ROSSLAND RECORD, BY EBER 0. BMITH, PUBLISHED-DAILY BXOKFT SUNDAY; ALL COMMUNICATIONS to tho fultor must ‘pe “ccompanied by the name and address ot the writer, wet necessarily 10r publica tion, but as evidence of good faith. SUBSURIPTION RATES, Daily per week by carrier... Daily per month by mail. Daily half yearby mea! Datly per year. Daily per year, foreign. Subscriptions invariably inadvance. Advertising rates will bemade known on #p- plication THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1899. becsare th Hand Press. pEOn SAE an eaten ahh tees foven column newspaper outiite Dts st “ihe ‘corp tiaeai Sse ‘That great calamity which was going to fall upon the whole of the Kootenays, according to the Neleon Miner, on nc- account of the enforcement of the eight- hour law has failed to materialize. —_—— The peop!s of Neleon are making ex- RORKLAND hvENING HHOORD, dUNT 8, 1808, PRN ONS ei ee Carload Lots s Only = Fa pee os Rossland Loan - Office, NO: 16 WASH INGTON ST. Watelies; Clocks and Focal in Stock. REPAIRING DONE. =; Puit A. SILVERSTGNE, PROP. 1h bu tho altzrehs fie el ineany. Tinited qiavhity Se vie, eh or in if NOTICE. ven tl fivon that 3 weneral gaget: it i Notico is horeby tor uene ace piueet loc] the 27th dav of. Mav, 1>99, at iy the a7 hey Gre purpare of B itn for eke vettutary Windle the emany and uranract: en ether, ener may «) pertaln t ry Fee CAMPBELL, Eecrotary., Dated April 28, 1895. A Carload of Meats Just being opened up and placed in stock. The Grocery and Of the BIG STORE has always been a stock of the finest Imported and Domestic goods, eadables and all luxuries always Kept in stock. Provision Dey't. Every necessity in ~ cellent progress in their prep: jon for Dominion Day celebration, end deserve great credit. There is already sub- acribed nearly $4,000, aud John Hous- ton, secretary, writes. that the cash prizes for horse races, drilling contests and hose races will be the largest ever hung up in Kootenay. It is to bekoped that the people of Rossland will take an |" interest in the Nelsen celebration and as many attend as possible. —_—_—_— It 1s by no means probable that any company will agree to put in a gas plant in Rogaland and. agree to sell it to the city ata price which wil) be advanta- geous to the municipality. It the city council do not propore to buy the pres- e finported French You will always find i:: our Grocery stock the-choic- est brands of Coffee, the world renowned brand of ‘Teas. We make a specialty of Table Delieacies 3 : 8 4 pegoceesesees H.R. Johnstone & Co. Real Hatate Agents, 11 Col. Ave. 2 FOR SALE: ain Houre and lot on corner Wi aaington Ft> Kootenay ave, ym $* cause and lot on Koot- eva! eee $903 Room entin on Columbia ave., $05 cxtauraut on Columbia ave. with Oxivgs avd 14-months leste, Fi or wilt rem. WANTED 4 Room Iovse furnished or louse furnished on House unfurnished on) dow ze furnished, 1& 2-Room GROCERY DEPARTMENT . THE BIG STORE AUNTER BROS. lloffman louse A. F. STROBE, PROPRIETR Washington Street,- ent lighting plant the gas- hi should not be parted with. The city is on millions of dollara leaves. them an profit on the year’s budiness. aswellebleto putin and a plant as.any private party or: corpora- tion: The city council, is pledged to municipal ownership of a water and light plant, and there is no excuse for their favoring a franchise tu anyone. Rossiand: Customs. The retarne for the month of May, 1899 frem the Rogsland customs house are as follows: 3 Imports. 5 D. b $44,996.00 The city council should, in the matter i of the purchase of the water and light plant, and the dealing with those who are seeking a franchise forgas works, deal in an open manner, and not eub- ject th lyes to even the of doing wrong. They have not ded 9,125.00 $54,121.00 . $11,241.11 Value. -$241,560. ‘do Amount of duty collected™.. Exports. Ore, tons exported, 8,670... Weekly Ore Shipments. in doing eo a0 far, the Recoxrp regrets to say. As to the negotiations for the water and light plant, there has been an uaunecessary delay, and in the matter of the gas franchise unwarranted and un- necessary haste displayed. It ia freely hintel upon the streets that the inter- ests of the ratepayers and consumers ie not the first coneideration, If the coun- cil is not carefal the wisdom of the ad- vice of the Recor to the people, not to truat the settlement of the water and light question to them will be apparent. See How Banks Use their Millions. Many people wonder how banks use all the money deposited in them, and how they manage to pay interest there- on and yetcome outat the endof the year with a big profit on the business. What they do is trade with the money. To the depositor they pay between I and 2 per cent, but the money they lend brings them 3, 5,6,7 andeven & per cent. - For instance, they give Joanson all sorts of securities, such as-railway de- benturea, government stock, public com- pany sharea, dock warrants, Dills of lad- ing, etc. They also lend money on the securily of houses and Iand, but not to » freat extent, aa repayments are slow. When a couple of substantial business men or farmers or profersional men back -@ bill, the bank often lends without any security at all, but now and again they Ears, heavy and ruinous losees on these loan! "AD "panke, however, have large sums of money constantly. lying idle, for they }- rwust keep eufficient cash at the various branches to pay. checka and even to be more or less prepared for panics. Still, the difference between -the 1 or two per, The g is the ore the week ending June 2: To Trail. War Eagle Iron Mask... Centre Star. . TQ. NORTHPORT SKELTER. Monarch Stock for Sale. Pooled stock of the Monarch Mining company for sale at 3 cents. Apply to A. B., this office. Starve-’em-out Merriam is busy tell- ing the press what a big man he is, but arresting men on‘suspicion und starving and freezing them to death does make a man great. There is a higher court and better justice administered by cor- poration hirelings, cloaked" by martial law, and‘the.effort to strangle tradcs unioniem in Jdabo, regardlces of justice, will meet with a stinging rebuke) when organized labor meets the Republican party at the polls.—Leadvilte Miner. _l Barristers, Solicitors and Notaries. F,. J. Fitzpatrick,- the sanitary. = plumber, bas remove his“ office anit ebop to the corner of C Solusbia. avenue | and Waghington os Pp Shaw’s cigar store. street, under? Dr. J. F. McKenzie; office and. resi; dence over 0, Hearn’s, opposite ‘Bank of']” Toronto. 7 EAE WANTED.—A, good lady. _ solicitor. Address A. B., this office. th fF ‘The Eveniog: Rrconp delivered to any part of the city for 65.vents per month J. A, MACDONALD, _ 3.8, CLure, Jn. Macdonald. & Clute REGULAR -M BEST NTH! ory Fresh Bl Chickens and Capers: jes direct from the Farm, SUNDAY # Sunday Chicken Dinner ace, ‘A SPECIALTY. |: goliciwors for Bank of British North Amertea MeBuipe Busipra,: Rossuany, W.J, LOUGHEED «J. FYFE WAL LOUGHED 20. Merchant Tailors Ladies’ Drapers, Just arrived a fine range of Flannel . Suitings 1N_ GOOD Colorings-and Patterns. $990$000OO Oe Poems Oo J.B. Johnson & Co. « ~~ RealEstate and. - Mining brokers. INSURANCE AGENTS. © Fire Insurauce Acents for the fol-~ loping Companies: Rorwicn: Union of of England, tion: Phacaix uf Hartford Atlas, Guardian, Lioy d's t late tines, We have sale for all “Manta Se JR. fehnsoa & Co SOOSEOGHOOOOS veososeseseoseees k 16 OUNBIA. AE every article of merchandise at cent they pay and the 3 to 8 they receive Rossland Is All Right! But ifa Trodesman tries (9 make a fortune out cf every customer he ena hardly expect to suceced. The One Price Store. Is on a back street [and we know it], but if you don’t mind walking on a back streets—Spokano Stro EASTERN PRICES OR NEAR IT We invite you to biing your catalogues and compare. Cc. C. GIBSON & CO. » Got to The- ag Womans Exchange For the best HOME MaDe. PELAD and pastries of all kinds. . bia Ave, next door west of Gay offices, Colum- at, you will Gud Yours for cash bus‘uess °3 7 pokane Street. Pee. Oo H Dated May-25, 1899, NOTICE. The Columbia railway wil) apply & Western ‘to the parliament. ital Cinadeat lanoxt sealed mene co to ys M:. As Wilson & Co. ———— HIGH- -CLASs TAILORS, : BEDFORD Cords for Trousers, .. SVOKANE STREET One Door East of Col. Avenue, STILL. LEADS THE WAY. “Werench: the hearts of the corruniers through their ston- ache by giving them the PURE HEALTHFUL, | PLEASING BEVERAGE DRINK THE Le Roi + -Guld Seal -LAGER- BEER. Call for and gee that you getit.-Itis the most Heulth- “ful: and - Appetising — Beer “brewed. aba She Dally Borviea Between the | ATLANTIC. & PACIFIC ~ —By ‘the— Imperial Limited To to irisuguratad June 18th. Witl give the quickest route from CcEAX 10, OCEAN across she Aineriean continent, DAILY EXPRESS SERVICE VIA the Crowe Nest Pass route to.and from Kootenay Country. Tre proved rorvine on all Kootedey Jocat rail and steamer lnes.~ Close connections throughout. Be on the “ookont for full cetails of thie new service and apply for_particulars to A.B. Mackenzig; ity Tkt Agt. P.G. Dentsox, Agent. W.F. ANDERBON, T, Pp. AL, Nelson. i Bes E. J. DP a vane WASHINGTON STREET ROSSLAND. B. C. SHOU RY. MCINTOSH, Merchants’ Lunch. 25c. From.12 noon. to 2:30 p m SUNDAY Chicken Dinner wk First. Class. Bar. RAILROAD TIME CHECKS Miners. Checks @€vCashed. _ 2.2 Free of Charge. PROPA, TISLISK ISK IeKigKiox eK Iaes \ [sXe & DEACON, BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS. Rossland, B. C. Miner Balldiag; Columbla Avenue, ” every turn nowadays. — ee tHAT EDMONTON TRAIL; Death and Distross 8! a “Disaster to Those Who Try it. seatrin, June 8.—The list of the pros- ectors who perished in the rush’ to the Ynken gold flelds over the Edmonton trail is growing and if reports brought down by the steamer Lanrada fom routh-eastern Alnska.are to be believed. it will be very large when the. full atory jstold. Fifty men are reported to have been drowned in ‘the Great Slave luke, 0) perished in the raplds, 10 were frozen to death and 26 died of. scurvey. ‘the bodies. of a score who died frem exposure have been found. ~The. Hud- aon Bay Co. is preparing to send-a relict party to Dease Inke with yegitubl-a for the ecurvy- stricken people. The N. Ww. M, P. will also “age.et. illustrative. of the distress song the trail, Richter, of New York, who committed suicide, ie said to have stuck up a sign ona tree which read: ‘Hell can’t be worse than this trail; 11 chance it.” Trade Follows the Flag. One hears the above. expression - at It :aounds: nive; Dut it ien’t true,_-Trade followa nothing Yotthe cheapest prices. for the beat gouda, Competition, supply and: de- mand are the things which regulate commerce. If every. pieve of farnitare that ia seut to” foreigni— countries were wmpped in thesatura and stripes; it would’nt aell if, firstly; there is: no de- meni for it, and eevondly, if it could. be bo ight elsewhere cheaper, and. all the guas in America’ :behind it -couldnot make people buy-it volentarliy Ifa drummer shoukt call en a foreign dealer, would he: be: asked—bow -many cannons there were behind. his samples, or about the quality; price or tranapor- tation charges?» England has ‘colonies tu spare, but in many of then the Unit- td States, Germany and other countries ull more goode than the mother ‘coun- try. Patriotiein doesn’t extend to trade unleag, perhaps, every other. condition isequal. We have no colonies at all, or atleast had none in“1808, yet our: ex- porta exceeded that of. any. other ~coun- try on earth; amounting. to over $1,200,- 00,000, “Of ”.this. treniendous “sunt #1,000,000,000worth’ went to. Europe, : yhere our flag flies over nothing at all, LIMITED LIABILITY. Special Sale of Black and Colored Dress Good. === Abaut 100 yards of black Some very ch Former prices TBe. Your choice, “yards. . terns: 65ce, 7 Lot NO Ta 25¢ per yard. all. wool, in lengths from 5 to.10 --.. This week only. and. colsred . Dress Goods DSc. Yard. ice pat- ware 50c, NO. 2 M 30 $1.25 per yard. . At A DouE 125 yards of Novelty Dress Goods im black .and colored, in lengths from 3 to~ 7 yards _ Former prices 15e, $1.00 c. per are. —50c. Yard. While they last. excepting: our-consulate | an {90,000,000'to Canada, where: ‘we don’t own a foot of ground:—F" urnitaee:- Wor- ker. This Man is in Trouble; Some queer:letters-find their: way- to|-- ‘an editor’s- desk, and..here. is-one of them, which ia warm with life and feel- ing and means bariniess:- To 71x Epilor>~ Sir—I aent-you three. weeks. ago last Bunday a sketch of-poetry which was wrote by my wife on her~ birthday. “I tld you to printit on Sunday and eend the bill to me; but nary a sketch of it or bill bas I seen.:“You have placed me in adamagin perdicament by not ~ printin’ it’cordin to inatructions,for-my wife. thinks I either ‘didn’s mail. it -or- got “full” and dropped it... Will yeu please dop me a line_aud set me right: about it? I know I-mailed it-to. you in. the Postoflice, but. I ain’t got no witnessea. | Hyou will set me right..in the matter, I will write a piece for. you inyself! —Atlanta Consiitution. LOCAL . BREVITIES. Robert McCann has from the - is a great. bargain. 5 AL40c.per yard. AQe. Yard. Pieces of black and navy. Serge suitab’e. for separate skirts. Only... This rame. and $1.50 per yard. Lot N ). A A Stoo per yard. ; Priestly black dress goods, each yard ~~ stamped. with Brigs’-Priestly & “Former prices, $1.26, $1.01 Yard. For your choice, Xx AIN! SOOK STRIPES 10c and FRENCH PIQUES o at 15c, 20c, 25c and... BATIN STRIPE Colored Swisses: at. « DOTTED SWISS solid colors 20, 25, 85¢c, ‘Wash Dress eo abrics. FRENCH MADRASS "Clothe, 16¢ and. 20e F BET OE SINGHAM 8 ‘SCOTCH GINGH AMS dainty check stripes and plaids at 16c, 25c, and CHAMBRAYS, Best qnal-..4 Fre eat onal 15c. 25 ORGANDIES at Wc, 16c and.......-: A word about” “Shirt Waists. Stylish ‘aiid Swell Shirt: Waists made, of Imported: French, Percales, fine corded Dimities, . ‘Chambrays;: Or- gandies, Piques.‘ Lawns, etc.: 500, 75e, $1.00, $125;. si. 50,9. 1.75, $2.00, $2.50 and’ $3.50. Our prices are: the: lowest. Crash Sidrts $1.50,. $2.00 Linen. Skirts BEL cece eee soeeeeseceeceeeee seas $8.60, $5,00, $6.00 : New Brick . - / THE CRESCENT DRY GOODS CO Columbia Ave. Colville reservation, H.C. Burton, who-haa heen at Nelaen a1 awitness passed through Roseland om his way to Senttle, where he is cashier ofthe N. Py Exprees company. Chas Dougherty returned to, Spokane today C. C, Brown left on the noon train for Ymnir. Alexander Dick and-MajLackie left forthe Bounday country.on- the noon Passenger. : P. A, O'Farrel- returned to Spokane ay, a ae D.M. Morgan; ofthe Clarendon, was 40 cut going paesenger teday for Green- wood city. ae subscription price of the Evgnina Econp will by and alter Tae one Per eres Ten acre’ of land at Rosedale will be hifiled at the Hoffman houge an 8o'clock P.im., June 16, for the benetit of aneedy Widow, Pa 0. Lalonde has received the. sad rein ofa fatal accident'to his brother, aaliae Lalonde, caused by # runaway gine near Buena Vista, Colorado. John §. Stone, the big ci Famous Laughing Plant of Arabia. The eceda of the laughing plant: of ‘Arabia produce the same effect upen persone.ag laughing gas. The plant at- tains a height of from two to four feet; with woody stems, widespreading branches and-bright green foliage. Ite fruits are produced in cluatera and are of ayellowculor. The seed pode soft and woolly in texture and contain two or three black seeds of the:size of a Brazil- ian bean, Their flavor isa little like opium, and their taste is aweet; the A. G. CREELMAN. P. O. BOX 315, Creelman & Beam; CONTRACTORS BUIDERS. GEO. BEAM Estimates furnished on all kinds ot work. Jobbing promptly attended to. Rossland: ¢. OFFICE AND SItOP: Commercial court, rear ‘Alhambra Hotel. odor from them fp scnsation, and is slightly The seeds, when pulverized and in emall quantities, have a peculiar effect upon man. - He begins to langh loudly, beis- terously; then he sings, damesanl cute all manner of fantastic capers. Such extravagance of gay manners was nover produced by any other kind of dosing.— Ladies Heme Journal. Dominion Hall Dance. There will bea grand dance at the Dominion hall Saturday evening, June 10. . This is the first of a series of s0- cial hops to be given in this popular | Rhos came in Inet evening from the south. oe Pringle was one of the arrivaia ei evening from the Boundary sort every. evening Prof. Wslie’s orchestra will farnish the music. Mr. Riley promptro. Grand March at 9 p. m. sharp. Admission: re- duced to 60 cents, Ladies tree. Le Roi LIVERY SALE and FEED STABLE. __easf> JOHN. F. LINBURG, -PRO?. Stylish Rigs for rent Firec class Suldle and Pack Horees. BrapLes: Columbia Ave., ‘Phone No. a ‘Commercial Alley, ‘Phone No. P. O. BOX, 136. °5 That’a what the leading businees men of Rossland are doing every day. Some of them caught on a Tong | time ago. Others: have lost their grip. But .those.who use nie t RECORD as As 8 medium for al Dr. A..W. CHASE COMESTO ‘THE: AID OP Catarrh: an the peo le who boy: never ieee their grip. Look over. its list of advertisers and you.will recognize the names of business firma who have done the businera ‘of this camp They have been successful in business, of their. business. It stands to nason they would not iuvest_ in ailvertising apace in. THE REC- RDii the result was not gatisfac- tae . THE RECORD'S news service is superior to that of its contempo- rary. Ite mining news igaccurate and it isairee lance not tied to the apron strings of any. clique or corgoration. Yon can get any kind of Job Prin- ting done at bottom. prices at Record J ob Offtice Rossland Labor Unions. Conk.’ and Waiters’ union, N y LU, meetaevery Eaturday evening | ae Ps be Minere Union hai! MURCH, f6c. LP. 0, Box 4, oun Kune, Pres. C. M. Weller ot eae ioe pioneer san- itary plumber, uipped plumbing eaabtahiitat in the city and is prepared todo all-kinde of’ plumbing steam-fitting; eto, anywhere, { body atany time, SO LAE Sufferers Advertising: is part whe es tines of the lungs. zm inommenimies of the head; ni roat it tarrh oy a ee nary practice, in If he b het has a it in in Tn eoy, foom be males seesistat effort 10 be These is somethin, ‘about = he aie ug abou the manner of life diseases embrane, Medical science ordinarily does ty to gare Ci Catarrh; Gauarth for over thie id hie name for over thirty ears, and his e essed: uy siasends aahio tie of the gras) disease. Bogarde wo teemn tw. Subscribe —FOR..THE— Record.