sre SEY CI Fe rite gh PEROT ATESTE STW, Fk EO Se ES "IMPERIAL Life Assurance Comp - HEAD OFFICE: TORONTO OF CANADA. The Imperial has’ the largest’ ‘government deposit. of “any. Canadian company. arly, eT ‘se McLEAN.. ANADIAN PACIFIC van i “AND. S00 LINE. i ‘The direct route from KOOTENAY COUNTRY, ALAA ACAD AAA ALAA LLL LD Dealings Continue Activa, Prices Are Low. Thongh | OKANOGAN IS STRONGER LIFE .IN STOCKS) Rev. D< McG. Gandier has been elected moderator ‘of the presbytery of Kootenay.’ The finals in the All-Comers curl- ing contest were won by D. B. Bo- gie's rink against L. B. de Veber's by 12 to 10. The winning rink Js composed of D.B. Bogle,D. Michie, w. McQueen.and A. B. Barker. Stauley Mayall, of Cascade, came to ithe city last night.. - ° Good Returns and New~ Mi ont Have Good Effect on Market—-Payne is Again in Demand—-Rathmullen Still: Active, Giast Weak, but Selling Well. activity in’ mining || CIGARS! Finest Im- -2 ported - “and Domestic Cigars’ to ull pofnts EAST AND WEST. ~~: all trains from nd Kootenay Landing. TOURIST CARS __ pass, Hat, (daily), for St, Pa 1; Sunda; ss Medicine ia fa ae ate Fanta: Friday lays for Banttea! a a Boston. @r-Same Cars pass Revelstoke one day carder First-ctass Sk ct “> GONNECTIONS: | LEAVE ARRIVE day,. ROSSLAND...ex. Sunda: es as Too ai Yen. ROSSLAND. see edaily, . Mornin, Pipes, and all kinds. * ‘of Chewing and Smoking Tobacco. at... * = CAPT. SHAW'S train for and from. Robson, Nel son, and for Kaslo, Sandon and a points, ‘connects for all points in THE BOUNDARY - COUNTRY. Evening tea train ia and from Rabson, Net (evcept Sunda fn ‘Kaslo, Sandon, the lucan, and all points fn s BOUNDARY COUNTRY. - Hours, ROSSLAND ‘TO NELSON..... For rates and {ull information, address the nearest local agent, or A.B. Mackenzie, City. Ticket Agt.. A.C. McArthur, Agent,. Rossland. W. F. Anderson, T. P. A., Nelson, B. C. E. J. Coyle, A.G. P. A., Vancouver, B. C W. 1. FALDING, Accountant, - Insurance “and Mining Agent .ar d Auctioneer. _ : Manager “Rossland. Opera. House. AGENT: Sun Life Assurance Co., of Canada. “The Canada Accident % Assurance Co., CAccident, Liability and Plate Glass.) inues, with, alow range of prices. . Okanogan showed the largest volume of sales. this morn- ing, the change . of. management and good. retiirhs from. the. ‘concentrates i This nd: stimulated Jat.3 to. 3346c. ‘subject of considerable. trading and holds its own at 4. to-4¥4c, at which ~ prices ye0o shares sold. King took 2, drop, 1000. selling at 1gic.* ‘The Settlement: of the Sio- can strike and the resumptidn of shipments have caused'a movement in: Payne, .of which 2000" sold at $1.26 and $1:27.. There was a lit. tle purely . speculative dealing , in Hom estake, due to. its’ nominal price. Giant» was: weak, -on. un- favorable reports of developments in the shaft, 5500 selling at 434 to 4 Inge. a : : Rossland Saios. Sales today on.the local exchange were as follows: . Rathmullen, #000, 4c, 5000, 43c; ‘Okanogan, "300, §000, 3C, 1000, 2000, 1000, 334 c, 3000, 33%c; King, 1000, 15%; Payne, 1000; $1.26, 1000, $1,273 Giant, 3000;. 4}{c, 2500, Total sules, 29,500 shares. at babasca Established May, 1885. : JHE REDDIN- JACKSON co., Atmtvem casiire. MINING AND INVESTMENT BROKERS. Agents for Paris Bell Addition to Rossland. cated—o1 C. E. Benn M. Hi: MéMahon CHARLES E. BENN & CO. BROKERS AND ACCOUNTANTS, Buy, sell and trade Stocks and Real Estate for V & N'Phone 83. . Columbia “Phone St. Telephone 8. Pp oO. Box 288 A. ‘B. MACKENZIE & CO. MINING BROKERS. Colnmbia Ave: Rosutand.R. 6. Plumbing Shop|" Spokane Street, epp. Burns’ market. Clay Pipe and Fittings for Chimneys. - Sanitary Plumbing a - Specialty. ‘ = ‘Telephone No. 27. P.O. Box 270 Le Roi ne Feed B First-class Seale & Peck Horse BLES: Commerciat "AIhy: "Phins No, 39, Postoftice Box 316. PO Box 48 iS MINERAL ACT, 1696, ; Certificate of Improvements. - JOTICE--" Bannock’ mineral claim, aituate tn N the Tra il Creek mining dismnet Where Soolane mountain, near Hossland, "Take noti-ethat_l, Av Gy, Gamble of Nelson, Eres Miners Cenlncare Na 0, 1B, 2752835 3 +H. 5 ifical \ intend, sixty seas from the date hereof, to: ap Mining Kecor Certicate of Im nrpose ot ‘obtaining a Crown ther take atic that action, under sec: aan pacer of iin ingens 3 ember, a D. 1899. . GAMBLE, the issuance ss Notice. a ? ae ‘OTICE is hereby giv. JN Water and Light ‘Count e Sea” ani on the ‘cast and west Dated’ hia mth a ot Jiang i ipo, me Mi: 2naging: Dive tors ianaging: DiFect Witnen, s. Anworn. ae 3 Gertiticate of the Registration of an Ex- “COMPANIES ACT, 1897.7 and Belding as a yinelal Compan ander the Gommanies ut. Tot >The head office of the Company. is situ- ‘ate at Butte, Silyer How County, State of Montana. ‘Zhe amuunt of the capital of the Com- pany is five hundred thousand dollars, di- vided into five diund dred thonsand shares of one dollar eacl The bead office “of the Gompany in {hts Province 1s situate at the ofl aly & Hamilton, Bank of Hontreal¢ Chi ‘bers, -colanibia, gxenne. In the Cit; d: the Honourable Tomes, Mayne dress i said: City af Bo: hose. TS Homestake, 500,°1%c, 1000, 1 34; | 4 Hc. {Spl -by .the bottle’ at the Interna-. der Dick has gone Pm: on mining business. C. J. Young-returned from’ Spo- kane yesterday, after having a'very successful operation performed on his foot. * J. L. G. Abbott is in Victoria on legal-business. ~ George’ D. Leéyson of Greenwood was inthe city today. Mr. Leyson Idcated the Alpha, in the south belt, in 1887.-- Mrs. Robert’ E. Strong.has ar- rived from Nelson, and’ is at_ the ‘Kootenay. tiga ing” of Kendrick came ia. yesterday, to |& The Big =a Plain and Figured’ Swiss Frilled » The ent 4:6, Crotttadn, Geers bean Waffle Parlor. CREELMAN & Bean, E Oe a hata co NTRACTO! R S & suet 7) aust] BUILDERS, : cael anmoatien cs eo es Bh otk. Job, Tickets, 21M“ 8, $5.00 Ai ca Sra aaa 94-86 Washington Street. /.-!'' Soe ae oo ee foe Fear-Alhun _ J. L.. Stulteof G d arrived in town last- night. ale W.-H. Covert, owner. of. the célebrated fruit orchard and farm at Grand Forks, is in the city. : J..E. Poupore, of the Yale-Keot- enay : Lumber company, came in from Nelson yesterday. ~ Fred Starkey,” of the’ Parsons Produce company,,. is in? ‘the city, from Nelson. ~*~ All the men siiployed at the Cen- tre Star-mine have been laid off while the shaft track for the new- hoist is being. laid. The iadies of the Scotch club gave | a chess party and dance.on Monday night. A flash light photograph of the scené was’ taken. stead & Wright's. LOSI—Ladies gold watch, between Agnew's ‘store and Salvation Army barracks, - The name Finder will] “bg suitably rewarded by leaving at Agnew's' store, “Eva,!' and-date engraved on case. v. & N. Telephoue No. 17! paar Boys’ suits: $2.60 and up, Hol- A Katie D. Green G. M. and D. Co.;: Ltd.. 4 = NON-PERSONAL: LIABILITY.. Property situated ‘on ‘North Fork Salmon River, Erie District, B.C... + FOR DEVELOPMENT. PURPOSES, Fifty thousand shares of the Compan: :-offered to the P' “71-2 Cents Be SI due si coven risiy a The annual meeting. of the Trail Greek Liberal-Conservative Associ- ill..be held:ia the. board of eral-Conservatives. are-cor-. ed to.attend;- * A . MacNEiLu, g GEORGE. “H.. GREEN, z . Sec-Treasurer, 5 fp eR moa Peel ts expensiveand dan erous, to a2) ce ae totes era ~ itfar more The; reduce tnsuram e; give: ir} home or busin ness pi ee Sage appearance, a you money in, many ways. ore pt sant 2 and — a Fi: 3 ‘Electric ‘Power. supplied’ tar Mining and. d Monufecturing Purpos 5. Itis much cheaper than ateam. ; ‘In cage of trouble with Ars {plephons No! tlonal family, liquor store. ~“ Import- d 2X4 white wines, clarets and Burgun- dien'by the bottle, basket or case ‘at |3- Moderate Prices. me: : itt New. Drag Store’ TRE | » Contin ued ‘from First Page. .: “athe -Rossland Drug company is ow doing ‘business. on . Columbia avenue, fiext’ to! the ‘old city shall.) We have a complete line fully prepared, well, armed and. ten- acious- énemy. By the of pure fresh ~ ‘drugs, toilet : eo ¢ ‘——HOUD pS——* 4 _ Straight Cut | - Cigarettes, ~MANUFACTURED-BY-----+~—~", ‘B. Houde & Coinpany, Quebec “Are Better than the Best. .- WHOLESALE AT. A Crow & Morris; €. age le = CUNLIFFE @ ABLETT. ENGINEERS’ AND: MACHINISTS. All classes of Repairs and Cotistrnction Work adortakenx. aniersand'Pallers, ingeiPe work Bd Pam pe sae instock. gsengy for Wm. t Hamilton ‘Third Avenue, masta Mex 199. — ty Rosslatid: 4 i: at Y/N a fe As of ae Oo. alt oy og VOL, 6. NO.. 20. ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA; eA, MARCH. 8 “1900: | Warps PRICE § CENTS -EXPERT. vite Re. or wat ee bret aka rin epai has ny anno te Petit Vaccination Shields; Carbolic Acid Avalei ae Querido Jaimie; Copperas, Sulphur, Brimstone, - ee ‘Disin ae ees te ith Gait . min cpa foe k \G Gum Camphor, LS eeeee. ectants tions for. the po: we SACRIFICE SALE: We have ees big stock‘of: fancy satin and felt Foot Warmers, ghgdhinfuigt be digpastsf'gf. To induce’ buy" | ers we are offering them at.COST. We invite one and all to come’ and look’ over our stock. é. Os’ HA ONDE, The Reliable Foot-Fitter. States, i ‘Men Have Applied from All Parts of Canada: and the United States—He Will Have t4. i The time within which applica. ‘ City Clerk McQueen had: received 25 applications from all’ § parts of Canada and the United ? "SURPRISE! Hite Captured a Krupp Gun, ‘Besides Camp Outfit. foRvars SOR TAeen ig the city ii The matter will be considered at th next meeting of the city council. *ded wheth be di of some good-sized eastern cities, ;Seveca} important public im- | (provements are awaiting the ap- and constructed, but it will have to | - king in {British are at Orange ‘River and Occupy Burghersdorp-—-Mafe~ : Distress; pointment of -this official, Chief ; among these is the sewer. system; which | is urgently needed, Not, . P only. wi stem: of main: and, lax By Associated Preas. "tera S s, have to be designed ‘ondon, ‘March 8,—4:28 p. m.— | thei da Krupp gun and a num cana oH FRIDAY E,YENING sae ~ the ‘of the ‘city from fire. r ymanj the-architect. ev | deed for the site. When this is se- | MOBIC HAL. : WEEK OF MARCH 5, 1900.. . The fonniest Brusital Comedy ever seen; int’ ‘tio acts gin ‘Prologue. entitled— 7 replete with new. peemie effects, se charms, ete. a council ‘ag to the probable cost of fire apparatus will be sold. the ‘city “engineer “will itso” he cal d ‘upon to study the question of electric lighting, in order that he may jtform the mayor and. city constricting and ‘operating a muni- ‘cipal plant, with water power fro m ge shall ‘be disposed of by means of a closed! flume to, pthe.. Columbia river, for | ~The Water system has to be com- pleted by the laying of the large ~uantity of pipe which has already H.1Q. or" “12. new: hydrants, Imaking |; atotal Of 26'for the full Protection The next great work in prospect s the new fire hall, for which plans ve been submitted by Mr. Hon- Mayor Good- a every day to receive the | ~* < cured, debentures for $15,000 to pay for it and to pay’ for the con- struction of the building and new Pont. ‘ London, March 8. 4247 Pp, mi ‘Roberts’ dispatch: © : * ‘Poplar Grove, March 8.—Two. -pbxigades ‘ofc cavalry,. with-korse* fi Nery: and Kelly-Kenny’'s division "Thé Boers were taken :yesterday, Small Casualty List “The total | casualties "Frieslick. —W« ord Roberts telegraphs that he has ber Of tents and wagons. The gen- ;eral also announces, that General Clements has occupied Norval’s’ The following is the-text of Lord !marched today io- miles -eastward.- by surprise dodge their shells. They moved off so hur- tiedly that they left cooked dinners’ behind them. We captured a Krupp }gun_ and several tents.and. wagons. were; ‘Killed—Lieutenants Keswick and {aed work up an appetite;,which can- "i not be satisfied. The" natives are in the. worst ; Plight.” Those who. are unable sto obtain work ‘are allowed: a. small handful of meal daily. Many, bray- ,ing the danger, wander about.-the town with hungry faces. — If. they. find Work, they are generally too weak to perform it. < From their ad the men” preferring to remain, at eir posts rather than move ‘about JHER LOYAL PEOPLE The Queen Weltomed to London by ms Cheering bias ss THE JUBILEE: OVER AGAIN Streets of ths, Metropolis Are. Pasked With Enthusiastic. People, Paying Tribute to » Their Sovereign and Rrulting in Viotory— +, Ireland: Will Weloome Her. By Associated. Presa, . London, March 8,—The queen's entry into London, the commence- ment of her visit to the’ metropolis, was marked by scenes’ of’ enthusi- asm, unparalleled’ since the jubilee celebrations. Throughout the. de- there predomi a note of triumph, and the cheers that made the’ murky streets ring were | almost+.as* much in honor.’ of the British victories in South Africa as they; jwete the vociferous ’ tributes of @ ‘loyal’ people .to a’ monarch dwhose. womanly sympathy has been strikingly shown since the war pes gan. The royal party’: 's ‘departure f from ‘Winsdor was marked by more than usual interest. For, hours before the queen even started for London, crowds ‘gathered inthe — streets route through the metropolis and’ which was decorated with flags. It was foggy and cold, but no one seemed to’ care.- At Paddington the railway station had been, cleared of the general public;. + the Boers rake tlie streets and ithe market square: It is impossible to, Even the-head-. quarters mess fares ‘scantily. { Two hundred and ninety persons - have been killed, wounded, or. died. of disease. The garrison ig so.,small that it would be criminal to: make its weakness public, but there. is never so much as a whisper. déd—Li ant’Smith, of the Shropshires, who by a Boer ambulance. ~ Two men were killed, 46 wounded and one man'is missing. ‘Gatacre e reports that he intends one ‘6E ‘the several igh pying Burgh ptoday. Re- pairs to the railways towards both SeVen ‘Devils, no passenger trains caine’ ih ‘on the Red Mountain rail- =====60D SANE FHE‘QUEEN= way * y and pone went out this ‘morning. “The'slide is a quarter of a'mile‘long and from two to six COED eUgse CPt ae BREA mberg and Strinsburg_ ace be-j ing pushed forward. “Clements now occupies Norval’s Pont, on the south bank of the Orange river.-=' The bridge was blown up March 8th, and. the ene- my are holding the- north bank ‘of the river." , British Occupy. Barghersdorp “London, March © 8.—A special from Molteno says that the British ied Burch d ‘feet’ ‘deep, ‘and * of, thick NEXT TO OLD CITY. HALL, COLUMBIA AVENUE. APS aro . New and Complete Stock of Drugs, “and: Patent.Medicines. Prescriptions Carefully Gompounded. Robert E. Stroug, Manager, mud, P Te and mail are being ‘transferred around it, by wagon, “some of the. passengers walking by preference. The‘trdin was:to come if‘on-time ‘today with yesterday’s passengers and‘ainy df those coming north to- day who got around the slide in tinie ‘to connect. It will go’ out again ‘about 4 o'clock with south- Seattle P.-I. Friends of August Martin réport his death'as having occurred on the ‘Koyukate;June 22.. He was an'ex-: captain of police at Spokane or ‘Rossland, at both of which places he resided, and at one of which his wife ind four children are Supposed wath wea Po P. P PP last aight. . Mafeking in Sore Straits ‘Mafeking, Feb. 19.—Horse, meat now. ‘composes a considerable part of. our fations...-There is’ little grumbling.’ The first pinch of: the siege is over and the town has set- ‘Daley, of the Twelfth lancers, and Dispregny, of the Second Life Guards, both severely;“and Lieuten- is believed to’have been picked up one has d.the possibility, of surrender, it is because we do not mean to- get ‘beaten, and. we. are cheerfully enduring the hardships of today rather than to make a surren- der in any degree possible ,.tomor- row. ‘so Boers Did Not Capture Canadians ‘Ottawa, March 8,—Sir;.;Alfred Milner, governor of Cape Colony, has cabled Lord Minto that Private 1 Corb Id,of British Col iwith other members of ‘the. first Canadian contingent, who were -re- ported as having been captured by Boers at; Waadrevaal drift,. by: a special correspondent of a Montreal paper with. that contingent, “has been located in one. of the ‘field hos- pitals. UNMOVED BY OPPOSITION Martin WillGo Abead and Warns Op- Ponents Against Personailiies Special to the Kecorp. Victoria, March 8.—Mr. “Martin, in an interview today, expressed himself as unmoved by the action of the Liberal association of the prov- ince, -which last, night. décided to withhold support from him.’ .. He took occasidi' to correct ‘an .inter- [and the ci ds‘of people | ly. : When the train from. ‘Windsor ar- rived at 12:30 a tremendous’ cheer went up. Her majesty came down arm of a turbaned Indian attendant, and. entered an open landau, in which also sat Prince Henry of Bat- tenburg and Princess Victoria of Schleswig- Holstein. The side streets were packed’ 10, 20 and sometimes a hundred deep. : But. it was around the palace it- self that the throng gathered. By noon it is estimated that 50,000,, people were gathered about the queen’s © town residence. Soon after noon, ‘the Duke and Duchess of York drove into the courtyard and received an’ ovation, Mr. Jo- seph Chamberlain, the secretary. of state for the ‘colonies, joined, un. Noticed, ‘the distinguished throng in ‘the courtyard.’ Later the Duke and: Ouchess of York appeared on a 'balcony in front of the palace. Then from the top of Constitution Hill came the dull roar of distant cheers, . “She, is coming,” was passed from mouth to mouth. A patrol of police went by-followed by a flash of steel, as the Life Guardsmen and outridérs trotted through the gates, and then all hats flew in the air, a mighty cheer arose, and slowly . there passed a carriage, on the back seat of which sat a little black fig- ure, heavily veiled, and nodding tight and left. Suddenly, for the first time in the day, the sun came which had been announced as the - view given by Mr. Macdoinell in]out from ‘behind the clouds and tled grimly to stay it out. What may | be typhoid malaria has broken out in the- women’s laager, and dys-'p entery, due to the absence of vege-! tables; is rife among . the garrison. We are thrown upon’ our own re- sources. “Such luxuries as we had are exhausted, or have been com- hy, Vancouver, in which the statement was made that he was with -Martin lly, but not politically. This shone over the’ shouting thousands, and pierced the veil. showing happy smiles lighting up the aged mon- | should be vice versa. He also says he hopes the com- ing ign will be ducted, as far as possible, on afair basis, and without . personalities, and ‘that an dered:for the hospitals, whic! are filled to overflowing... The chil- dren’s: graveyard, close to the women’s laager, grows weekly as the young lives are cut short prema- turely by shell and fever. : We look with hope deferred for relief. \ THe cheerfulness which was characteristic of the’ eatly days of to be. * tha siege has almost deserted us, Alberni; has accepted the ‘office of commissioner of lands and works. cold in the head in one night.. Price 25 cents, at Morrow’s drug store. pt to follow any other ‘line of faction will only recoil on those guilty of it. It is reported here that'Neill, of Dr. Russell’s Catarrh cure cures .farch’s face. scenes of the jubilee, and there was queen’s weather in the truest sense. It was a repetition of Dublin, March 8.—Commenting ‘on the proposed visit of Queen Vic- toria to! Ireland next month, the Daily Nationalists will have no other de- sire but that her majesty should re- ceive at the hands of the Irish the respectful welcome due to. her ex- alted station and her high personal character.” Independent says: ‘The The Daily Express, after remark- Continued on Fourth Page. the station platform, leaning on the: »