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AUDITOR and 8
» ACCOUNTANT

Stone Block, Rossland
P. 0. BOX 598, 4

land Labor Unions,

nd Waiters’ union, 40, WL. U.,

4 urday evening at &:3y Miners
James Muncu, ec.

Joun Kunn, Pres,

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+-SUCESSOR TO...
AN & MORRO .

This ls Onlya Scheme

atill doling business
ro everything in the Druj

stand
posit!

ia carried,
She De for
you family re-
red by me and save at least 60 per
SPRING CLEANING.
to have your xystem thor-
oughty etenseae” fe ker Warsapariita and
Sales calen, commgune gre cousidred tes
Soma
a a ©, perborae Remember the address,

Thomas Steul, Drugeist

First Avenue Near Spokane Street.

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ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY. MAY

18, +1899. PRICE FIVE CEN's,

HREE DOLLARS A DAY

Mino Owners In the Slocan Say
They Will Pay No More,

TO GO INTO EFFECT JUNE 1

The Eight-Hour Law to ‘Be Gotten
Over By a Reduction

In Wages.

The Silver-Lead Mine Owners? associ-

ation of British Columbia on the 8th of
May last at Sandon, passed the following
resolution: F

‘That it is the sense of mine repre-

SEEK TERMS OF PEACE.

American Advices to That Effect—London

& Tells Another Story,

Wasutnaron, D. C., May 18.—The fol-
lowing is General Otis’ cable: Manila,
May 18.-—Representatives of the insur-
gent cabinet, and Aguinaldo in the
mountains twelve miles north of San
Isidro, which they abandoned the 15th
inat., will send inn commission to Beck
terme of peace. The juajurity of the
orce cfifrouting Macarthur at San Fer-
nnndu, have retired to Tarlac, tearing
up two miles of railway. Thos force has
«lecreased to abont twenty-five hundred,
Scouting parties and detachments are
moving in various directions, A great
wajovity of the inhabitants of the pro-
vinees over which the troops have moy-
ed. are anxieus for Peace, supporced by
the members of the insurgent - cabinet,
The aspect. of .affairs.at preeent are
favorable. Great satisfaction ig ex:
breesed by the war department, by the
official with the news contained in the
desp from Gen. Otis. ‘The belief 18

t
That is What a Spokane Man Sal
About Rossland.
HE ADMIRED THE FINE OFFICE

He is Amazed and Delighted at th
Wonders of the New
Camp.
a
the first of the week,

kane und had this to
land:

sentatives of this: that the
standard rate of Wages paid to miners
be in future $8 Der day ef eight hours.”

representatives of the mines
names are hereto appended.

‘These mines wish to state that as the
eight hour law is to be enforeed¢ not
later than June 12th, they are. revdy to
hire miners on and after June. the 1st,
at the above rate: -And they further
wish it to be understood that this change
in the working. hours ‘aud the conge-
quent contraction of the Wape-earning
capacity of the ininer, was forted upon
them by the actof the British Columbia
legisl. and wag i
for by them,

It was signed and given’ out by. the
following mines:
Queen Bess,
Noble Five,

Ajax,

‘Emily. Edith)
Wakefield, ; Washington,
Canadian Group, Echo,

whose

iy

Idaho,
"Antoine,
Ivanhoe,
“Lucky Jini,

Ymir Gold M., Ltd., Monitor,
8 ji Whi

ign,
Payne,
Jackson,
Last Chance,
R. E. Lee,
Bosun.

They gointo an elaborate argument.
against the eight-hour law, and try; to
establish the fact that $3 a day isa fair
and just day’s pay.

Another meeting was held in Nelson
onthe &thof this month, when the
same position wastaken anda state-
ment issued and signed by the following
mines, fixing wages at #3aday on and
after Jane 1:

The Hall Mines, Limited.

Redo,
Goodenongh,
Ruth,
Rambler-Cariboo,

ia Gold-

This resolution: was signed by the |‘

and there is an air of
the place,
classes,

which the minee are putting in,
them exceeding: anything of the

expressed that the end of the ingurrec-
tion ie at hand,

Sz. Lours, Mo., May 18.—A special
cable to the Globe-Demovrat front Man-
ila eays: It. ig reported here that
Aguinaldo haa devided te accept the
terns “of peace offered by'the American
Philippine commission and has storted
representetives from San’ Isidore for
Manila. “It is said they have reached 2
decision at a conference held at San. Isi-
dore the day before Lawton’s attack,
and that the fight took place after a de-
cision for peace had been reached. The
reports are believed here and final peace
eeeme agsured, ‘

Lonpvox, May, 18.—No rumor of sur-,
render or approaching surrender of Ag:
uinaldo is current in ths city. The Fil-
ipinos here reiterate the latest cable dis be
patches froin Aguinaldo; and empha
tally repudiate any intentign of kaby
ting ind which ~ contains the phrase

Rossland’s future ia sure..
land is the elegance which ia found “i

ing houses of the big mines,
Manager Hastings,

is no office in S
furnished asthat.. And the War Eagl
people do not stop with fitting the offic
up ‘in style’ They also Provide for th
comfort of the men,

hotel is a beauty,

'{ We. will fight to the death.”

“We demand absolute independence or

DYNAMITE A GAR.

Duluth Street: Car. Strikers Continue —' to

7 Make Trouble.

Deuurn, Mina., May 18.—Striking
street car men attacked another car by
the use of dynamite last night. Thecar
was filled wih smoke and the passen-
gers were terrified bat unhurt. ‘Che

Score more and think that Spokane onc
owned them and might still enjoy th
posseasion of them

shock broke the glaes in buildings op-
posite the car and buildings five blocks
away were shaken. - Ax hour later a car
on 20th ‘avenue, exet, was 1
from both sides with stones and several
Panes of glass were broken,

Fatal Row Among Women. -
Union Crry, Tenn., May 18.—Reports;
ofan i tragedy at Paine’s

thereisa
“Another thing that atrack me _ for.

Bank of Montreal ia putting np-a build
ng there upon a piece of ground . fo:

The London & British Col
fields, Limited. :
The Athabasca Gold Mine, Limited.

The Yinir Gold Mines, Limited.

The Duncan Mines, Limited.

The London Hill Development & Min-
ing Company.”

The Exchequer “Gold Mining Com-

1t| pany.

The Dundee Gold Mining Company.
Mollie Gibeon Mining Company.
Yellowstone Mining Com pany.

——
Peace Conference Opened.

Tuz Haaue, Mry 18.—The Peace con-
ference named by the Czar of Russia
was opened at 2 o’clock this afternoon in
& hall two miles from The Hague.

Wasuinaton, May 18.—The following |).
bl id, d_by Presi

Me-

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Fanquets and Small Dioner Parties,

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eet en ee oe

Kinley to the Emperor of Ruesia on the
occasion of the opening of the diearma-
ment conferenve:

mine and thinks the Coxey is all right
too.

mill near Tiptonville, reaches here. | That is about 50 Per cent. more than

Three women, Mra, Mattox, Mre. Ed-
wards and Miss Browdon waylaid a Mrs.
Ovington, anu attacked her with clubs, - pe
whereupon she drew 2 knife and stab- | all eecavating done. Shi

bed Mrs. Mattox ‘through the heart, To Meet President Kruger.
killing her. instantly, and Mrs. i

for a few months ago,

Oving-

some of the offices, residences and boar’.
. 1 vi-itea
of the War Eagle, in
his office. I venture to say that thera
ipokane go suinptiouely

EVERYBODY HS MONEY

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ty

Herbert Bolster, who visited Rossland
Feturned to Spo-
fay about Ross-

“Everybody has money in Roseland,
Prosperity about
which is apparent among all
The big machinery  plunts
some of
kind in‘
the world; give everybody a feeling that

~ “One thing that impresses mejn Rose-

in

le
1°
eo

hi
“And when I stand in - Rossland and
see the War Eagle and Le Roi and 9°

, it makes me regret
that our mining. men ever let go of
Rossland holdings... But we are finding
other camps elsewhere fully as Tich, so
ing feature after all.

cibly in Rossland was the fact that the

ty

which {500 per front foot was paid.

I

sold the corner of Lincoln and riverside
r and that property
hae an asphalt walk in front of it and

Loxpoy, May 18.—The secretary of

ton then plunged the weapon into “the | state for the colonies, Mr, Josep Cham-

back and lungs of Mre. Edwards,
ing fatal injuries. The tra;
out of a quarrel
the women, , .
a
Where is H. R. Knapp,

E. B. Knapp, 167, Wellington street,
Memphia, Tenn.,.wrote to know of th
whereabouts of H. Knapp, whe was i
Rossland some two yearsago. He left
here for Victeria and his acquaixtan:e3 P. Stey:
jaye not heard of him since he left | + Steyn.
there. -

aot te,
Death by Misadventure.

inflict: berlain, announced it the house of con:
Alfred Milner,
Colony and com

returning from
country seat,
of "Deat

Sympathetic Strike,

wy Burraro, May 18.
mien of this port re
atrike at noon to

Waukee | rived the fir
remain out ui
settled,

will extend to th
ring 3,000 men.

—_____
Dewey Is Coming.
Yorx, May 18.—A dispatch from
Hong Kong saye Admiral Dewey hag no-
tified Consul Wildman that he will ar-
vive at Hong Kong on May 25,

—_—_—_———__.
New York, May 18.— he north Ger-

loyd steamer Barbarosea, which
nd-| left this mornin, for Southampton and
about near Sandy

ing Bremen, _turnec
ler- | Hook and signalled that there was tire
in her hold,

—{Special.J—“The
occupied by Lieu-
McInnis, wag totally
at 9 o'clock this morn-

with the und
‘move on,”

among. the cl dre of | ons today that a meeting between Sir

pital of the Orange
at the invitation of the
President of the Orange Free State, M,