ROSSLAND EVENING ‘RECORD, FEBRUARY. 18, 1899.- “WEL MINN EVE (Continued From se Frou Fist Page.) foot level at which yoint two ‘drifts will be run. Giant. The shaft ig) now down 120 feet and the crosacut js-atill being driven as fast as possible. No new finds are reported, MASCOT SALE. Waterloo Syndicate ‘Acquires the Property For the Sum of $6,000. “There was held a meeting of the Mas- cot Gold Mining company this afternoon in the company’s offices and the sale of the property formally ratified by the stockholders and officers of the company. A Scotch company known as the Waterloo, ‘syndicate ie the purchager. The price paid was $6,000 cash. The Mascot was ownel principally by Rousland people: Judge Townsend, Dr. Campbell, Alderman Lalonde,” Alex. Wilson, and C, O. Carpenter, of Oaks- dale, Wash., were the owners, The pur- chasers were repreaepted by the MeMill- an brothers. ‘The proverty lies west of town and has always been considered a good one. Weekly Ore Shipments. The ore shipmente of the week ending Feb. 18 were as folllowa: Total....sseseetesseerereee WEEKLY SIH eve The Tendency for the Work Has Been osu Upwards; | WAR BAGLE eae TO THREE SIXTY Vir. zinta, Iron Colt, Vletory-tetumph, + Big Three, Dungige and *. Giant . Advance. _—— The local'stock market is good this week with an‘opward tendency. “War Eagle'which jumped from $3.45 to $8.60 holds its own with prospects ot Rossland Mining Stocks} % C ted by, the | Roda smite ‘olmmb!a, P.O, Box 498° Cn- areas, etanling, en wit ‘odeu, ou, Lieber Hoatord McNeal and Sioreing & Neal.| ING OPERATORS an BROKERS, sche seal bd shed 1895. see its fol 8, Railway addition. to rawtana, ant) Sue" ‘ava Columbia townsite, We Have Buyers for All Stand- a Stocks, ye[Qkanogan rathilnder . Paine peas COAL THE BEST VALUE FOR THE MONEY IN THE MARKET FOR ALL PURPOSES. J.L. Parker & Co., SOLE AGENTS, eons much higher’ in the i Virginia stock has gone from 46° cente to Sl cents within. the. last 24 honrs. This is caused by the supposition that the croaseut being. ran from the 500 foot level will goon out the Jead. Iron'Colt is also on the rise going from 11 to 12. . This ie occasioned by the ramnr that ‘work will ‘goon com- mence upon the property, = .Vietory-Triamvh is becoming siron- ger and isin good demand at 11: to 12 cents owing tu the favorable develop- ment of the mine. The Biz Three etock is being much ronght inthe east. and has in conse quence advanced four points at 28 vents. | Que company’s property the Magvot, bouthern Bellund Snowshye are all be ing worked with favorabic results. The Giant stock whech har of late be ven quict at 316 cents ‘hak svar ‘the Dundee 2» Ymir propert ing. stronger and steadily anvancing in peice and ss quuted at Waterlos of Camp MeKinney goes from 11 to 16 cents. There‘has been no decline in prices of Rambler-Caraboo has during the past week advanced 10 cents, going from 32 $242 any of the-e local stocks with a good in- crenee in buiness inthe standard stocks Potice Court. Harry Kearns was up this morning charged with being drank and incapa- ‘ble and his case adjurned until Monday | | Frank White got got $1 and costa for being drink a-d d's rderly, Thomas Cixon was fined $10 upon the same charge. The Craig family dispute was until W at ———_ + The Rosgiand Times gives currency to nrainor that Mr. Martin? M.P. P. for that riding ig about. tu retire from. the Ivgislature. We lave nut been in the Jiabit of looking in the Rossland Times for political pointers but it may be that. one has got into its columns by mistake. —News-Advertiser. - The East End Tailor. FOR A J.F. AONEYFORD | ate Ser | 171 CoLumnra Avance East. Dye 7 34 Inches high. Top can be- adjusted to any angle or height Revolving Case, .5 & 15x12 inside. Holds about 80 vols, Law size. 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The patterns are Stylish—the sizes ‘are_ still unbroken. The ‘styles are complete. : Boeke HUNTER BROS TAB BIG. STORE ORY GOODS ul Bs. EPRI FEBHSOOOOOSOOOOOOOOOOO SOO: : grees ix TEC) a oe, is aie iy aghat the cost ailrood eration cee URIE BICYCLE. wheel sty high seria for Se, Nounlee super maker or larre Sprocket, Cran! fster, all of Bpectat Rite .y Ha tat ‘feceno better gent wunted| TOR C8.» eee WANTED—Smart boy ‘about 15 years Ci igar Btou M. A: eae & Cot HIGH- cLass ‘TAILORS: BROFORD Cords for Transits i SPOKANE STREET One Door East of Col. Avenue. (28 SPOKANE STR l e place the people ¢ of Roesland’ are talking’ about—and: NO WONDER THE Panta S SAY—"How can you sell such stylish ' HOF so‘low?”? The an awer is—BOUGHT ATT 50 GENTS ON THE DOL! HOUSEHOLD GOODS ot all descriptions at bottoin prices. Our: motto— ‘STRICTLY ONE PRICE Cc. Cc. GIBSON & C 28 SPOKANE ST., CO. B.C. That is the price we tn not from the regulas value of the, bout from ae prices offered to you ut the so-calied closing out and Kaka x rales, tv reduced to §, our price 3%, redueed t togz cur ‘pie. wuescal and PETASL DEALERIN., Beet, Pork, Muiton, Fish Ovsters (Game. Spokane Street, ROSSLAND, BAC. CORA’ qn0-'756 Mala Direct, — FLTALT=AA, CAL. es » ree slesle & nexit: 14 ante , Fedur , OUT Trice. avis + || Woole rose our price hinere huse "nar lant 3 naan aud 2 unt reduc eet t 7 Gloves a inpare worth $1, cur ene oe a id ko blonkers onty #1, aud meny other’ aktlotes to numerous to men tiun aceorahigl: NCH STORES 3i you want to save mol WE RAVE NO BR oy on your purebas: ng ing oniy ar 42 os Columbia ‘AYO , next door egtaph oft COLUMBIA vo the left of the © Ave. ROSSLAND AUCTION HOUSE. SSGOSHGSSGSGHPOSS DOSS JRoss Thompson. -€33 - Thave the following blocks ‘in the following companies for eale;— EUREKA CONSULIDATED, GOPHER, HOME STAKE, EVENING STAR, SILVERING, R. E. LEE’ BODIE, EUREKA, NORTH STAR and ZILA M. Lotsinthe Original Townsite a : THE REDDIN JACKSON CO., AGENTS, -:- -:-- ROSSLAND, F. 0. 55OSOS OOO Quick W ork. Tel. Ko , BRS ines or chip any nie re pared e act as shippers’ oly Ze) “il x We eell Washington seazoned Fir and Tamarac wood. * y | STABLES--First Ave., bet. Spokane and Wash. St. OFFICE—9, Wash. St olsge. Apply at'V ee d.W. AARTLINE PROP, / ossland Evening Record VOL 8, NO. 196. . ROSSLAND, BRITISH. COLUMBIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1899. PRICE FIVE OENTS. SouvenIPS... BESIDES A WELT, ASSORTED STOOK OF JEWELRY, WATOH- ES, CLOCKS D&ILVERW 4 ARE ou WILL FIND'a COM- souvenir spoons: wine ‘MINING SORNES HANDLES. J. W. SPRING, — Successor to CHALLONER, MITCHELL. & SPRING. -NEXT DOOR TV POSTOFFICE, . Over the Le Roi Mine. A SNAP IN : CLOTHING. For the balance of our THIRTY-DAY ROOM MAKING SALE @ we willoffer ata VERY SMALL MARGIN onr well assorted stock of MEN AND BOYS’ 0) @ © @ © @ C 's) Suits, Overcoats, Pea Jackets, Reafers, @ e Mackinaws, Pants, English. and American eo and ‘American Shoes. eo e @ 0 @ We Caney a Complete Stock of MINING SHOES, RUBBER. BOOTS, SLICKERS, anb A NICE ASSORTMENT OF SUITINGS, OVERCOATINGS 432... ALL OF-WHICH WILL BE SOLD AT PANTINGS: BXOEEDINGLY LOW PRIOESS Stockholders. INVUNGTION DISSOLVED Sudge Hanford Has No. Jurisdlotion THE CASE IS CARRIED TO SPOKANE Order Sought by Minority Tko Seattle Post-Intelligencer has the following to'say about the MacLaren in- provision for forfeiture asa penalty or consequence of the transfer of allegiance by an owner whose title has once be- come.vested. A conveyance to an alien directly or trust for an alien, is declared to be void, but there is no provision in the constitution or any statute forfeiting a title, for acta subsequent to the vest- ing thereof. “The main object of the suit is to pre- vent the consummation of an executory, contract more for the sale of the Le Rei mine, situated in Britieh Columbiz. The plaintiff contends that the disposition by the defendant of its property is equiv- alent tothe commission of suicide, and that a corporation may not dispose of all its property.and extinguish itself before the termination of the period for which it was incorporated, without the con- sent of all its stockholders. innetion case against the Le Roi com- pany Ji ndge Hanford made an order seer day the injunction heretofore granted by him against tho LeRoi Mining and Sinelting Company, taking the: yround that he had no jurisdiction in the matter. The case haa been on hearing in the United States circuit court since Mon- and involved the right of the Le Roi company to sell the Le Roi mine at Rossland, B. C., to the Biitish America Corporation, Limited, and also the right of the Le Roi company to sell its smelter at Northport, in this etate, to the North- port Mining & Smelting Company. The price offered is understood to be $3,000,- 000. Under Judye Hanford’s decision, these sales wi!l now be carried out. The decision ‘also allows the transfer of the stock of the Le Roi company, purchased by the British America Corporation, to B il, j. OHEARN, The Clothier. *sCor. Columbia Ave, and Lincoln.St: be ed on the books of the com- pany. The suit was brought by J. Bat- net Maclaren, of Victoria, B. C., who owns 8,000 shares of the Le Roi. stock, on bebalf of himself.and the other. out- standing stockholdei vot the Le Ro company, , amounting all ~b9,. sbupt RIGHTS OF THE MAJORITY, “J hold that a court of equity may prevent the transfer by a cor, of NO DEPARTMENT STORE Gooderham - Blackstock Syndicate Say No. PROPOSED MANAGER RETURNS HOME - Rossland Business Men and Property Holders Will Think It Good News. John E, Pierce of Kaslo, who has been in town’ several days on ‘buaineas in all ite praperty at the suit of a majority of its with the ment ofa departmental sture in Boas: that a majority of the stockholders, through its board of managing officers are attempting to transfer the’ property to themselves or their friends for an in- adequate price as a means of freezing out the minori i die will return home, as the deal is off at present at least. Mr. Pierce was to’ be the local mana- ger of the concern and ssid toa repre- sentative of the Rzcorp today that, the right to insist ‘arbitrarily that a.corpora- tion ghall continue in operation and re- tain ownership of its property. acourt of equity will interfere to pre- vent 2 sale of the property of a corpora- tion, it will inquire whether the trane- action is fair and advantageous to the stockholders, and free from frand affect- ing i Before proceeding to make the inquiry in this case it becomes necessary for the court to consider the surroundings and the difficulty of adjudicating as to the rights of the parties ina manner todo vomplete equity. “According to the showing made, an executory contract to sell the mine has already been made, and. there has been ‘CO. Lalonde “i! Strong shoes, forsturdy boys and stylish shoes for ‘cere dainty shoea for, little te girls and misses and elegant shoes for their mothers. not confine ourselves to supplying wny one age or sex eae ‘W EaR, but make a epecialty of shoes for every one.” Our etuck is complete, com- prising every kind of Boot and Shoe manufactured, tight, medium,orheavy. Prices are all light, however, . OUR GOODS ARE RIGHT. ‘OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT. hubbbabhhbhkbh —WHEN YOU WANT A— Prescription 4 FILLED ACOURATELY BRING IT TO US. DRUGGISTS. 2 27,000, shtres. AN IMPORTANT CASE. now so paramount. of Spokane. for a The cage is one of’ the. most important that has ever come up in th» northwest,’ affecting as it does the mining interests, | 2 The case has now beon carried -before Judge Richardson, of the superiur court, in Spokane, an the fight waged here since last Monday will’be there continned. General inter- est has been attracted to the case. Able counsel has been engaged on both sides, and every point hag been hard fought. The plaintiff was represented in the cir- cuit court .by Struve, Allen, Hughes & MeMicken and Stott & McDonald, and the Le Koi company by W. P. Heyburn, one of. the most femous mining lawyers in the country, and, Albert Allen, both The cause came up for hearing in the cirenit court on the motion of the com- ‘motiey paid; We “British America’ “Cor: poration has a right to enfoice that con- tract ifit is not invalid or would not putin a store. The negotiations fora business loca- tion have also fallen through, which makes it reasonably certain that noth- ing more will be done about it at pres- ent. The business. men and property owners of Rossland will receive. this aa good news, and the Recozp publishes it with gratification, as it bas from the start been strongly opposed tothe es- tablishment of such a store in Rossland, .PEOPLE COMING AND’ GOING. Police magistrate Jordan has returned after a few day’s sojourn in the country. John Inkster, mining engineer, : left for the Boundary country today. * went'to Vancouver today via ‘Bpekane. They will return about July 1. ‘ aid the British America Corporation ia note party to the suit, and cannot le midea party for the reason that it is not within the jurisdiction of the court; qj aad therefore. any, decree which tle court can make will not affect'the right of that corporation to compel a convey- ance of title tothe Le Rei mine, er to recover damages for breach of the con- tract. HAS NO JURISDICTION. “tA decree of this court will not be ef- ective in bar of a suit which may be brought to compel epecifie performance of the controct, or an action to recover damages for a breach of the contract, for the reason that the record in this case shows that the court has not jurisdiction of the person af the vendee. Ido not mean to decide that this court has not Thi was answered by the fling of a the power to grant the relief prayed’ for against the defendant because of the ab- to the 8 ‘Cable ‘Address: “PARKER.” ROSSLAND, B. C. LIVERY SALE and FEED cones § Bedrord SoRews: "33" B «STABLE, a> aaa 4 JOHN F. LINBURG, Stylish Rigs for rent Firet-claes Saddle and .Pack orses. [eae Folumbia Ave., "Phone No. 87.. mercial Alley, ‘Phone No. 39. P. 0. BOX, 186. FROE. Chas. E, Bunn. J. L, PARKER. dL. DARKER & 00, ROSSLAND, B. ©. MINING ENGDUEES ani BROEERS. ined, Mines managed, Properties .Bfocks bousht aud sold. J. L. PARKER ining enginesr Dundee, comely sina atta .B. Johnson & Co. Bix Furnished Rose with 5 0, $25.00 por mrethi use of a Ph Five Room House $20.00 per month. or Sale. ah hLy Lot on Kootena te ust be taken ae eee €200.° - This _—— ECHAVE SALE FOR the sanitary Fitzpatrick Atl Méntard “Woche, bidinber hay removed” bi his office and to the corner of Columbia avenue poor W My etrect, under Cap | Shaw's cigar store. ditf. eo Peter Rodier, the old reliable tinner, is now at work again und located in Okan- ogan_ building, * pokane Street, is pre- pared to do all work in his line promptly at the lowest living prices, Money can :|be saved by patronizing him.ft ————_ Evening Raxoorp 6 cents a month. .B, Johnson & Co bill of length. The decision was given orally. request Judge Hanfo The court overrulcd the demurrer, and the temporary in- junction acked by MacLaren was grant- ed. In dissolving the injunction the court rendered an opinion of some Upon sence of the British: American corpora- tion. “Instead of eating my decision on the ground of any lack of power, I consider EF. of who bas been in the city the past few days, visit- ing his family, left for Republic today. , Hector McPherson was.a southbound passenger tor Spokane today. * Charles H. Mackintosh of the B, A. C. left today for England, where he goes on scted with the” Mrs, Mackintosh and Fred: Ridéout ‘ee companied him, the latter. in the ‘ca~ pacity of private secretary and. valet. Mi. ‘Mackintosh ‘ex; ote to be. , gone about six weeks, y i A. B. Clabon returned last night from the Boundary country, where. he has'pub in about a week looking over that sec- tion.. He reports lousinessin a flourish- ing condition. Rev. Gandier, who waa recently ee ated on at the sistera’ hospital for: an abscess in the neck, is recovering stead- ily, and will soon be out again, although the shock was @ most severe one to his system. - Sir Charles Ross, is in the city on a that in the of sound the court should refuse to make a decree which will have no beneficial effect in settling the controversy, but which will solving the injunction: MACLAREN’S OBJECTION. following outline of the grounds for in “The Plaintiffs object is to restrain only i new and diffalties in the way of a fair adjudica- tion. The court would not refuao relie if there would be a failure of justice, but this plaintiff isa British subject, resid- the from ti ring certain shares of its tate which it now owns. stock the British America Corporation, Lim- ited, an alien corporation, for the al- Jeged reason that the number of shares which the ccrporation has purchased i is amajority of all the stock of the defend- ant, and the effect of the transfer of a majority of its stock to an alien will be ty make the defendant an alien under the provisions of the thirty-second eec- tion of article 2 of our state constitution, so thatit cannot legally own real es- tate in this state, and the smelter pro- perty which it owns at Northport may be forfeited as the direct consequence of such transfer of a majority of its stock. “ no not consider that the transfer of a majority of the defendant’s stock to an alien will jeopardize its title to real es- Accorging to the showing the only real estate which it has situated within this state is the saute property at Northport; that roperty is exempted by a proviso in the ronetitation, rnd if it were not. 80, sec- tion 85, when read literally, contains no ing in British Calumbia; the defendant corporation can be compelled to appear in the courts of British Columbia and the Britigh-American corporation is aleo within reach of process of the courts of British Columbia, No INJUSTICE TO PLAINTIFF, “Therefore, it is not injustice to this plaintiff to leave him to seek for protec- tion of his rights in the courts of hisown country, which have the power to render complete justice between all the partica and to settle in one lawsuit’, every ques- tion as to the validity of the contract, the right of the vendee to enforce it, or to recover damages for the breach there- of, and to require the purchase money to be refunded, if fur any reason the contract should be rescinded. “The tranefer of title to the emolter property isa inatter of minor importance and should be left to abide the result of whatever determination may bo ulti- mately reached with regard to the sale of the Le Roi mine. * to (Continued to Fourth Page.) short b trip. : Messrs. Gooderham and Blackstock will leave for Toronto in a few days, and Mr. Blackatock will return to Roseland in about thirty days to ‘spend most of the summer. George E. Pfunder left on the ‘noon train today for Portland, Ore., having been culled there bya telegram to at<. tend his wife, who is very sick. Funeral on Sunday. The faneral services over the remains ofthe late John ‘Tressider, the Le Ruf miner who died of pneumonia: Saturday at the hospital, were’ held yesterday af- ° ternoon at the Methodist church at 1:80 o'clock. Rev. O. H: Morden officiating. The interment was in Cypress Lawn cemetery, and a large concourse of - friends folluwed the remains: to their last resting place. ‘ Knights of Pythias. * The Knights of Pythias will give: a grand ball tonight in Dominion hall in’: commemoration of the thirty-fifth anni-+ versary of their organization. - Professor Sumpl’s orchestra has been ergaged to furnsh the music, and from the preparas tions made a good timeis inetore for those who attend, {Police Court. John Kerns was this. morning fined $8. for being drunk and incapable, -Henry.{Marymont;:-wite-end family: tes