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* The charge of assault preferred | pany )
by John Copp against William Cald-
well was withdrawn this morning,

Copp paying the costs.

P, J. Melonville and L. H. Oliver
have come in from Spokane and are

at the Windsor.

J. E. Poupore, of the lumber and

railway contracting firm of P. Gen:

nelle & Co. of Nukusp, 1s in the

city. Mr, Poupore was chiefly in
strumental in organizing the lumber
syndicate which will

Yale.

P. J. Russell of Nelson, assignee
for the estate of Bulmer, Webb &

Co., arcived in Rossland today.

D. B. Stevens of Trail was a

visitor of Rossland today.

Today is good Friday at the Red

mountain depot, being pay day.

The creditors of M. J. Eagles,

recently assigned will receive 2/4

cents on the dollar.

The first annual ball of Rossland,

locge No. 13, Daughters of Rebec

ca, will be held in the Oddfellows

hall, on December 19.

Bly Lunch Tonight,
At the opening of the Grand hotel
this evening an elaborate lunch wil

be served for the patrons of the
It will include roast turkey
cranberry sauce, celery, roast pork,

house.

roast beef, baked beans, salads,

green onions, poached eggs and
There will be

bread and butter.
music during the evening.

or

control the
lumber trade of West Kootenay and

Fy

any will app!

Bay ean oy an act autho
to complete a. an! in

ard.
AMPBRLL Ogwaun, Secretary.
Montreal, 17th November, 1899. 2 6-gw
aaah AS

No. 838.
COMPANIES ACT, 1897.

Certificate of the Re-Incorporation of
“The Orie} Mining and Milling
= company, Limited.’”

r Capitat, $1,000,000.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the “Oriel
Mintog and Malling Companys, Limited,”
has this day been reincorpurated and regis:
tered under section 5 of the ** panies’
‘Act, 1897." a3 a Limited Company, with a
daphalet one million dollars, tliviced into
one million shares of one dolla

‘The registered ottice of the ‘Company. will
be situate in the City of Rossland, British
Columbia.

The tame ¢ ot the existence ofthe Company

jects for which the Company has
been ‘ental lished a
[a], To ns the Good Hope, Stanley
and Good Hope Fraction No. 1 Mineral
anes, situate on Apex Mountain, near
Ynir, B. C.. in Nelson Mining Dipson,
West. ‘Kootenay District. Erovince of
ish Columbia, ant orchaes,
1 | lease, bond, explore. incate | ‘or otherwise
aequire 1 aud ‘prospect, work, operate, exer-
lop, deal in, boll ‘and turn to se:
gover tnineral claims, mineral lands,
, propertie:,and any real estate in the
Provinee of Britisn Columbia or elsewhere,

- | fully pa.d-up shares of the Company, or
parily in money and partly In such shares,
or toxell, lense, or otherwise dispose ot the
same. or any of them
To purchase, tokeon lense.exchange,
b.re or otherwise acquire any real or
sonal property, and any rights or privileges
which the Company may think necessary
1 fort the purposes of its business:

Bo Thise, crush, win, get, quarry,
1 | satel, eateine, retine, dress, amalgamate,
manipulate and Put are for market ore,
metal and minera’ aoe tae. of all kinds,
whether the property of the Company or
not, in British Columbia, and to carry on
any metallurgical operations which may
seem conducive tothe Company’ *g objects or
» | anv of them. or which may seem capable
of being usefully or profitably carried on
in connection with the other business of
the Company, and to sell, dispose of and
dealin any ore, metal and mineral sub-
stances resulting from, or to be obtained in
the proces of smeltng, retining or manu-
facturing the same, and either free or in

A meeting of the creditors of the
estate of Bulmer, Webb & Co. was
this afternoon at 4 o'clock

held

Hamil

To construct, carry out, muaintain,

improve, manage, work, contrel,and super-

intend any trails, roadways, ‘tramways,

railways.reservoirs, water-courses, bridges,

aquediets, wharves, furnaces, saw-mills,
wor! works,

in the offices of Daly &
Bank of Montreal chambers.

Semlin Government Doomed.
Nelson Tribune.

Coast advises are that the Sem-| [el
lin government will go to the wall
within two weeks after the house | cluding and

ting works, works, electri
works, factorie: boat

aud to pay for the same either in money or agi

NOTICE.

The Kéttic fiver Mining and Development

Company of B. C., Limited Liability. "
OTICE ts hereby riven that a special, general
areholders of the Ketsle
River Sunn mand ‘Development Company of B.C:
Limited Liability vill be held at the office of the
polio avenue, East, in
‘on Thursday, the 2th
,atthe hour of four

ti
the ‘Com any under the Companies A:

2.—A rey aathoy [sing | fhe changing "ot the
corporate name of the, “Kettle
ee Mines, (!

3. A re reso! ations if tne necessary or advisa-
uthorizing the esecarment of all shares of the

ble a al stock of the Com}
shares), over ‘and above the 1k 0
fore Issued as fully paid ani hen-as:
ie vendors asa ce Ronsider ration for the convey-
‘of the christina” mineral claim to

Pat rize such other resolutions as may
aed advisable Aye the carrying out, in any
the intent of the last
mentioned resolut! one,
‘authorize the execution by the Directors
on Senate ot the shareholders uf the Compan,
Association, for ere

3 Act I
y_of ALB B.C. this sith

day of Decem!
her ‘a RNION LANGLEY,
Sec.-Treas. of ihe! Kettle River Mining and Devel
‘opment Company of B. ©., Limited Liability.

IN THE COUNTY COURT OF KOOTENAY
HOLDEN IN ROSSLAND.

In Probate and in the Matter of the Goods
of Edward Dwyer, Deceased.

Wat ee

ps

of June, A, were. gral 7
Grant at thes ae Rossland.

ice thet ey, ‘persons indstited: ie

aad oa the nee of such

ietvarg th “Grant, Roselan
Dated at Rossland this eat day ot November,
AME

x ALI TON,
a Solicitors for the administrator.

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby ; giyen that 60 da: ys
end to apply to t

for permission to purchase

nd twenty acres of Janay in the e Ainsworth
mining district as follow

Commencing at Thomas Harris! north-
cast post, thence east 40 ch: thence
south 100 chains, thence we:
thence north 160 chains to the place of com-
aencement.

This notice was posted the Mth day of
June, 1899.

Young & Burnet,
Rossland

Tuomas Hanis,
of Kaslo, B. C.

other works ‘and foes pero which vinay
seem directly or

B.C.

any of the ‘objects of the Company, and to

contribute to peaiets subsidise,
aid and take part i

‘To pay out ot ite, fonds of the Com-

under this head inserted at the

Bratton, fedlotration and advertising of th e

af One Cent ot Mord. ‘Nothing taken for
tess than 25 cents. Six insertions,

Sompany. and the issue of its capital, &
for

meets, and that a general el

will he held as soon thereafter as

for or placing
shares, and to apply, at the cost of the
Company, to var: famiene for any extension
of the Gompan

possible to clear both the atmos- (fj me the: Pe Property: and undertak-

phere and the house.

hour law a dead letter.
Beer expects to be the candidate o'

the Nullifers in Nelson riding and
W. A. Macdonald is to be the can-
didate of party line Conservatives.

When choosing Christmas pres-
ents,one likes a large assortment to
You will find it in the
crockery and glassware department

choose from.

of the Pacific Tea company.

BUSINESS LOCALS.

Try the lovely cream bread at the

Women’s Exchange.

The Russel hotel is first-class in

every respect. Table is
celled in Rossland.
Fresh
celebrated
lace’s.

not ex

confectionery at Wal.

Leave order at the Women’s Ex.
change for Bride’s cake and Christ.
mas cake,

Best 25-cent meal in
Grand Union Dining room.
help.

Everything nobby and up-to-date
Montana

in the hookups at the
_ Stables, phone 6.

Russell’s Catarrh Cure cures cold

in the head in one night. Sold a

Morrow’s drug store.

You fool yourself if you think to

The one
issue of the campaign will be legis-
lation that will make the eight-|  [s) Tosell.
Alderman

shipment Harry Webb’s

town—
Union

art thereof, at
manner, on
as

ing of tee Company, or any
such time or times, in such
such terms, and for sue!

TAILORING. .

©. SAVARD, Fashionable Merchant Tailor,
carries the best assortment of imported and do-
mestic goods in Rossland. None but first-class
labor employed. Prices moderate, Columbia
avenue, Rossland.

the wee may think fit:

improve, manage, develop,
‘of, turn to account or other-
with all or any property of the
nyt
f Pro amalgamate with or ucquire the
business and liabilities of any other com-
or companies having objects alto-
getter | or in part simular to those of this
compa

PARE sell and dispose of the Company's
acd from time to time, an
expedient, for such Price.
orin exchange for suet property as the
Company may thin!
‘To procure the ‘Soeapany to be regis-
terdin ny place or cou:

U To do all such tings as the Com-
pany may think incidental or conducive
to the Aament of the above objects or
any of then

ven under my hand and seal of office
at Victoria, Ere nce of British Columbia,
this 25th of November. one thousand
Ma hundred and ninely-2 nine,
8.) WOOTTON,
Replstrar of Joine ‘Stock @

AUCTIONEER

GENTS’ FURNISHINGS at a sacrifice. Get
our prices. Aution sales conducted. Get terms.
Houghton’s Sale Rooms. C.P. R. blocx, George
Houghton Autioneer and Manager.

FOR RENT.

NICELY furnised rooms, centrally located;
private family; stove If desirid. Apply at this
office.

FOR RENT—Two cosily furnished bedrooms
in private house. Address H. M. N., Record
office.

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE;-A nicely ‘urnished six roomed
lodging house for sale cheap across from Windsor
hotel.

NOTICE.
di eneral meeting of the sh:
pa of the Rip Grande Geld and Sivver
Company. 1
ead off

FOR SALE—Cheap—Lots 13 and 14 block 23.
sw. corner Cooke avenue and Spokane street. Also
large furnished lodging house on First avenue
with lot, E, D, Orpg, 46 Columbia Avenue E.

FOR SALE—A five-roomed house, plastered
and nicely finished, in desirable location, The
price is $1350. with $350 cash, $300 say in six
months, and the balance at the rate of $10 per
month. Apply at this office.

oe CA AAAI EE BRAGG

4F|

rae cnt ean nee eta
blusty weather.
a act of RAL (ua ane SP $43.75
Ona Pelee ae nen = 49.00
MINK get, the Doge rade, MoT 637.50
Separtt Minbiaation tr-vese-s es» DA oO
WHITE At ohareus fore... DID200_
Sunes ay inches lng, for. B2I0.00

Best ASTRACHAN CAPES, big sweep, extra

good curl, 27 inches long,....-

3
$
e@
_Giits.
YOU GET
3
:

| () racic . s

0
BLACK. MARTEN CAPE, XXXX grade, 24
inches tong, full sweep------ $190.00
You will notice a Liberal Dis- || 4
. count on all Furs.. ;

THe BIG STORE. ;

cao ibicanasssseausossscevecssees eet

one

oj ___DRY GOODS ROOM, HUNTER BROS.

rer rer edie Benog reer oOo.

GREAT we STERN GRAND UNION; Job Printing

of every description, at the Reconp office.
--HOTEL.. 2

We also make a specialty of Color work.
GEO, H. GREEN, PROPRIETOR.
Drying and Change Room for Miners. | RATES FROM $1.00 to $1.50 PER DAY
Bedrooms well Heated, Furnished

$1.00 per Day--Board and Room,

If you stop with us one week,
‘you will stay.
GEO. OWEN

Rootenay Cafe.

Fresh Oysters in any Style.
(ame in Season.

Private rooms for parties.
Business Men’s Lunch, 35c.

Open Day and Night.

Rooms and Bar . .

Second aye., between Wash-
ington and Spokane Sts.

Neatly Furnished
Rooms

Proprietor

from $2.60 to.. . $3.50 per week

First-Class Bar a

in connection.

Par oe mais ek pant ton THE FAST LINE

TO ALL POINTS.

THE DINING CAR ROUTE VIA
YELLOWSTONE PARK,
SAFEST AND BEST.

SOLID VESTIBULE TRAINS

EQUIPPED WITH
Pullman Palace Cars, Elegant Din-
ing Cars, Modern Day Coaches,
Tourist Sleeping Cars.

A. New Clarists 2 stocked with choicest | o. sagn torts all pinta the United

j Liquors and Cigars. tes and Canada,
- THE...

AN OR Tad em se pc ate ee
cong es | HOTEL HOFFMAN,

Washington Street, Rossland, B, C.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Toronto Globe.

Butte Hotel.

Columbia Ave., west.

.in connection —

Headquarters for Miners.
———

Miss K. Swanson, Prop.

Thomas Shanks, - - - - P

Trains depart from Spokane as follows:
No. L Westbound, at 9:56 p.. eo gaily.
No, 2 Eastbound, at 7:20 a. daily.

For further information’ time; cards, | maps
and tickets, “ePply, te to pppate of th

One of the Leading Bars of the city.

Spokane Street, next to [nternatfonal

—

Furnished Rooms. E. W. Ruff, Agt. R. M. Ry.»

Rossland, B. C.

- for: uch ror any other general business as
come before the meeting.
hs 27th day of! Nove, a per 1899, at Ross-

O- ExSting Secretary.

NOTICE.

Notice is hereby giveu tbat application
will be made to. the Legislative Assembly
of the Province of British Columbia at its
next session for at act to incorporate a

v nstruct, bu:ld,

t

FOR SALE—

ONE ACRE,

facing on Frincess street, three-t
feud eee fo street, with three: roomed

$550.

E.N, OUIMETTE & CO,
Real Estate. and
New Dani of Montreal Building,

First-Class Bar.

Plumbing Shops) ssw: sez sig zive one

cashed, free of charge. -
Spokane St., opp. Burns’ market.
ye

3. W. HILL, General Agent, Spokane, Wo.
A.D. CHARLTON,
Ass't. Gen. Pass. Agt.. Portland, Ore.

Harry McIntosh - - Proprietor.

GRAND HOTEL.

SPOKANE STREET.

The Best Wines,

ANADIAN
“PACIFIC I\y.

-AND—

SOO LINE.

The direct route from

KOOTENAY COUNTRY,

Clay Pipe and Fittings
for Chimneys.
Sanitary Plumbing a
Specialty.

Telephone 27 . P. 0. Box 271.

phone lines ina:

get better goods though you pay | towns, villa

so much more than at the Rossland

Auction house.

is Bul
electric, steam, air, water or other power i

Dyeing, pressing, cl
repairing of men’s and women’:
garments at Washington
Cleaning and Dyeing company.

Leave
Exchange for
Christmas cake.

ing and

Street | t

order at the Women’s
Bride's cake anp

other cor sor indi-
viduals; to. supply. hight to other cor-
's | porations, manufuctories or individuals;

acquire water rights
for the purpose of generating power wheth-
er for their own uxe or the use of other cur-

to furnish and supply water to Olle fore

porations, manufactories or individuals in
Std districts; to acquire and hold land,
timber nmghts, rights of way and other

NOTICE.

November 6th.

209,
Initial post 5. Ww. orner of Oliver M. Har-

ris’ mineral clain

NOTICE is hereby given that 30 days after

I intend to apply to the Chief
Commissioner of Land and Works for per-
presen to purchase the followed described

*Commencing at the post, thence north 40
Pier chenee east 40 cl
land being on

Haghs eks, Gost River Tuning ‘dlvisio

Avest Roorensy. and contaming 16
Seren.

Aven M. HARRIB,

Young & Burnett, Rossland, B, C.
—~ ossland, B.C.

ees

property und easements for the purposes of
the conipany with all necessary powers in
that behalf; to acquire all the assets, fran~
chises, privileges and business of the Nel
son Electric Tramway Company, Limited;
toacquire all the assets, franchises, privi-
leges and business of the Rossland and 80-

Iie Mountain £tectric Railway Company,
.imited: to receive ald either ot

by wey

Fe Good

investment!

Big Four
Consolidated

CAPITAL $250,000.
One alle west of Rossland, and the best
y in Rossland at the © briee viz:

Pooled Shares : : 3.cents,

for treasury puirpicnén, oh and

Treasury Shares: : : 4 cents,

.
which is all intact.

fromd districts of Kootenay and Yate: to

chains, thence south
is, thence west AOchaing i the pine c

obtain exemption from taxation, and oiler

We ai No. 2 vein, and the
ore bady will soon he reached and shipping

iy in said

districts of PE creo and Yale, and all

| other usual, necessary or incidental powe.s

and privileges astmay be necessary or inci-

ny ' dental or conducive to the atuaiorient of
cl ine above objects ur a any the

ated at the city of Nelson this Lat day of

December, AD. 1899.
CDONALD & JOHNSON,
Solicitors for the Applicants,

begun, when lane capital that is waiting
y me in, and small in-
vestors get hig returns. Assays trom $3.20
to $800 in yaluex. Please cali and investi-
Rate and see samples, Oiiice, Columbia
avenue, two doors above Masonic hall.
Address all communications to

Y. LAWLER,

Secretary and Treasurer,

SNE ET ETE

P.O, Box 545, Rossland, B.C,

aS EIT

to all points
EAST AND WEST.

First-class Sleepers on all trains from Revelstoke
qevuws and Kootenay Landing.
” TOURIST CARS
pass B Medicine Hat, {ait for St. Paul; Sundays
9, id Wednesdays a to; Fridi fe
Matthews, Bros., Prop’s. days for'torante; Fridays for

(7"Same Cars pass Revelstoke one day earlier.

CONNECTIONS:
LEAVE ARRIVE
7:00 ex. Sunday. ROSBILAND. ex. Sunday 11:1
Liquors |? igo dati ey BOSSE AND oe day ante
Morning gin for and from Robson, Nel-

lo, pandon, pnd Slocan
points, connects for all poin

THE BOUNDARY
COUNTRY.

Liquors and Cigars.

Roit & Grogan,

Mines, Stocks and

Insurance.
Representing the following

FIRE INSURANCE

Companies:
Caledonian, Lancashire,
Connecticut of Hartford,

Imperial.

Ghoicest Wines,
and Gigars,

CALL ON JERRY SPELULMAN,

BUSINESS CARDS.

SPELSD ELSE SEP LEL EDS

PEELE

NOLS ES

S$ ps2 592.

ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1899.

PRICE § CENTS

2 SAN ZSM OZ SUZ ZEMO ZS

is glad of at.
COME TO HEADQUARTERS for Popular Presents at Popular Prices.

Wecarry the LARGEST and BEST ASSORTED
STOCK IN ROSSLAND.

- Postotties... J. W. SPRING, 2"..seweter

SENSIBLE!........RICH!

“Our KX MAS Stock

Is carefully selected from the BEST quality and Newest goods.
You CAN get HERE goods you CANNOT obtain elsewhere.

We invite you to ex mine our Stock before making your
seleotions for your friends.

GOODEVE BROTHERS,

It pays to deal with Goodeve Bros. DRUGGISTS AND STATIONERS.

Holiday Goods

In great variety.

CAR

SATIN and FELT FOOT-
WARMERS in all colors.

RUBBERS, OVERSHOES and
LEGGINGS.

Full line of HOCKEY ee
SHOES.” - ™

> 1 ee |

Cc. O. LALONDE, TOOT EITTER.

IS NOW A SHIPPER

Large Body of Ore Blocked Out in the
I. X. L, Three Levels.

ALL ON A SINGLE SHOOT

Bxaminstion of the Mine by a Record Repre-
sentative Shows How the Present Manage-
ment Has Struck Ore While It Was Missed
Before.

That the I. X. L. is now a_ ship-
ping mine and will soon become a
regular producer of ore, is evident
to any man who pays a visit to the
property and inspects’ the large
bodies of ore which have been

locked out by Superi: d Roy
H. Clarke. A representative of the
Recorp paid a visit to the mine
with Mr, Clarke yesterday and
found that it is all that has heen
claimed, the statements of the man-
agers in regard to the quantity of
ore in sight being fully borne out.

When the mine was taken over
by the present management last
June, No. 2 tunnel, 100 feet below
the surface, had been run 75 feet
without striking ore, and No. 3
tunnel had been run 290 feet, with
the intention of crosscutting the
ledge. The new management
started the No. 1 tunnel at a depth
of 50 feet, dad, after running 16
feet, struck an ore-shoot averaging
2to 2% feet in width. This tunnel
was continued for 165 feet and has
ore all the way and in the face.

Then No. 2 tunnel was continued,
and 21 feet turther (that is, 96 feet
from the mouth) it struck the same
ore-shoot, with a clearly defined
footwall, the hanging wall being
irregular and ill-defined. The shoot
here had widened very much, being
generally about 4 feet, though in
some places it pinches down to

SUITS GIVEN AWAY FOR XMAS.
With every cash purchase, of
onth, you, get
fides on two! Suits oF Clothes
made toorder.. «

AT C. w. MOUNT & COM!

about 14 inches and others widens
to6 feet. This tunnel is now in
180 feet and still has ore in the face
about 4 feet wide.

It was then found that the cross-
cut, No. 3 tunnel, had been run
almost parallel with the course of
the ledge; in fact, was bearing a
little away from it, in a course from
east to west. The new manage-
ment turned the tunnel at right
angles to the south, and in 65 feet
more struck the same ledge again,
cutting it from the footwall side.
There is fully four feet of ore and
values run fully two feet through
what appears to be the footwall.
Drifting on the ledge was started

this morning and a few days will

AI

The Clarendon Cafe
a
First-Class i in Every Respect. Open Day and Night.

_—_
Rooms for Banquets and Dinner Parties.

fully determine its course and define
the walls.

The continuity of the ore body
has been proved by an upraise from
the second level to the surface, and
the fact that it has been encountered
on the third level at the expected
distance proves it continuous to that
depth, namely 160 feet on the pitch
of the ledge, which is 65 to 70 de-
grees. The ore-shoot averages not

less than three feet wide, as defined

on the three levels and by the up-

raise. This gives a total of about

Dr. A. MILLOY,

DENTIST.
Rooms: Stone block, over Bank of Toronto
Columbia Ave.

F. W. HINSDALE,

CUSTOM HOUSE BROKER,
In Custom House building.
Also New Xork Life lusurance Agency.

Washington street. Rossland, B.C,

Rossland Hotel

Cor. Columbia Avenue and
Spokane Street.

sonal in train for and from Robson, Nel-
ain I north, connects
fexcept Si . Sandon, the
Slocan, and

BOUNDARY COUNTRY.

W. C. McDONALD,
Contractor and Builder.
Estimates given on Contracts of any
description.

Moving and Raising Buildings a Specialty.

Apply 85 Thompson Avenue, es

Hours, ROSSLAND TO
TK .......NELSON.... ..--
For rates and full information, address the
nearest local agent, or
A. B. Mackenzie, City Ticket Agt.
A.C. McArthur, Agent, Rossiand.
W. F. Anderson, T. P. A., Nelson, B. C.
E. J, Coyle, A.G. P. A., Vancouver, B, Cy

HORSES

FOR SALE.

The Rossland Warehouse and Transfer Cos have just received a
carload of young, well hed tea ighing from
twenty-five to thirty-two hundred pounds.
They can be seen at their stable on Second avenue and St. Paul
street, Rossland, B. [on

‘They also have

Studebaker Wagons and
Sensible Sleds .

For Sale.

Rossland Warehouse & Transfer Co.

V. AND N. TEL. 48. P. 0. BOX 482.. COL. TEL. 6.

6500 tons of ore in sight, besides
some 800 tons on the dump, with
a carload sacked ready for ship-
ment, all of which was taken out in
development. This will be hauled
to the railroad on Monday.

The ore in the two upper levels
carries free gold, steel galena and
some sulphurets, and the three car-
loads which were shipped returned
from $32 to $43, some of it running
as high as $20 in silver. The car-
load sacked, which has simply had
the waste sorted out, assays $161
per ton, according to Mr: Clarke.
The ledge on the third level shows
less galena than above, but more
copper sulphides, assays having run
as high as 3 per cent copper. The
gold value has ranged from $18 to
$35, Mr. Clarke says, and the rock
for two feet into the footwall has
carried about $20 gold. It is esti-
mated that the ore blocked out in
the mine will average safely trom
$20 to $25, which is much below
the value shown by the three car-
loads shi

PP

BRITISH
PASSION
IS RIFE

A Storm of Indignation
- Against War Office
and Generals.

By Associated Press.

London, Dec. 16.—Special London letter,—The brave show
kept up by the majority of the organs voicing public opinion is
powerless to allay the bitter grief and disappointment that per-
vades the length and breadth of the land and the pent up criticism
of the military authorities is finding vent in quarters which
tieretofore studiously avoided, as being premature, strictures on
the war office of generals in the field, but it is nowg{clear that
unless some striking change for the better marks the course of
British arms, there bids fair to break over the head of the govern-
ment a storm of indignation unknown since the Crimea, The
Associated Press gleans that the authorities have already decided
that a re-organization of the war office is absolutely necessary
and that it must take place at an early date. The St. James Ga-
zette this week says:

“The Canadian contingent shaw that their long home train-
ing and the Colonial campaigning experience have not been’ lost
on them.” .

General Montg: ‘y More, appointed to d General
Kelly Kenny in charge of mobilization at Aldershot, was formerly

{in command in Carada.

Consternation Holds Sway.

New York, Dec. 16.—A London cable to the World gives a
graphic account of the consternation created at the clubs and
among-those.who kept late hours, when Buller’s repulse-was bul-
letined at midnight. The ticker service broke down after about
100 words had been transmitted, and the club men immediately
ordered cabs and rushed to the war office, where the report was
posted. There was,no clamor, But with oaths in their mouths
they declared that the news meant the calling out of all the militia
and that the volunteers must be summoned for duty. Nearly
every man who looked over the report.on the war office bulletin
board went away disgusted. Clarke M.. Powers, the Transvaal
representative, said:

“It appears to be a Boer victory, but we must becalm. Let
us wait and see”*

In the Liberal club, friends of the Boers said ‘Just the
same old trap.” The British have not fought a white man un-
aided in this century. The Boers will win their independence.
Isn’t this a basis for foreign intervention? What more do they
want? It’s like the American revolution. Chamberlain and the
stock-brokers brought on this war and they’re getting the rough
of it.”

To Denounce Chamberlain.

New York, Dec. 16:—On account of the somewhat violent
tone taken by the leaders of the Irish people against the adminis-
tration in London just now, the reception which Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain will receive when he reaches Dublin today or to-
morrow to take the honorary degree of L, L. D. at Trinity college
will be noted with interest. The Irish Transvaal committee is-
sued a proclamation calling an indignation meeting of the citi-
zens of Dublin to disassociate themselves from the act of Trinity
college, which proposes to honor Mr. Chamberlain, ‘‘the author
of the robber war.”

What London Papers Say.

London, Dec. 16:—The desperate state of British arms in
South Africa, as revealed by the defeat .of General Buller at
Tugela, while adding to the determination to send every available

man to the front, caused something in the nature of a panic among
the public. Some of the comments go’ so far as to say that
Great Britian stands’ ‘where she stood over a centuty back,
when American colonists, men of British and Dutch blood, were
in arms.”

The Evening 5 dard deci: that the calls tor
the equanimity, determination and perservance of the empire.

The Star urges the ‘‘commandering” of all the great English
Atlantic liners for the tranportation of reinforcements, adding:
“The guilt of the government is superseded hy the danger of the
empire. We ere thinking of a hostile Europe, we are thinking
of India, and what ever happens, we implore the government not
to move another man from Calcutta or Bombay. We- remember
the mutiny.”

The St. James Gazette is also apprehensive of foreign com-
plications.

Hurried Cabinet. Meeting.

London, Dec., 16.—A hastily summoned meeting of the cab-
inet has been held at the foreign office this afternoon for the pur-
pose of dealing with the war crisis.

Sydney, N. S. W., Dec., 16.—The Imperial authorities tel-
egraphed the governor of New South Wales, accepting the offer of
a further contingent for South Africa, and suggesting that the
men should be mounted and good shots.

WINNING HIS WAY

Baden-Powell Driving Back Mafeking’s
Besiegers.

METHUEN STILL FIGHTING

He Gives the Boers a Two-Hours’ Oannonade
—Hxultant Boer Account of Magersfontein
—Revised List of British Losses—Winston
Churchill Recaptured.

- By Associated Press.

Cape Town, Dec. 16,—Advices
from Buluwayo say a dispatch from
Mafeking, dated Dec. 6, announced
that the scheme of advancing the
military works was acting well and
had forged the Boers to evacuate
the strong commanding fortifica-
tions northeast of the town. It
was added that the British contin-
ued pushing back the Boers and
were then working toward their
main siege batteries. The British
casualties were trifling. - The Boer
force was then reduced to about
2000 men, with four field guns and
some siege guns.

Pretoria, Dec. 13.—An official
dispatch from Modder river says:
“The Boers captured a great quan-
tity of loot, including 200 Lee-Met-
fords, cases of cartridges and hun-
dreds of bayonets. Great numbers
of British have retired from Two
Rivers in the direction of Belmont.

The loss of the British was
very great. There were heaps of
dead on the field. The wounded
are being attended to temporarily
at Bisset’s farm. The sappers and
miners must have suffered severely.
The Boers suffered heavily in
horses. I cannot otherwise de-
scribe the battle than as a sad and
terrible slaughter. Monday was,
for us, a brilliant victory. It has
infused new spirit into our men and
will enable them to achieve greater
deeds.”

Cannonade at Modder River.

Modder River, Dec, 15.—During
a demonstration in force this morn-
ing, the British guns shelled the
Boers for a couple of hours. The
Boers did not reply until the British
were retiring. The Boers are fur-
ther entrenching and strengthening
their old defences, with the evident
intention of fiercely disputing con-
trol of the railway.

London, Dec. 16.—The revised
list of British casualties at the bat-
tle of Magersfontein shows the total
to be 963, of which number 70 were
officers.

The Black Watch were the heavi-
est sufferers. Of the rank and file
42 were killed, 182 wounded and
111 missing.

Martial Law Needed.

London, Dec. 16.—Lord Salis-
bury is said to have received a re-
quest from Sir Alfred Milner, Brit-
ish high commissioner in South
Africa, that martial law be declared
in Cape Colony, cables a London
correspondent to the World. Lord
Salisbury does not want to grant’
this request, however, as he be-
lieves it would be a confession of
weakness. Sir Alfred reports that
Dutch disaffection has reached a
point where ordinary law is useless
to stem it.

More Men from Australia.

The imperial authorities have
telegraphed the governor of New

‘| South Wales accepting the offer of

a further Australian contingent for*
South africa.
Rear Admiral Beresford has been
appointed second in command of the
British Mediterranean fleet.
Churchill Recaptured.
Lorenzo Marquez, Dec. 16.—It
is rumored that Winston Churchill,
the newspaper correspondent who
escaped from Pretoria, has been
captured at Waterfall-Boven, about
half way between Pretoria and
Portuguese territory.