Slocan hieh be_has recently inspected. Concerning Ross- land he complimented the builders of the city upon its progress and said that already he had seen enough -of it to know that it was a mining camp if an: thing. He stated fnat he woul id mal e mines and expressed a desire to co- operate heartily with the citizens in all matters of their interest and would aid in any public meascre they desired so far as in his 8 power. ‘SUNSET NO. 2. A Seven-Drill Compressor to Be in Place in Thirty Days. Howard C. Walters, general manager of tne Canadicn Gold Fields company, has closed a contract with the Ingersoll company to, eat up a 7-deill compre